Placed as I am, in obscurity, I am dazzled by the splendour of your name; but love has banished fear: this letter will at least make known to you my fidelity, and my zeal.

Read it, I conjure you! You will not find in it the insipid adulation which is the plague of monarchs.

Flattery is an art unknown to me.

I have to offer you only complaints and regrets.

You have forgotten us.