"I am coming; I am coming. It is just. But wait a little."

“May the Lord array thee in the garment of salvation and surround thee with the cloak of happiness.”

“The Duke is a good-natured man, but he cannot tolerate affronts. I have often told him that Rome is a free city, and that everyone may write and speak as he pleases. Evil is even spoken of me, but I let it pass." The Duke replied: "Rome is accustomed to write and speak; it is well, but I will teach such people repentance."* The Pope finally reminded him how much he himself had forgiven, and especially at the time of Charles VIII's invasion, so many cardinals, whom the King himself had called his betrayers. "I could," he said, "have sentenced the Vice-Chancellor and Cardinal Vincula to death, but I did not wish to harm anyone, and I have forgiven fourteen great nobles.”

“But may God, who grants pardon and loves to save man, in his goodness, give strength to us and make prosperous the Holy See.”

“The very heart of him.”