She is bursting because she cannot say, as you tell me here, that she
is white as milk, and that you are darker than I. If I had been you, I
might have called you ivory, as I do call you. Watch this evening lest
it be the Jealous One, and not myself. Therefore I will cough, and if
you do not hear me cough, do not move.
I let you know that Signor Guido is going out of the city, and will be
gone several days. Therefore I pray you come this evening about seven
o'clock. And when you are under the window cough and wait a little
while, that I may not make a mistake. He goes away Monday morning,
etc.
My dearest and Most Deserving Well-beloved:
I give the infinite thanks of Rosalinda, etc. I wish you to know that
he makes me signals along the Via del Poggio, etc., and not because I
wish to make proof of your love, which I know very well. You are as
constant as myself, and therefore I do not wish to make these proofs,
etc. So that you cannot say that I no longer love you, because all my
good wishes for Signor Guido are turned to you, who deserve it.