ignorant, "quale sia il mare d'Inghilterra nel
quale io ho da navigare et che fortuna et travagli
potrei haver a sostinere per condurre la navi in
porto."--Pole to Morone: _Epist._ Reg. Pol. vol.
iv. I have not seen Morone's first letter. The
contents are to be gathered, however, from Pole's
answer, and from a second letter of apology which
Morone wrote two months later.]

A fortnight after (May 25), he wrote again, replying more elaborately
to the emperor's charges. It was true, he admitted, that in his
letters to the queen he had dwelt more upon her religious duties than
upon her marriage: it was true that he had been backward in his
demonstrations of pleasure, because he was a person of few words. But,
so far from disapproving of that marriage, he looked upon it as the
distinct work of God; {p.149} and when his nephew had come with
complaints to him, he had forbidden him his presence. He had spoken of
the rule of a stranger in England as likely to be a lesson to the
people; but he had meant only that, as their disasters had befallen
them through their own king Henry, their deliverance would be wrought
for them by one who was not their own. When the late parliament had
broken up without consenting to the restoration of union, he had
consoled the queen with assuring her that he saw in it the hand of
Providence; the breach of a marriage between an English king and a
Spanish princess had caused the wound which a renewed marriage of a
Spanish king and an English queen was to heal.[350]

[Footnote 350: Scrissi alla Regina non la volendo
contristare condolermi di cio, che lo interpretava
et intendeva che questa tardita non venisse tanto
da lei quanto delle Providentia di Dio, il qual
habbia ordinato che si come per discordia
matrimoniale d'un Re Inglese et d'una Regina
Hispana fu levata l'obedientia della chiesa de quel
Regno cosi dalla concordia matrimoniale d'un Re
Hispano et d'una Regina Inglese ella vi doverse
ritornare.--Pole to Morone: _Epist._ Reg. Pol. vol.
iv.]

The defence was elaborate, and, on the whole, may have been tolerably
true. The pope would not take the tr