Such discourses could not be allowed to pass unpunished. Fitzjames, bishop of London, was a superstitious obstinate old man of eighty, fond of money, excessively irritable, a poor theologian, and a slave to Duns Scotus, the _subtle doctor_. Calling to his aid two other bishops as zealous as himself for the preservation of abuses, namely, Bricot and Standish, he denounced the dean of St. Paul's to Warham. The archbishop having inquired what he had done: "What has he done?" rejoined the bishop of London. "He teaches that we must not worship images; he translates the Lord's Prayer into English; he pretends that the text _Feed my sheep_, does not include the temporal supplies the clergy draw from their flock. And besides all this," he continued with some embarrassment, "he has spoken against those who carry their manuscripts into the pulpit and read their sermons!" As this was the bishop's practice, the primate could not refrain from smiling; and since Colet refused to justify himself, Warham did so for him. [Sidenote: GREEKS AND TROJANS.] From that time Colet laboured with fresh zeal to scatter the darkness. He devoted the larger portion of his fortune to found the celebrated school of St. Paul, of which the learned Lilly was the first master. Two parties, the _Greeks_ and the _Trojans_, entered the lists, not to contend with sword and spear, as in the ancient epic, but with the tongue, the pen, and sometimes the fist. If the _Trojans_ (the obscurants) were defeated in the public disputations, they had their revenge in the secret of the confessional. _Cave a Græcis ne fias hereticus_,[252] was the watchword of the priests--their daily lesson to the youths under their care. They looked on the school founded by Colet as the monstrous horse of the perjured Sinon, and announced that from its bosom would inevitably issue the destruction of the people. Colet and Erasmus replied to the monks by inflicting fresh blows. Linacre, a thorough literary enthusiast,--Grocyn, a man of sarcastic humour but generous heart,--and many others, reinforced the _Grecian_ phalanx. Henry himself used to take one of them with him during his journeys, and if any unlucky _Trojan_ ventured in his presence to attack the tongue of Plato and of Saint Paul, the young king would set his Hellenian on him. Not more numerous were the contests witnessed in times of yore on the classic banks of Xanthus and Simois. [252] Beware of the Greeks, lest you should become a heretic. CHAPTER XII. Wolsey--His first Commission--His complaisance and Dioceses--Cardinal, Chancellor, and Legate--Ostentation and Necromancy--His Spies and Enmity--Pretensions of the Clergy. [Sidenote: WOLSEY.] Just as everything seemed tending to a reformation, a powerful priest rendered the way more difficult.