[1] Whereby it came to passe, that manie of the péeres and high estates of the realme withdrew them from the court; [...] is [...]trarie to [...]. as first the archbishop of Canturburie, and the bishop of Winchester, which got them home into their diocesses. But yet before their departure (as good fathers of their countrie) they instantlie be|sought the king that he would not suffer anie seruant to exceed and passe his maister: borrowing that sen|tence out of the gospell of saint Iohn, where our Sa|uiour speaking to his disciples, saith to them; Uere|lie, verelie, I say vnto you, the seruant is not greater than his maister. Herevnto the king, knowing that they meant this by the cardinall, made this answer, That he would diligentlie sée, that euerie seruant should obeie, and not command. But the cardinall notwithstanding (during the time of his flattering felicitie) held out, thinking scorne to be counterman|ded; behauing himselfe more like a prince, than a prelat, so blinded was he with vaineglorie, and drun|ken with the transitorie delights of the world: obsti|nate impediments and most horrible hinderances to the permanent ioies of heauen, as the poet saith:

[...]lla. in lac. 4. Delicias mundi fragiles qui mente sequetur,

Perdidit aeterni certissima gaudia coeli.