One day a petitioner placed a paper in his hand and vanished.

It contained some scurrilous verses upon himself, together with a caricature of his person.

In this he was represented as a hen seated upon a pile of eggs, out of which he was hatching a brood of bishops.
Some of these were clipping the shell, some thrusting forth an arm, some a leg, while others were running about with mitres on their heads, all bearing whimsical resemblance to various prelates who had been newly-appointed.

Above the Cardinal's head the Devil was represented hovering, with these words issuing from his mouth: "This is my beloved Son, listen to him, my people." There was another lampoon of a similar nature, which was so well executed, that it especially excited Granvelle's anger.

It was a rhymed satire of a general nature, like the rest, but so delicate and so stinging, that the Cardinal ascribed it to his old friend and present enemy, Simon Renard.