Note 1396 — Chapter XXXIX · END OF LUTHER’S LIFE
E. M. Lamond translation
Erl. ed., 32, p. 426. The Latin verses begin: “Dura lues pestis, sed mors est durior illa.” One may well ask whether the broadside, which bears no date, was not perhaps written in Germany by friends of Luther’s to afford a pretext for inveighing anew against the Catholics.