On Phoenician Letters

so that you might know by this tasting of mine, whatever is placed within me, it is entirely prepared for you, for whatever duties are to be performed under your commands in the name of the Christian Republic, as much for your other virtues as, most of all, for that singular humanity by which you have so embraced me that you were immediately eager to recommend me and, with the greatest opportunity, to offer me in royal and private conversations to the Most Christian King. So that even if you should not wish it, you will have had a client in me, whom I desire with vehemence that you take up among your own. In the year of salvation 1551.