praesentum quoque neglegentiam litterarum nunc nec excuso, primum quod, etsi cupiam, parum cultius scribere queo, dein quod libellari opere confecto animus tandem feriaturus iam quae propalare dissimulat excolere detractat.
Another thing which I do not try to excuse is the slipshod style of the present letter; first, because I cannot write in a moderately finished style even if I wished to do so; and secondly, because after the completion of a work in book-form my mind wants to take a holiday and declines to polish what it does not at once intend to publish.
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