A confidential letter from the court.
The original is in the Wallenrodt Library at Königsberg. From it (mutilated) in Lilienthal's Erläut. Preußen, I V. B., p. 153. Entirely in Borowski-Faber, p. 98; in De Wette, vol. IV, p. 552 f. and in the Erlangen edition, vol. 55, p. 61.
To my kind dear Lord, Mrs. Catherin von Bora, D. Lutherin zu Wittenberg.
G. u. Fried in Christo. Dear Mr. Käthe! I know nothing to write to you, because M. Philipps and the others are coming home themselves. I must stay here longer for the sake of the pious Prince. You may think how long I will stay here, or how you will release me. I think M. Franciscus will untie me again, as I untied him, but not so soon. Yesterday I had fasted a bad drink, so I had to sing: I don't drink well, I'm sorry, and I'd like to; and I thought how good wine and beer I have at home, plus a beautiful woman or (should I say) gentleman. And you would do well to send me the whole cellar full of my wine and a bottle (Pfloschen) of your beer, as soon as you can. Otherwise I will not come back before the new beer. Hiemit GOOD commanded together with our disciples and all the servants, Amen. Wednesday after Jacobi [July 29] 1534.
Your sweetheart
Mart. LutheR, D.
No. 2077.
To author Broitzer, citizen of Brunswick.
See St. Louis edition, vol. X, 2038.
No. 2078.