May it prove happy and prosperous for the Publick Good.  May that you are going about be an universal Good.  God prosper what you are about.  God bless your Labours.  God bless your Endeavours.  I pray that by God’s Assistance you may happily finish what you have begun.  May Christ in Heaven prosper what is under your Hand.  May what you have begun end happily.  May what you are set about end happily.  You are about a good Work, I wish you a good End of it, and that propitious Heaven may favour your pious Undertakings.  Christ give Prosperity to your Enterprise.  May what you have undertaken prosper.  I heartily beg of Almighty God that this Design may be as successful as it is honourable.  May the Affair so happily begun, more happily end.  I wish you a good Journey to Italy, and a better Return.  I wish you a happy Voyage, and a more happy Return.  I pray God that, this Journey being happily perform’d, we may in a short Time have the Opportunity of congratulating you upon your happy Return.  May it be your good Fortune to make a good Voyage thither and back again.  May your Journey be pleasant, but your Return more pleasant.  I wish this Journey may succeed according to your Heart’s Desire.  I wish this Journey may be as pleasant to you, as the want of your good Company in the mean Time will be troublesome to us.  May you set Sail with promising Presages.  I wish this Journey may succeed according to both our Wishes.  I wish this Bargain may be for the Good and Advantage of us both.  I wish this may be a happy Match to us all.  The blessed Jesus God keep thee.  Kind Heaven return you safe.  God keep thee who art one Half of my Life.  I wish you a safe Return.  I wish that this New-Year may begin happily, go on more happily, and end most happily to you, and that you may have many of them, and every Year happier than other.

Ans. And I again wish you many happy Ages, that you mayn’t wish well to me gratis.

Sal. I wish you a glorious Day to Day.  May this Sun-rising be a happy one to you.

Ans. I wish you the same.  May this be a happy and a prosperous Morning to both of us.

Sal. Father, I wish you a good Night.  I wish you good Repose to Night.  May you sleep sweetly.  God give you good Rest.  May you sleep without dreaming.  God send you may either sleep sweetly or dream pleasantly.  A good Night to you.

Ans. Since you always love to be on the getting Hand, I wish you a thousand Happinesses to one you wish to me.

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Farewell at parting.

Fare ye all well.  Farewell.  Take care of your Health.  Take a great Care of your Health.  I bid you good by, Time calls me away, fare ye well.  I wish you as well as may be.  Farewell mightily, or if you had rather have it so, lustily.  Fare you well as you are worthy.  Fare you as well as you deserve.  Farewell for these two Days.  If you send me away, farewell till to-morrow.  Would you have any Thing with me?  Have you any Thing else to say to me?