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offspring of studies and labor, against the cunning and cleverness of men and against the feigned snares of all, may rise up directly, and its suppressed authority may breathe again, and never become obsolete by the filth of others, I suppliantly implore your authority and effort, packed with the goads of benevolence, in erasing and as it were cancelling some things (which perhaps have already settled more deeply in vices, and errors left over from the unhappy barbarism of previous times), a faint ray of whose favor will scarcely be able to shine before you see the ignited sparks of our youthful age flickering immediately. Farewell. Paris original: "Lutetia", Calends of September, 1570.