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this he prays the Emperor for a righteous judgment. The Emperor tore it up and threw it on the ground, as you can see by the enclosure. That was a clear indication for the whole Diet of the Emperor's opinion of Luther's cause. If it please your Lordship, I pray you after the Pope has seen it to put it in the secret part of the papal library.

On the same day there appeared two German pamphlets^ by Luther and an anonymous one* against the Pope. There also appeared a right able German pamphlet* against Luther's Address to the German Nobility.

A little while ago at Augsburg they were selling Luther's picture* with a halo ; it was offered without the halo for sale here, and all the copies were disposed of in a trice before I could get one. Yesterday I saw on one and the same page* Luther with a book and Hutten with a sword. Over them was printed in fair letters: "To the Champions of Christian Freedom, M. Luther and Ulrich von Hutten." Each was praised in a tetrastich beneath; Hutten was threatening with his sword, according to the poet. A nobleman showed m^ such a picture, but I have not been able to get another. So far has the world gone that the Germans in blind adoratiol^ press around these two scoundrels, and adore even during their lifetime the men who were bold enough to cause 3- schism, whose words they oppose to the love of neighbor and the command of the gospel in order to tear the seamless coat of Christ. And I am given up to such people !

I enclose also certain reckless articles* on Luther's affair^ which are in circulation here, composed, as is said, by Eras^ mus, in order to keep the princes from fulfilling their counsels, and to prevent our success until the Emperor shall have gone away without having given judgment. But we shall find some way to cross their purpose. If I sent all these shameful writings I should have to load a wagon.

piece was Lutber's letter to Charles V. of August 31, xs^o, translated Smith, p. 99-

lOne of these was Luther's answer to Emser; the other was probably a reprint.

«A work by Paul Phrygio of Schlettstadt (died 1543).

'Either Eraser's answer to this book, or Murnar's.


 * See my article in Scribner's Magazine, July, I9i3» PP. I4iff.

^This picture, a woodcut, was discovered by Knaake, who describes it fttlly in Theologische Studien und Kritiken, 1896, pp. 171 ff.

•Either Erasmus's Axioms, which had been printed by this time, or the Con- cilium CHJusdam, composed at Erasmus' advice by Faber. C/. Smith, xoo, xoj.

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