"Occultum patuit quod non celarier ultra Debuit. Excellens Jupiter egit opus. Sublimi elatum dejecit sede potentem, Qui modo regnabat, qui modo jura dabat, Quique superbifico regalia limina gressu Tantum incedebat, pastus honore levi, Et cedrina petens famæ monimenta perennis. Insigni optabat sanctior esse Numa. Lector, Ave, et causam properes dignoscere: casus Hæreseos fœda labe volutus erat. Hoc impune nefas solida an ratione stetisset, Et Petri hausissent æquora vasta ratim, Inviolata fides æterno permanet ævo. Percutit injustos ira molesta Dei; Quem neque præmeditans latuit Nero, funera cujus Distulit adversa in tempora longa vice. Occidit ergo miser, Divumque hominumque favore, Traduxitque illuc sors malesuada virum. Nil gravius pugnare Deo, pugnare feroci Fortunæ. Vinci magnus uterque nequit." The other elegy is shorter and less striking in conception, but gives a similar impression of the importance assigned to Louis de Berquin's activity and influence: "Francia dum hymnidico resonet pæane juventus, Parisia extincto gaudeat hoste phalanx. Hic dudum, et nuper morbo scabiosus edaci, Francorum reliquas inficiebat oves. Cognitus haud potuit mundari errore nefando, Quin purgaretur lucidiore foco. Nam quamvis concessa esset clementia, durus Obstitit, et rapido malluit igne mori." The library of Soissons contains a MS. lament from a Protestant source over the death of De Berquin, which is at once simple and touching. It is printed in the Bulletin, xi. 129-131. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 256: Registres du parlement, Feb. 26, 1417/8, Preuves des Libertez, i. 124, etc.] [Footnote 257: Yet the trial of Aimé Maigret had been specially committed by Louise to the Sorbonne, as early as January, 1525 (Letter of the Council of the Archbishop of Lyons to Beda, Jan. 23, 1525, Herminjard, i. 326); and Zwingle knew, in March, of a more or less successful effort to convince the regent that the evangelical doctrines were subversive of peace--the proof alleged being drawn from Germany, where "everything was turned upside down." Dedication to Francis I., prefixed to De vera et falsa religione commentarius, Herminjard, i. 351.] [Footnote 258: See Mézeray's unfavorable portrait of the unscrupulous Duprat, Abrégé chron., iv. 584.] [Footnote 259: The four were Philippe Pot, President in the _chambre des enquêtes_, and André Verjus, a counsellor, from parliament, and Guillaume Du Chesne and Nicholas Le Clerc, doctors of theology. For the first on the list, Jacques de la Barde was soon after substituted. Registres du parlement, March 20, 1524/5, Preuves des Libertez, i. 164.] [Footnote 260: Registres du parlement, _ubi supra_.]