De tabe et phthisi pronunciata

interval of time and place, you have by no means permitted [our connection] to be severed and destroyed. But if at some time, when a more favorable fortune shines or a more mature age approaches, I shall be able to perform greater things, I will indeed never be wanting to you or to myself in maintaining my duty and preserving our mutual benevolence whole and intact. Farewell, you ornament and decoration of the patrician order. From the house of the Reverend and Most Illustrious man Simon Sulcer, Doctor of Most Sacred Theology, and most vigilant Bishop of the Church of Basel, in Basel.