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Over the corpse are these words, "I have fought a good fight; I have finished my course; I have kept the faith;" and underneath is Featley's Latin Epitaph, telling that he was "Impugnator Papismi, Propugnator Reformationis," and "Theologus Insignis, Disputator Strenuus, Conscionator Egregius."
Yet, as the almost annual irruptions were at every instant ready to be converted into coup-de-mains upon Aquileia upon Verona or even upon Rome itself, unless vigorously curbed at the outset, each emperor at this period found himself under the necessity of standing in the attitude of a champion or propugnator on the frontier line of his territory ready for all comers and with a pretty certain prospect of having one pitched battle at the least to fight in every successive summer.
He fulfils the words of the old German chronicle which reads: "Merito a nobis nostrisque posteris pater patriae appelatur quia erat egregius defensor et fortissimus propugnator nihili pendens vitam suam contra omnia adversa propter justitiam opponere."
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