song, and taught his men to sing it in chorus when they marched to
meet the foe.

Therefore, manfully cry out:
"At them! rush at them."
Wield bravely your arms!
Pray to your Lord God.
Strike and kill! spare none!

What a combination of piety and fury! It was all in vain. The
great general died of a fever. The thunderbolt fell. At a meeting
in Prague the Utraquists and Catholics at last came to terms, and
drew up a compromise known as the "Compactata of Basle" (1433). For
nearly two hundred years after this these "Compactata" were regarded
as the law of the land; and the Utraquist Church was recognised by
the Pope as the national self-governing Church of Bohemia. The
terms of the Compactata were four in number. The Communion was to
be given to laymen in both kinds; all mortal sins were to be
punished by the proper authorities; the Word of God was to be freely
preached by faithful priests and deacons; and no priests were to
have any worldly possessions. For practical purposes this agreement
meant the defeat of the advanced reforming movement. One point the
Utraquists had gained, and one alone; they were allowed to take the
wine at the Communion. For the rest these Utraquist followers of
Hus were as Catholic as the Pope himself. They adored the Host,
read the masses, kept the fasts, and said the prayers as their
fathers had done before them. From that moment the fate of the
Taborite party was sealed. At the battle of Lipan they were
defeated, routed, crushed out of existence. {1434}. The battle
became a massacre. The slaughter continued all the night and part