Note 23 — Front matter (continued 5)
Gottlob Frederick Krotel translation
Agricola was liberally rewarded by the Emperor and by Ferdinand; and Sidonius obtained the Bishopric of Merseburg. This furnished occasion for a common joke upon them, "that they only defended the Popish chrism and oil as necessary to salvation, that they might come off the better greased themselves."—Sleidan, in Cox.