God guide you.

God bee with you.

May it please you in my behalf, heartily to salute your wife and children.
D.I will do your message.

But I pray, commend mee also to your father and mother.
At the end of the book are some forms, in Dutch and English, of mercantile letters, among them a specimen bill of lading of which I quote a portion as an example of the gracious way in which business was done in old and simpler days:-- I, J.P.of Amsterdam, master under God of my ship called the Saint Peter at this present lying ready in the river of Amsterdam to saile with the first goode winde which God shall give toward London, where my right unlading shal be, acknowledge and confes that I have receaved under the hatches of my foresaid ship of you S.J., merchaunt, to wit: four pipes of oile, two chests of linnen, sixteen buts of currents, one bale of canvase, five bals of pepper, thirteen rings of brasse wyer, fiftie bars of iron, al dry and wel conditioned, marked with this marke standing before, all which I promise to deliver (if God give me a prosperous voyage with my said ship) at London aforesaid, to the worshipful Mr.A.J.to his factour or assignes, paying for the freight of the foresaid goods 20 fs.

by the tun.
Quaintness and humour are not confined to the ancient phrase-books.