Lorenzo de' Medici, Seven Philosophical Questions in Verse

and I have decreed to destine it to be guarded and conserved forever: beseeching that you receive it with an outstretched brow and a calm countenance. And may you look upon the sharpness of both the asker and the respondent: and just as he has stood out as an heir far surpassing the glory and virtue of his most excellent Father: so may he also deign to be the best executor of his own vows toward me. ~ -