TO THE DIVINE FERDINAND, EMPEROR.

of the Romans might lead back the kingdom of Christ from the West to the East, and, returning the crown to Him upon Mount Calvary, might promote it everywhere; may Jesus grant that you might do this, if only with the legitimate arms of justice, just as you have already done with the kingdom of the Gospel sent thither—so that the light of the Gospel, accompanied by your vows and liberality, may be poured out even to the furthest East? I was therefore present until your printing house was adorned. But immediately, having first asked the Chancellor that he might provide two hundred gold coins of my stipend equally from your Majesty, at least until the end of the Work, to be divided between Moses and the printer, I was forced shortly after to return to Venice by the power of conscience. But the reasons for this, in another letter which I have destined to be sent immediately to your Majesty (after I have absolved the troubles of four years, which I undertook of my own accord and voluntarily for the sake of proving the cause of my conscience regarding the Divine law, and something more), I have already