soon he could pay that sum of money. He answered and said, "Every
day, or, if need required, at an hour's warning." Then the Pope
called for the Ambassadors of France and England, and asked them if
either of their Kings, in one hour's space, were able to satisfy and
pay forty tons of gold. They answered, "No." "Then," said the
Pope, "one citizen of Augsburg can do it." And the Pope got all
that money. One of the Fuggars being warned by the Senate of
Augsburg to bring in and to pay his taxation, said, "I know not how
much I have, nor how rich I am, therefore I cannot be taxed;" for he
had his money out in the whole world-in Turkey, in Greece, at
Alexandria, in France, Portugal, England, Poland, and everywhere,
yet he was willing to pay his tax of that which he had in Augsburg.


Covetousness is a Sign of Death; we must not rely on Money and
Wealth.

Whoso hath money, said Luther, and depends thereon, as is usual, it
neither proceeds nor prospers well with that person. The richest
monarchs have had bad fortune, and lamentably have been destroyed
and slain in the wars; on the contrary, poor and unable people, that
have had but small store of money, have overcome and had great
fortune and victory. As Emperor Maximilian overcame the Venetians,
and continued wars ten years with them, who were exceedingly rich
and powerful. Therefore we ought not to trust in money and wealth,
nor to depend thereon. I hear, said Luther, that the Prince
Elector, George, begins to be covetous, which is a sign of his death
very shortly. When I saw Dr. Goad begin to count his puddings
hanging in the chimney, I told him he would not live long, which
fell out accordingly; and when I begin to trouble myself about