Compendium Maleficarum (illustrated witchcraft manual)

it could. Therefore, I judged it much more praiseworthy to wrap it in silence than to speak less soberly about that which cannot be explained perfectly. Wherefore, if, as I hope, it should be approved by you alone, for the sake of your innate humanity, I shall easily despise the supercilious judgments of the morose. Given, may God grant that He keeps you long-lived and safe for us. From our Monastery of Saint Ambrose ad Nemus in Milan, one thousand six hundred and twenty-six.