Ou est le livre et le calice Pour faire l'office divin? Ca, cest autel, qu'on le tapisse! Helas, la piteuse police. Ame ne me vient secourir. Sans Chapelain, Moine, Novice, Me faudra-il ainsi perir? Pope and cardinals are summoned in vain. No one comes, no one will bring reliquary or consecrated wafer. The Mass must finally resign all hope and die: Helas chantant, brayant, virant, Tant que le crime romp et blesse Puis que voy tost l'ame expirant, Dites au moins adieu la Messe. A tous faisant mainte promesse Ore ai-je tout mon bien quitte Veu qu'a la mort tens et abaisse _Ite Missa est_; donc _Ite_, _Ite Missa est_. The "chants de guerre" furnish a running commentary upon the military events of the last forty years of the sixteenth century, which is not devoid of interest or importance. The hopeful spirit characterizing the earlier ballads is not lost even in the latest; but the brilliant anticipations of a speedy triumph of the truth, found before the outbreak of the first civil war, or immediately thereafter, are lacking in other productions, dating from the close of the reign of Henry the Third. In a spirited song, presumably belonging to 1562, the poet, adopting the nickname of Huguenots given to the Protestants by their opponents, retaliates by applying an equally unwelcome term to the Roman Catholics, and forecasting the speedy overthrow of the papacy: Vous appellez Huguenots Ceux qui Jesus veullent suivre, Et n'adorent vos marmots De boys, de pierre et de cuyvre. Hau, Hau, Papegots, Faictes place aux Huguenots. Nostre Dieu renversera Vous et vostre loy romaine, Et du tout se mocquera De vostre entreprise vaine. Hau, Hau, Papegots, Faictes place aux Huguenots. Vostre Antechrist tombera Hors de sa superbe place Et Christ partout regnera Et sa loy pleine de grace. Hau, Hau, Papegots, Faictes place aux Huguenots. The current expectation of the Protestants is attested in a long narrative ballad by Antoine Du Plain on the siege of Lyons (1563), in which Charles the Ninth figures as another Josiah destined to abolish the idolatrous mass: Ce Roy va chasser l'Idole Plain de dole Cognoissant un tel forfait: Selon la vertu Royale, Et loyale, Comme Iosias a fait. It is noticeable that the words "va chasser l'Idole" are an anagram of the royal title _Charles de Valois_--an anagram which gave the Huguenots no little comfort. The same play upon words appears with a slight variation in a "Huictain au Peuple de Paris, sur l'anagrammatisme du nom du tres-Chrestien Roy de France, Charles de Valois IX. de ce nom" (Recueil des Choses Memorables, 1565, p. 367), of which the last line is, "O Gentil Roy qui _chassa leur idole_."