see from the enclosed treatise how I have welcomed my ass Spalatin was so alarmed at Luther's temerity,that when near Worms he sent a messenger to him to remind him of Luther sent him back to say that he would come to Worms if there were as many devils there as tileson the house-tops.
We come, my dear Spalatin,althoughSatan has tried to prevent me through illness.
For the whole way from I have been very weak, and am stillmuch weaker than I also perceivethat the Emperor Charles's mandate has been printedin order to fill me with fear.
Christ lives ! and we shall enter Worms in defiance of the gates of hell and all the powers of the air !
When once there we shall see what is to be done, and Satan need not pufFhimself up, for we have every intention of frightening and despising him.
So get a lodgingready for me.
The celebrated painter, and warm friend of the Reformation, who accompanied his Elector,John Frederick,into banishment, and died at Weimar, in Wittenberg. My dear co-sponsor and friend,I commend you to I shall submit to being hidden away, and as yet do not know where.
I would have preferredbeingput to death by the tyrants, especially by the furious