A14151:191
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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¶How the Emperor cam through England.¶How the Emperour cam thorow Englond.
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For frenchmen are not so foolish to have done it so unadvisedly and so rashly / seeing they had to many in their tops already. Then our king spake many great words that he would drive the French king out of his realm, or else the French king should bryue him out of his▪ But had he added as the legate Pandulph taught king John / with the popes licence, his words had sounded much better. For there can no vow stand in effect / except the holy father confirm it.
For frenchmen are not so folish to haue done it so vnaduisedlye and so rashlye / seynge they had to many in their toppes already. Then oure king spake manye greate wordes that he wold dryue the frenchkyng out of his realme, or els the frenchkyng shulde bryue him out of his▪ But had he added as the legate Pandulph taught kinge Ihon̄ / with the popes lycence, his wordes had sounded much better. For there can no vow stande in effect / except the holy father confirme it.
We sent out our soldiers, two summers against the frenchmen / unto whose chief captains the Cardinal had appointed, how far they should go, and what they should do▪ And therefore the French king was nothing afraid / but brought all his Power against ⟨image 65⟩the Emperor in other places. And •o was the Emperor ever betrayed. And thus the cardinal was the emperors friend openly, and the French king's secretly, For at the m•••ng / with the French king beside Cal•s, he utterly betrayed the Emperor▪ yet for no love that he had to France, but to help the Pope, yea and to have been Pope haply / and to save their kingdom. Which treason / though all the world smelled it, yet it brake not out openly to the eye / till the siege of Pauye. And the Cardinal sent the emperor much money openly / and gave the French king more secretly. He played with both hands to serve their secret that all men know not, as the bishop of Durham said. But what soever the frenchmen did, they had ever the worse, no withstanding the secrete working of our holy prelates on their side.