I.
“We write in good spirits to you,
For our glad expectations we hope to find true,
That you’ll act as a gentleman always should do,
And with a request from the ladies comply
Which a fame would attain you that never should die;
While we’ll think of you ever with kindness sincere,
And say of you what it would please you to hear,
And wish for you always a life long and free
From grief and visitation that sometimes will be.