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Success.

Sa. The Matter succeeded better than I could have expected.  Fortune has favour’d both our Wishes.  If Fortune had been your Wife she could not have been more observant to you.  Your Affair went on bravely with Wind and Tide.  Fortune has out-done our very Wishes.  You must needs be a Favourite of Fortune, to whom all Things fall out just as you would have them.  I have obtain’d more than I could presume to wish for.  This Journey has been perform’d from Beginning to End with all the fortunate Circumstances imaginable.  The whole Affair has fallen out according to our Wish.  This Chance fell out happily for us.  I think we have been lucky to Admiration, that what has been so imprudently enterpriz’d, has so happily succeeded.

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A giving one Thanks.

Ja. Indeed I thank you, and shall thank you heartily as long as I live for that good Service you have done me.  I can scarce give you the Thanks you deserve, and shall never be able to make you Amends.  I see how much I am oblig’d to you for your Kindness to me.  Indeed I don’t wonder at it, for it is no new Thing, and in that I am the more oblig’d to you.  My Sapidus I do, and it is my Duty to love you heartily for your Kindness to me.  In as much as in this Affair you have not acted the Part of a Courtier, I do, and always shall thank you.  I respect you, and thank you, that you made my Affair your Care.  You have oblig’d me very much by that Kindness of yours.  It is a great Obligation upon me that you have manag’d my Concern with Fidelity.  Of all your Kindnesses, which are indeed a great many, you have shew’d me none has oblig’d me more than this.  I cannot possibly make you a Return according to your Merit Too much Ceremony between you and I is unnecessary, but that which is in my Power I’ll do.  I’ll be thankful as long as I live.  I confess myself highly oblig’d to you for your good Service.  For this Kindness I owe you more than I am able to pay.  By this good Office you have attach’d me to you so firmly, that I can never be able to disengage myself.  You have laid me under so many and great Obligations, that I shall never be able to get out of your Debt.  No Slave was ever so engag’d in Duty to his Master as you have engag’d me by this Office.  You have by this good Turn brought me more into your Debt than ever I shall be able to pay.  I am oblig’d to you upon many Accounts, but upon none more than upon this.  Thanks are due for common Kindness, but this is beyond the Power of Thanks to retaliate.

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The Answer.