The Operations of the Geometric and Military Compass

astonish the most learned. This wish will not prove vain, since the praises which are usually a matter of hope for others of his age, are for you a matter of merit; nor am I surprised at this, for branches bear fruit according to the stock. May God Our Lord grant that you last long and happy to fill with the hoped-for consolations your servants, among whom you will deign to acknowledge me, and by accepting kindly the offer, and by allowing me with the same to protest myself to you as one of the most devoted and obliged that your person and House has: with which I reverently bow to you. Padua.