Thanksgiving and request of Albert Nosowski to the Lviv senators for further support

[P. 2] To the Most Venerable and Most Prudent Senators, My Most Gracious Lords and Patrons I pray with all my might to Him who is the true salvation for eternal health, as well as for the prosperous success of your Commonwealth for a happy beginning of the New Year. Since it is the duty of every client to show himself most grateful to those by whose benefits he is endowed more and more each day, so as not to fall into the stepmother of all virtues, which is ingratitude, than which there is nothing worse on earth – I believe, Most Venerable Patrons, that it befits me to do the same. For since I experience your most generous benefits almost at every moment, it is a glorious and salutary thing that I should show myself mindful and grateful for them at every place, although I cannot offer such great thanks for them as I desire and as I owe. Truly, it is no less a [debt]; for the more I consider the magnitude of your benefit, with which you support me day by day, the more I see that I owe you more – and that most clearly. Indeed, since when receiving a benefit we ought (as Tullius teaches) to imitate fertile fields, which bring forth much more than they have received, and I have the awareness that I shall not only be unable to match any part of your generosity, but cannot even find a proper way to thank you for it, and yet I desire and expect even more. Nevertheless, so that your excellent will toward me may not seem in vain, I offer you, Most Generous Patrons, that which I can, namely the gratitude of my heart, which the wisest men have considered the most excellent good in the human race. Led by it, my Most Venerable Patrons, I shall honor you yourselves on earth with special fidelity and constant respect, for I find no one whom I could more worthily surround with this duty. For although I owe much to my Parents, I owe more to you; for they were the authors merely of my existence, while you – of my being well-educated. They gave me a simple and rural life, you give me a civic one, shaped by learning and good customs. [at the bottom of the page:] N. 6 [P. 3] For this, therefore, I greatly ask and implore, Most Venerable Patrons, that you do not cease to support and promote me with that kindness, until God the Best and Greatest takes care of my fate. I do not doubt, therefore, in your benevolence toward me, Most Venerable Patrons, that you will wish to continue, adorning even more abundantly him whom you have begun to adorn and continue to adorn. And this kindness shown to me, I not only accept without disdain, but I reach out to it with the highest thanksgiving and will surround it with eternal memory not only as long as I breathe, but even after my death the mementos of your benefit will remain. As for the rest, I finish writing, adding only this: whatever you have poured and will pour upon me, Most Generous Patrons, I promise in good faith that I will be grateful for it, and that it may come to pass according to the desire of my heart, I desire with all my prayers. I fervently wish that you, Most Venerable Patrons, may constantly enjoy the happiest health. Given in Krakow, 16 January in the Year of Our Lord 1630. Your Excellency's most obedient client and servant Albert Nosowski, student of the [...] Academy of Krakow, with my own hand [P. 4] [Address:] Let this be delivered to the Most Venerable, Most Prudent, and Most Learned Senators of the Metropolitan City of Lviv etc., my Most Gracious Patrons and Promoters, highly esteemed forever.

[S. 2] Amplissimis ac Consultissimis Senatores D[omi]nis et Patronis meis Benignissimis Perpetuam salutem nec non Reipub:[licae] vestræ felicem succes- sum in Novi Anni felix auspicium, ab eo qui est vera sa- lus summopere precor. Cum partium cuiusvis Clientis intersit, ijs quorum beneficio in dies magis ac magis accumulatur, gratissimum se præstare; ne in novercam omnium virtutum, ingratitudinem scilicet, quâ terra nihil peius habet, incidat; idem mihi existimo facien- dum Patroni Amplissimi: qui cùm beneficia Vestra munifi- centissima singulis ferè momentis experiar; eorundem me omni- bus locis memorem et gratum vt præstem, laudabile est et salu- tare: licet enim pro ijs tantas non possum agere gratias, quan- tas volo et debeo. Nec minor sanè, quantò etenim magis cogi- to amplitudinem Vestri beneficij, quo me in dies augetis, tantò me Vobis plùs debere video: idq[ue] perfacile: enimverò cùm in be- neficio accipiendo, agros fertiles (ut Tullius docet) imitari de- bemus, qui multò plùs afferunt quàm acceperunt: ego autem eâ mihi conscius sim, me non modò nulli parti Vestræ liberalitatis posse respondere, verùm etiam modum iustum agendi gratias pro ea haud queo invenire; cùm adhuc plura expetam, atq[ue] expe- ctem. Tamen ne in cassum, tam egregia Vestra voluntas erga me profecta esse videatur: quod consequi possum, vobis Patronis li- beralissimi offero, meam videlicet animi gratitudinem, quam sa- pientissimi viri apud genus humanum excellentissimum bonum e- xistere putaverunt. Hâc ego ductus Patroni mei Amplissimi, vos i- psos in terris præcipuâ fide, et cultu perpetuo observabo, quo officio quem meliùs prosequar invenio neminem. Et si enim multa debeam Parentibus; plura tamen Vobis; cum illi tantummodò, vt essem, vos autem, ut benè institutus essem, authores estis: illi vitam mihi ru- dem et agrestem dederunt, vos Civilem bonisq[ue] literis ac morib[us] [na dole strony:] N. 6 [S. 3] excultam datis. Quâ pietate Patroni Amplissimi, ne me complecti et promovere desistatis, quoad Deus Optimus, Maximus, meis rebus prospexerit maiorem in modum, oro atq[ue] rogo. Non dubito itaq[ue] de vestrâ in me benevolentiâ Patroni Amplissimi, quin, quem ornare cœpistis et ornatis etiam ampliùs ornando pro- gredi velitis. quam quidem ego benevolentiā, mihi præ- stitam, non modò non aspernor, sed etiàm summâ gratia- rum actione complector, eandemq[ue] memoriâ colam sempiter- nâ, non solùm dum animâ meâ spirabo, sed etiàm cum mortuo monimenta beneficij Vestri permanebunt. Quod reli- quum est, finem scribendi iam facio, hoc saltem addito, quicquid in me contulistis et conferetis Patroni Liberalissimi eorum me gratum futurum optimâ fide recipio, quod ut ex animi sententiâ eveniat, votis omnibus opto. Perpetuò vos valere quàm felicissimè cupio Patroni Amplissimi. Datt:[um] Cracoviæ, 16 Januarij. Anno D[omi]ni 1630. Amplitudini vestræ obsequentissimus Cliens et Servus Albertus Nosowski Studios[us] [Almae?] Acad.[emiae] Cracov.[iensis] m[anu] p[ro]p[ri]a [S. 4, adres:] Amplissimis Consultissimis ac Do- ctissimis Senatoribus Metropo- litana[e] Civitatis Leoliens[is] [=Leopoliensis] etc. meis Benignissimis Patronis ac Promotoribus æternum Observandiss:[imis] pateant