A complex woodcut headpiece. In the center is a shield featuring an eagle, the coat of arms of the House of Este, flanked by ornate floral and scrolling motifs. Above and to the sides of the central shield are decorative patterns composed of repeating floral blocks.

## TO THE MOST SERENE LORD

## D. ALFONSO II. D’ESTE

## DUKE OF FERRARA

A small decorative woodcut ornament with scrollwork and foliage motifs.

Large decorative initial 'E' containing a woodcut illustration of a tall coastal fortification or lighthouse with several smaller buildings at its base, set against a landscape with water and mountains in the distance.

It is a clear thing, Most Serene Prince, that whoever serves for himself does not live; and whoever lives for another, there is no doubt that he is dead to himself. From this, it follows reasonably that all the operations of workers ought to be directed to the service of those masters by whom they are paid. For just as wages are the prize of work, so work comes to be the exchange for wages. Nor is it fitting that the paid worker employs the whole day in other work than that which concerns the service of the Master; otherwise, he does wrong, seeing that by taking from the Master what is his, he comes to give it to himself, or to others, which is manifest theft. It is therefore just and reasonable that I (born a subject and servant