_After I had delivered my Message, I began to talk very familiar with my Mistress: she with a smiling countenance, ask’d me, _What I meant?_ not in the least checking my presumption, which made me more arrogant and bold; telling her, _I was her eternally devoted Servant_; she answered me, _I was bound to be her Servant for a time, and that I must, when commanded, obey her pleasure_: to which last word, I added in my thoughts the _Epithite Venereal_, supposing she meant not to have left it out; with that I replyed, _Mistress, I should not deem my self worthy to be your Servant, if my resolution had not ingaged me to be so perpetually; as for my affection, it shall dayly anticipate your desires; you shall not need to lay your commands on me, since my thoughts shall be solely imployed in contriving wayes how we may injoy each other, to the mutual satisfaction of us both_. At which words, she fell into an excess of laughter, (which I judged the effects of joy) and then asked me, _Whether I was Mad?_ I answered, _No, unless too much love had made me so; Dearest Mistress, read but this Paper, and I hope that will better inform you_._ Here he stopt, pulling out of his pocket a copy thereof, which was to my best remembrance to this purpose. Dearest Mistress, _Frequently revolving in my thoughts the condition I now am in, Despair stands ready to seize me; but the consideration and knowledge of your commiserating Nature, draws me out of its ruinating Jaws. When I reflect again on the disparity of our Fortunes, and that it is your Indentured Vassal that thus prostrates his affection at your feet, I fear one blast of your just indignation will suddainly shipwreck all my hopes. I confess my error is overmuch confidence, for which I may expect ruine, which commonly attends rash Attempts; especially daring to sail in the narrow Seas, without any other Pilot than blind Love; and if I should arrive at my desired Port, I cannot deliver my Goods without stealing Custome. But waving all difficulties of this Nature, consider that Love must needs be quintessential, that is not drawn from any other interest than reciprocal enjoyment; and it must needs be exceeding strong and eminent too, that will force its way through the greatest hazards. Signifie my Pardon by one gracious smile, for what I have so boldly (yet forceably) discovered, and I shall esteem my condition little inferior to what is Celestial; which is no happiness to me, without the auspitious beams of your favour shine on me. And so subscribe my self according as your sentence shall be, either the_ Most happy, or most miserable.