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country; go and travel in Germany. You know
Beda and such as he—he is a thousand-
headed monster, darting venom on every
side. Your enemies are named legion. Were
your cause better than that of Jesus Christ,
they will not let you go till they have
miserably destroyed you. Do not trust too
much to the king's protection. At all events,
do not compromise me with the faculty of
theology.”—Ibid., b. 13, ch. 9.
But as dangers thickened, Berquin's zeal only
waxed the stronger. So far from adopting the
politic and self-serving counsel of Erasmus,
he determined upon still bolder measures. He
would not only stand in defense of the truth,
but he would attack error. The charge of
heresy which the Romanists were seeking to
fasten upon him, he would rivet upon them.
The most active and bitter of his opponents
