After the festival in which your prayers and merits shone forth concerning the presence and safety of our lord, the dutiful offices of a page having been dispatched to him, the service of these present letters too is rightly offered to you by the special affections of my heart: through which I signify that we, amid so many rumors of affairs, have as best we could passed Easter prosperously; judging thus that its fullness will come to me by the benefits of the divine gift, if I shall have merited also the favor of your conversation together with a like acknowledgment of your prosperity.