which is truly so great and exists as such that:

I pass over in silence now YOUR divine judgment regarding any matters, and Your most perceptive genius in approving all erudition. For since YOU YOURSELF, MOST POWERFUL AND ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE, have been excellently imbued and cultivated in Letters and Arts from your tender or early years, and today possess them almost to the point of a miracle, no one can judge better or more rightly of them, just as of the writings and labors of artisans, and make an assessment, than YOUR ILLUSTRIOUS HIGHNESS YOURSELF.

MOST CLEMENT PRINCE AND LORD.

This Offspring of my Genius, which I now place, hand over, and consecrate to YOUR EXALTED HIGHNESS with the due subjection and reverence of my spirit, accept with a most serene countenance, and defend it most powerfully against the biting rage and unbridled petulance of slanderers, lest it perhaps become a feast for Calumny and a victim of Detraction against the Alastor an avenging spirit or tormentor,