“You surely are not ignorant, O Most Noble and also Reverend Prince, that the foretaste of the supreme delight does not penetrate our spirits by another means more completely than by consonance and faith by the harmony of the observant fiddles.

Therefore, I do not bring to Your table the luxurious courses of Apicius, nor the costly pearl of Cleopatra, but simple notes with a spirit most devoted to You, not so You hesitate to make a countenance serene for Yourself, as to merit a natural serenity for Your countenance itself.

Thus contemplate with the eyes, so that you would not reject with the mind. Thus receive with ears, so that you would not receive against them. Finally, cherish with a most clement spirit, as uniquely, he vows, of Your Most Reverend Highness a humble servant, Heinrich L.F. Biber.”
-Biber's dedication to Mensa Senora (1680)