One conclusion, at least, can safely be drawn from this, that the morality of the age had impressed Luther with the belief that the self-restraint of chastity was impossible.
That the Catholics should make themselves merry over the marriage of the apostate monk and nun was to be expected, and Jerome Emser did not think it beneath him to write an epithalamium on the wedding of his former friend, of which the following may be taken as a specimen—
Ad Priapum Lampsacenum
Veneramur, et Silenum
Bacchumque cum Venere
cum jubilo.
Septa claustri dissipamus,
Sacra vasa compilamus
Sumptus unde suppetat
cum jubilo.