Tyndale had means of obtaining information as to all these doings in England, and he was therefore somewhat sceptical as to the good faith of Vaughan. At last he consented to meet the English envoy, and accordingly an interview took place between them “without the gates of Antwerp, in a field lying nigh to the same. At our meeting, ‘Do you not know me?’ said this Tyndale. ‘I do not well remember you,’ said I to him. ‘My name is Tyndale,’ said he. ‘But, Tyndale,’ said I, ‘fortunate be our meeting.’ Then said Tyndale, ‘Sir, I have been exceeding desirous to speak with you--I am informed that the King’s Grace taketh great displeasure with me for putting forth of certain books which I lately made in these parts, but especially for the book named ‘The Practice of Prelates,’ whereof I have no little marvel, considering that in it I did but warn his Grace of the subtle demeanour of the clergy of his realm towards his person, and of the shameful abuses by them practised, not a little threatening the displeasure of his Grace and weal of his realm; in which doing I showed and declared the heart of a true subject, which sought the safeguard of his Royal person, and weal of his commons, to the intent that his Grace, thereof warned, might, in due time, prepare his remedies against the subtle dreams. _If for my pains therein taken--if for my poverty--if for my exile out of my natural country, and being absent from my friends--if for my hunger, my thirst, my cold, the great danger wherewith I am everywhere compassed--and finally, if for innumerable other hard and sharp sicknesses which I endure, not yet feeling their asperity, by reason I hoped with my labours to do honour to God, true service to my Prince, and pleasure to his commons_--how is that his Grace, this considering, may either by himself think, or by the persuasions of others be brought to think, that in this doing I should not show a pure mind, a true and incorrupt zeal, and affection to his Grace? “‘Was there in me any such mind when I warned his Grace to beware of his Cardinal, whose iniquity he shortly after proved? Doth this deserve hatred? Again, may his Grace, being a Christian prince, be so unkind to God, which hath commanded His Word to be spread throughout the world, to give more faith to wicked persuasions of men, who, contrary to that which Christ expressly commandeth in His Testament, dare say that it is not lawful for the people to have the same in a tongue that they understand; because the purity thereof should open men’s eyes to see their wickedness? _As I now am, very death were more pleasant to me than life, considering man’s nature to be such as can bear no truth._’”