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what to object against him. Some excellent men, and most dear to the whole fatherland, they treated most indignantly and killed. Where it is most clearly established that those whom they harass are innocent, they proceed nevertheless to destroy them, so that nothing may be lost to their own opinion. Indeed, I have long since given myself into the hands of Christ, or ō kratos esi megiston oh, the power that is greatest, who is also the final asylum for all the pious, a most holy altar. No wickedness of men will cause me to withdraw from the Church of Christ, with the help of Him to whom I have once entrusted myself. The Lord is perhaps that one ankura epi abrochos unfailing anchor for me: let Him do what is good in His eyes. I see, moreover, the kingdom of some degenerating into pure and unadulterated tyranny: I see no honor for honest studies of letters, Christian religion a mockery: I see the rights and immunities of scholars being totally removed: I see many other things, which I do not like to recall. By these and similar things, my teacher, I am troubled here and there: ignorant of what is better to choose, unless you govern me with your counsel. I ask you again and again that you may do this without your own trouble. But perhaps I deal with you more freely: you will forgive me for the love I bear toward you, relying on which, or rather impelled by it, I am not ashamed to pour out all the scruples of my mind into your bosom, as into that of an excellent teacher. Farewell, and live for us and for Christ, and love me. Nozeroy, the Ides of June, in the Christian Year 1554.