ne maintained idolatry, the other papacy. The one slew God's holy
prophets, the other has slain a hundred thousand followers of the Gospel.
Both have killed, in order to obtain the goods of their victims. But the
unkindest verses are the last--even the very dogs will refuse to touch
Catharine's "carrion."

"En fin le jugement fut tel
Que les chiens mengent Jhesabel
Par une vangeance divine;
Mais la charongne de Catherine
Sera differente en ce point,
Car les chiens ne la vouldront point."

Appendix to Mem. de Claude Haton, ii. 1, 110.

[5] _Ante_, i. 477.

[6] Mem. de Claude Haton, 211, 212.

[7] Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 431.

[8] Abbe Bruslart, Mem. de Conde. i. 70, 71.

[9] Declaration of Feb. 14, 1561/2, Du Mont, Corps diplomatique, v. 91,
92.

[10] And, indeed, with modifications which were to render it still more
severe. Letter of Beza to Calvin, Feb. 26, 1562, Baum, ii., App., 167.

[11] The registry took place on Friday, March 6th. Isambert, xiv. 124; La
Fosse, 45, who says "Ledict edict fut publie en la salle du palais en ung
vendredy, 5e [6e] de ce moys, _la ou il y eut bien peu de conseillers et
le president Baillet qui signerent_."

[12] The same prelate to whom Cardinal Lorraine doubtless referred in no
complimentary terms, when, at the assembly of the clergy at Poissy, he
said, "qu'il estoit contrainct de dire, _Duodecim sumus, sed unus ex nobis
Diabolus est_, et passant plus outre, qu'il y avoit ung evesque de la
compagnie ... qui avoit revele ce qui se faisoit en laditte assemblee,"
etc. Journal de Bruslart, Mem. de Conde, i. 50.

[13] See the document in Schlosser, Leben des Theodor de Beze, App.,
359-361; Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 436, 437.

[14] Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 436-450; Baum, ii. 512-545. In
connection with Prof. Baum's long and thorough account of the colloquy,
Beza's correspondence, printed in the appendix, is unusually interesting.

[15] "Cardinalium intercessione ac precibus mox soluta sunt omnia." Beza
to Bullinger, March 2, 1562. Baum, ii., App., 169.

[16] "Nihil hoc consilio gratius accidere potuit nostris adversariis
quibus iste ludus minime placebat, adeo ut _ipse Demochares ... pene sui
oblitus in meos amplexus rueret_, et ejus sodales honorifice me
salutarent!" Beza to Calvin, Feb. 26, 1562, ibid., 165. The Venetian
Barbaro represents this second conference as an extremely efficient means
of spreading heresy: "La qual [i