[1] Moreouer, while the matter was in consultation among the bishops, another of the kings councell that was a knight, came before Anselme in place where he sat almost alone, to looke for an answer by them from the king, which knight knéeling downe before the archbishop, spake these words vnto him:

Reuerend father, your humble children beséech your Grace not to haue your heart troubled with these things which you heare; but call to remembrance that blessed man Iob, vanquishing the diuell on the dunghill, and reuenging Adam whome he had o|uercome in paradise.

Which words the archbishop considering with a freendlie countenance, perceiued that the minds of the people remained on his side, whereof both he and such as were about him, were right ioifull and greatlie comforted, hauing hope (according to the scripture) that the If they be Gods people. voice of the people was the voice of God. When the king vnder|stood all these things, he was maruelouslie disquieted in mind, and therefore perceiuing that the bishops and other of his councell had promised more than they could performe, he blamed them for it: vnto whom the bishop of Durham that was the chéefe doo|er in this matter, framed this answer:

He spake so faintlie (quoth he) and so coldlie at the first, that he sée|med not to haue any store of wit or wisdome.