William Julius Mickle

I have, in real truth, so high an idea of your genius, that I should be happy to be any way instrumental in making that genius more universally known. I long to see your first book of the Lusiad; and if I might judge from the spirited specimen you gave us, you translation cannot fail of success. I cannot conclude this letter, without thanking you for the great pleasure I received from your Concubine, which surely abounds in stroke of true poetry.