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rector/ Carlstadt, Armsdorf and I. The protest docs nc please many, though they have poor reason for objecting \ it, for they consider not the profit of the students, but tl salaries of the professors. Conversing with one of the recently, I said if the salaries were given for the sake of su] porting the professors, the university was changed into a eleemosynary institution. Let the needy be supported in son other way ; here we must consider proper studies alone. Tb are blind and without judgment I hope the most illustrioi elector will take good cotmsel in this matter.

Brother Martin Luther.

134. LUTHER TO THE ELECTOR FREDERIC OF SAXONY. Enders, i. 448. De Wette, i. 256. German.

My poor, humble prayer is ever for your Qracel Mo serene, high-bom Prince, most gracious Lord ! Your Grace chaplain, Spalatin, has sent to me certain points concemii me, forwarded to your Grace by the Honorable Charles v< Miltitz, commissary of the Pope's Holiness, demandin namely, that I should henceforth keep silence and not b^ anything new, as we agreed at Altenburg. Now God knoi that I am anxious and would be happy to have the game ei thus, as far as in me lies ; and I have kept myself so strict to the agreement that I have let Silvester Prierias* AnstVi go, although it gave me much cause to reply, and has giv< my opponents much reason to mock me; yet have I kc silence contrary to the advice of my friends. Howevi Miltitz knows well that our agreement was that I should k© silence on condition that my enemies did the same. But nc Dr. Eck has without warning attacked me, in such mann that he seems to seek not my shame only, but the dishon also of your Grace's University of Wittenberg. Many r spectable people think that he was bribed to do so. It did n become me to pass over his fickle, treacherous attack ai

(Aristotle's?) Logic, devoting the salaries paid for these courses partlj increasing Melanchthon's pay and partly to hiring a professor to lecture Grid's Metamorphoses. Cf. De Wette- Seidemann, ri. 13.


 * Bartholomew Bernhardi of Feldkirch.

^Replica F. Sylvestri Prieriatis, 1518, on which cf. Lauchert, op. cU., i8ff.

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