of thy services by leaving me now: the need I have of thee,

thine own goodness hath made; better not to have had thee

than thus to want thee: thou, having made me [businesses],

which none without thee can sufficiently manage, must

either stay to execute them thyself, or take away with thee

the very services thou hast done; which if I have not enough

considered, as too much I cannot, to be more thankful to

thee shall be [my] study; and my profit therein, the heaping

[friendships]. Of that fatal country, Sicilia, prithee speak no

more; whose very naming punishes me with the remembrance