TO MADAME DE GRAMMONT, COMTESSE DE GUISSEN.

  [They scarce contain anything but amorous complaints, expressed in a
  very rough style, discovering the follies and outrages of a restless
  passion, overgorged, as it were, with jealousies, fears and
  suspicions.--Coste.]

  [These....contained in the edition of 1588 nine-and-twenty sonnets
  of La Boetie, accompanied by a dedicatory epistle to Madame de
  Grammont. The former, which are referred to at the end of Chap.
  XXVIL, do not really belong to the book, and are of very slight
  interest at this time; the epistle is transferred to the
  Correspondence. The sonnets, with the letter, were presumably sent
  some time after Letters V. et seq. Montaigne seems to have had
  several copies written out to forward to friends or acquaintances.]