July 5, 1531.
Grace and peace in Christ. Noble Lord! Your Lord knows how things stand between your son N. and the elf of N. Now the said elf has approached me with weeping and complaining, where it could never be that she would like to have your son N. for marriage, as she desires and considers fair, that she would finally be divorced freely and be free to change etc. I answered her: it is not in my power to divorce her, I wanted to write to E. G. about it first; as I hereby do and want to have done, and hereby kindly ask, because E. G.'s son has not only become engaged to the elf, which E. G. could overthrow as a father, but has also come to bed and conjugal works, to help her to get G.'s son as her husband. But if the same should not happen, I will be forced by necessity to absolve poor Dime in conscience and before God, and not to deny her freedom to change. So that I want to warn E. G. that afterwards, when she has changed, E. G.'s son, while she lives,
One can also read here: Luther's preface to Brentius' booklet on matrimonial matters, which will appear among the prefaces.