"Then what Ive could not tell you," resumed he, "take from me [these incidents in Underhill's life are given almost entirely in his own words]. I guessed (and rightly so) what was the cause of mine arrest; to wit, a certain ballad that I had put forth against the Papists, and for that I was a Sacramentary. Well, when I came into the Tower, where the Council sat, they were already busied with Dr Coxe and the Lord Ferrers; wherefore I was to wait. So I and my two men went to an alehouse to dinner in the Tower, and after that repaired to the Council chamber door, to be the first taken, for I desired to know my lot. Then came Secretary Bourne to the door, looking as the wolf doth for a lamb; unto whom my two keepers delivered me, and he took me in greedily. The Earl of Bedford was chief judge, next the Earl of Sussex, and Sir Richard Southwell; and on the side next me sat the Earl of Arundel and Lord Paget. By them stood Sir John Gage, the Constable, the Earl of Bath, and Mr Mason; at the board's end stood Sergeant Morgan and Secretary Bourne. And the Lord Wentworth stood in the bay window. Then my Lord of Bedford (who was my very friend, owing unto the chance that I had to recover his son, as I told you aforetime; yet would not now seem to be familiar with me, nor called me not by my name), said,--`Did not you set a ballad of late in print?'--I kneeled down, saying, `Yes, truly, my Lord; is that the cause I am called before your Honours?'--`Marry,' said Secretary Bourne, `you have one of them about you, I am sure.'--`Nay truly, have I not,' said I.--Then took he one out of his bosom and read it over distinctly, the Council giving diligent ear. When he had ended,--`I trust, my Lord,' said I, `I have not offended the Queen's Majesty in the ballad, nor spoken against her title, but maintained it.'--`You have, sir,' said Morgan. `Yes, I can divide your ballad, and make a distinction in it, and so prove at the least sedition in it.'--`Yea,' I said, `you men of law will make of a matter what ye list.'--`Lo!' said Sir Richard Southwell, `how he can give a taunt! You maintain the Queen's title with the help of an arrant heretic, Tyndale.'--`You speak of Papists there, sir,' said Mr Mason. `I pray you, how define you a Papist?'--`Why,' said I, `it is not long since you could define a Papist better than I.' With that some of them secretly smiled, as the Lord of Bedford, Arundel, Sussex, and Paget. In great haste Sir John Gage took the matter in hand. `Thou callest men Papists there,' said he; `who be they thou judgest to be Papists?'--`Sir,' said I, `I do name no man, nor I am not hither to accuse any, nor none I will accuse; but your Honours do know that in this controversy that hath been, some be called Papists and some Protestants.'--`But we will know whom thou judgest to be Papists, and that we command thee upon thine allegiance to declare.'--`Sir,' said I, `I think if you look among the priests in Poules, ye shall find some old