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Gregorius Gregorio a praeposito Italiæ. Bonitatem b excellentiæ vestræ, quam semper cognitam habui, nunc experimento superaddito recognovi. Unde omnipotentem Deum deprecor, ut sua vos protectione custodiat, vobisque et apud se gra. tiam, et apud serenissimos principes largiatur. Si autem nullæ hominum qui intersunt pravitates c nos dividant, esse me vestrum proprium valde certum tenete. d Quod in omnipotente Domino conOdo, quia hoc vobis etiam per documentum meæ attestationis ostendo. Salutationis igitur alloquium solvens, peto ut quo'ies usus exegerit, vestris me affatibus relevare curetis.
Gregory to Gregorius, provost of Italy. The goodness of your excellency, which I have always known, I have now recognized by an added proof. Wherefore I beseech Almighty God that He may guard you with His protection, and bestow upon you both grace with Himself and favor with the most serene princes. But if no depravities of the men who are present divide us, hold it most certain that I am your very own. Which I trust in the omnipotent Lord, because I show this to you even by the document of my attestation. Paying therefore the address of salutation, I ask that, as often as need shall require, you take care to relieve me with your words.
額我略致義大利的總管額我略。你卓越的良善，我素來知曉，如今又藉一新增的憑證重新認識。因此我懇求全能的神，願祂以自己的保護看守你，並賜你在祂面前蒙恩，在至尊的君王面前蒙寵。若在場之人的任何邪僻不使我們分離，你當確信我實在是屬你自己的。這事我在全能的主裡確信，因為我甚至藉我這見證的憑據向你顯明。因此作此問候之辭，我求你每逢需要之時，設法以你的音信寬慰我。