At the Diet of Augsburg (1530), and the signing of the Augsburg
Confession there, he was sure to be. He rode thither with his
Anspach Knightage about him, "four hundred cavaliers,"--
Seckendorfs, Huttens, Flanses and other known kindreds,
recognizable among the lists; [Rentsch, p. 633.]--and spoke there,
notbursts of parliamentary eloquence, but things that had meaning
in them. One speech of his, not in the Diet, but in the Kaiser's
Lodging (15th June, 1530; no doubt, in Anton Fugger's house, where
the Kaiser "lodged for year and day" this time but WITHOUT the
"fires of cinnamon" they talk of on other occasions [See Carlyle's
Miscellanies (iii. 259 n.). The House is at
present an Inn, "Gasthaus zu den drei Mohren;" italic> where tourists lodge, and are still shown the room which
the Kaiser occupied on such visits.]), is still very celebrated.
It was the evening of the Kaiser Karl Fifth's arrival at the Diet;
which was then already, some time since, assembled there.
And great had been the Kaiser's reception that morning; the flower
of Germany, all the Princes of the Empire, Protestant and Papal
alike, riding out to meet him, in the open country, at the Bridge
of the Lech. With high-flown speeches and benignities, on both
sides;--only that the Kaiser willed all men, Protestant and other,
should in the mean while do the Popish litanyings, waxlight
processionings and idolatrous stage-performances with him on the
morrow, which was CORPUS-CHRISTI Day; and the Protestants could
not nor would. Imperial hints there had already been, from
Innspruck; benign hopes, of the nature of commands, That loyal
Protestant Princes would in the interim avoid open discrepancies,
--perhaps be so loyal as keep their chaplains, peculiar divine-
services, private in the interim? These were hints;--and now this
of the CORPUS-CHRISTI, a still more pregnant hint! Loyal