aeres a regalibus sedibus
a patre demissus fuit, ut esset virginis sponsus et
filius, et hac ratione universum genus humanum
consolaretur ac servaret. Sic enim hic rex maximus
omnium qui in terris sunt haeres, patriis relictis
regnis de illis quidem amplissimis ac felicissimis
in hoc turbulentum regnum de contulit, hujusque
virginis sponsus et filius est factus; ita enim
erga illam se gerit tanquam filius esset cum sit
sponsus, ut quod jam plane perfecit sequestrem se
atque adjutorem ad reconciliandos Christo et
Ecclesiae hos populos praeberet."--Pole to the Pope:
_Epist._ Reg. Pol. vol. v.]

"When your holiness first chose me as your legate, the queen was
rising up as a rod of incense out of trees of myrrh, and as
frankincense out of the desert. And how does she now shine out in
loveliness? What a savour does she give forth unto her people. Yea,
even as the prophet saith of the mother of Christ, "before she was in
labour she brought forth, before she was delivered she hath borne a
man-child." Who ever yet hath seen it, who has heard of the similitude
of it? Shall the earth bring forth in a day, or shall a nation of men
be born together? but Mary has brought forth the nation of England
before the time of that delivery for which we all are hoping!"

Unable to exhaust itself in words, the Catholic enthusiasm flowed over
in processions, in sermons, masses, and _Te Deums_. Gardiner at Paul's
Cross, on the Sunday succeeding, confessed his sins in having borne a
part in bringing about the schism. Pole rode through the city between
the king and queen, with his legate's cross before him, blessing the
people. When the news reached Rome Julius first embraced the
messenger, then flung himself on his knees, and said a Paternoster.
The guns at St. Angelo roared in triumph. There were jubilees and
masses of the Holy Ghost, and bonfires, and illuminations, and
pardons, and indulgences. In the exuberance of his hopes, the pope
sent a nuncio to urge that, in the presence of this great mercy, peace
should be made with France, where the king was devoted to the church;
the Catholic powers would then have the command of Europe, and the
heretics could be destroyed.[399] One thing only {p.176} seemed
forgotten, that