She listens to their false doctrine with eager mind, and receives the cursed priests of this sect into her apartments, in order to hear their fanatical discourse and hellish inspiration.

She speaks of these heretics as true believers and Christians; and denominates Luther the light that God has sent into the world to illuminate the gloom and falsehood of the Church with the splendor of truth and love--that Luther, sire, who dared write you such shameful and insulting letters, and ridiculed in such a brutal manner your royalty and your wisdom." "She is a heretic; and when you say that, you say everything!" screamed the king.

The volcano was ripe for an eruption, and the seething lava must at last have an outlet.

"Yes, she is a heretic!" repeated the king; "and yet we have sworn to exterminate these atheists from our land." "She very well knows that she is secure from your wrath," said Gardiner, with a shrug of his shoulders.

"She relies on the fact that she is the queen, and that in the heart of her exalted husband love is mightier than the faith." "Nobody shall suppose that he is secure from my wrath, and no one shall rely on the security afforded him by my love.