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vow and dedicate. I beseech and implore your Majesty to accept this with all submission of spirit. May the Lord, King of Kings, along with His co-eternal Son, our Lord IESU CHRISTO Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, protect and preserve you, flourishing and safe during these most miserable times, establish your throne in Justice, your seat in equity, free you from declared and clandestine enemies, and from impending evils. May He grant peace, bestow salutary counsel, and provide many Zopyruses—whom Darius desired—and likewise as many Crateruses rather than Hephaestions. Alexander the Great was accustomed to calling the former a "lover of Alexander" and the latter a "lover of the king" among his friends, thus clearly showing how much a flatterer differs from a faithful counselor. For indeed, of these times, it seems that which is expressed in ancient verses can be said: "A thousand years having now passed, there is no faith in pacts; honey in the mouth, words of milk, gall in the heart, fraud in deeds." With these words, I commend myself to the patronage and protection of your Majesty. Vienna, Austria, from our museum, the 4th of March, in the year of the Lord 1574.