Note 100 — CHAP. XXIX.
T. (Tobias) Smollett translation
This letter was couched in the following terms:—'Most gracious sovereign and father, yesterday morning I received your letter, of the 19th of this month: my indisposition hinders me from writing to you at large, but I am willing to embrace the monastic state, and I beg your gracious consent thereto.
'Your servant, and unworthy son,
'ALEXIS.'