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

catching the fronts of the houses, lighted them up
in a gloomy grandeur, and transformed the street
through which the procession was advancing into a
long, a picturesque, and a most impressive vista of
red lights and black shadows. Through a scene of
this sort was Charles conducted to the
archiepiscopal Palace of the Palatinate, which he
entered about ten o'clock.
This assembly, comprising the pride and
puissance of the great Spanish monarchy, were
here to be the witnesses of the triumph of Rome–so
they imagined. The Pope and the emperor had
resolved to tolerate the religious schism no longer.
Charles, as both Pallavicino and Sarpi testify, came
to Augburg with the firm purpose of putting forth
all the power of the Empire in the Diet, in order to
make the revolted princes re-enter the obedience of
the Roman See. The Protestants must bow the
head–so have two Puissances decreed. There is a
head that is destined to bow down, but it is one that
for ten centuries has been lifted up in pride, and has
not once during all that time been known to bend–
Rome.
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