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read with me.^[1] If I have a horse left with a car, it ought to go to Baron John. Master Martin, however, if he is alive—or, at any rate, Master Christian, in whom I have complete confidence^[2]—will make you a payment from the four guineas—I wish I could say ten guineas! But no sum of money, be assured, can adequately repay your fervent, steadfast, loyal love of the truth and the kind offices and considerations you have shown me in my troubles. May God be your exceeding reward, for I have naught to reward you with. If I ever should live in Prague again, I should like you to share everything with me as freely as my own brother; but the possibility of my return to Prague depends entirely upon the grace of God. I desire it not, if it is not the will of our Father Who is in heaven. My travelling breviary,^[3] which I bequeathed to Master Martin, will pass into the possession^[4] of some one of the friends still with me. Dispose of my books according to the instructions I gave to Master Martin,^[5] and accept any of Wyclif’s works you care to have. At present my chief distress is over our brethren, who, I imagine, will suffer persecution unless the Lord lay bare His arm; and I fear that many may be offended. Please, now as ever, give my affectionate greetings to all the Bohemian and Polish nobles, together with my thanks—and especially Baron Wenzel, etc., whom I desire to see present at the hearing of my case. Farewell in Christ Jesus.

 

1. Plebanus meus scholaris—i.e., Girzik. See p. 206 n.
2. In spite of his apparent relapse. See p. 196 n. and 200, n. 1.
3. Viaticus, a breviary adapted to the use of travellers.
4. P.: cedet; perhaps read cedat.
5. Cf. p. 151.