From Rise of Protestantism in France to Publication of the Institutes - James Aitken Wylie

the baseness demanded of him. Morin coolly bade
an attendant prepare a scaffold, and turning to his
prisoner gave him his choice of being burned alive,
or of pointing out to him the abodes of his brethren.
Terrified by the horrible threat, which was about to
be put in instant execution, the poor man became
the betrayer.[2] The lieutenant-criminal now hoped
at one throw of his net to enclose all the Lutherans
in Paris.
Under pretense of doing expiation for the
affront which had been put upon the "Holy
Sacrament," Morin arranged a procession of the
Corpus Christi.[3] The houses in the line of the
procession were draped in black, and with slow and
solemn pace friar and priest passed along bearing
the Host, followed by a crowd of incense-bearers
and hymning choristers. The excitement thus
awakened favored the plans of the lieutenantcriminal.
He glided through the streets, attended by
his serjeants and officers. The traitor walked before
him. When he came opposite the door of any of his
former brethren the sheath-maker stopped and,
without saying a word, made a sign. The officers
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