Long looked for comes at last, so sayth our english Prouerb, which might wel be verified in me. I tooke accompt of the dayes the Neights the howres the Minutes nay lesser Moments expecting Thursday and when yt came be off toward Suffolk long in vayne walkt the exchange nether to buy or sell, yt Proffited nought Coming home and sadly Musing what occasion barde mee my hope I at last perceaue the foot of good Tydinges at doore, which largely recompense my travell, yea such effectes workes the true affectes of thy hart and mind if they do even dissolue me with emulation and desire to exceed thee in loue for why should that loue that could admit no equall: be now second to any: Ah how Impatient is loue of delayes if the sight of a poore letter bring such Joy how far wold yt exceed to touch that hand that wrote yt to behold and Imbrace that fayre frame of Nature that Contaynes that loving hart that guydes that truly Medicinable touch from whence flowes the soveraine balmes that cures loue sick mindes then since yow know how Precious is your Presence to me as I haue sayd before so still I say, festina, I hope to see yow before xij dayes yf there come no letter in the Meane tyme wryte yow forget to satisfy me for the vse of your Physick whether yow had begon but I hope yow will I am now so full of busines that I wryte not in that Methode so otherwise I might haue sent an Answere at your brothers letter which I Received not before Monday I haue write to my Mother. I haue sent my brother Lutestringes my Mother and your self washing half Fingerd gloues to work with hard wax for your Letters Many such loving wishes for thy kindnes harty vowes of constancy and perseverance to my self hart wringing sighes for thy absence, for yt fares with me as with the sick of the dropsy who the more they drink the more they thirst for mine eyes and eares are Insatiable who Gredily and Gluttonously devoure those Mourning teares thy pen shedes. they tell me thy sighes for my sake is hartravishing Musick that is more Pleasing to my Parched hot hart then the sweet breath of cooling Zephyrus: 150but like Phylomely by the hand of a cruell Lowler3 cut of in the Mides of hir wales so am I by the Messenger who Gapeth for an end of this sad Letter but none but he that takes all shall ever end my loue.

farest of my hopes, chiefest of my desires, my Earths Happines, the Pleasant obiect of my mind, the subiect that reason and all my sences Guyded by Loue Contemplate what shalt thou expect in this Paper the shadow of my mind but broken and vnperfect sentences interupted by Cloudy and Misty foggs of Melancholy, tost and shaken, with blustring and stormy Passions, rackt and disioyntid with wishes desires earnist and Impatient Longinges which rayse such forts and bulwarkes of griefe and discontent that reason, Judgment; invention, fantasy, and memory assisted with all the ayd of Councel and Pollicy were vnable to hold out: were they not reliued by a stedfast perswasion of thy fayth loue and Loyalty, which is sufficient to calm al Tempests with the sunshine of his beames to chase away those Traytrous Impes of feare and Doubtes and to cast the Anchor of firme hope to make me ryde safe were yt on the Billowes of raging dispayre. Then vouchsafe thy fayre hand, directid by Truth Constancy and Perseverance, to giue some ease to a distressed mind with the precious Balm of Comfort vntill Tyme shall giue a full Period and Conclusion to these my discontents and place me in the height of Happines by manifesting to the world the Inviolable and Imutable League begon, confirmed, and already sealed in our hartes to our Endles Joy and Comfort: farewel, and liue happy to make me more happy which without thy happynes is not or ever shalbe a Happy