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

He was too obnoxious to the emperor, it was said,
to beard the lion in his den. To the amazement of
every one, the elector was the first of all the princes
to appear on the scene.
Soon the other princes, Popish and Protestant,
began to arrive. Their entrance into Augsburg was
with no little pomp. They came attended by their
retainers, whose numbers and equipments were on
a scale that corresponded with the power and
wealth of the lord they followed. Clad in armor,
bearing banners blazoned with devices, and
proclaiming their approach with sound of drum and
clarion, they looked more like men mustering for
battle than assembling for the settlement of the
creed of Christendom, the object specified in the
Emperor's summons. But in those days no
discussion, even on religious questions, was
thought to have much weight unless it was
conducted amid the symbols of authority and the
blaze of power. On the 12th of May the Landgrave
of Hesse entered Augsburg, accompanied by 120
horsemen. And three days thereafter the deputies of
the good town of Nuremberg arrived to take part in
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