Hypomochlion of my Life,

A quantity of the multiplied glances, impelled from the external hemispheres of your Eyes, have enter'd perpendicularly into my heart, to the destruction of that equilibrium, I was so proud to maintain in it; and the inversion of all its powers.—Long did I endeavour to annihilate these singular effects, by a transposition of my thoughts to some other centre, than yourself, but directly, as were my efforts to extirminate all Ideas of You,so was the continual recurrence, of your figure, to my imagination; ’till rais'd to the apex of misery, by the repetition of similar Ideas, I resolved to exert the highest powers of my mind, and demonstrate to you, by a declaration the unlimited devotion, and infinite attachment of him, who once stood firm and vertical as a pyramid, but who now, is laid horizontal, by the momentum of your charms, and is reduced to the level of a slave.—

Madam, you are the co-efficient of my being, ’tis in your power and in yours only, to add the fractions of my heart together, and restore it to its integral and pristine state: then those powers which are now involved together, shall be brought into an equal and similar state;—shall be made to quadrate together and exert in equilibrio to the due performance of their functions : then all my problems shall be solved, all my queries attain solution; my conduct shall be as a right line, my happiness unruffled, as a horizontal plane.

But, permit me exponent of my faculties, to reason awhile, and endeavour to propitiate you, by substituting argument for declaration: as a postulate, allow me that all mankind should be happy, and as an axiom, that no one can be so, who is miserable; then it follows, that you, who circumscribe all my thoughts, and whose name is inscribed in my heart, should reduce your views to my level, and go parallel with me, in the Line of life.