Chapter V (4)

And let us bear in mind always that the period I have gone over in this essay begins when the Reformer was already beyond the middle age, and already broken in bodily health: it has been the story of an old man’s friendships. This it is that makes Knox enviable. Unknown until past forty, he had then before him five-and-thirty years of splendid and influential life, passed through uncommon hardships to an uncommon degree of power, lived in his own country as a sort of king, and did what he would with the sound of his voice out of the pulpit. And besides all this, such a following of faithful women! One would take the first forty years gladly, if one could be sure of the last thirty. Most of us, even if, by reason of great strength and the dignity of gray hairs, we retain some degree of public respect in the latter days of our existence, will find a falling away of friends, and a solitude making itself round about us day by day, until we are left alone with the hired sick-nurse. For the attraction of a man’s character is apt to be outlived, like the attraction of his body; and the power to love grows feeble in its turn, as well as the power to inspire love in others. It is only with a few rare natures that friendship is added to friendship, love to love, and the man keeps growing richer in affection—richer, I mean, as a bank may be said to grow richer, both giving and receiving more—after his head is white and his back weary, and he prepares to go down into the dust of death.

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FOOTNOTES

{0} _Gaudeamus_: _Carmina vagorum selecta_. Leipsic. Trübner. 1879.

{27} Prefatory letter to _Peveril of the Peak_.

{71} For the love affairs see, in particular, Mr. Scott Douglas’s edition under the different dates.

{179} Yoshida, when on his way to Nangasaki, met the soldier and talked with him by the roadside; they then parted, but the soldier was so much struck by the words he heard, that on Yoshida’s return he sought him out and declared his intention of devoting his life to the good cause. I venture, in the absence of the writer, to insert this correction, having been present when the story was told by Mr. Masaki.—F. J. And I, there being none to settle the difference, must reproduce both versions.—R. L. S.

{185} I understood that the merchant was endeavouring surreptitiously to obtain for his son instruction to which he was not entitled.—F. J.

{192} _Etude Biographique sur François Villon_. Paris: H. Menu.

{195} _Bougeois de Paris_, ed. Panthéon, pp. 688, 689.

{196} _Bourgeois_, pp. 627, 636, and 725.

{204} _Chronìque Scandaleuse_, ed. Panthéon, p. 237.

{210} Monstrelet: _Panthéon Littéraire_, p. 26.

{220a} _Chron. Scand._ ut supra.

{220b} Here and there, principally in the order of events, this article differs from M. Longnon’s own reading of his material. The ground on which he defers the execution of Montigny and De Cayeux beyond the date of their trials seems insufficient. There is a law of parsimony for the construction of historical documents; simplicity is the first duty of narration; and hanged they were.

{224} _Chron. Scand._, p. 338.

{238} Champollion-Figeac’s _Louis et Charles d’Orléans_, p. 348.

{240a} D’Héricault’s admirable _Memoir_, prefixed to his edition of Charles’s works, vol. i. p. xi.

{240b} Vallet de Viriville, _Charles VII. et son Epoque_, ii. 428, note 2.

{241a} See Lecoy de la Marche, _Le Roi René_, i. 167.

{241b} Vallet, _Charles VII_, ii. 85, 86, note 2.

{241c} Champollion-Figeac, 193–198.

{242a} Champollion-Figeac, 209.

{242b} The student will see that there are facts cited, and expressions borrowed, in this paragraph, from a period extending over almost the whole of Charles’s life, instead of being confined entirely to his boyhood. As I do not believe there was any change, so I do not believe there is any anachronism involved.

{243} _The Debate between the Heralds of France and England_, translated and admirably edited by Mr. Henry Pyne. For the attribution of this tract to Charles, the reader is referred to Mr. Pyne’s conclusive argument.

{244} Des Ursins.

{248} Michelet, iv. App. 179, p. 337.

{249} Champollion-Figeac, pp. 279–82.

{250} Michelet, iv. pp. 123–4.

{253} _Debate between the Heralds_.

{254} Sir H. Nicholas, _Agincourt_.

{257a} _Debate between the Heralds_.

{257b} Works (ed. d’Héricault), i. 43.

{257c} _Ibid._ 143.

{258a} Works (ed. d’Héricault), i. 190.

{258b} _Ibid._ 144.

{258c} _Ibid._ 158.

{259a} M. Champollion-Figeac gives many in his editions of Charles’s works, most (as I should think) of very doubtful authenticity, or worse.

{259b} Rymer, x. 564. D’Héricault’s _Memoir_, p. xli. Gairdner’s _Paston Letters_, i. 27, 99.

{260} Champollion-Figeac, 377.

{262a} Dom Plancher, iv. 178–9.

{262b} Works, i. 157–63.

{265a} Vallet’s _Charles VII._, i. 251.

{265b} _Procès de Jeanne d’Arc_, i. 133–55.

{267a} Monstrelet.

{267b} Vallet’s _Charles VII._, iii. chap. i. But see the chronicle that bears Jaquet’s name: a lean and dreary book.

{268} Monstrelet.

{269} D’Héricault’s _Memoir_, xl. xli. Vallet, _Charles VI._, ii. 435.

{271a} Champollion-Figeac, 368.

{271b} Works, i. 115.

{271c} D’Héricault’s _Memoir_, xlv.

{272} ChampoIlion-Figeac, 381, 361, 381.

{273} Champollion-Figeac, 359,361.

{276a} Lecoy de la Marche, _Roi René_, ii. 155, 177.

{276b} Champollion-Figeac, chaps. v. and vi.

{276c} _Ibid._ 364; Works, i. 172.

{276d} Champollion-Figeac, 364: “Jeter de l’argent aux petis enfans qui estoient au long de Bourbon, pour les faire nonner en l’eau et aller querre l’argent au fond.”

{277a} Champollion-Figeac, 387.

{277b} _Nouvelle Biographie Didot_, art. “Marie de Clèves.” Vallet, _Charles VII_, iii. 85, note 1.

{277c} Champollion-Figeac, 383, 384–386.

{278} Works, ii. 57, 258.

{329} Gaberel’s _Eglist de Genève_, i. 88.

{330a} _La Démocratie chez les Prédicateurs de la Ligue_.

{330b} _Historia affectuum se immiscentium controversiæ de gynæcocratia_. It is in his collected prefaces, Leipsic, 1683.

{333a} _Œuvres de d’Aubigné_, i. 449.

{333b} _Dames Illustres_, pp. 358–360.

{334} Works of John Knox, iv. 349.

{341} M‘Crie’s _Life of Knox_, ii. 41.

{342} Described by Calvin in a letter to Cecil, Knox’s Works, vol. iv.

{344} It was anonymously published, but no one seems to have been in doubt about its authorship; he might as well have set his name to it, for all the good he got by holding it back.

{345a} Knox’s Works, iv. 358.

{345b} Strype’s _Aylmer_, p. 16.

{346a} It may interest the reader to know that these (so says Thomasius) are the “ipsissima verba Schlusselburgii.”

{346b} I am indebted for a sight of this book to the kindness of Mr. David Laing, the editor of Knox’s Works.

{348} _Social Statics_, p. 64, etc.

{349} Hallam’s _Const. Hist. of England_, i. 225, note m.

{352a} Knox to Mrs. Locke, 6th April 1559. Works, vi. 14.

{352b} Knox to Sir William Cecil, 10th April 1559. Works, ii. 16, or vi. 15.

{354} Knox to Queen Elizabeth, July. 20th, 1559. Works, vi. 47, or ii. 26.

{355} Knox to Queen Elizabeth, August 6th, 1561. Works, vi. 126.

{357} Knox’s Works, ii. 278–280.

{359} Calderwood’s _History of the Kirk of Scotland_, edition of the Wodrow Society, iii. 51–54.

{360} _Bayle’s Historical Dictionary_, art. Knox, remark G.

{368} Works, iv. 244.

{369a} Works, iv. 246.

{369b} _Ib._ iv. 225.

{371a} Works, iv. 245.

{371b} _Ib._ iv. 221.

{373a} Works, vi. 514.

{373b} _Ib._ iii. 338.

{373c} _Ib._ iii. 352, 353.

{374a} Works, iii. 350.

{374b} _Ib._ iii. 390, 391.

{375a} Works, iii. 142.

{375b} _Ib._ iii. 378.

{375c} _Ib._ ii. 379.

{376} Works, iii. 394.

{377} Works, iii. 376.

{378} Works, iii. 378.

{379a} Works, vi. 104.

{379b} _Ib._ v. 5.

{379c} _Ib._ vi. 27.

{379d} _Ib._ ii. 138.

{380} Mr. Laing’s preface to the sixth volume of Knox’s Works, p. lxii.

{381} Works. vi. 534.

{382a} Works, iv. 220.

{382b} _Ib._ iii. 380.

{382c} _Ib._ iv. 220.

{383} Works, iii. 380.

{384} Works, iv. 238.

{385} Works, iv. 240.

{388} Works, vi. 513, 514.

{390} Works, vi. ii.

{391a} Works, vi. pp. 21. 101, 108, 130.

{391b} _Ib._ vi. 83.

{391c} _Ib._ vi. 129.

{392} Works, vi. 532.

{393} Works, i. 246.