High-Born Count /

Gracious Lord!

Ornate square woodcut initial 'E' featuring stylized foliage and blooming flowers including lilies and carnations intertwined with the letter's form.

I find so many reasons to most humbly present original: præsentiren this modest work to Your The abbreviation "EW." stands for Euer (Your) High-Countly Excellency, that to omit it would be more a sign of a dull mind than of a cautious reverence for Your The author uses the archaic formal possessive Dero to show high respect high person. I must fear that I might fall under the suspicion of some boastfulness if I were to praise here the grace which Yourself The German Dieselben is a formal third-person pronoun used here as a polite form of 'You'—at a time when I was still quite a stranger and unknown—intended for me of Your own accord and without my knowledge: If, however, Your everywhere-praised