As the Reformation, or rather the Revolution, was hastening, this custom became so general, that in one of the dialogues of Erasmus, where two Franciscans are entertained by their host, it appears that such satirical exhibitions were hung up as common furniture in the apartments of inns. The facetious genius of Erasmus either invents or describes one which he had seen of an ape in the habit of a Franciscan sitting by a sick man's bed, dispensing ghostly counsel, holding up a crucifix in one hand, while with the other he is filching a purse out of the sick man's pocket. Such are "the straws" by which we may always observe from what corner the wind rises! Mr. Dibdin has recently informed us, that Geyler, whom he calls "the herald of the Reformation," preceding Luther by twelve years, had a stone chair or pulpit in the cathedral at Strasburg, from which he delivered his lectures, or rather rolled the thunders of his anathemas against the monks. This stone pulpit was constructed under his own superintendence, and is covered with very indecent figures of monks and nuns, expressly designed by him to expose their profligate manners. We see Geyler doing what for centuries had been done! In the curious folios of Sauval, the Stowe of France, there is a copious chapter, entitled "_Heretiques, leurs attentats_." In this enumeration of their attempts to give vent to their suppressed indignation, it is very remarkable that, _preceding the time of Luther_, the minds of many were perfectly _Lutheran_ respecting the idolatrous worship of the Roman Church; and what I now notice would have rightly entered into that significant _Historia Reformationis ante Reformationem_, which was formerly projected by continental writers.