320 LUTHER'S WISDOM. קטו and went unto Kalibiah*, which is a small city, whose walls are fortified. And they cast up a trench against it, and battered its walls, and took it. And all its males they slew with the edge of the sword, and took all its prey, the women and the children. And the Spaniards returned to their own country. And the city they delivered into the hand of the king of Tunis; but there was not left in the midst thereof one that pisseth against the wall. [1P] 1024. And Martin Luther was wise; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out and set in order many works and words† for their faith and their doctrines; and he made the laws of the pope to stink among the inhabitants of Germany, and they did not set up any more molten images, and gave no more praise unto the saints as before; and the hearts of some were confounded, for one said, "I am the pope's ;" and another called himself by the name of Luther, and by his name he was surnamed. And the priests were the cause, for they were turned aside after lucres, and went after the imagination of their own hearts||, and had corrupted their way upon the earth¶. 1025. And it came to pass, when the emperor קאליביאה * Is. xliv. 5. || Jer. iii. 16. + Eccl. xii. 9. § 1 Sam. viii. 3. ¶ Gen. vi. 12. קטו A GENERAL COUNCIL PROMISED. 321 was at Ratisbon, that there gathered themselves unto him most of the nobles of Germany, and spake unto him, saying, "How long shall we halt between two opinions; if the pope be God, let us follow him; and if Martin, let us follow him*. And now let us reason togethert, that we may know what to do, and that there may be no guilt upon us." And he sware unto them, saying, "After three years' time, I will bring hither the pope and his cardinals and his wise men, and we shall see what will become of their dreams." And the thing was pleasing in their sight, and they believed him, and went out from him in peace. 1027. And the woywode who had made a covenant with Solyman, died, and his wife was left behind him with her little son; and Ferdinand the brother of the emperor went against them in that year with a strong hand; and against Buda also, Ferdinand, the emperor's brother, made war. And they sent unto Solyman, saying, "The hewer is come upon us with a high hand; and we and our land also are servants unto thee continually; the right of the kingdom is thine. And when Solyman heard it, he armed his trained servants, and went out against him, and the 322 CORN LAWS OF CHARLES V. UNPOPULAR. P uncircumcised drew back with shame. And it came to pass, after some days, that the two armies drew nigh one unto the other, at the distance of a bow-shot*. And they arrayed there a battle, and in that slaughter, there fell of the uncircumcised about twenty thousand men slain to the ground. And the rest drew back, and returned unto their own country with shame. And the Turk placed some of his men in Buda; and the war ceased. And Transylvania was ruled by the word† of the wife of John, the woywode, and by the word of his brother George the priest, till the child be grown‡; and they were unto Solyman servants, who offered unto him an offering§. 1028. And the emperor was exceedingly grieved, and feared much. And he journeyed from Germany and came to Milan, and abode there several days. And he came unto Genoa in the month Elul on the sabbath-day, on the third day of the month of September, which is the seventh month. And he made his yoke heavy, and put a tax upon the wheat which came out of Sicily; and the stink of his savour went up toward heaven, and the stone cried out of the wall**. *Comp. Gen. xxi. 16. Gen. xxxviii. 11. || Esth. iv. 4. † Gen. xli. 40. § Malachi ii. 12; iii. 3. ¶ Joel ii. 20. ** Hab. ii. 11. i. e. The emperor became unpopular. קטו CHARLES V. AND PAUL III. IN LUCCA. 323 1029. And when all the land of Genoa was famished, had it not been for the king of France, who gave them corn, they would have eaten their own children in that year. 1030. And it came to pass, after eight days, that the emperor went unto Lucca† to commune with Paul the pope, who came also thither. And the King Francis sent thither messengers, concerning the Lord Cesare Fregoso, and Antonio Rinconet, his servants, who had been slain, being as a broken vessels in the borders of Pavia; and it is not known what became of them until this day. And the emperor would not speak unto them, for the cause was of him and of his servants, to consume them and to destroy them**. And therefore the king was very wroth, and his anger burned within him††. 1031. And the emperor was content to make war against Algier; and he gathered soldiers and gallant ships in multitudes‡‡, and went down to the sea in the same month, which is the seventh month. And the king of Portugal also filled his hand§§; for Algier was as thorns in their eyes|||. 324 CHARLES V. ARRIVES IN ALGIER. קטו And they said, "Let us cut them off from being a nation, that their name may be no more in remembrance*." And the ships were about four hundred, and the emperor was the head over them. And also Andrea Doria, the chief captain of his host went with him in that war; and on the twenty-seventh day of the month of September, in the month Tishri, three hundred and two, a part of the ships sailed from Genoa. And a wind passed and cleared them outt; and they went one hither and one thither, and reeled to and fro like a drunken mang. And they saw not one another for about three days, every one turned to his own way¶. And they went to Corsica on the second day of the month of October at eventide**, and remained there. And the emperor went unto Porto Vecchiott, and from thence unto Bonifacio; and they remained there two days, and went their way. And they sailed from the island Majorca§§, by Spain, on the eighteenth of the same month. And on the twenty-second day of the same month, they came unto Algier on the |