n., i. 52.]

[Footnote 1131: "Ha operato tanto con la sua lingua, che non solamente
ha persuaso infiniti, massimamente dei nobili e grandi, ma e quasi
adorato da molti nel regno, i quali tengono nelle camere la figura sua."
Ib., _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 1132: So Calvin's eye saw in an instant, and he applauded
Beza's boldness. "Your speech is now before us," he wrote to Beza, Sept.
24th, "in which God wonderfully directed your mind and your tongue. The
testimony which stirred up the bile of the holy fathers could not but be
given, unless you had been willing basely to tergiversate and to expose
yourself to their taunts." "I wonder that they were thrown into
agitation respecting this matter alone, since they were not less
severely hit in other places. It is a stupid assertion that the
conference was broken off in consequence of this ground of offence. For
those who now, by rabidly laying hold of one ground, after a certain
fashion subscribe to the rest of the doctrine, would have found out a
hundred other grounds. This also has, therefore, turned out happily."
Calvini Epistolae, Opera, ix. 157.]

[Footnote 1133: To her ambassador in Germany, instructed to defend her
course in convening the conference, however, she purposely exaggerated
her indignation, and gave a different coloring to the facts of the case.
"Mais estant enfin (de Beze) tombe sur le fait de la Cene, il s'oublia
en une comparaison si absurde et tant offensive des oreilles de
l'assistance, que pen s'en fallut, que je ne luy imposasse silence, et
que je ne les renvoyasse tous, sans les laisser passer plus avant." She
accounts for the fact that she did not stop him, by noticing that he was
evidently near the end of his speech, and by the consideration that, "as
they are accustomed to take advantage of everything 'pour la
confirmation et persuasion de leur doctrine,' they would rather have
gained by such a command; and moreover, that those who had heard his
arguments would have gone away imbued with and persuaded of his
doctrine, without hearing the answer that might be made." Letter of
Cath. of Sept. 14th, _ubi supra_. Prof. Baum well remarks that "the last
words furnish the most irrefragable proof of the great and convincing
impression which the speech in general had made." Theod. Beza, ii. 263,
note.]

[Footnote 1134: It is inserted in La Place, 168, 169, and Hist. eccles.
des egl. ref., i. 328-330; De Thou, iii. (liv. 28) 69. Letter of Cath.,
_ubi sup