NICOLAUS MEYER,

MOST EMINENT PRO-CHANCELLOR OF THE PRINCIPALITY

TO WHOM, ON ACCOUNT OF THE TESTIMONY OF HIS SINGULAR JUSTICE

AND AS A RARE EXAMPLE OF ANCIENT HOLINESS,

ETERNAL PRINCES HAVE BESTOWED THAT GREATEST DIGNITY.

WHOSE MERITS TO THE REPUBLIC, THE CITIZENS CARVE

NOT IN BRONZE OR STONE,

BUT IN THEIR SOULS,

FOR A MORE VIVID REMEMBRANCE AND MEMORY,

BECAUSE BY HIM, AS A KIND OF PRIMORDIAL PARENT,

MANY THINGS HAVE BEEN RESTORED TO THEIR ORIGINAL AND BETTER STATE.

WHO ALWAYS GRACIOUSLY FOSTERS HIM AND HIS OWN.

TO WHOM HE STRIVES TO APPROVE HIS CONTUMACY—

NOT THAT WICKED AND REPROBATE ONE

WHICH PRIDE INCITES,

BUT THAT HOLIER AND MORE UPRIGHT ONE

WHICH A GRATEFUL MIND COMMANDS,

WHICH CONSTANCY AND PIETY MODERATE,

AND WHICH IS APPROVED AMONG FAIR JUDGES AND IN THE AREOPAGUS ITSELF.

FOR HE WILL BE CONTUMACIOUS IN WORSHIP AS LONG AS HE LIVES,

CONTUMACIOUS AGAINST THE UNJUST JUDGES OF HIS MERITS,

IF INDEED ANY SUCH CAN EXIST,

CONTUMACIOUS, FINALLY, IN THIS:

THAT HE MAY PROVE HIMSELF WORTHY OF THE FAVOR OF SO GREAT A MAN.

HE PROCLAIMS

HIS MOST DEVOTED CLIENT,