A G R I P P A. 11 been counsellor and phyiician, as a cruel .md perik!. vxocl [c]. He now refolved to remove to the Low Com. 1 . he could not do widiout a paflporf, which he at Im/th <. brain- ed, after many tedious deLys, and arrived at Antwerp in July 1528. The dukedc Vendome was the pi menial . of ihefc delays; for he, in (lead of ii.'m::;. r rhc pa!! t;urt, tc:e :t : ,, x . in pieces in a pafiion, protcdin^ he would never li^n it I r conjurer. In 1529, A.-iipr.a had invitations horn Henry 1 ' king of England, from the chancellor of the emperor, ffntu.ni' .In T, Italian marquis, and from Margaret of Auftria, govern of the Low Countries : he preferred the laft, and accept! ol ' being hiftorioL r rapher to the emperor, which was ofiVnl him by that princeis. H'.' publiflv.d, by way of introduclion, the FliPcory of the Government of Charles V. Soon after, . garet of Auftria died, and he fpoke her funeral oration. IJ death is (aid in Come meafure tn have been the life of Agrippa, for great prejudices had been infufed into thatprincefs againft him: " I have nothin:; to write you (fays he in one of hi, " letters) but thai 1 am likely to ftarve here, bein^ entirely " forfaken by the deities of the court; what the great Jupi- " ter himfelf (meaning Ch^rh 3 V.) intends 1 know not. i
- ' ii'jw underftar.d what great danger I was in here: the
" monks fo far influenced 'the^princefs, who was of a fupcr-
- ' ftitious turn, as women generally are, that, had not her
" fudden death prevented it, 1 (hould undoubtedly have been t{ tried for offences a,:ainft the majefty of the cowl and the fa- " cred honour of the monks; crimes for vhich I llinuld hive ",'.. 16 been accounted no lei's guilty, and no lefs punifhed, than it ^'^ " I had blafphemed the Chriftian religion." His trcatilc 4i ' (i the Vanity of the Sciences [t>J, which he publiihed in 1 530, greatly [c] Nee ultra ill-m tgo pr" principe " th; mind^ and fonfcjcnces of man- mtfj (jam enim eflc C pro stro- "kind. 'l'h?y ^verc ipnv.r. ci'TiP.;a et perfida' quart?m Jelabvle rnihi " luptuous : they propa^tcj the wt.'k- tiahendam dacrevi. Ep. Lxu.lib. iv. efl anu moft ah!. rJ m. rfiiiioni, anJ PJ 284.. " difcouraged all pol.tc Naming: U '[D] Agrippa fpeaks in'fcverer terms " would not theinfclvr-- r g of Luther in this v rk thin in his k:- " rife from barbjrity and ignorance, ters. "When he wrote tins trcaiife " perroit others to do foj To that a r < (lavs Mr, BaU-) l.i; ccitaii'.'y did not li -t ,- nin- Aid l-arninj was (i: " enteftain thofrhbpes whteb he had at " come the perpetujl obi <; firft conceive.l of t.)iher< 1 believe " violent Reclamation*. / that he, as vsdl as l^almus, at fir (I " mm, erl i ' confider-d ibis tet'ormer as a hero, " p-jiftcd abiliiit " who would put an end to that 17- " thit Luther had broken the lee i ' ranny which the mendicant friai's and " waited fcr an opportonitj to ' ths relt of the clercy exeifed oer " mjj.k.ind from this pprrffion] iu: ' WDM
