To the highly regarded Herr and Man,that is, Veit Dietrich who in this hour can become Deacon (decanibilis) in the faculty of the liberal arts of the University of Wittenberg,my very dear friend.
My greetings! It seems that your prayers over the sickness of the Prince should not cease but for the sake of Christ should continue on and on to pray. There are many who wish for his death and D.Caspar says that this hellish fever will be brought to a standstill by cutting off the big toe and though it has not spread through the upper foot it nevertheless must be deeply cut and it was operated on today with great pain so that the Prince cried out:"It pressures me very hard. It must be an evil thing as you say."He doesn't know that the big toe and a portion of the bone has been cut away, but he does thinks the skin or flesh has been cut away. If the fever develops further in the foot it will come to a head and certainly very shortly. "It is certainly a hellish fever" and the breath of Satan himself. D. Caspar is sure that because of this illness the members of the living body will turn to ashes. I am going about my foreword
to the Prophets. However, before breakfast I die daily due to dizziness and the assaults of Satan so that I almost despair of my life and return back to you. After breakfast I comfort either the Prince or others. "The head does not want to do anything more. Therfore I think that should I die your art and eloquence could be used for the foreword." Here I can bring nothing to completion; for this reason I am thinking that when I can I will return with D. Brueck although I am somewhat skeptical about the journey. However so say the astologers and the mathematicians in their prophecies whom I have often convicted or errors: I will yet often convict them of more errors. Be it right well with you and greet all the friends. D. Martin Luther,in haste as the messenger is very much in a hurry.
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