d), do more naturally read the
Scripture in English.'--`I will not have thee to speak Greek!' crieth
he. `'Tis the Devil that did invent Greek of late years, to beguile
unwary men. And I do thee to wit that the Scripture was not writ in
Greek, thou lying varlet! but in the holy tongue, Latin.'--`It would ill
become me to gainsay your Lordship,' said I.--`I will have thee back,'
saith he, `to the first matter. And I bid thee answer me without any
cunning or evasion: Dost thou believe that our Lord's body was eaten of
the blessed Apostles, or no?'--`My Lord,' I answered, `with all
reverence unto your Lordship's chair and office, seeing the Lord's body
was crucified on the Friday, I do not believe, nor cannot, that it was
eaten of the Apostles the even afore.' Then he arose up out of his
seat, and gnashed his teeth, and railed on me with great abuse; crying,
`Ha, thou heretic! thou lither knave! (and worser words than these) I
have thee! I have outwitted thee! Thou art fairly beat and put down.--
Have the heretic knave away, and keep him close.' And so I was carried
back to the Marshalsea."

"Marry," said Mr Underhill, "but I think it was Edmund Bonner that was
put down. I never knew what a witty fellow thou wert."

"Robin," said Isoult, "it should have aggrieved me sorely to be so
unjustly handled. To hear him say that he had beat thee, when it was
thou that hadst beat him! It should have gone mightily against the
grain with me."

"The old story," answered Mr Rose. "`Is not that He whose high places
and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away?' Methinks that should rankle
sore in Hezekiah's mind, and in the hearts of them that lovest him.
Bishop Bonner is somewhat coarser and less subtle, yet 'tis the same
thing in both cases."

"Well," said Robin, with a smile to those who had spoken, "after that I
was not called up again. When at last I was brought out from the
Marshalsea, I counted it would be surely either for an other examination
or for burning. But, to my surprise, they set me on an horse, that was
tied to the horse of one of the Sheriff's men, and I (with some twelve
other prisoners likewise bound) was taken a long journey of many days.
I could see by the sun that we were going west; but whither I wist not,
and the man to whom I was bound refused to tell me. At the last we
entered into a great city, walled and moated. Here we were brought
afore a priest, that demanded of each of us what was the c