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

the power and craft of which he was master in
order to dislodge it.
The appearance of the emperor on the heights
of the Tyrol revived the fears of the Protestants. As
when the vulture is seen in the sky, and there is
silence and cowering in the groves, so was it with
the inhabitants of the plains, now that the mailed
cohorts of Rome were seen on the mountains above
them. And there was some cause for alarm. With
the emperor came Campeggio, as his evil genius,
specially commissioned by the Pope to take care of
Charles, and see that he did not make any
compromise with the Lutherans, or entangle
himself by any rash promise of a General Council.
The legate had nothing but the old cure to
recommend for the madness which had infected the
Germans–the sword. Gattinara, who had held back
the hand of Charles from using that weapon against
Protestantism, and who had come as far as
Innspruck, here sickened and died. Melanchthon
mourned his death as a loss to the cause of
moderate counsels. "Shall we meet our adversary
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