ABSTRACT

I n his Obelisks he calls me a fanatic Hussite, heretical, seditious, insolent and rash, not to mention such slight abuse as that I am dreaming, clumsy, unlearned, and a despiser of the Pope. I n short the book is nothing but the foulest abuse, expressly mentioning my name and directed against my Theses. I t is nothing less than the malice and

envy of a maniac. I would have swallowed this sop for Cerberus,1 but my friends compelled me to answer it.