204) indications that Henry and his minister had ceased to work together in harmony.
[Footnote 569: _Ibid._, iv., 3400.] [Footnote 570: _Sp.

Cal._, iii., 109, 190, 192, 193; _cf._ iv., 3951, Du Bellay to Montmorenci, "those who desire to catch him tripping are very glad the people cry out 'Murder'".] [Footnote 571: _L.

and P._, iv., 1411.] [Footnote 572: _Ibid._, iv., 3304.] It is, indeed, quite a mistake to represent Wolsey's failure to obtain a sentence in Henry's favour as the sole or main cause of his fall.
Had he succeeded, he might have deferred for a time his otherwise unavoidable ruin, but it was his last and only chance.

He was driven to playing a desperate game, in which the dice were loaded against him.

If his plan failed, he told Clement over and over again, it would mean for him irretrievable ruin, and in his fall he would drag down the Church.