oria Universitatis Parisiensis_, vol.
v, p. 929.]

[Footnote 2446: De Beaurepaire, _Notes sur les juges_, p. 88.]

In terms of calculated simplicity did this illustrious doctor call
upon Jeanne to reflect on the effects of her words and sayings, and
tenderly did he exhort her to submit to the Church. After the wormwood
he offered her the honey; he spoke to her in words kind and familiar.
With remarkable adroitness he entered into the feelings and
inclinations of the maiden's heart. Seeing her filled with knightly
enthusiasm and loyalty to King Charles, whose coronation was her
doing, he drew his comparisons from chivalry, thereby essaying to
prove to her that she ought rather to believe in the Church Militant
than in her Voices and apparitions.

"If your King," he said to her, "had appointed you to defend a
fortress, forbidding you to let any one enter it, would you not refuse
to admit whomsoever claiming to come from him did not present letters
and some other token. Likewise, when Our Lord Jesus Christ, on his
ascension into heaven, committed to the Blessed Apostle Peter and to
his successors the government of his Church, he forbade them to
receive such as claimed to come in his name but brought no
credentials."

And, to bring home to her how grievous a sin it was to disobey the
Church, he recalled the time when she waged war, and put the case of a
knight who should disobey his king:

"When you were in your King's dominion," he said to her, "if a knight
or some other owing fealty to him had arisen, saying, 'I will not obey
the King; I will not submit either to him or to his officers,' would
you not have said, 'He is a man to be censured'? What say you then of
yourself, you who, engendered in Christ's religion, having become by
baptism the daughter of the Church and the bride of Christ, dost now
refuse obedience to the officers of Christ, that is, to the prelates
of the Church?"[2447]

[Footnote 2447: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 437, 441.]

Thus did Maitre Pierre Maurice endeavour to make Jeanne understand
him. He did not succeed. Against the courage of this child all the
reasons and all the eloquence of the world would have availed nothing.
When Maitre Pierre had finished speaking, Jeanne, being asked whether
she did not hold herself bound to submit her deeds and sayings to the
Church, replied:

"What I have always held and said in the trial that will I
maintain.... If I were condemned and saw the fagots lighted, a