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417 HIS DEATH AND CHARACTER. 417 fice, and after tracing a few lines he gave it up. chapter The purport of these seems to have been, to recom- " mend his university at Alcala to the royal protec- tion. He now^ became wholly occupied with his devotions, and manifested such contrition for his errors, and such humble confidence in the divine mercy, as deeply affected all present. In this tran- quil frame of mind, and in the perfect possession of his powers, he breathed his last, November 8th, 1517, in the eighty-first year of his age, and the twenty-second since his elevation to the primacy. The last words that he uttered were those of the Psalmist, which he used frequently to repeat in health, " In te, Domine, speravi," — " In thee, Lord, have I trusted." His body, arrayed in his pontifical robes, was seated in a chair of state, and multitudes of all de- grees thronged into the apartment to kiss the hands and feet. It was afterwards transported to Alcala, and laid in the chapel of the noble college of San Ildefonso, erected by himself. His obsequies were celebrated with great pomp, contrary to his own orders, by all the religious and literary fraternities of the city ; and his virtues commemorated in a funeral discourse by a doctor of the university, who, considering the death of the good a fitting occasion to lash the vices of the living, made the most caustic allusion to the Flemish favorites of Charles, and their pestilent influence on the country.^^ 25 Robles, Vidade Ximenez, cap. typo, lib. 4, cap. 12-15; who 18. — Gomez, De Rebus Gestis, fol. quotes MaraiTo, an eyewitness. — 215-217. — Quintanilla, Arche- Carbajal, Anales, MS., ano 1517, VOL. III. 53