In Switzerland from 1516 to 1525 - James Aitken Wylie

the top of the steeple, taking with him a bag of
feathers, which he proceeded to empty into the air.
As the feathers were descending like snow-flakes
on Samson and his company, the man exclaimed,
"Ecce Volant! "–" See how they fly!" The monk
burst into a rage. To have the grace of holy Church
so impiously travestied was past endurance. Such
horrible profanation of the wholesome institution
of indulgences, he declared, destowed nothing less
than burning. But the citizens pacified him by
saying that the man's wits were at times disordered.
Be this as it may, it had turned the laugh against
Samson, who departed from Baden somewhat
crestfallen.
Samson continued his journey, and gradually
approached Zurich. At every step he dispensed his
pardons, and yet his stock was no nearer being
exhausted than when he crossed the Alps. On the
way he was told that Zwingli was thundering
against him from the pulpit of the cathedral. He
went forward, notwithstanding. He would soon put
the preacher to silence. As he came nearer, Zwingli
waxed the bolder and the plainer. "God only can
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