+Archbishop.+ Then the Archbishop said to his Clerks, "Busy you no longer about him! for he, and others such as he is, are confeder[at]ed so together, that they will not swear to be obedient, and to submit them to Prelates of Holy Church. For now, since I stood here, his fellow sent me word that _he will not swear, and that he_ [WILLIAM of Thorpe] _counselled him that he should not swear to me_ But, losell! in that thing that in thee is, thou hast busied thee to lose this young man; but, blessed be GOD! thou shalt not have thy purpose of him! For he hath forsaken all thy learning, submitting him to be buxom [_submissive_] and obedient to the ordinance of Holy Church; and weepeth full bitterly, and curseth thee full heartily for the venomous teaching which thou hast shewed to him, counselling him to do thereafter. And for thy false counselling of many others and him, thou hast great cause to be right sorry! For, long time, thou hast busied thee to pervert whomsoever thou mightest! Therefore as many deaths thou art worthy of, as thou hast given evil counsels. And therefore, by Jesu! thou shalt go thither where NICHOLAS HEREFORD and JOHN PURVEY were harboured! and I undertake, ere this day eight days, thou shalt be right glad for to do what thing that ever I bid thee do! "And, losell! I shall assay if can make thee there, as sorrowful as, it was told me, thou wast glad of my last going out of England [_in_ 1397]. By St. Thomas! I shall turn thy joy into sorrow!" +William.+ And I said, "Sir, there can nobody prove lawfully that I joyed ever of the manner of your going out of this land [_the Archbishop had been banished_]. But, Sir, to say the sooth, I was joyful when ye were gone! for [ROBERT DE BRAYBROOKE] the Bishop of LONDON (in whose prison ye left me!) found in me no cause for to hold me longer in his prison; but, at the request of my friends, he delivered me to them, asking of me no manner of submitting." +Archbishop.+ Then the Archbishop said to me, "Wherefore that I yede [_went_] out of England is unknown to thee! But be this thing well known to thee! that GOD, as I wot well, hath called me again and brought me into this land, for to destroy thee and the false sect that thou art of! as, by God! I shall pursue you so narrowly that I shall not leave a step of you in this land!" +William.+ And I said to the Archbishop, "Sir, the holy prophet JEREMY said to the false prophet HANANIAH, _When the word_, that is, the prophecy, _of a prophet is known or fulfilled; then it shall be known that the LORD sent the prophet in truth_!" +Archbishop.+ And the Archbishop, as if he had not been pleased with my saying, turned him away-ward, hither and thither, and said, "By God! I shall set on thy shins a pair of perlis [? _pearls_], that thou shalt be glad to change thy voice!" These and many more wondrous and convicious [_railing_] words were spoken to me; menacing me and all others of the same sect, for to be punished and destroyed to the uttermost.