[85] Flor. Rémond, Hist. Heres. vii. cap. iii.
[86] Je suis à lui de l'un à l'autre bout.
Plus nous souffrons, plus notre joie redouble;
De vos plaisirs ne donnons pas un double.[87a]
[87a] The double was the sixth part of a sou.
[88] Flor. Rémond, Hist. Hérés. vii. cap. iii.
CHAPTER V.
CALVIN AT POITIERS, AT THE BASSES-TREILLES, AND IN ST. BENEDICT'S CAVES.
(Spring 1534.)
CALVIN meditated leaving the South. He had found a retreat in the hour of danger; but as the storm seemed to blow over, he could go at last from the place where he had been hidden, and resume a career that had been so roughly interrupted. He was not at ease in Angoulême. On the one hand the conversion of Du Tillet and some of his friends gave rise to rumours among the clergy and people; and on the other, certain traditional elements that Margaret and some of his hearers at Gérac desired to retain, were displeasing to the reformer. Altars, images, holidays dedicated to Mary and the saints, confessors and confession—none of these things appeared to him scriptural, and he sighed for the time when he could make the evangelical principle prevail in all its integrity. He was in the habit of saying: 'Above all things we must confess our Lord fully, without shrinking from anything soever.'[89]