ng. "Combien que j'espere que nostre _Antioche_ (Charles
V.), qui nous presse maintenant, sera serre de si pres, _qu'il ne luy
souviendra des gouttes_ de ses mains, ne de ses pieds; _car il en aura
par tout le corps_. De son compagnon _Sardanapalus_ (Francis I.), _Dieu
luy garde la pareille_. Car ils sont bien dignes de passer tous deux par
une mesme mesure." Calvin to M. de Falaise, Feb. 25, 1547, Lettres
francaises, i. 191.--The expression "Sardanapalus inter scorta" occurs
in a letter of Calvin to Farel, Feb. 20, 1546 (Bonnet, Letters of John
Calvin, ii., 35, 36). It will, therefore, be seen from the date that
Merle d'Aubigne is mistaken in referring the description to Henry II.
Hist. de la Ref., liv. xii. c. 1.]

[Footnote 388: Histoire ecclesiastique, i. 14.]

[Footnote 389: Memoires de Martin du Bellay (Edition Petitot), xviii.
271-273. See also Mignet, Etablissement de la reforme religieuse a
Geneve, Mem. historiques, ii. 308, etc. Also, Merle d'Aubigne, Hist. of
the Reformation in the Time of Calvin, v. 395, etc.]

[Footnote 390: In dedicating to Wolmar his commentary on II.
Corinthians, Calvin deplored the loss sustained in the interruption of
his Greek studies under his old teacher, "manum enim, quae tua est
humanitas, porrigere non recusasses ad totum stadii decursum, nisi me,
_ab ipsis prope carceribus_, mors patris revocasset." Upon the basis of
the words here italicized, Merle d'Aubigne builds up a story of outcries
and intrigues of priests (against Calvin) who "did all in their power
_to get him put into prison_"! Ref. in Time of Calvin, ii. 28. M.
Herminjard observes hereupon that one need not be very thoroughly versed
in Latin or in Roman antiquities to understand Calvin's allusion; and
every classical scholar will sympathize with M. Herminjard when he
expresses, in view of the historian's blunder, "un etonnement
proportionne a la celebrite de l'auteur." Corresp. des reformateurs, ii.
333.]

[Footnote 391: See the very sensible remarks of Herminjard, _ubi supra_,
iii. 202.]

[Footnote 392: A. Crottet, Histoire des eglises ref. de Pons, Gemozac,
et Mortagne en Saintonge (Bordeaux, 1841), 10-11, and Merle d'Aubigne,
Hist. of the Ref. in the Time of Calvin (Am. ed.), iii. 53, tell the
story without any misgivings, and the latter with characteristic
embellishment. But it rests on the unsupported and slender authority of
Florimond de Raemond, lib. vii. c. 14, from whose account I cannot even
find that