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"Nay, fair son, there is no one sets you at a higher rate than your father But you have the ni over fro that is half done to a further task beyond Hoould we fare in Brittany and Nor paladin with his lances and his boas besieging Ascalon or battering at Jerusalem?"

"Heaven would help in Heaven's work"

"Fro dryly, "I cannot see that Heaven has counted for much as an ally in these wars of the East I speak with reverence, and yet it is but sooth to say that Richard of the Lion Heart or Louis of France reater service to him than all the celestial hosts How say you to that, my Lord Bishop?"

A stout church on a solid bay cob, well-suited to his weight and dignity, jogged up to the oshawk on the partridge and heard you not"

"Had I said that I would add two manors to the See of Chichester, I warrant that you would have heard me,so," cried the jovial Bishop

The King laughed aloud "A fair counter, your reverence By the rood! you broke your lance that passage But the question I debated was this: How is it that since the Crusades have ht in God's quarrel, we Christians have had so little co them After all our efforts and the loss of more men than could be counted, we are at last driven from the country, and even the military orders which were for in the islands of the Greek sea There is not one seaport nor one fortress in Palestine over which the flag of the Cross still waves Where then was our ally?"

"Nay, sire, you open a great debate which extends far beyond this question of the Holy Land, though that may indeed be chosen as a fair exa, of all injustice--why it should pass without the rain of fire and the lightnings of Sinai The wisdoed his shoulders "This is an easy answer, my Lord Bishop You are a prince of the Church It would fare ill with an earthly prince who could give no better answer to the affairs which concerned his realm"