From the Diet of Worms to the Augsburg Confession - James Aitken Wylie

helped too to make the popular tide set yet more
strongly in the Reformed direction; and the public
feeling, so unequivocally declared, reacted on the
Diet.
The Reformed princes and their friends were
never seen at mass; and on the Church's fast-days,
as on other days, meat appeared at their tables.
Perhaps they were a little too ostentatious in letting
it be known that they gave no obedience to the
ordinance od "Forbidden meats." It was not
necessary on "magro day, as the Italians call it, to
carry smoking joints to Lutheran tables in full sight
of Romanist assemblies engaged in their devotions,
in order to show their Protestantism. They took
other and more commendable methods to
distinguish between themselves and the adherents
of the old creed. They strictly charged their
attendants to an orderly and obliging behavior; they
commanded them to eschew taverns and gamingtables,
and generally to keep aloof from the
roystering and disorderly company which the Diets
of the Empire commonly drew into the cities where
they were held. Their preachers proclaimed the
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