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Et existimabam cognoscere hoc: labor est ante me And I desired that I might know this thing: labour in my sight.-Ps. lxxii. 16. Master Blytchett told me that Master Richard was still asleep. He had blooded him last night, and reduced the fever, but God only could save his life. For himself, he thought that the young man would die before night, and he did not know whether he would speak again.
He told the clerk, too, that Master Blytchett was greatly concerned about his grace, and that the court would be in an uproar if somewhat were not done at once. But he said nothing of the whipping of Master Richard, and I truly believe that he knew nothing of it. So the hour for the questioning was fixed at noon, and the place to be in my lord cardinal's privy parlour.
I thanked Master Blytchett for what he had done for my lad; but he burst out upon me. "I was all against him," he said, "at the beginning. I thought him a crack-brained fool, and a meddler. But now " And he would say no more. It seemed that many were like that at the Court. And after dinner my lord cardinal came in to see me, and I was brought back to the parlour.
I was drawn towards Master Blytchett; he seemed a sour fellow with sweetness beneath; and I love such souls as that. I loved him more than I did the King either at that time or afterward. The King appeared to me at that time a foolish fellow God forgive me! for I had not then heard what Master Richard had to say of him; nor that such opinion was to be all part of his passion.
Master Raynal was taken to the King's bed-chamber, and my lord came after. And the King has been with him, praying and moaning ever since." Then I put one question to the priest. "My lord cardinal?" I said. "No man but the King has seen my lord cardinal since yesterday." We sat a while longer in silence, and then Master Blytchett came in to see me. Of Sir John's Meditations in Westminster Palace
He had spoken my name, too, at that time and they had told him that one was gone to bring me and at that he seemed content. Master Blytchett told me soon that I could be gone for a while, to take some meat, and that he would send for me if Master Richard awoke. But I said No to that; until the King bade me go, saying that he, too, would remain, and pledging his word that I should be called.
A little after the evening bell Master Blytchett took the King out to his supper, and I was left alone with Master Richard, but I knew that there were servants in the passage whom I might call if I needed them. So I sat down by the pillow and looked at him a great while. Many of them are too trite even for this work, and others are so much confused that it is useless to transcribe them.
Then a little after it was upon the fringes of the coverlet, and it crept up moment by moment across the leopards and lilies that were broidered in gold and blue. At last it lay half across the bed, and I could see the King's face very pale and melancholy upon the other side, and Master Blytchett a little behind him.
But it was not all for sorrow that I wept; I was thanking God Almighty who permitted me to see Master Richard alive once more. I do not know how long it was before I looked up, but all the folks were gone from the room save the King, and Master Blytchett, the physician, who sat on the other side of the bed.
And this He fulfilled; for, as Master Blytchett told me, there were neither more nor less than five wounds upon the young man's body, which he had received from the crowd that set on him, besides the bruises and the stripes.
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