… goes to operas, plays, suppers, and Versailles; gives suppers twice a week; has everything new read to her; makes new songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds …
… and quickly came to consider him ‘a prodigious Favourite’ ( Thraliana I, 452). Within months, Piozzi would sing Italian songs of love to her which she joyously translated into English. Henry Thrale meanwhile deteriorated rapidly: suffering a …