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Els, Gerlach von · 1581

you may be an ornament and useful to yourselves, your own, and the republic. To which, if nothing else, the antiquity and splendor of your Frenz family, the pious expectations of your parents and relatives, and finally the domestic example of that most noble and famous man, Master William Gulich of pious memory, your uncle, could most incite you. That man, by his outstanding piety, integrity of life, and supreme knowledge of both laws, not only shone forth to his own family, which was already sufficiently famous by itself, but also in the courts of many princes and in the most faithful administration of republics, earned such esteem for himself that he was thought by all not to have deserved to die at all: although he himself should not be considered entirely dead, whose glory of the dead is still preserved in the memory of the living. Farewell.