[Footnote 296: Isti Thersitæ . . . hi qui possunt nollent, et qui cuperent non auderent adesse.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 297: One of the stalls in a church at Toulouse represents a similar scene, with these words: _Calvin the pig preaching_.] [Footnote 298: Labitte, _Démocratie des Prédicateurs de la Ligue_, p. 3.] [Footnote 299: H. de Coste, _Le parfait Ecclésiastique, ou Histoire de Le Picard_, 12mo, Paris, 1658.] [Footnote 300: 'Beda sollicitabat suos oratores ut ne cessarent in suis demegoriis concitare populum.'—Sturm to Bucer. Strasburg MSS.] [Footnote 301: 'Populum stimulare ne hæresim hanc pestilentissimam radices agere pateretur.'—Siderander Bedroto. Ibid.] [Footnote 302: 'Ad extremum populus etiam mussitare et minari cœpit.'— Sturm to Bucer.] [Footnote 303: Typographi in suis pægmatis scriptura et pictura et ludo scenico læserunt reginam.'—Ibid. _The Moralité de la Maladie de la Chrétienté_, 8vo, appeared at Paris this very year (1533). The learned biographer of Roussel and of Sturm supposes, very reasonably as it appears to me, that this is the _ludus scenicus_, the play of which Sturm speaks.] [Footnote 304: 'Omnino res cœpit esse θορυβώδης.'—Sturm to Bucer.] [Footnote 305: 'En rondeur de conscience.'—Calv. _Opusc._] [Footnote 306: Calvin, _in Acta_ xix.] CHAPTER XXIV. DEFEAT OF THE ROMISH PARTY IN PARIS AND MOMENTARY TRIUMPH OF THE GOSPEL. (1533.) [Sidenote: FRANCIS PUNISHES BOTH PARTIES.] Margaret and her husband, with the Bishop du Bellay, alarmed at the storm, resolved to lay their complaints before Francis I. The kingly authority was threatened; these hot-headed 'wallet-bearers' were the predecessors of those who instigated the murders of Henry III. and Henry IV. The King of Navarre on the one hand, and the Bishop of Paris on the other, laid before their sovereign an alarming picture of the state of the capital. 'The blood of Berquin does not satisfy these fanatics,' they said; 'they are calling for fresh acts of cruelty.... And who will be their victims now?... They are planning a crime, a revolt!'[307] But while Francis was listening to his sister's denunciations with one ear, he was receiving those of the Sorbonne in the other. 'Sedition!' said one party. 'Heresy!' cried the other. 'Sire,' repeated the theologians incessantly, 'shut the pulpits against Roussel and his colleagues.'[308] Thus pulled in different directions, the king, puzzled which to believe, resolved to punish both parties alike. 'I will confine them all to their houses,' he said; 'Beda with his orators on one side, and Gerard Roussel with his preachers on the other. We shall then have some peace and be able at our leisure to examine these contradictory accusations.'[309] Thus, at the same moment, Beda, Maillard, Ballue, and Bouchigny of the church party, and Roussel, Courault, and Berthaud of the evangelical party, received orders not to leave their houses. The schoolmaster thus