. The life and death of Cardinal Wolsey . .The French guard and the Scots had all one livery, which warerich coats of fine white cloth, with a guard of silver bullionsembroidered an handful broad. The king came riding upona goodly genet, and lighted at the west door of the said church,and so conveyed into the church up to the high altar, where hemade his prayers upon his knees, and then conveyed into thebishops palace, where he was lodged, and also his mother. The next morning I rode again to Picquigny to attendupon my lord, at which time my lord was ready to take hismule towards Amiens; and p
. The life and death of Cardinal Wolsey . .The French guard and the Scots had all one livery, which warerich coats of fine white cloth, with a guard of silver bullionsembroidered an handful broad. The king came riding upona goodly genet, and lighted at the west door of the said church,and so conveyed into the church up to the high altar, where hemade his prayers upon his knees, and then conveyed into thebishops palace, where he was lodged, and also his mother. The next morning I rode again to Picquigny to attendupon my lord, at which time my lord was ready to take hismule towards Amiens; and passing on his journey thitherward,he was encountered from place to place with divers noble andworthy personages, making to him divers orations in Latin,to whom he made answer again extempore; at whose excellentlearning and pregnant wit they wondered very much. Thenwas word brought my lord that the king was coming to en-counter him; with that, he having none other shift, was com-pelled to alight in an old chapel that stood by the highway,. Caritnai W(A$t$ 53 and there newly apparelled him into more richer apparel;and then mounted upon a new mule very richly trapped, witha footcloth and trapper of crimson velvet upon velvet, purledwith gold, and fringed about with a deep fringe of gold, verycostly, his stirrups of silver and gilt, the bosses and cheeks ofhis bridle of the same. And by that time that he was mountedagain after this most gorgeous sort, the king was come verynear, within less than a quarter of a mile English, musteringupon an hill side, his guard standing in array along the same,expecting my lords coming; to whom my lord made as muchhaste as conveniently it became him; until he came withina pair of butt lengths, and there he staid a while. The kingperceiving that, stood still; and having two worthy gentlemenyoung and lusty with him, being both brethren, and brethrento the Duke of Lorraine, and to the Cardinal of Lorraine;whereof one of them was called Monsieur de Gui
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