In Germany to the Leipsic Disputation - James Aitken Wylie

There was one favor, however, which Luther
did not disdain to accept at the hands of his friends
in Nuremberg. His frock, not the newest or freshest
when he started from Wittemberg, by the time he
reached the banks of the Pegnitz bore but too plain
marks of his long journey, and his friends judged
that it was not fit to appear in before the legate.
They therefore attired him in a frock belonging to
his friend Link. On foot, and in a borrowed cloak,
he went on his way to appear before a prince of the
Church, but the serge of Luther was more sublime
than the purple and fine linen of De Vio.
Link and another friend accompanied him, and
on the evening of October 7th they entered the
gates of Augburg, and took up their abode at the
Augustine monastery. On the morrow he sent Link
to notify his arrival to the cardinal.
Had Luther come a few weeks earlier he would
have found Augsburg crowded with princes and
counts, among whom would have been found some
willing to defend him; but now all had taken their
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