Luther further adds—not forgetting, in passing, to give a blow to Papacy—“Princes, lords, counsellors of state, and everybody should be prudent, and cautious in dealing with beggars, and learn that, whereas people will not give and help honest paupers and needy neighbours, as ordained by God, they give, by the persuasion of the devil, and contrary to God’s judgment, ten times as much to vagabonds and desperate rogues,—in like manner as we have hitherto done to monasteries, cloisters, churches, chapels, and Mendicant Friars, forsaking all the time the truly poor.” This was Luther’s object in affixing his name to the little book. He saw that the Friars, Beggars, and Jews were eating up his country, and he thought that a graphic account of the various orders of vagrants, together with a list of their secret or cant words, issued under the authority of his name, would put people on their guard, and help to suppress the wretched system. Luther’s statement as to his own experience with these rogues is very _naïve_—“I have myself of late years,” he remarks, “been cheated and slandered by such tramps and liars more than I care to confess.” Both priests and beggars regarded him with a peculiar aversion, and many were the nicknames and vulgar terms applied to him. The slang language of the day, therefore, was not unknown to Luther. At page 204 of _Williams’ Lectures on Ecclesiastical History_, 4to. (apparently privately printed for the use of the students of St. Begh’s College,) is the following foot-note:— Of the violence with which Luther’s enemies attacked his character, and strove to render his name and memory odious to the people, we have an example in the following production of a French Jesuit, Andreas Frusius, printed at Cologne, 1582:— Elogium Martini Lutheri, ex ipsius Nomine et Cognomine. Depinget et dignis te nemo coloribus unquam; Nomen ego ut potero sic celebrabo tuum. Magnicrepus | Mendax | Morofus | Morio | Monstrum Ambitiosus | Atrox | Astutus | Apostata | Agaso Ridiculus | Rhetor | Rabiosus | Rabula | Raptor Tabificus | Tumidus | Tenebrosus | Transfuga | Turpis Impius | Inconstans | Impostor | Iniquus | Ineptus Nyctocorax | Nebulo | Nugator | Noxa | Nefandus Ventosus | Vanus | Vilis | Vulpecula | Vecors Schismaticus | Stolidus | Seductor | Simia | Scurra Lascivus | Leno | Larvatus | Latro | Lanista Ventripotens | Vultur | Vinosus | Vappa | Voluptas Tartareus | Torris | Tempestas | Tarbo | Tyrannus Heresiarcha | Horrendus | Hypocrita | Hydra | Hermaphroditus Erro | Execrandus | Effrons | Effronis | Eriunis Retrogradus | Reprobus | Resupinus | Rana | Rebellis Vesanus | Varius | Veterator | Vipera | Virus Sacrilegus | Satanas | Sentina | Sophista | Scelestu