Epistola Ioannis Monlucii, episcopi Valentini regis Gallorum legati ad Poloni[a]e Ordines de Illustrissimo Andium duce in Regnum Polonicum allegendo

Prince. This is the Prince, most illustrious, most reverend, and spectable Lords, who, educated in the ancestral and Catholic religion, is instructed and adorned with such justice and moderation, and also with such experience in affairs and such varied knowledge, that he might best of all men compose those who dissent in religion and the distracted opinions of men, and be the primary advocate and author of liberty and peace. This is the Prince who, having been instituted and educated in Gaul, that most ornate home of humanity, under those laws which are most alien to all barbarity, has lived and was always raised with his most polished and easy manners, to the highest praise and admiration of all.

Therefore, since your manners are also most refined and sweet, and you use most wise laws, it will be easy for such an ingenious and learned Prince to adapt himself most closely to your institutions. This is the Prince in whom there is as much virtue in waging war as must be sought in a supreme and perfect Emperor: excellent military science, a singular spirit, and egregious fortune. How great were the deeds he performed? How many battles did he join? How many conflicts did he complete? What spoils did he bring back? Who, therefore, has doubted that this empire of yours should be entrusted to him, who, by some divine counsel, seems born and offered to you for the sake of exciting your adjacent glory, as it were, and for recalling it to its pristine virtue and completing all your wars? Whose deeds at this age are equal to his? What name in the world