times meditating, with earnestly upcast eyes; sometimes breathing the air of his hymn upon his flute. The following is the original of this noble hymn. The translation appended is derived from Fraser's Magazine :— "Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Mit Ernst er's jetzt meint; Auf Erd' ist nicht seins' Gleichen. "Mit unser Macht ist nichts gethan, Es streit für uns der rechte Mann, Er heisst Jesus Christ, "Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel wär, Wie sau'r er sich stellt, Thut er uns doch nichts; "Das Wort sie sollen lassen stehn, Nehm'n sie uns den Leib, Gut, Ehr, Kind und Weib, Sie haben kein Gewinn; Das Reich muss uns doch bleiben." NOTE 15, page 218. See Lutheri Opera, (L.) xvii., p. 589. NOTE 16, page 238. See "Luther or, Rome and the Reformation," by Robert Montgomery, M.A., pp. 150-164. NOTE 17, page 245. "C'est dans ce château élevé et isole, nommé la Wartbourg, oû se cachaient jadis les anciens landgraves, que l'on conduit Luther. Les verrous se tirent, les barres de fer tombent, les portes s'ouvrent ; le reformateur franchit le seuil; les battants se referment sur lui. Il descend de cheval dans une cour. L'un des cavaliers Burkard de Hund, seigneur d'Altenstein, se retire; un autre, Jean de Berlepsch, prévôt de la Wartbourg, conduit le docteur dans la chambre qui doit être sa prison, et où se trouvent disposés un vêtement de chevalier et une épée. Les trois autres chevaliers, qui dépendent du prévôt, lui enlèvent ses habits ecclésiastiques et le revêtent du costume équestre qu'on lui a préparé, en ui enjoignant de laisser croître sa barbe et sa chevelure afin que nul dans le château même ne puisse savoir qu'il est. Les gens de la Wartbourg ne doivent connaître le prisonnier que sous le nom du chevalier George. Luther, sous le vêtement qu'on lui imposé, a peine à se reconnaitre luimême."-D'Aubigne, tom. ii. p. 284. NOTE 18, page 261. "On hearing of Luther's departure from the Wartburg, the Elector had despatched Schurff to meet him, and persuade him to return, or at least to furnish him with an explanation of his conduct, which he might show to the Emperor. In his answer to the Elector, dated 7th March, Luther gives three reasons for his proceeding first, that the church of Wittemberg had earnestly solicited his return; secondly, that disorder had crept in among his flock; thirdly, that he wished to avert, as far as in him lay, the insurrection which he regarded as threatening the country. "I have been called,' he says, 'and I will go: time presses: let destiny be accomplished, in the name of Jesus Christ, master of life and death. Satan, during my absence, has penetrated into my fold, and committed ravages there which my presence alone can repair. A letter would answer no purpose; I must make use of my own eyes, and my own mouth, to see and to speak. My conscience will permit me to make no longer delay, and rather than act against that, I would incur the anger of your electoral grace, and of the whole world. The Wittembergers are my sheep, whom God has entrusted to my care; they are my children in the Lord. For them I am ready to suffer martyrdom. I go, therefore, to accomplish, by God's grace, that which Christ demands of those who own him. If my written word sufficed to drive away this great ill, do you think they would send for me thus urgently? I will die rather than delay any longer; die for the salvation of my neighbour, as becomes me.' "-See Luth. Epp. ii. p. 143. NOTE 19, page 275. See Luth. Opp. (L.) xviii. p. 255. NOTE 20, page 281. "Raffaello Sanzio was of a refined and most delicate consti- NOTE 21, page 282. See Note 4, vol. i. p. 212; also, Vasari, Vit. di Raffaello, iii. 225, NOTE 22, page 293. See Note 2, vol. i. p. 24. London: Printed by STEWART and MURRAY, Old Bailey. |