"When Mr Rose and I were parted, I was sent first to the Marshalsea. Here I abode a full year, during the which I several times saw Austin Bernher. But afore I had been there a month, I was had up afore my Lord of London. So soon as he saw me, he put on a very big and ruffling air, and quoth he,--`Come hither, thou wicked heretic! what canst thou say for thyself?'--`Nothing, my Lord,' said I, `save that though I be sinful, yet am I no heretic,'--`Ha! sayest thou so?' quoth my Lord. `I will soon see whether thou be an heretic or no. Tell me, dost thou hold the very presence of Christ's body and blood to be in the sacrament of the altar?' To whom I--`My Lord, I do believe verily, as Christ hath said, that where two or three be gathered together in His name, there is He in the midst of them.'--`Ho, thou crafty varlet!' quoth he, `wouldst turn the corner after that manner? By Saint Mary her kirtle, but it shall not serve thy turn. Tell me now, thou pestilent companion; when the priest layeth the bread and wine upon the altar, afore the consecration, what then is there?' Then said I,--`Bread and wine, my Lord.'--`Well said,' quoth he. `And after the words of consecration be spoken, what then is there?'--`Bread and wine, my Lord,' I answered again.--`Ha!' saith he, `I thought I could catch thee, thou lither [wicked, abandoned] heretic. Dost not then believe that after consecration done, there in the body and blood of Christ, verily and alone, nor any more the substance of bread and wine remaining?'--`My Lord,' said I, `my sense doth assure me that the wine is yet wine, and the bread, bread; mine understanding doth assure me that the body of our Lord is a true natural human body, and cannot therefore be on an hundred altars at one and the same time; and I am therein confirmed of Saint Paul, which saith, that so oft as we do eat this _bread_, we do show forth the death of the Lord.'--`Ha, thou runagate!' he roareth out; `wilt thou quote from Scripture in English? Hast thou no Latin? I have a whip that shall make thee speak Latin.'--`My Lord,' said I, `I can quote from the Scripture in Latin, if that like your Lordship the better; and likewise in Greek, the which (being the tongue wherein they were written at the first) should be all the surer; but I, being an Englishman born (for the which I thank God), do more naturally read the Scripture in English.'--`I will not have thee to speak Greek!' crieth he. `'Tis the Devil that did invent Greek of late years, to beguile unwary men. And I do thee to wit that the Scripture was not writ in Greek, thou lying varlet! but in the holy tongue, Latin.'--`It would ill become me to gainsay your Lordship,' said I.--`I will have thee back,' saith he, `to the first matter. And I bid thee answer me without any cunning or evasion: Dost thou believe that our Lord's body was eaten of the blessed Apostles, or no?'--`My Lord,' I answered, `with all