Letter 9212: Most serene Queen, the bearer of this letter is Hilarius, whom I send to you with confidence in your continued...

Since in the governance of a kingdom virtue needs justice and power needs equity, and neither of these can suffice for this purpose without the other, how greatly the cares of love for your own people shine forth in you is in any case plainly shown by this, that you govern the throngs of the nations in praiseworthy fashion. Who therefore, considering these things, would distrust the goodness of your Excellency or be in doubt about obtaining a request, when one has resolved to ask of you those things which it knows you are gladly able to bestow upon your subjects? And so the bearer of the present letter, Hilarius, a servant of your Excellency, reckoning that he would be assisted at your court by our intervention, has asked that letters of our commendation may support him, holding it the more certain that, just as you grant to others, he would gain his merit if our intercession spoke on his behalf. Accordingly, paying the discourses of greeting with the affection of fatherly charity, we ask that, because he declares that he is burdened by adversities through the wickedness of certain persons, the protection of your Excellency may fortify him and, lest he be able to be oppressed contrary to reason, you may direct by your command that he be kept safe; so that, while under your command and favor no one's adversity shall have a place against him unjustly and merely for the sake of will alone, both we may render thanks for what we have obtained—which we ask the more for the sake of your own reward—and blessed Peter, the chief of the apostles, whom you venerate with Christian devotion by granting in us what we ask, may recompense your Excellency.

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