Upon this, Charles promised to assist the duke with an armed force. The pope, too, changed his mind, in spite of his refusal to Gazzini, and found in the emptiness of his treasury a subsidy of four thousand Spanish livres. The two mightiest personages in christendom united against this little city their influence, their excommunications, their cunning, their wealth, and their soldiers; and everything was got ready for the meditated attack.
[801] 'Et in domos et toros grassabantur.'—Geneva Restituda, p. 21.
[802] 'Vix ac ne vix tot admissariorum prurentium ardores arceri poterant.'—Ibid.
[803] 'Pro cerebro Petri pumex repertus.'—Ibid. See also Calvin's Inventaire des Reliques.
[804] 'Reperti tubi, tanta arte inter se commissi, ut excitatum ab adstantibus sonum statim exciperent.'—Geneva Restituta, p. 26. Registres du Conseil du 8 décembre 1535. Froment, Actes et Gestes merveilleux de la Cité de Genève nouvellement convertie à l'Evangile, publiés par M. G. Revilliod, p. 49.
[805] 'Sed his spectris, propius vestigatis, animæ crustosæ et testaceæ deprehensæ ... ellychniis succensis dorsorum crustæ alligatis.'—Geneva Restituta, p. 27. Froment, Actes et Gestes de Genève, p. 150.
[806] 'In exactionibus harpias, ad superbiendum tauros, ad consumendum minotauros.'—Geneva Restituta, p. 28.
[807] 'Leur serait comptée pour deux.'—Registres du Conseil des 4 et 9 janvier 1530.
[808] 'Melius est bellum cum libertate quam pacifica servitus. Nolite confidere in principibus; soli Deo honor et gloria!'—Journal de Balard, pp. 226, 264, 267. Registres du Conseil des 17 avril, 8 août, 17 octobre, 14 novembre, &c.