Academic Exercise on the Abstinence of the Early Christians from Reading Profane Books

...sent. For you are so absent that, unless our thousand misfortunes forced us to confess that YOU are detained in Muscovy, we would think YOU were in Uppsala; and that here, like Apollo, you were administering all things in the midst of the Academic Fathers and citizens. Truly, the Muses maintain that same course of their affairs and actions which you formerly and recently prescribed for them. And to us certainly, whom you have deigned to favor with a most munificent stipend, you are not absent. But as you distribute YOUR gifts, so you enjoin most welcome labors. Wherefore, I pray that this fruit of my own lucubrations also, which I offer with a reverent hand, may not displease YOUR MOST ILLUSTRIOUS EXCELLENCE. I add pious prayers to God, that the Divine goodness may [be pleased to preserve] YOU, MOST ILLUSTRIOUS COUNT, in the midst [of]...