But those who were sufficiently satisfied with the old versification, instantly rose in clamour against the innovation, and treated its favourers as guilty of treason against poetry and their country. At the head of these, Christoval de Castillejo, in the satires which he wrote against the _Petrarquistas_ (for so he called them) compared this novelty to that which Luther was then introducing in religion, and making Boscán and Garcilasso appear in the other world before the tribunal of Juan de Mena, Jorge Manrique, and other troubadours of earlier time, he puts into their mouth the judgment and condemnation of the new metres. To this end he supposes that Boscán repeats a sonnet, and Garcilasso an octave, before their judges, and presently adds: "Juan de Mena, when he through Had heard the polished stanza new, Looked most amused, and smiled as though He knew this secret long ago; Then said: 'I now have heard rehearse This endecasyllabic verse, Yet can I see no reason why It should be called a novelty, When I, long laid upon the shelf, Oft used the very same myself.' Don Jorge said: 'I do not see The most remote necessity To dress up what we wish to say In such a roundabout fine way; Our language, every body knows, Loves a clear brevity, but those Strange stanzas show, in its despite, Prolixity obscure as night.' Cartagena then raised his head From laughing inwardly, and said: 'As practical for sweet amours, These self-opinioned troubadours, With force of their new-fangled flame Will not, it strikes me, gain the game. Wondrously pitiful this measure Is in my eyes,--a foe to pleasure, Dull to repeat as Luther's creed, But most insufferable to read!'"