en, to see
and hear, belonging to the Bishop of Winchester;
among whom one of them most shamefully blasphemed
God, saying:

"Yea, by God's blood, standest thou there yet,
saying--Take and eat, Take and drink; will not this
gear be left yet? You shall be made to sing another
song within these few days, I trow, or else I have
lost my mark."

A day or two after came an order for Mountain to
appear before Gardiner at Winchester House.
Mountain said he would appear after morning
prayers; but the messenger's orders were not to
leave him, and he was obliged to obey on the
instant.

The bishop was standing when he entered, "in a bay
window, with a great company about him; among them
Sir Anthony St. Leger, reappointed Lord Deputy of
Ireland."

"Thou heretic," the Bishop began; "how darest thou
be so bold as to use that schismatical service
still, seeing God hath sent us a Catholic queen.
There is such an abominable company of you, as is
able to poison a whole realm with heresies."

"My lord," Mountain replied, "I am no heretic, for
in that way you count heresy, so worship we the
living God."

"God's passion," said the Bishop, "did I not tell
you, my Lord Deputy, how you should know a heretic.
He is up with his living God as though there was a
dead God. They have nothing in their mouths, these
heretics, but the Lord liveth; the living God; the
Lord! the Lord! and nothing but the Lord."

"Here," says Mountain, "he chafed like a bishop;
and as his manner was, many times he put off his
cap, and rubbed to and fro up and down the forepart
of his head, where a lock of hair was always
standing up."

"My good Lord Chancellor," St. Leger said to him,
"trouble not yourself with this heretic; I think