A14151:157
The practise of prelates. CompiledThe practyse of prelates. Compyled
The practise of prelates. Compiled by the faithful and godly learned man, William TyndaleThe practyse of prelates. Compyled by the faythfull and godly learned man, Wyllyam Tyndale
London: printed by Anthony Scoloker and William Seres. Dwelling without Temple bar, 1548London: printed by Anthony Scoloker and Willyam Seres. Dwellynge wythout Temple barre, 1548
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¶By what craft the pope keepeth the Emperor down.¶By what craft the pope kepeth the Emperour doune.
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1Take an ensample: the bishops sent king Henry the fifth out to conquer France. The cause was (saith the chronicles) that the king went about to take their temporalities from them. And therefore to bring the king into an other imagination, they moneyed him, and sent him into france.
1Take an ensāple: the bysshops sent king Henrye the fyft out to conquere Fraunce. The cause was (sayth the chronicles) that the kynge went about to take theyr temporallyes from them. And therfore to bringe the kynge into an other imaginacyon, they monyed hym, and sent him into fraunce.
- 1Henry ye .v.Hēry ye .v.
When they had sent out the king, he conquered more then was their will and more ⟨image 54⟩then they supposed possible for him in so short space / and brought france clean under feet: so that our prelates had much secrete busyness, to set it up again, but what is impossible unto so great Gods?
When they had sent out the kyng, he cō quered more then was theyr will and more ⟨image 54⟩then they supposed possible for hym in so shorte space / and brought fraunce cleane vnder fete: so that oure prelates had much secrete busynes, to set it vp agayn, but what is impossyble vnto so great Gods?