1896-1898 Tome 18 - Ouvrages anciens sur Saint-Omer (Pas-de ...

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entreatye. As, for the acte of mariage, I had found
meanes for to stop that, but as for the sentence of
th'Archbishop of Canterbury, I was never privy
thereunto, and I was sory when I heard it and,
assure my brother of my behalf this, that that sentence
of th'Archbishop not beinge annulled, he
shall never obtaine the Pope. But, for défense of his
jurisdiction, the pope shall call help of the Emperor
and ail Christendom, or he geve place or then too.
And yet, quod he, yf ye had brought a proxye, as
was devysed whereby to knowledge the popes jurisdiction,
it shold hâve byn well. « That proxye, quod
I, the bishop of Winchester, is not so necessary. »
« No, quod he, ye will hâve me doe for you, and
when I and my counsell devyse after what waie me
may doe, ye regard us not thercin, but of yourself
doe thinke clearely contrary, and as fast as I study
to wynne the pope, ye study to lose hym. And
of such effecte, as in your intimation nowe made,
yet ta the worst purpose that cold be devysed ;
Which yf I had known before, ye shold never hâve
done it. I went, quod he, to the pope to take a conclusion
in your matters, and, when I came there, I
founde one making the intimation, which when the
pope had told me of what sort it was, I was greatly
ashamed, quod he, that I knewe soe little in it, and
the pope, whom I had handled before and brought
to soe good pointe, that I could not, for shame,
désire any more. Ye sce, quod he, the effecte of ail
your desires. They refuse that shold receive. The
kinge of England will not that I shall meddle in it.
I, the bishop of Winton, desired the French kinge