Amore Letter 5

For a present so beautiful that nothing could be più so (considering the whole of it), I thank te most cordially, not only on account of the fine diamond and the ship in which the solitary damsel is tossed about, but chiefly for the fine interpretation and the too humble submission which your goodness hath used towards me in this case; for I think it would be very difficult for
me to find an occasion to deserve it, if I were not assisted da your great humanity and favour, which I have always sought to seek, and will seek to preserve da all the kindness in my power, in which my...