[321] Ea mors multos fecit Lutheranos. Er. Epp. p. 952; Tum demum cœpit civitas favere Luthero. Ibid. p. 1676. Erasmus to Duke George; Ea civitas antea purissima. Ibid. p. 1430. [322] Ubicumque fumos excitavit nuntius, ibi diceres fuisse factam heresean sementem. Ibid. "Your bonds are mine," said Luther; "your dungeons and your burning piles are mine![323]......We are all with you, and the Lord is at our head!" He then commemorated the death of these young monks in a beautiful hymn, and soon, in Germany and in the Netherlands, in city and country, these strains were heard communicating in every direction an enthusiasm for the faith of these martyrs. [323] Vestra vincula mea sunt, vestri carceres et ignes mei sunt. L. Epp. ii. 464. No! no! their ashes shall not die! But, borne to every land, Where'er their sainted dust shall fall Up springs a holy band. Though Satan by his might may kill, And stop their powerful voice, They triumph o'er him in their death, And still in Christ rejoice. CHAPTER V. The New Pope, Clement VII.--The Legate Campeggio--Diet of Nuremberg--Demand of the Legate--Reply of the Diet--A Secular Council projected--Alarm and Exertions of the Pope--Bavaria--League of Ratisbon--Severity and Reforms--Political Schism--Opposition--Intrigues of Rome--Decree of Burgos--Rupture. Adrian would doubtless have persisted in these violent measures; the inutility of his exertions to arrest the reform, his orthodoxy, his zeal, his austerity, and even his conscientiousness, would have made him a cruel persecutor. But this Providence did not permit. He died on the 14th of September 1523, and the Romans, overjoyed at being delivered from this stern foreigner, crowned his physician's door with flowers, and wrote this inscription over it: "To the saviour of his country." [Sidenote: CLEMENT VII.--CAMPEGGIO.] Giulio de Medici, cousin to Leo X., succeeded Adrian VI., under the name of Clement VII. From the day of his election there was no more question of religious reform. The new pope, like many of his predecessors, thought only of upholding the privileges of the papacy, and of employing its resources for his own aggrandizement.