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days, and sorrow for sin was not confined to respectable persons. 
After the election of Julius II., Adrian lost some of his 
offices at the Papal Court, but still remained Collector for 
Peter’s Pence in England, and its representative at Rome. 
That he was not dismissed at once is a tribute to his agree- 
able personality, and the contrast between the behaviour of 
Wolsey and Adrian when each of them loses the favour of his 
master is very marked. 
Adrian was accused of being a conspirator because he did not 
report the chance remark of a brother Cardinal that a change 
in the Pontificate lay in the power of the Pope’s surgeon. 
The Italian so long experienced in the sudden ending of 
courtly favour, when told of the Pope’s anger, merely shrugged 
his shoulders and laughed at the travesty of lése Majesté, but 
afterwards, remembering the fate of Antonio Ferreri, begged 
forgiveness, paid a fine, and then ran away, but it was to his 
friends, whe treated him as a king. 
Wolsey with craven spirit at once gave up the fight when 
Henry frowned—‘ His high blown pride has left him,’’ and 
what is there in history more pathetic than the meeting at 
Leicester between the spirit-broken prelate and the Abbot, as 
the dying man is lifted from his mule ? 
How different it was with Adrian. He fled with only four 
attendants, but as soon as his arrival was known, the Doge and 
the Patriarch, with the Spanish and the Ferrarese ambassadors, 
waited on him in State barges, and together they went to the 
service at St. George’s, for it was the saint’s féte day, and 
Adrian was the English King’s ambassador, from whom he 
had received two golden cups, one of which he presents to 
Venice, and the other to the Emperor ; while he gave out that 
he was undecided whether to stay in the house provided for 
him or at Padua, where he was afterwards entertained at the 
Arena, or whether he should go to England. 
Part of his time was spent at Bologna, where he wrote the 
“De Sermone Latino”? by which he was best known to 
posterity. 
His exile was not of long duration, and after his return to 
Rome he was instrumental in procuring the hat for Wolsey, 
whose jealousy of Adrian was probably aroused by a sugges- 
tion of Maximilian’s upon the sudden illness of Julius, that 
Adrian should be the new Pope, but the Pope soon recovered, 
and nothing more was said. Adrian procured the consent of 
the Pope to the marriage of James of Scotland and Margaret, 
