an verebare, ne tuis dictis invideremus? sed dei indultu vitio nulli minus addicimur; cui si ita ut ceteris a mea parte subiaceretur, sic quoque auferret congrediendi aemulationem desperatio consequendi.
Were you really afraid that I might be jealous of your composition? But, by the mercy of God, there is no fault to which I am less addicted, and if I had been as subject to that fault as to all other faults, any idea of jealous competition would have been removed by my despair of success.
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