dust, is now raised on high, by the hands of Kings and
Princes. . . . It transcends all heights of temporal glory, to have
been made like the saints in glory. For all the rich among the
people "vultum ejus desprecantur" (pray for the light of her
countenance), and kings and princes offer gifts, magnates adore her,
and all nations serve her. Nor without reason, for "she sold all
and gave to the poor," and counting all her substance for nothing,
bought for herself this priceless pearl of eternity.' One would be
sorry to believe that such utterly mean considerations of selfish
vanity, expressing as they do an extreme respect for the very pomps
and vanities which they praise the saints for despising, really went
to the making of any saint, Romish or other.

Section 14. 'Of the sacred oil which flowed from the bones of
Elizabeth.' I subjoin the 'Epilogus.'

'Moreover even as the elect handmaid of God, the most blessed
Elizabeth, had shone during her life with wonderful signs of her
virtues, so since the day of her blessed departure up to the present
time, she is resplendent through the various quarters of the world
with illustrious prodigies of miracles, the Divine power glorifying
her. For to the blind, dumb, deaf, and lame, dropsical, possessed,
and leprous, shipwrecked, and captives, "ipsius mertis," as a reward
for her holy deeds, remedies are conferred. Also, to all diseases,
necessities, and dangers, assistance is given. And, moreover, by
the many corpses, "puta sedecim" say sixteen, wonderfully raised to
life by herself, becomes known to the faithful the magnificence of
the virtues of the Most High glorifying His saint. To that Most
High be glory and honour for ever. Amen.'

So ends Dietrich's story. The reader has by this time, I hope, read
enough to justify, in every sense, Conrad's 'A corpse or two was
raised, they say, last week,' and much more of the funeral oration
which I have put into his mouth.

P. 153. 'Gallant gentleman.' Cf. Lib. VIII. section 6.

P. 154. 'Took his crown.' Cf. Lib. VIII. section 12.

Ibid. The 'olive' and the 'pearl' are Dietrich's own figures. The
others follow the method of scriptural interpretation, usual in the
writers of that age.

P. 162. 'Domini canes,' 'The Lord's hounds,' a punning sobriquet of
the Dominican inquisitors, in allusion to their profession.

P 163. 'Folquet,' Bishop of Toulouse, who had been in early life a
Troubadour, distinguished himsel