For Johann's life FIRST; this is a thing not to be dispensed with, your Majesty, on any terms whatever; a _sine qua non,_ this life to Protestant Germany at large.

To which the Kaiser indicated, "He would see; not immediate death at any rate; we will see." A life that could not and must not be taken in this manner: this was the FIRST point.
Then, SECONDLY, that Philip of Hessen, now home again at Marburg,--not a bad or disloyal man, though headlong, and with two wives,--might not be forfeited; but that peace and pardon might be granted him, on his entire submission.

To which second point the Kaiser answered, "Yes, then, on his submission." These were the two points.

These pleadings went on at Halle, where the Kaiser now lies, in triumphantly victorious humor, in the early days of June, Year 1547.

Johann Friedrich of Saxony had been, by some Imperial Court-Council or other,--Spanish merely, I suppose,--doomed to die.