They will by this time have discovered my flight, and Oxford is the last place in which they will now be seeking me.

I will enter it by night, slip into one of my old hiding places there, get speech with Anthony Dalaber, and tell him how I have changed my plan, so that he may know I am not with his brother.

Then I will put off my priest's garb, and sally forth in the night, and make my way over to Wales, and then to Germany, where I can work with the faithful there, and perchance be of greater use to the cause than in this land, where for the present I am so watched and hunted.
"This priest's garb has become hateful to me.

I feel in it as though I were acting a lie, albeit I shall ever hold myself the minister and priest of God.

It deceives men, who look to see in every garbed priest a servile slave of cardinal and Pope.