fess that I was much more exasperated than was fitting;
and I uttered against him various harsh remarks--although all were
true, and about things which were publicly told. I learned that he is
writing to your Majesty against me, and I desire that your Majesty
should not lack a true knowledge of the affair, which is, as I have
said; and everything made less or more, your Majesty may believe,
is not truth. Nor could any one, from any word or sign of mine,
have understood an offense to God in that, or even a venial sin;
and, if anything could be added without the suspicions conceived by
his malice, or rather by his evil life and habits, the fault which
I was guilty of was becoming too angry. But I assure your Majesty
that I had more than reason enough--in the first place because he
had stained that which is so important for prelates of the church,
namely, purity; and, in the second place, because he did this at the
time when I had just arrived at my archbishopric, and when I should
have entered with great honor and reputation for virtue, especially
among infidels. In the third place, he went before all the leaders of
the religious orders, when everyone of them was free to conceive what
opinion he would of me--and especially certain persons who, as they do
not themselves live with becoming regularity, might conceive boldness,
and not fear for their own faults because they saw the superior prelate
brought before the public as guilty of similar ones. In the fifth
[_i.e.,_ fourth] place, because he called together this conventicle
while he was pretending to be my friend; for the day before he had
been in my house, and talked with me about very serious matters, and
at his departure, invited me to his house--for no one who would see
what he did, or his dealings with me, would fail to have confidence
in him, since he is a knight, and wears the habit of Santiago, and
is governor for your Majesty of so great a realm; and I say that,
as I am a frank and truthful man, I would have confidence in him,
if he were a man worthy of trust. Since he first made advances, by
asking me to do for him things which were good, what a wonder it is
that so unreasonably he should molest a man. I confess that I acted
in a manner unbecoming my position; but let him say what he will,
I have said nothing which is not true.

Many men of sound judgment have wondered what object he could have
in this assembly; and they can think of no other unless it was
to