It grieves me that you should be in such fear, so I comfort you by advising you to be well prepared against their power, with good advice, and then think no more about it; for if they took away all you have in the world you should not lack means to be comfortable as long as I was there.
Therefore be of good cheer.

I am still in a great quandary, for it is now a year since I received a groat from the Pope, and I do not ask for it, for my work does not go forward in such a fashion as to deserve it, as it seems to me.

And this is because of the difficulty of the work, and also that it is not my profession.

And so I lose my time fruitlessly.

God help me.