ho stand here--it is not only
Peter--Christ is here--Christ waits with me till you will open and
take him in. You who are King of England, are defender of Christ's
faith; yet, while you have the ambassadors of all other princes at
your court, you will not have Christ's ambassador; you have rejected
your Christ.

"Go on upon your way. Build on the foundation of worldly policy, and I
tell you, in Christ's words, that the rain will fall, the floods will
rise, the winds will blow, and beat upon that house, and it will fall,
and great will be the fall thereof."[362]

[Footnote 362: Pole to Philip: _Epist._ Reg. Pol.
vol. iv.]

The pleading was powerful, yet it could bear no fruits--the door could
not open till the pope pronounced the magic words which held it
closed. Neither Philip nor Mary was in a position to use violence or
force the bars.

After the ceremony at Winchester, the king and queen had gone first to
Windsor, and thence the second week in August they went to Richmond.
The entry into London was fixed for the 18th; after which, should it
pass off without disturbance, {p.153} the Spanish fleet might sail
from Southampton Water. The prince himself had as yet met with no
discourtesy; but disputes had broken out early between the English and
Spanish retinues, and petty taunts and insolences had passed among
them.[363] The prince's luggage was plundered, and the property stolen
could not be recovered nor the thieves detected. The servants of Alva
and the other lords, who preceded their masters to London, were
insulted in the streets, and women and children called after them that
they need not have brought so many things, they would be soon gone
again. The citizens refused to give them lodgings in their houses, and
the friars who had accompanied Philip were advised to disguise
themselves, so intense was the hatred against the religious
orders.[364] The council soon provided for their ordinary comforts,
but increase of acquaintance produced no improvement of feeling.

[Footnote 363: Avecques d'aultres petits
depportements de mocquerie qui croissent tous les
jours d'ung couste et d'aultre.--Noailles to the
King of France, August 1.]

[Footnote 364: Noailles, and compare Pole to
Miranda, Oct. 6: _Epist._ Reg. Pol. vol. v.]

The entry passed off tolerably. Gog and M