Further, priests will have liberty to marry.'[236] When Francis had heard the seven points of his sister's mass, he asked her what was left of the Roman mass? Then the queen, taking him on his weak side—glory—represented to him that by means of this compromise he would unite all sects, and restore the Catholic unity which had been broken for so many centuries. Was it not the greatest honour to which a prince could aspire? [Sidenote: THE QUEEN'S PREACHERS BEFORE FRANCIS.] Francis I. appeared to be shaken, but yet he saw great difficulties. The queen begged him to send for Roussel and the two Augustine monks, Courault and Berthaud: 'They will show you, I have no doubt,' she said, 'that the thing is practicable.' The king was curious, says an historian, and accepted the offer. The three evangelicals were taken from their prison and conveyed to the Louvre, where the queen presented them to her brother. She was full of joy: the matter of the placards, which threatened to ruin everything, might possibly be the means of saving everything. She was deceived. When Francis talked with her, it was no trouble to be like a kind brother with a sister; but in the presence of the two friars and Roussel he was a master. These persons displeased him: the zeal with which they pointed out the errors and abuses of the mass irritated him, and he sent them back hurriedly to prison. Men more zealous than they were, had already left their dungeons for the scaffold. [209] 'Per universam fere Galliam nocte in omnibus angulis affixerunt manibus.'—_Corp. Ref._ ii. p. 855. [210] 'Perturbatus hac re populus, territæ multorum cogitationes, concitati magistrates.'—Ibid. p. 856. [211] 'Qua quidem in re, nihil differunt a meretricibus.'—See the writing _In pontificios mercatores et caupones_.—Gerdes, iv. p. 103. [212] Crespin, _Martyrol._ fol. 112 verso. [213] _Journal d'un Bourgeois de Paris_, published by Lalanne, p. 449. [214] Fontaine, _Hist. Catholique_. [215] 'Ante regis conclave.'—_Corp. Ref._ ii. p. 856. [216] Crespin's _Martyrologie_. [217] _Journal d'un Bourgeois de Paris_, p. 449. [218] Fontaine, _Hist. Cath._ _Journal d'un Bourgeois de Paris_, p. 452. [219] Crespin, _Martyrol._ fol. 112 verso. [220] Crespin, _Martyrol._ folio 112 verso. [221] 'Quidam mature sibi consulentes aufugerunt.'—_Corp. Ref._ ii. p. 856. [222] 'Qui ad se ea pericula spectare non putabant, qui non contaminati erant eo scelere, hi etiam in partem pœnarum veniunt.'—Ibid. [223] Théod. de Bèze, _Hist. Ecclés._ p. 10. [224] Théod. de Bèze, _Hist. Ecclés._ p. 10. [225] _Journal d'un Bourgeois_, p. 44. [226] Crespin, _Martyrol._ fol. 112. [227] Crespin, _Martyrol._ fol. 113. [228] 'Delatores et quadruplatores publice comparantur.'—Sturm to Melanchthon, _Corp. Ref._ ii. p. 856. [229] Florimond Rémond. [230] Flor. Rémond, _Hist. Hérés._ vii. ch. v. [231] Varillas.