Art thou but Captaine of a thouſand horſe, That by Characters grauen in thy browes, And by thy martiall face and ſtout aſpect, Deſeru’ſt to haue the leading of an hoſte?

It would have cost but a word from the Prince to divert but a paltry fraction, say twenty of the thousand millions, to the glory of German architects and the greater glory of the unificator of his country.

He brandished his title as apostolic commissioner in court, and as supervisor of the papal decima in Tuscany.

The hardest trial of all to bear was the cruel bastinado, which the vartabad at length resorted to, seeing that other means failed. A young man was called into the presence of this church dignitary, and required to sign the patriarch's creed. Refusing to comply, he was placed on the floor and beaten with sticks on the soles of his feet, the vartabad assisting with his own hands in inflicting this cruelty.