ing shall be paid by him. If they desire help, then
the king shall send whatever of cavalry and guns the treaty calls for,
at his own cost. The articles of the Perpetual Peace, already existing
with France, are to continue likewise in full force.

In a private letter sent to his near acquaintance, Maigret, along with
this scheme, Zwingli also proposed, if the King would consent, to open
the alliance to the _Landgrave_ of Hesse, who, though "a young man, was
yet prudent far beyond his years, magnanimous and resolute," and said
there would be no reason either to regret the admission of the Duke of
Wuertemburg, "who, though driven from his country, was living in exile,
but with a stout heart, and possessed of uncommon abilities, in union
with ripe experience; and I may do much also among other cities near
the borders of Switzerland. This I now say to thee, only in
confidence."

It is evident that the Reformer had made himself familiar with the idea
that his scheme would not be presented to the King in such a form.
Indeed, how could the ambassadors have dared even to send it? The very
form of the scheme--Zwingli venturing to speak in the name of the King,
and demand, moreover that the public act, to be issued by him and the
council of his own canton, should be first subjected to the censorship
of certain preachers--would very probably have appeared to Francis
extremely arrogant. For the Gospel he cared nothing. His heart was set
upon Lombardy, for the possession of which he had already waged two
wars with Charles. But to carry out his plans there, he needed the aid
of the Swiss, and hence the allusion to a division amongst them in the
scheme would have ensured it an unfavorable reception. Some days
afterward, Zwingli received written notice from both the ambassadors,
that the time had not yet come to entertain propositions of this
nature. Dangerant used such ambiguous language as to leave it doubtful
whether he anticipated similar communications in the future, or wished
to ridicule the whole affair. Maigret, who was well-disposed, remained
in constant intercourse with the Reformer, and, at a later period,
seems to have made a generous use of a sojourn of several months in
France, to kindle there a more friendly feeling on his behalf, of which
indeed there was great need.[8] He it was, who, after his return to
Switzerland, exhorted Zwingli to develope the substance of his
religious doctrines in a personal letter to the Fren