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eries, wiles and deceptions of all our enemies as though they were altogether vain.

I beseech you by our friendship, my dear Luther, that if by any chance you can do so, you will send us secretly all your books that have been issued since your departure from Worms. We are especially anxious that the Commentary on Matthew, which you have begun, may be finished as soon as possible, for in this work you can most readily give us a complete form of Christian doctrine.

Greet for me my dear Philip,* and commend me to him all you can. My wife sends greetings. The family of Caspar Uringer, the librarian of our city-coimcil, sends greetings, as do Otto Brunfels* the Carthusian, and Lucas* the priest. Greet Carlstadt for me, and Thomas Blaurer,* a splendid young man. Farewell.

P.S. — Some days ago I wrote you a letter. I was laboring under some excitement and wrote hastily and somewhat care- lessly, and because my friends, who were so anxious to see you, that they could not endure delay, were hurrying me, I made the silliest mistake, which I beg you, by all that is holy and by our friendship, to correct before it goes into any other hands. The passage of which I speak reads Aliis alia placen- tibus. In place of the word placentibus, which I much dislike, put probantibus, I cannot imagine by what negligence or care- lessness that word slipped in; I do not know whether it was because of the eagerness of my mind, or of overanxiety to please you, or because I am too much occupied with things that conflict with letters. Do you, with your great kindness, put the best interpretation on it.

487. CASPAR CONTARINI TO THE SIGNORY OF VENICE. Brown, 1520-1526, no. 216. Worms, May 18, 1521.

The Pope had received the declaration made by the Emperor

^ Melanchthon.

'A member of the Carthusian Order, who diatinguished himself in medicine and botany. He was a friend of Hutten's and left the monastery on hia advice, practicing medicine afterwards at Basle and Berne, where he died. 1534. He was the first German to publish an illustrated work on botany. ADB.


 * Lucas Hackfurt.


 * C/. Vol. I. p. 438.

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