, ad novam stationem
retraxit. Jonae itaque exemplo, quod proposuerat, territus," etc. Ibid.]

[Footnote 421: "La difficulte est," he writes to M. de Falaise, April,
1546, "des fascheries et rompemens de teste qui interviennent, pour
_interrompre vingt fois une lettre_, ou encore d'advantaige." He adds
(and the details are interesting) that, although his general health is
good, "je suis tormente sans cesse d'une doleur qui _ne me souffre quasi
rien faire_. Car oultre les _sermons et lectures_, il y a desja un mois
que _je n'ay gueres faict_, tellement que j'ay presque honte _de vivre
arnsi inutile_." Lettres francaises, i. 141, 142. Many a scholar of his
day, or of ours, would consider a week of _health_ well occupied with
the preparation and delivery of two sermons and three theological
lectures.]

[Footnote 422: "Ginevra ... che e la minera di questa sorte di metallo."
Relazione di M. Suriano, 1561. Relations des Amb. Venitiens, i. 528.]

[Footnote 423: This period of his life was referred to by him in his
last address to the body of his colleagues: "J'ay vescu icy en combats
merveilleux; j'ay este salue par mocquerie le soir devant ma porte de 50
ou 60 coups d'arquebute. Que pensez-vous que cela pouvoit estonner un
pauvre escholier, timide comme je suis, et comme je l'ay toujours este,
je le confesse?... On m'a mis les chiens a ma queue, criant _here,
here_, et m'ont prins par la robbe et par les jambes." Adieux de Calvin,
_apud_ Bonnet, Lettres francaises, ii. 575.]

[Footnote 424: "This sacrifice," M. Gaberel forcibly observes, "has
scarcely a parallel in history. Men willingly consent to make the
greatest efforts, to perform the most painful acts of self-denial, with
the aim of saving their country. Formerly the Genevese suffered unto
death to preserve their independence. Now the same unselfish spirit is
demanded of them in ordinary times that they exhibited in evil days.
And, if the people accepts the 'Ordinances,' it is because it has
narrowly scanned the slavery to which that moral license was leading it,
which Rome authorizes in order to confiscate all other liberties. It
accepts the 'Ordinances' because it has just escaped the treacherous
machinations, the servitude prepared for it by men whose principle is to
go just as their own heart leads them.... Strengthened by this vote,
Calvin can henceforth hope to succeed in his project, and make of Geneva
the Protestant metropolis, bearing as its motto, 'Holines