A fact truly miraculous when I think over it; everlasting thanks to His Divine Majesty, and if I could express to you with my pen the anxiety and worry I have had on your account you would marvel at it.

The Signor Fernando di Gonzaga will bear me witness, and God knows what sorrow I had when I heard you had been to Venice.

If you had found me at Venice things would have been very different; but enough.

Now gossip mine, now that we have been through fire and water, and experienced things one could never have imagined, let us thank God for all things, and for the little life that is left to us; at least, let us spend it in what quiet we may.

Verily, we must put no faith in fortune, she is so perverse and sad.