among those with whom they associated, to
point out the circumstance, that the Vicar General had kept the last
word, as a sign of victory. He himself also boasted of it in Constance
after his return, and wherever Zwingli's rough manner or vehement
language afforded an opportunity for censure, it was heaped up and
spread on all sides. "In short"--writes Salat of Luzern, clerk of the
court--"Zwingli pours down far too many scornful words on the head of
the Lord Vicar, that excellent man of honor. Now he calls him Sir Hans,
Sir John, Sir Vicary, plucks the vicar-bonnet off, and this times
without number, and without shame. This was his mode of disputing."

Calmly and with a manifest endeavor, as far as it lay in his power, to
form an unbiassed judgment, an old schoolmaster, Erhard Hegenwald, has
described the transaction; and his narrative is the more worthy of
credence, for the very reason that Faber was so provoked by it, that he
attempted to refute it by a statement of his own. The distinguished
air, which he assumed, the haughty treatment of Hegenwald, the
importance, which he strove to give to his trifling mistakes, the
mixture also of unfounded assertions contained in this production
roused the indignation of the young men of Zurich, six of whom, members
then already for the most part of the Great, and afterwards of the
Small Council, joined in the publication of an answer to Faber, which
they entitled "Hawk Plucking." The rude castigation, the biting and
often also tasteless wit, and the entire absence of all the respect,
which they formerly paid to age and official position, sorely wounded
the Vicar General, who, but that it seemed useless, would have
complained of the "libelous little book" to the government of Zurich.

Thus the hostility of Faber toward Zwingli and his friends soon
extended itself to Zurich also. This champion against the doctrines of
the Reformer became a persecutor of all his adherents--an inexorable
judge to those, who fell into his power. In the end he even laughed at
the tears, which the torture of the rack wrung from one of his victims,
and rejoiced to see him burning at the stake.[4]

Zwingli, although satisfied with the decree of the government, that he
should continue unmolested in his way of teaching, was by no means so
with the turn, which the conference took in the afternoon, through
the tricks of Faber and the sort of protest against his syllogisms as
anti-scriptural, with which th