It ran thus:-- "To the very noble Vestal, the Lady Fabia, greeting:-- Though I am now so unfortunate as to be barred from the doors of all law-abiding men, do not imagine this will forever continue.

In the confusion and readjustments of war, and the calamities of many, the affairs of some, one time enemies of Fortune, come to a happy issue.
Do not say that Mars may not lead Amor and Hymen in his train.

All things come to them who wait.

I wait.

Remember the life you spend in the Temple is no longer obligatory.