if thou doest desire Our welfare , and art Friend to vs and Our Officer Lieutenant Generall of all our forces which we will send , Our Greeting . But thou hast long since broken Our friendship , and yet art neither ready nor fit to wage Warre , or fight battell against vs . But thou hast some secret aduice and intelligence with other confederate petty Kings , and their Counsellors , to deliuer thee out of Our hands , and our Vicegerents power , wherein thou hast done vnaduisedly , and indiscreetly . If therfore thou thus perseuere to oppose thy selfe against vs , then feare , for thy death , and the death of all thy people is determined . Wee tell thee , Wee will ouercome thee , from the rising of the Sun , to the going downe thereof , and we will shew Our Maiesty in our own person and sight , vnto the vttermost parts of the earth ; Our very thoughts shall be a terrour vnto thee , shewing that Wee will performe all that which Wee haue herein denounced . And Wee will make knowne vnto thee the powerfulnesse of our Dominions . And thou , O King , which puttest thy trust in strong Forts & Castles , shalt haue experience of Our resistlesse might . I will roote thee out altogether , and thou shalt behold this with thine owne eyes . Wherefore expect now no more friendship at my hands ; put not thy hope in the strength of thy walles , with thy owne forces and people . I will ruinate thee without any resistance . I will destroy thy Cracouia , in signe of triumph , I will leaue there my bloudy sword , that euery one shall take notice thereof , and my beliefe shall bee spread throughout all thy Dominions , and I will vtterly roote out the very remembrance of thy Crucified God . Let thy God bee angry , I care not ; He may thou helpe thee . Thy anointed ( the Priests ) I will surely put to the plague ; Wolues and wilde Beasts shall sucke the brests of thy Women ; thou shalt leaue and forsake thy Religion which thou now hast ; that which remaineth of all things , shall bee consumed with fire . Herewith rest thou satisfied ; I doe not tell thee now what I will doe ; or meane to doe with thee ; vnderstand if thou wilt , or canst .

We haue receiued thy Letter , full fraught with threats , and swolne with impieties against the Maiestie of the most High God , whereunto wee had not vouchsafed answere , but that wee were perswaded , our silence would haue been a meanes of causing thee to flatter thy selfe so much the more , else had Wee neglected thee like an Arch-enemy of God , as thou art . Wee haue therefore thought fit in some sort to regard the Saluation of thy soule , giuing thee to know , that thou art no other then a meere man , in thy person more weake then many of thy followers ; which should cause thee to remember , that if it had not pleased God to ingraue in the front of such as rule , a kinde of awfull Maiestie , whereby their subiects are kept in obedience ; the good by reward , the euill and peruerse by rigorous Lawes , and both the one and the other by Authoritie ; it were impossible they should continue eminent aboue others . Thou then , who in thy selfe art but as other men , must know , that there is a Supreme Power of more might then thine , which doth vphold thy estate , causing thee to bee respected by thy followers . This power proceeds from God most Good , most Iust , most Mighty , who presrueth it so long as Princes humble themselues before him ; but if they suffer themselues to bee transported with presumption , and pride , he easily abateth , and corrects their fury . I will offer no other example to thy consideration , then that of Baiazet the first , one of thy Predecessors , who thinking to scale Heauen with his Armie ( which in the iudgement of Man was vnresistable , but in Gods sight most contemptible ) liued to see himselfe vanquished , taken , and imprisoned , coopt vp in an iron cage , ( wherein hee was in triumph drawne after the victorious Conquerour , seruing him for no better then a footstoole ) and hauing no other food , then such as was cast him ( like a Dogge ) from his Table .

Thinke then with thy selfe , that hee that was so great , so puissant , and so terrible , may haply by right of Succession haue left vnto thee ( as beeing descended from him ) the like , or worse fortune , if thou shalt dare to continue thy blasphemies against GOD , and his Beloued Sonne Iesus Christ Crucified . Thou doest mistake in thinking to lay an aspersion vpon vs , by reproaching vnto vs the Crosse . For Wee account it Our chiefest honour , and glory ; by vertue whereof , as the Emperour Constantine quelled his enemies , Wee hope , and assured our selues to bee defended against thy Fury . Thy proud , and thundering words dismay vs not , our courage is more Masculine and generous , then so to bee out-braued . For know , that wee regard not thy threats , but with iust scorne tread vpon thy pride , and laugh at thy idle terrours , and in stead of thanking thee for aduertising vs before thy comming , We bid thee come when thou wilt , thou shalt bee receiued contrary to thy expectation . Wee haue steepe Mountaines , and impregnable Rockes that shall barre thee from entering into our Lands . Thou shalt finde our Cities , and Castles well furnished with Munition , our Canons mouthes breathing furious fires , our courages inuincible , our blades eager and sharpe , our bodies , as our mindes , prepared to sustaine the violence of all seasons , our hearts promising nothing but victory . And to dazell thine eyes , the glorious Standard of the blessed Crosse shall goe before vs ; but aboue all , the Crucified Son of the most High God shal cause his Angels to conduct vs , and giue vs the victory ; He it is shall bee our Leader , vnder whose protection wee will not feare to braue thee at thy Gates . Thy miscreant troupes shall be troden vnderfoote , and their bellies trampled on , and by a happy victory ( if thou chance to escape our conquering Arme ) thou shalt finde thy selfe pursued vnto the most secret Dens of thy abominable Seralio ; thou shalt see thy Mosques laid leuell with the ground , thy Muphty , and other the execrable Priests of thy perfidious Mahomet made Gally-slaues ; all those traiterous run-a-gates whom thou doest harbor , shalt thou see put to exquisite torments ; of all which be most assured . And then shall bee set free all those poore and miserable Christians , who now lie groning vnder the burthen of thy Tyrannous yoake , whose wofull cryes being mounted to Heauen , haue iustly excited the vengeance of God vpon thee , who hath permitted thee to rise to this height of pride , that thy ruine & destruction may bee the more exemplar vnto after-ages . To conclude , thou shalt see the seruice of God re-established in Greece and Asia , which thou doest now vniustly vsurpe . But if it happen thee to end thy miserable life in Battell , ( which we hope God will grant ) be confident , that all the foresaid vengeance shall ensue vpon thy death ; And whiles thy wretched Soule lies broiling in the quenchlesse flames of Hell , wee will lift vp our cheerefull voices , and , for the victory obtained ouer thee and thine , sing praises vnto our God : to whom be all glory for euer .

Know then , O Infidell , that we feare thee not at all , and if thou beest not wilfully bent to runne headlong vnto thy owne destruction , be aduised ; content , and containe thy selfe within those bounds thou doest at this present vsurpe , and if thou hast any beliefe at al that thy thrice reuerenced Prophet Mahomet could tell a truth , or foretell future euents , then call to minde , that of those thousand yeeres which hee prescribed for the continuing of thy Sect , there remaine not aboue sixe or seuen yeeres . This then is the time that the yet vnsheathed Sword of the Christians affords for thy amendment , that thou mightest come to the knowledge of the alone True GOD , to worship him in his Sonne IESVS CHRIST , wherevnto we once more exhort thee , omitting all other salutation , and commendation .