Epistola Ioannis Monlucii, episcopi Valentini regis Gallorum legati ad Poloni[a]e Ordines de Illustrissimo Andium duce in Regnum Polonicum allegendo

-ictory of God, the Best and Greatest, who has always been the author and Prince of this most noble and most holy embassy. I had hoped that the time had come for me to meet you and to execute the mandates, than which nothing could have happened more desirable to me. But since the Diet was prolonged, and matters were deferred, and I understood that I had to contain myself in a certain prescribed place for some time, I decided to obey your most grave authority and most prudent judgments entirely.

In the meantime, however, while the opportunity to reach your most august colloquy and meeting has been granted, consider, I pray, how vehemently the most Christian King favors your glory and the most illustrious name of the Polish kingdom, how much he values you, and how much he loves and embraces your Republic. For he offers to you his sweetest and dearest brother, Henry, a most brave and wise Duke, an excellent and most temperate Prince, upon whom he leans as if upon a most powerful right hand, to whom he entrusts the affairs of peace and war and in whom he places his entire trust. This is the one he offers to you as King, and wishes to be a bond and pledge of perpetual alliance and constant friendship with you. He does not foist upon you, Fathers, some boy whose imprudent age must be entrusted to tutors or guardians, but a Prince of perfect age and excellent form. He offers to you one of admirable genius and incomparable prudence, whose various, diverse, incredible, and divine virtues declare that no quality is missing that is necessary for ruling well, bravely, and happily, which God has not most abundantly and liberally placed in this most happy and most blessed