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208 ST. HUGH AND
d only on the Bishop of Salisbury
dared to raise a hand against Hugh. Soon afterwards
the Bishop crossed over to France where
Richard then was. He found the king at Mass,
His greeting met with no response. The Bishop was
not to be so daunted, and demanded a kiss of peacey
but the king turned his face away. Then Hugh
seized hold of the royal person and pressing the Cceur
fie Lion, said: "You owe me a kiss of peace, for I
have come a long way to see you ".
"You have not deserved an embrace from me."
" Indeed I have," answered Hugh. " Embrace me
at once." Then the king relaxed into a smile, and
embraced him.
After Mass, Hugh, " who had always sought for
God's glory under all circumstances," had a serious
talk with the king, and upbraided him with his want
of continence and his disregard of the canons in his
ecclesiastical nominations. His plain speaking won
Richard's regard. "If all bishops were like this
one.," he said to his courtiers, "no prince or king
would dare to defy him."1 Consistent throughout,
Huh refused to be the bearer of Richard's letters
to England asking for subsidies. It was not for him
to become their medium of conveyance, nor to be a
party to those exactions in the slightest degree.
Thereupon the king bade him depart at once.
The same need of money in the royal coffers was
at the bottom of a suggestion made to the king with
i Vita, p. 253.