Nor of philology, Nor of good policy, Nor of astronomy, Nor acquainted worth a fly With honourable Italy, Nor with royal Ptholomy, Nor with Albumasar To treate of any star Fixed or else mobile; His Latin tongue doth hobble, He doth but clout and cobble In Tully's faculty Called humanity; Yet proudly he dare pretend How no man can him amend But have ye not heard this, How an one-eyed man is Well sighted when He is among blind men? [38]Than our process for to stable, This man was full unable To reach to such degree, Had not our prince be Royal Henry the eight, Take him in such conceit, That to set him on sight In exemplifying Great Alexander the King In writing as we find; Which of his royal mind, And of his noble pleasure, Transcending out of measure Thought to do a thing That pertaineth to a king, To make up one of nought, And made to him be brought A wretched poore man Which his living won With planting of lekes By the days and by the wekes, And of this pore vassall He made a king royal, And gave him a realm to rule, That occupied a shovel, A mattock and a spade, Before that he was made A king, as I have told, And ruled as he would. Such is a king's power, To make within an hour, And work such a miracle, That shall be a spectacle, Of renown and worldly fame: In likewise now the same Cardinal is promoted, Yet with lewd conditions coted, Presumption and vain glory, Envy, wrath, and lechery, Covetousness and gluttony, Slothful to do good, Now frantick, now starke wode.[39] [Footnote 25: Pray.] [Footnote 26: Wolsey's Palace as Archb. of York: after his fall it became the Royal Palace of Whitehall.] [Footnote 27: Sans autre.] [Footnote 28: The name of a prison.] [Footnote 29: Restrained.] [Footnote 30: Good will.] [Footnote 31: Caecitatem = blindness.] [Footnote 32: Potsherdes = broken pieces of earthenware.] [Footnote 33: Sang (Fr.), blood.] [Footnote 34: Pardieu.] [Footnote 35: Sort.] [Footnote 36: Quatrivials = astrology, geometry, arithmetic, music.] [Footnote 37: The trivials = grammar, rhetoric, and logic.] [Footnote 38: To make good our story.] [Footnote 39: Mad.] WOLSEY AND THE POPEDOM (1524). _Cardinal Wolsey to King Henry._ FROM THE ORIGINALS LENT ME BY SIR WILLIAM COOK. LETTER I. +Source.+--Burnet's _History of the Reformation_, Part III.; _Collection of Records_, Book I., No. 7. SIR,