Diatribe de Prodigiosis Crucibus

A large, ornate drop-cap letter 'C' featuring floral and leaf motifs.THE CROSS, the standard of piety and victory, adored by pious and unconquered Emperors, ardently embraces you, most Serene LEOPOLD, progeny of Emperors, whom piety suckled in the cradle, and whom victory has so often crowned with palms. Let Belgium, daughter of Mars, twin of Bellona, attest to this, under whose discipline the wraths of all Kingdoms contend, and which itself [controls] the World