Right worshipful friend I recommend me to you
and pray that you are in good keeping, and at
once I let you weet I would ye should bring for
me wordings of welfare and heal, then bring to
my shire horses fair and harness bold, and bring
for the ladies sweet kirtles of goodly garments
sawn, enow, until more things I know to write.

So I pray and please you to weet that ye have left
me think upon your ride, your presence and fare
were ye now abaide, desiring so to hear how your
matters speed, of those we spake in haste when
you were about to leave, as for tidings, and atween
you and me, the lights are kept, the gardens grow
and compassion lives, in days of grace.

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This poem is inspired by a collection of English
medevial letters written in the fifteenth Century
by members of the Paston family, to relatives,
friends and professional contacts, and, letters
sent from these categories to members of the
family.
The family came originally from the
village of Paston, Norfolk, twenty miles north
of Norwich, and the collection covers the period
from 1420 to approximately the year 1503.

If William Shakespeare is one of the leading
writers of all times in being able to capture and
visualize the human character and soul, as well
as dramatic and decisive events in English
history, "The Paston Letters", shows us the
realities behind some of his historical plays.

For further information on "The Paston Letters",
se my first publishing of this post, the 22nd of
June, 2016.
There is also a great amount of information to
be found on the Internet.