Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Earle Iohn and Marchades presented the two prelats with great triumph vnto K. Richard earlie in the morning, lieng yet in his bed, as those that were knowne to be his great enimies, saieng to him in French;
Rise Richard, rise, we haue gotten the great chantour of Beauuois, and a good quie [...] man (as we take it) to answer him in the same note, and here we deliuer them vnto you to vse at your discre|tion.The king séeing them, smiled, and was verie glad for the taking of this bishop, for that he had euer found him his great aduersarie: and therefore being thus taken fighting in the field with armour on his backe, thought he might be bold in temporall wise to chastise him: sith he (not regarding his calling) prac|tised to mo [...]es [...] him wich temporall weapons: where|vpon EEBO page image 151 he committed him to close prison all armed as he was.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 It chanced soone after, that two of his chaplins came vnto the king to Rouen, where this bishop was deteined, beseeching the king of licence to attend vpon their maister now in captiuitie: vnto whome (as it is of some reported) the king made this an|swer;
I am content to make you iudges in the cause betwixt me and your maister, as for the euils which he hath either doone, either else gone about to doo vn|to me, let the same be forgotten. This is true, that I being taken as I returned from my iournie made into the holie land, and deliuered into the emperours hands, was in respect of my kinglie state, vsed accor|ding therevnto verie fréendlie and honourablie, till your maister comming thither (for what purpose he himselfe best knoweth) had long conference with the emperour. After which, I for my part in the next morning tasted the fruit of their ouernights talke, being then loden with as manie irons as a good asse might not verie easilie haue borne. Iudge you there|fore, what maner of imprisonment your maister de|serued at my hands, that procured such ease for me at the emperours hands.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The two chaplins had their mouths stopped with these words thus by the king vttered, and so departed their waies. The bishop being still deteined in pri|son, procured suit to be made to the pope for his deli|uerance: but the pope, being truelie informed of the matter, and wiselie considering that the king had not taken the bishop preaching, but fighting, and kept him prisoner rather as a rough enimie, than as a peaceable prelat, would not be earnest with the king for his deliuerance, but rather reprooued the bi|shop, in that he had preferred secular warfare before the spirituall, and had taken vpon him the vse of a speare in stéed of a crosier, an helmet in steed of a mi|ter, an herbergeon in stéed of a white rocket, a target for a stoale, and an iron sword in lieu of the spirituall sword: and therefore he refused to vse any comman|dement to king Richard for the setting of him at li|bertie. But yet he promised to doo what he could by waie of intreating, that he might be released.