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 not thank you they will greatly displease me. . . . [Instruc- tions for electing a new prior.]. ..

I beg that you will be diligent and faithful in the instruc- tion of youth, as in that which is the first and main business of the convent. Farewell and pray for me and for all of us. . . . Brother Martin Luther,

District Vicar of the Augustiniatts.

la LUTHER TO JOHN LANG. Enders, L 59. Kemberg, October 5, 15 16.

... It is quite clear that that nonsense you sent me about a supplication^ to the pope against theologs has been cooked up by some rash person, for it smells of the same oven as the Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum. I imparted it opportunely to the faculty, which had met to license two physicians, and they were all of the same opinion in regard to it. . ..

You have rightly sought the reverend father Vicar* at Munich. He wrote me on September loth from there. I do not know whether he will come to us, but I hope so. He wrote me that he was forced to remain there on account of poverty. . . . Brother Martin Luther.

I9l LUTHER TO GEORGE SPALATIN AT ALTENBURG. Enders, i. 61. (Wittenberg, circa October 5, 1516.)

Greeting. Yesterday I received your letter and the gulden you sent me. Let it be as it must.

John Lang, prior at Erfurt, has sent me Supplication agaitist Theologs. As it contains no manifest truth, it must be by the author of the Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum or someone who apes him. I approve his intention, not his method, because he does not forbear from reviling and contumely. In short, he was laughed to scorn by all when I recently exposed him. Take the book and read it with your accustomed moderation. Farewell.

^Tenor supplicaiionis PasquUlianae, in Pasquillu* Marranus exui (1520), reprinted in Bocldng: Hutteni opera, supplementum, i. 505. Further deUils on it in O. Qemen: Beitr&ge but Reformationsgeschichte (1900), i. X2ff. He holds that the author of the Tenor was one of the Erfurt humanists.


 * Staupitz.

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