.v^ 216 THE POKTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX.
- and cast them into Swift, a neighbouring brook
'running hard by. Thus this brook hath conveyed ' his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into ' the narrow Seas, and they into the main Ocean. ' And thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of 'his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world ' over.'* Beza's selection of subjects to figure in this book of Icons is by no means of fanatically exclusive, or even straitlaced character. Erasmus, a tolerably good portrait, and a mild, laudatory, gentle and apologetic account of the man, is one of his figures. The Printers, Etienne, Froben, for their eximious ser^ices/^ in the cause of good letters, honarum literarum ; nay King Francis I. is introduced in gallant beaver and plume, with his surely very considerable failings well veiled in shadow, and hardly anything but eulogy, on the score of his beneficences to the Paris University, — and probably withal of the primitive fact that he was Beza's King. 'Sham Bishops, pseudo-episcojn*
- cruel murderers of God's messengers,' ' servants of
Satan,' and the like hard terms are indeed never
- Fuller's CJncrch History, Section ii. Book iv.
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