A decorative woodcut headpiece consisting of ornate floral and vine-like scrollwork.

TO THE MAIESTY

OF KING JAMES,

THE AUGUST.

Large ornamental woodcut initial 'Q' featuring a central flower within a square frame decorated with foliage.
Varius. Gemin. Sen. contr. 8. l. 6. f.

That someone of great name referring to himself should say something not great to a greater Majesty, may Your Majesty grant pardon: Those who dare to speak before you, O Caesar, are ignorant of your greatness; those who do not dare, are ignorant of your humanity. Antony recently dared, among physicians, to do this; as if already accustomed to giving a penny to an elephant an idiom suggesting a small, insulting gift to a powerful entity; he would blush, like Capito, to fear Caesar. For he was ignorant of the magnitude of your Empire, Genius, and Judgment, O Sebastos Venerable/Augustus, O Autokrator Emperor/Sole Ruler.
Aug. lib. danti Quint. or. inst. l. 6. c. 1.

Dunc. Lid. ar. me. An. 1607. Th. Mor. met caus. An. 1593 Au. Vict. de Tito.

For as many years, and by as many degrees as they were more learned and worthy, Liddell and Moresinus, Scots from Aberdeen, have dared—as Antony has—to flee to the altar and approach the tribunal, from which no one has departed sad. They were not ignorant of the humanity of your Clementia, your Serenity, your Piety, O euprosēgorou affable/easy to speak to, O euprosōpou pleasant-faced/gracious. So that I might dare hysatas the final/extreme [measures], are these examples in my mind? Or, so that I might not dare, that one?
Between hope and fear I waver, weighing both. And my mind does not hang now. Nor do I dare approach a lesser person, when he approaches the
Lib. not. punct. in Mich.

Greatest. But if Libavius, for this very cause, appealed against Michelius to the Middelburg patrons of Michelius; how much more wisely, against Antony, have I both needed and wished to call upon the August King of both, my Patron rather, most wise, most just, most learned: who can, by virtue of your Empire, is accustomed by virtue of your Genius, and ought by virtue of your Judgment,