say, his pope. He had purchased him, he used him, he put him to
the press, and as cider flows from apples, so did this crushed
pope bleed gold. The pontificate, struck by the Colonna in the
person of Boniface VIII., abdicated the empire of the world in
the person of Clement V.

We have related the advent of the king of blood and the pope of
gold. We know how they ended. Jacques de Molay, from his funeral
pyre, adjured them both to appear before God within the year.
_Ae to geron sithullia_, says Aristophanes. "Dying hoary
heads possess the souls of sibyls."

Clement V. departed first. In a vision he saw his palace in flames.
"From that moment," says Baluze, "he became sad and lasted but
a short time."

Seven months later it was Philippe's turn. Some say that he was
killed while bunting, overthrown by a wild boar. Dante is among their
number. "He," said he, "who was seen near the Seine falsifying the
coin of the realm shall die by the tusk of a boar." But Guillaume
de Nangis makes the royal counterfeiter die of a death quite
otherwise providential.

"Undermined by a malady unknown to the physicians, Philippe expired,"
said he, "to the great astonishment of everybody, without either
his pulse or his urine revealing the cause of his malady or the
imminence of the danger."

The King of Debauchery, the King of Uproar, Louis X., called
the Hutin, succeeded his father, Philippe le Bel; John XXII. to