“In the above mentioned book, p. 1442, there is a neat little Print of Copernicus. In Hartknoch’s Alter und newes Preusen, here is a print of Copernicus, from a picture on wood which hangs in what they call his Cenotaph, at Thorn; and which represents him kneeling, in his canonicals, before a Crucifix;—and below this portrait are these sapphic verses:
Non parem Pauli gratiam requiro,
Veniam Petri neque posco; sed quam
In Crucis ligno dederas sationi,
Sedulus oro.
(a little lower)
Nicolao Copernico, Thoruniensi, absolutæ subtilitatis mathematico, ne tanti viri apud exteros celeb. in sua patria periret memoria, hoc monumentum positum.
Mort. Varmiæ, in suo Canonicatu, Anno 1543—
die 4 + ætatis LXXIII.
(lastly, lowest.)