Handwritten in Aurifaber, vol. III, p. 335. From the original in Schütze, vol. I, p. 152 and in De Wette, vol. V, p. 374.
Grace and peace! I want to anticipate your letter, which I hope will come soon, or rather every hour, and predict to you what will be done at Regensburg, namely: that you have been summoned to the emperor and he has spoken to you that you should be mindful of what serves peace during the conversation. But you answered in Latin that you would do what you could, but that you were not up to such a great task. Eck, however, cried out in his usual manner: "Most gracious emperor, I will defend that our part is right, and that the pope is the head of the church. There you have the history that happened with you. From the last letter that Caspar wrote to M. George, I learned that you will fight with each other on the following day. I am glad that Mezentius 1) is in contempt.
Here the rumor boasts that five thousand Turks have been slain at Buda. I have nothing new to write about, so everything is going as usual. I am gradually beginning to hear again, although in the meantime my dead ear prevents me from hearing, and the flow of my head or the moisture from my head weighs me down. But I am full of moisture, mucus and rivers and will remain so. My Käthe greets you reverently. Greetings to all of us. On Saturday after St. John the Baptist's Day, June 25, 1541. Yours, Martin Luther.
1) Henry of Brunswick.
No. 2805.