Note 265 — Chapter XV · (continued 3)
E. M. Lamond translation
On November 10, 1541, “Briefe,” ed. De Wette, 5, p. 407: “Ego pæne de Germania desperavi,” etc. Of this passage we read in Köstlin-Kawerau (2, p. 572): “The exaltation which had been experienced by every grade of the nation during the first period of the Reformation had, as a matter of fact, largely died out, and now the lowest motives held sway.”