Expositio vera harum imaginum olim Nurenbergae repertarum ex fundatissimo verae magiae Vaticinio deducta

to rule them along with those who graze the flock of geese. A short time later, the Pope will lose this monk, and in his place, he will have the Emperor to be suffocated at his own pleasure. And the monk, holding the prophetic book, will not spare the rustics, nor the peoples of the fields. For that Monk denotes all the orders in whose place he has been positioned. Look to yourselves, therefore, for from the origin of Barbarossa Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, no monk has ever plotted anything other than cunning, deceit, and treachery. For this reason, Magic rightly concludes that these men must not be trusted at all.