The prelate's great difficulty was to become reconciled with the duke. Having the fullest confidence in his talent for intrigue, he thought that he could return into friendly relations with his highness without breaking altogether with Hugues and the Genevans. 'He is a fine jockey,' said Bonivard; 'he wants to ride one and lead the other by the bridle!' The bishop began his manœuvres. 'I quitted Geneva,' he informed the duke, 'in order that I might not be forced to do anything displeasing to you.' It will be remembered, on the contrary, that he had run away to escape from Charles III., who wanted to 'snap him up;' but that prince, satisfied with seeing La Baume place himself again under his guidance, pretended to believe him, and cancelled the sequestration of his revenues. Being thus reconciled, the bishop and the duke set to work to stifle the Reformation. 'Good,' said Bonivard; 'Pilate and Herod were made friends together, for before they were at enmity between themselves.' [Sidenote: BISHOP HATEFUL TO THE CITY.] The bishop soon perceived that he could not be both with the duke and Geneva; and, every day drawing nearer to Savoy, he turned against his own subjects and his own flock. And hence one of the most enlightened statesmen Geneva ever possessed said in the seventeenth century, to a peer of Great Britain who had put some questions to him on the history of the republic: 'From that time the bishop became very hateful to the city, which could not but regard him as a declared enemy.'[781] It was the bishop who tore the contract that had subsisted between Geneva and himself. [Footnote 766: Bonivard, _Police_, &c. pp. 398-400; _Chroniq._ ii. p. 473. Gautier MS.] [Footnote 767: Ibid.] [Footnote 768: 'La queue entre les jambes.'—Bonivard, _Advis des difformes Réformateurs_, pp. 149-151.] [Footnote 769: Registres du Conseil des 11 et 26 février 1528. Bonivard, _Chroniq_. ii. p. 479.] [Footnote 770: 'Dieu sait comme ceux de Genève étaient déchiquetés.'] [Footnote 771: 'Ne taschait, fors à la ruine de Genève.'—Bonivard, _Chroniq._ ii. p. 482.] [Footnote 772: Ibid.] [Footnote 773: Bonivard, _Chroniq._ ii. p. 483.] [Footnote 774: Registres du Conseil des 14, 23, 24 mars. _Journal de Balard_, p. 156. Bonivard, _Chroniq._ ii. pp. 482, 486, etc.] [Footnote 775: Bonivard, _Chroniq._ ii. p. 477.] [Footnote 776: 'A la barbe du pape et du duc.'] [Footnote 777: 'En portera la pâte au four.'] [Footnote 778: Bonivard, _Chroniq._ ii. pp. 475, 480, 502. Gautier MS.] [Footnote 779: See nineteen letters from the bishop to William de la Mouille, his chamberlain, printed in Galiffe, _Matériaux pour l'Histoire de Genève_, ii. pp. 461-485.] [Footnote 780: Galiffe, ii. p. 477.] [Footnote 781: _Memoir to Lord Townshend on the History of Geneva_, by Mr. Secretary Chouet. Berne MSS. vi. 57.] CHAPTER VII. INTRIGUES OF THE DUKE AND THE BISHOP. (SPRING AND SUMMER 1528.)