blessing for ever on my Lord John! Would that I knew how Barbatus[1] is faring; he would not take the advice of his friends. They have my book,[2] so I am in no need at the present of that paper. Keep a copy of the first articles with my proofs attached[3] for the sake of proving any of them, should there be need; attest them with your signature where I have put a cross,[4] especially this article: “Whatever a virtuous man doth, he doth virtuously.”[5]
At this moment I am racked with toothache, and I suffered agonies in my cell with vomiting, hemorrhage, headache, and stone. These are the penalties I pay for my sins, and the tokens of God’s love to me.
Since they have only condemned the treatises,[6] please qualify my last Czech letter which I sent off to-day,[7] that God’s people may not suppose that all my books have been condemned, as I imagined when I wrote my letter of yesterday. I would like to be assured that no letter written in prison shall be made public to any one, because it is not yet finally settled what God will do with me! I am afraid that a letter of mine hath been forwarded by the hands of Ulrich.[8] For God’s sake I beg you to look well after the letters and also your words and doings.
- ↑ So Palackẏ (Doc. 108): cf. p. 199, n. 1. But MS. Mladenowic has ‘barbatus Hieronymus’—i.e.,“bearded Jerome”; and to this the next clause leads me to incline (cf. also pp. 182, n. 1, and 233); Jerome’s beard was a constant source of trouble to him and made him a marked man.
- ↑ MS. of the De Ecclesia.
- ↑ Still extant, preserved by Mladenowic (see Doc. 204 ff.).
- ↑ Ib.
- ↑ See Doc. p. 214.
- ↑ De Ecclesia and the Treatises against Palecz and Stanislaus.
- ↑ This letter seems to be lost.
- ↑ Ulrich, of whom we know nothing, had done Hus a good turn on June 5 by informing Mladenowic of the design to hurry the trial (p. 207).
