Oratio lamentabilis ... Iohannes Savageti Constantiensis et Basiliensis ... super turbatione dicte ecclesie Constantiensis ... una cum tractatu per eum, edito sex dubiis iuris clauso ... Per que evidens iustitia ... Ludovici de Freiberg ... confirmati episcopi ac iniustitia Ottonis de Sunnenberg ... declaratur et ostenditur

...They impugned the mandates of Your Holiness which they were bound to follow and defend. They strengthened the rebels in their pertinacity. They blessed when they were cursed. They promised life while dead. They ministered the priesthood while profane. They wished to appease God with sacrifices while they blasphemed Him. One must marvel at their great impudence, but grieve even more on account of the pernicion of the example. There is, moreover, Holy Father, something that I am ashamed to say, but I am not permitted to be silent: that certain of the Ottanians [adherents of Otto], putting their mouths toward heaven and dragging their tongues over the earth, have spoken cursed things about Your Holiness and the Most Reverend Lords Cardinals on high. Honesty forbids me to report these things, because it is not fitting for Your Holiness to hear them. But it must not be omitted in silence that the aforementioned Otto and his accomplices, acting as though they were despoiling another’s property, have damaged the Church of Constance—already burdened with many debts—to the amount of twenty-six thousand florins, have alienated certain castles, and have squandered and daily continue to squander its goods, to such an extent that if a swift remedy is not provided, they will lead it to irreparable and total ruin. Nor should [the extent of] the malice of these rebels, which proceeded by both force and deceit, be left unsaid. It is worth knowing their iniquity so that from the things they have impiously done and are doing, Your Holiness may understand that one must provide more accurately. For who, hungry for justice and truth, could bear with an equal mind such a crime, such impiety, such contempt, and such a scandal by which the small and the great are scandalized? Who would not think that their attempt—so rash, so unworthy, so malignant, by which they strive to tear apart the structure of the body and ecclesiastical order with the sowing of their tares—ought to be encountered more quickly? For medicine is prepared too late when evils have grown strong through long delays. For they conclude by their own manners and merits that justice is absent, which, while it stands before their eyes, they not only do not accept nor acknowledge, but, rejoicing in their vanity and impunity, they violently hate, impugn, and persecute it. What is more vain than to love vanity? What is more iniquitous than to despise truth? What is more just than to withdraw grace from such men and to inflict the deserved punishment for their demerits?