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.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 It is reported by some writers, that the pope at first, not vnderstanding the truth of the whole cir|cumstance, should send to king Richard, comman|ding him by force of the canons of the church to deli|uer his sons the bishop and archdeacon out of their captiuitie. To whom the king sent their armour with this message written in Latine,
Vide an tunica filij tui sit an non, that is, See whether these are the garments of thy sonnes or not: alluding to the saieng of those that caried Iosephs coate to Iacob. Genes. 37. Which when the pope saw, he said:
Naie by S. Peter, it is neither the apparell of my sonnes, nor yet of my brethren: but rather they are the vestures of the children of Mars: and so he left them still to be ransomed at the kings pleasure. The bishop thus séeing no hope to be deli|uered without some agréement had betwixt the two kings, became now through irkesomnesse of his bonds, an earnest mediatour for peace, whereas be|fore he had beene an extreme stirrer vp of war. Such a schoolemaister is imprisonment, & plucker downe of loftie courages. But to proceed.