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Katharine Howard saw, before the high reading pulpit, the back of a man in the long robes of a Master of Arts. He held a pen in his hand and turned over his shoulder at her a face thin, brown, humorous and deprecatory, as if he were used to bearing chiding with philosophy. 'Magister Udal! she uttered.
'Therefore he did send for me. Privy Seal had promised him seven hundred pounds, farms with sixty pounds by the year, or the headship of New College if the magister could discover how the Lady Mary wrote her letters abroad. 'So I have stayed three years with the Lady Mary, Udal said.
It is true that he will drive from you all your good friends.... She faltered, and her impulse carried her no further. Rochford tapped her flushed cheek gently with his glove, but a light and hushing step in the corridor made them all silent. The Magister Udal stood before the door blinking his eyes at the light; Katharine addressed him imperiously
I am minded the piece shall be given at my house before his Highness and the new Queen in a week. Udal remained silent, dejected, his head resting upon his breast. 'For, Cromwell spoke with a raised voice, 'it is well that the King be distracted of his griefs. He went on as if he were uttering an admonition that he meant should be heeded and repeated.
Hostlers, packmen and pedlars began to fill the space behind Udal, and he heard his wife's voice calling shrilly to a cook who had run across the yard. The crowd a little shielded him from the draught which came through the arch, and he waited with more contentment.
'Tags from Seneca in a wench's mouth are rose garlands on a cow's horns. 'The best ladies in the land learn of me, Udal answered. 'Aye, but my niece shall keep her virtue intact. 'You defame the Lady Mary of England, Udal snickered. The old man said vigorously, 'God save her highness, and send us her for Queen. Have you begged her to get me redress in the matter of that wall?
'I have always loved him for a brewer's son. My father was a brewer. 'Cromwell was begotten even by the devil, Udal answered. 'He made me write a comedy in the vulgar tongue. 'Be it as you will, she answered. 'You shall know on which side to bite your cake better than I. He was still a little shaken at the thought of Privy Seal.
'But the lady shall be torn in pieces, Udal shrieked. Panic had overcome him. Who knew that the fiend, having torn his Katharine asunder, might not enter into the body of his Margot, who was already at her bedside? His lips quivered with terror, his eyes smiled furiously, he wrung his hands. He swore he would penetrate to the King's Highness' self.
The case of Udal, a Puritanical clergyman, seems singular even in those arbitrary times. This man had published a book, called a Demonstration of Discipline, in which he inveighed against the government of bishops; and though he had carefully endeavored to conceal his name, he was thrown into prison upon suspicion, and brought to a trial for this offence.
'Why, Providence was kind to her when it sent her me for her master, Udal said. 'I never had apter pupil saving only one. 'Shall Thomas Cromwell redress? the old man asked. 'If good learning can make a good queen, trust me to render her one, Udal avoided the question. 'But alas! being declared bastard for very excellent reasons she may not 'You owe me nine crowns, old Badge threatened him.
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