"I am heartily sorry, with all my heart," he said, "to hear of your long stay at Brill, the wind serving so fair as it hath done these two days.

I would have laid any wager that you had been in England ere this.

I pray you make haste, lest our cause take too great a prejudice there ere you come, although I cannot fear it, because it is so good and honest.

I pray you imagine in what care I dwell till I shall hear from you, albeit some way very resolute." Thus it was obvious that he had no secret despair of his cause when it should be thoroughly laid before the Queen.

The wonder was that he had added the offence of long silence to the sin of disobedience.