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luxurious sober, the vindictive beneficent, the maledictive benedictive, the rebellious obedient, the impudent modest, and the fierce gentle. For these are the fruits of the Evangelical tree, of which we see nothing in those who now disturb the Christian world with their hypocrisy and superstition, and who affect a certain Cyclopean liberty, that everyone may be allowed what he pleases, they affect anarchy, so that there is a risk lest it happen to them as is wont to happen to horses who, through ferocity, throw off their rider and are carried hither and thither until they cast themselves into a precipice or abyss and perish. But to return to that from which I have digressed, bad-spirited slanderers have spread through almost all of Burgundy that one of my letters to him was found among the papers of Paridis Penieri: which is empty. For no familiarity ever existed between me and the man, nor do I know him even by face, so far am I from having written to him. But it could have happened that they feigned one for him, and mixed in it what they wanted. For some are practiced in this, to express another's hand with such similarity that not even he who is played can detect it. Did not rivals once attempt to defame the divine Jerome with forged letters, or letters as if written by him? This is an old game of those plotting some crime. I do not say these things because I wish to imply that such a thing was done by a