Even the innocent are obliged to buckle their belts tighter.

Those who wished to escape fasting are now compelled by poverty to practise abstinence.

It is said the Roman King Ferdinand is urging the revocation of the order.

If I were in his place, I would advise making it more stringent till the rebels sweat blood and crept to the cross." Then Blomberg bewailed the untimely leniency of the Emperor, for there was not even any rumour of a serious assault upon the Turks.

And yet, if only he, Blomberg, was commissioned to raise an army of the cross, Christianity would soon have rest from its mortal foe! But if it should come to fighting--no matter whether against the infidels or the heretics--in spite of Wawerl and his lame leg, he would take the field again.