Ioannis Wolphii Tigurini de christiana perseverantia commentationis consolatoriae, ad N. captivos fratres liber unus. ...

TO THE MAGNIFICENT
AND GENEROUS LORD, LORD
NICOLAUS DLUSKI OF KO-
TUICZ, Polish knight, etc., a Lord to be honored above all others, HEINRICH WOLF OF ZURICH, Grace and peace from our Lord Jesus Christ.

A decorative drop cap letter L features floral scrollwork.Lucius Annaeus Seneca, most distinguished Dluski, compared the nature of a favor, which is seen in the relationship between the giver and the receiver, to the game of ball with a very apt proportion. For just as a ball, according to the strength and skill of the players, is sometimes thrown gently, sometimes more boldly, and conversely is sometimes caught awkwardly and sometimes skillfully: so too do the wealthy give and receive favors differently than those whose means are more limited. And although these analogies may seem to differ from one another, such that a skilled practitioner of that art and a novice might toss the same ball, whereas a poor man might confer one kind of favor and a wealthy man another; nevertheless, there is something common to favors, in which they mutually converge as if in a center