Mosaycarum et Romanarum legum collatio

...since your supreme kindness makes it clear that the title of father is more pleasing to you than that of power. There also comes the memory of that former paternal regard toward you, by which I felt myself not lightly affected when you received a portion of our country's history with such a countenance that I seemed to recognize not unwillingly in the son the face, eyes, features, and finally that similarity of nature of your own familiar friend. To tell the truth, this matter so inflamed my spirit that, from that time on, I have always wished for that day to be given to me in which I could respond to your kindness at least in some part, and could testify by a certain kind of duty that the heritage of reverence I hold for you as a father has not so much grown as it has been retained by a certain continuity of spirit. You will receive, therefore, this gift from a man most devoted to you and to your virtues, not a great one, but such as I could provide at this time for you and, through you, for the public utility. Perhaps I shall provide greater things in the future, if God confirms, increases, instructs, aids, and protects, by whatever means He can, the spirit of a good citizen toward the Republic that He has given to him. Farewell, most eminent man. Paris, the first of October, 1572.