Note 398 — Chapter IV · MODERN WIT AND SATIRE.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
See e.g. the letter to the Cardinal of Lorraine, Lettere, ed. Venez. fol. 29, dated Nov. 21, 1534, and the letters to Charles V., in which he says that no man stands nearer to God than Charles.