praedicat melleas sanctas et floridas, quae procedunt de temperata communione, blanditias; nec tamen ex hoc quicquam pontificali deperire personae, quod sacerdotii fastigium non frangitis comitate, sed flectitis.
He lauds the gracious words, so sweet, so holy, so elegant, that flow from your well-regulated geniality; and he adds that, with all this, you do not suffer any loss of pontifical consequence, for by your affability you do not break your priestly eminence'you unbend it.
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