All were not equally satisfied with these representations. Cardinals De Grammont and De Foix withdrew from the court, while the stricter christians asked if it was lawful to introduce angels and even God himself on the stage. If Calvin had gone on from Nérac to Pau, and had been present, not far from the cardinals, at this mystery-play, he would no doubt have blamed such performances, which he termed 'christianity in disguise.' It is time to follow the reformer. [73] Flor. Rémond, _Hist. Heres._ lib. vii. cap. iii. [74] MS. de la Biblioth. impér., No. 7021, fol. 146. Schmidt, _Roussel_, p. 151. [75] Flor. Rémond, _Hist. Heres._ lib. viii. cap. xii. [76] Brantôme, _Mémoires_. De Coste, _Reines illustres_. Matthieu, _Hist. de François I._ [77] This drama, which we have been forced to abridge, will be found in the _Marguerites de la Marguerite_, tom. i. pp. 148-206. [78] _Marguerite d'Angoulême_, par le comte de la Ferrière-Percy, pp. 9, 13. [79] In translating the extracts for this poem, no attempt has been made to give a polish to the verses, which was not found in the original. [80] Petit enfant, ne veuillez épargner Moi très-petit ... car, soit pour vous baigner, Ou pour chauffer vos draps en votre lit, À vous servir je prendrai grand délit (_délice._) [81] 'Qui pro primo esset.'—Flor. Rémond, _Hist. Heres._ vii. cap. iii. [82] Il y aura quelque fente ou crevasse. [83] C'est assez au talon. [84] Madame, au moins, son petit bout d'orteil Pour le baiser. [85] Flor. Rémond, _Hist. Heres._ vii. cap. iii. [86] Je suis à lui de l'un à l'autre bout. [87] Plus nous souffrons, plus notre joie redouble; De vos plaisirs ne donnons pas un _double_.[87a] [87a] The _double_ was the sixth part of a _sou_. [88] Flor. Rémond, _Hist. Hérés._ vii. cap. iii. CHAPTER V. CALVIN AT POITIERS, AT THE BASSES-TREILLES, AND IN ST. BENEDICT'S CAVES. (SPRING 1534.) Calvin meditated leaving the South. He had found a retreat in the hour of danger; but as the storm seemed to blow over, he could go at last from the place where he had been hidden, and resume a career that had been so roughly interrupted. He was not at ease in Angoulême. On the one hand the conversion of Du Tillet and some of his friends gave rise to rumours among the clergy and people; and on the other, certain traditional elements that Margaret and some of his hearers at Gérac desired to retain, were displeasing to the reformer. Altars, images, holidays dedicated to Mary and the saints, confessors and confession—none of these things appeared to him scriptural, and he sighed for the time when he could make the evangelical principle prevail in all its integrity. He was in the habit of saying: 'Above all things we must confess our Lord fully, without shrinking from anything soever.'[89] [Sidenote: CALVIN'S PROJECTS.]