"
"Yes, he ought! But imagine!--this scoundrel gives himself out for a
prophet and servant of Christ. And he has married a nun. That is
incest! But he has been punished for it. The Kurfurst of Saxony has
abandoned him, and none of his so-called friends went to the
wedding...."
"What is his object? What is his new teaching? Justification through
faith. If one only believes, one may live like a swine!"
"And his doctrine about the Communion. The Church says the Elements
are changed by consecration, but this materialist says they actually
_are_ Christ's Body and Blood. Then the corn in the field and the
grapes in the vineyard are already Christ's Body and Blood! He is an
ass! And the world is mad."
"And the consequence,--sin with impunity! Sire, allow me to read
some lines, which I have written as an answer, not to these but to
his other follies--only some lines which I hope to add to."
"Read! I listen when you speak, for I have learnt to listen, and,
through that, I know something."
The King sat down astride on a chair, as though he would ride
against his formidable foe.
"Honourable brother," read More, "father, drinker runaway from the
Augustinian Order, clumsy tipsy reveller of the worldly and
spiritual kingdoms, ignorant teacher of sacred theology.
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