your Imperial Majesty’s own daughter.  And Germany, hearing that to her your Imperial Majesty unites in all-propitious wedlock Peace, seems at last once more to breathe again and to rejoice in the prospect of unbounded happiness.  May your Sacred Majesty live, thrive, and hold sway, with every success and through long length of time, and continue, most mercifully, to unfold, beneath the protecting care of your most august favor, me and all my possessions.  From the Hitzacker Museum, 25, January,  1624.

 

Your Imperial Majesty’s

 

Most Humble, Most Obedient, and Most Faithful Vassal, as long as I breathe,

 

Gustavus born of Selenic lineage.