nce--where
the controller of the ordnance (according to his
own account) would quote Scripture, and Sir Edward
would "swear great oaths," "especially by the
Lord's foot;" on which Underhill would say, "Nay,
then, it must needs be so, and you prove it with
such oaths," and the earl would laugh and exclaim,
"Brother, give him over, Underhill is too good for
you."

Hastings, it seemed, could not forgive these
passages of wit, and Underhill was too smart for
them. While he stood waiting, Secretary Bourne came
in, "looking as the wolf at the lamb," and seeing
the man that he had sent for, carried him off into
the council room. Hastings was gone, Bedford sat as
President, "and Bedford," says Underhill, "was my
friend, for that my chance was to be at the
recovery of his son, my Lord Russell, when he was
cast into the Thames by Lymehurst, whom I received
into my house, and gate him to bed, who was in
great peril of his life, the weather being very
cold."

Bedford, however, made no sign of recognition.
Bourne read the ballad; on which Underhill
protested that there was no attack on the queen's
title in it. No! Bourne said, but it maintains the
queen's title with the help of an arrant heretic,
Tyndal. Underhill used the word Papist. Sir John
Mason asked what he meant by that: "Sir," he says
that he replied, "I think, if you look among the
priests in Paul's, you shall find some old
mumpsimusses there.

"Mumpsimusses, knave, said he, mumpsimusses! Thou
art an heretic knave, by God's blood!

"Yea! by the mass, said the Earl of Bath, I warrant
him an heretic knave indeed.

"I beseech your honours," Underhill said, "speaking
to the Lords that sat at the table (for those
others stood by and were not of the council), be my