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My LORD,
KNow you not, that one of the su∣rest ways, to hinder a Man from being pleasant, is, to bid him be so: Since you fo••bad me being serious, I ne∣ver found myself so grave, and I speak nothing now but Sentences. And, be∣sides, your last Action has something in it so great, that truly it would go against
my Conscience to write to you of it o∣therwise, than in the Heroick Style: However, I cannot resolve, not to obey you, in all, that you command me; so that in the Humour that I find myself, I am equally afraid to tire you with a se∣rious Tri••le, or to trouble you with an ill Piece of Wit.
In fine, my Apollo has assisted me this Morning, and in the time that I thought the least of it, made me find upon my Pillow, two Letters, which, for want of mine, may perhaps give you an agree∣able amusement: They are dated from the Elysian Fields; the one is from Bal∣zac, and the other from Voiture, who being both charm'd with the Relation of your last Fight, write to you from the other World, to congratulate you. This is that from Balzac; you will easily know it to be his by his Style, which cannot express things simply, nor de∣s••end from its heighth.