Tres Orationes

your noble humanity and virtue will accept,
just as that great king Referring to Alexander the Great, who famously refused water when his soldiers could not have any., receiving the water
drawn with both hands from the flowing
stream, that is, εὐμενῶς & προθύμως kindly and
willingly, will value the gift itself, not for
the need of the one receiving, but for the
willingness of the one giving. It is not fitting
to run on longer with this letter, the address of
which I humbly and vehemently pray that
your humanity and virtue will not allow to be
contrary to itself. Given at
Wittenberg, 20 December,
in the year of Jesus Christ
1584.

A symmetrical printer's ornament featuring floral and foliate motifs.