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nothing when I weigh with myself the magnitude of your merits towards us. Yet, so that you might not justly accuse me of ingratitude and lack of discernment Greek: acharistias kai agnomosynes, since I cannot return the favor to you, I wished at least to hold [the memory of these] and to make this very thing attested to all in writing. Wherefore, most learned sir, according to your accustomed kindness, you will take more account of the manifest desire than the scantiness of the gift, and you will accept, foster, and defend with the faithful patronage of your authority the thing eagerly offered to you by him who honors you greatly from the heart. Farewell.
Love me, most learned sir, as you do. Given at Lausanne on the Ides of November, 1583.

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