The Ingenious come off of _Richard_ I. King of _England_, for excusing to the Pope his keeping _Philip_, Bishop of _Beauvais_ his Prisoner, is to be admired. This Bishop was a Warlike Man, very troublesom to the _English_, who possest the best part of _France_. Being at last fallen into their Hands, the Pope not knowing how it came to pass, wrote to the King for his Freedom, as being a Clergyman, and one of his beloved Sons. Whereupon the King sent to the Pope the Armour, in which the Bishop was taken, having first caused these Words to be ingraven upon it: _Vide an hæc sit Tunica Filii tui vel non_: See if this be the Coat of thy Son, or not. Which are the very Words that _Jacob_’s Children used, when they brought to him the Coat of their Brother _Joseph_. The Pope viewing the Armour, did ingenuously own, _That this Bishop was more like the Son of_ Mars, _than of the_ Church; and so left him wholly to the King’s Mercy. 143 L’Addresse de _Richard_ I. Roy d’_Angleterre_ pour excuser au Pape sa detention de _Philippe_ Evêque de _Beauvais_, qu’il avoit fait Prisonnier, est admirable. Cét Evêque ètoit un Homme aguerri, & fort incommode aux _Anglois_, qui possedoient alors la meilleure partie de la _France_. Etant enfin tombé entre leurs Mains, le Pape, qui en ignoroit la Maniere, écrivit au Roy pour son élargissement, comme étant Ecclesiastique, & un de ses Fils bien-aimez. Le Roy là-dessus envoye au Pape l’Armure que l’Evêque portoit quand il fut pris, y ayant premierement fait graver ces Mots, _Vide an hæc sit Tunica Filii tui vel non_: Voi si c’est le hoqueton de son Fils, ou non. Qui sont les propres Termes dont se servirent les Enfans de _Jacob_, lors qu’ils lui presenterent le Hoqueton de leur Frere _Joseph_. Le Pape voyant l’Armure avoüa de bonne foy, _Que cét Evêque avoit en effet plûtôt l’air d’un Fils de_ Mars, _que d’un Fils de l’_Eglise, & l’abandonna là dessus au bon plaisir du Roy. 144 A poor Country-woman of _Poitou_ fell into such a Lethargy, that her Husband, and all the Women of the Neighbourhood, gave her over for Dead. In order to bury her, they only wrapt her up in a Sheet, as ’tis usual with the poor People of that Province. As she was carried to the Church-Yard, they pass’d so pear a Thorn-bush, that being prickt to the Quick by the Thorns, she came out of her Lethargy; but some Years after she died in good earnest. Her Husband apprehensive of another Resurrection, remembred the Thorn-bush. And when his Wife’s Corps came near it, he fail’d not crying several times, _Take heed of the Thorn-bush, do not come too near the Hedge_. 144