In counterpoint you are little inferior to Maestro Gombert, and, besides, you play as many instruments as you have fingers on your hands.

We all like to have you lead us, because you do it with such delicate taste and comprehension, and, moreover, with a vigour which one would scarcely expect from you.

You will not lack patrons.

Look around you here or elsewhere for a position as leader of an orchestra.

Goinbert, to relieve himself a little, would like to have de Hondt come from Antwerp to Brussels.