The number of extant poems on the death of Louis de Berquin attests very clearly the estimate placed upon him by the Roman Catholics as the most dangerous heretic--in fact, the _heresiarch_ of the day. A stanza of eight lines, which seems to have been popular (for it has been discovered in MS. both in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Génin, i. 219, and in the library of Soissons, Bulletin de la Soc. de l'hist. du prot. franç., xi. 131), represents the four elements as conspiring, at God's bidding, to take vengeance upon him: "Du faux Berquin et de ses documens Dieu s'est vengé par les quatre élémens: _Terre_ luy a désnie sépulture; _Feu_ l'a destruit et sa fausse escripture; Tisons par _eau_ pluviale arrosez Se sont plus fort esmeus et embrasez. Dont (pour la fin du malheureux comprendre) L'_air_ par les vents en a receu la cendre." I have been so fortunate as to discover two other poems on the same subject, in a little collection in my possession entitled _Martini Theodorici Bellovaci Epigrammata_ (Parisiis, 1539), which seems to be of such rarity that these pieces may almost be viewed in the light of inedited documents. They are of special interest because of the singular circumstance that this collection of extremely "Catholic" effusions is dedicated to _Odet de Coligny_, Cardinal of Châtillon, Archbishop of Toulouse, Bishop and Count of Beauvais, elder brother of the more famous _Admiral_ massacred on St. Bartholomew's day. Cardinal Châtillon, created such when only thirteen years old, was, at the time of the publication of this book, a youth of scarcely more than twenty-two, and a devout Roman Catholic, but subsequently, as elsewhere stated, became an avowed Protestant and a prominent Huguenot leader. In the first of these poems, under the heading of _Elegia Ludovici Berquuyni_, the writer would almost seem to have had in mind the description by the ancient dramatists of the impious warfare of Capaneus breathing out boastful threats against Jove himself (Septem con. Theb., 416, etc.), or the Titans in conflict with the Gods.