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'Have you not scars enow by your wenching? Udal pushed back the furs at his collar. 'Master Printer John Badge the Younger, he flickered, 'if you break my crown I will break your chapel. You shall never have license to print another libel. Give me your niece in wedlock?
It was three days later, in the morning, that his captress said to the Magister Udal: 'Husband, it is time that I gave thee the bridal gift. The magister, happy with a bellyful of carp, bread and breakfast ale, muttered 'Anan? from above his copy of Lucretius. He sat in the window-seat of the great stone kitchen.
But, as it turned out, his hopes were satisfied. When he reached the big schoolroom, everything certainly looked most formal. In front of the big dais where the choir stood during the concerts sat all the masters in a half-circle. The Chief sat in the centre. "Are they all here, Udal?" the Chief asked the senior sergeant. "Yes, sir." The Chief rose.
Its gilded vanes were in the shape of men at arms, and tore the ragged clouds with the banners on their lances. Nicholas Udal looked at the roof and cursed the porter of it. 'He could have given me a cup of hypocras, he said, and muttered, as a man to whom Latin is more familiar than the vulgar tongue, a hexameter about 'pocula plena.
The Magister Udal sat in the room of his inn in Paris, where customarily the King of France lodged such envoys as came at his expense. He had been sent there to Latinise the letters that passed between Sir Thomas Wyatt and the King's Ministers of France, for he was esteemed the most learned man in these islands.
In order to prove the fact, the crown lawyers did not produce a single witness to the court: they only read the testimony of two persons absent, one of whom said, that Udal had told him he was the author; another, that a friend of Udal's had said so. * It was never fully established that the prisoner could legally produce evidence against the crown, till after the revolution.
He had set Udal very earnestly to writing a false letter from Cleves to France such a letter as Cleves might have written and this false letter, in the magister's Latin, he had placed now in his master's hands, and, pacing up and down, Cromwell read from time to time from the scrap of paper.
Gardiner swore a wild oath that, by the bones of the Confessor, they had unmasked a new plot of Satan's Legate, the Privy Seal. But, by the grace of God, he would counter-plot him. Udal, who had started all these rumours, had run to get the help of a Dean of Durham, with whom formerly he had had much converse as to the position of the Islands of the Blest.
It's there at his girdle. It clinked indeed among rules, T-squares and callipers at each footstep of the heavy printer between press and table. Magister Udal stretched his thin hands towards it. 'I will give you the printing of the Lady Mary's commentary of Plautus for that key, he said.
'That I attest to of old, Udal commented. 'But I shall be shamed before all learned doctors, if I write in the vulgar tongue. 'Silence is ever best for me! the Lady Mary answered her deadly. 'I live in the shadows that I love. 'That, full surely, shall be reversed, Katharine said loyally. 'I do not ask it, Mary said.
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