260 THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX.
- of Jesus Christ, wlien Pilate and Herod, who
'before were enemies, were made friends by con-
- senting of them both to Christ's condemnation ;
- sole distinction being that Pilate and Herod
'were brethren in the estate called Temporal, and
- these two, of whom we now speak, were brethren
' (sons of the same father, the Devil) in the Estate ' Ecclesiastical/ It was on the 1st March 1546 that the noble and gentle Wishart met his death ; in the last days of February that Archbishop Gowkston recon- ciled himself to co-operate with Pilate Beaton Legatus Natus : — three months hence that the said Pilate Beaton, amazing Hinge of the Church, was stolen in upon in his now well-nigh impregnable castle of St. Andrews, and met his stern quietus. " I am a priest, I am a priest : fy, fy : all is gone ! *' were the last words he spoke. Knox's narrative of all this is of a most perfect historical perspicuity and business-like brevity ; and omitting no particular, neither that of buxom 'Marion Ogilvy* and her peculiar services, nor that of Melvin, the final swordsman, who ' stroke ^him twyse or thrise through with a stog-sweard,'
