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 232 THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX. which, fatal information, on enquiry, ]ia.d been con- firmed into clear proof in the negative, and that Beza and Goulart had thereupon become convinced, and Goulart, with Beza, taking a fresh, and again unfor- tunate departure, had agreed that here was the real Dromio, and had silently inserted William Tyndale accordingly. This is only a vague hypothesis, for why did not the old or middle-aged inhabitant of Geneva testify with equal certainty that the Tyndale woodcut was just as little a likeness of Knox, and check Goulart and Beza in their new unfortunate adventure ? But to us the conclusion, which is not hypothetical at all, must surely be that neither Beza nor Goulart had any knowledge v/hatever of the real physiognomy or figure of Johannes Cnoxus, and in all subsequent researches on that subject are to be con- sidered mutually annihilative; and any testimony they could give mere zero, and of no account at all. This, however, was by no means the result which actually followed. Twenty-two years after this of Beza (1602), a Dutch Theologian, one Yerheiden, whose knowledge of theological Icons was probably much more distinct than Bcza's, published at the