and P._, ii., 2303, 2327, 2387; _Ven.

Cal._, ii., 769, 773.] [Footnote 232: _L.

and P._, ii., 2406, 2573, 2626, 2702.] [Footnote 233: _Ibid._, ii., 2930.] [Footnote 234: _L.

and P._, ii., 2891.] In conveying the news to Wolsey, Tunstall begged him to urge Henry "to refrain from his first passions" and "to draw his foot out of the affair as gently as if he perceived it not, giving good words for good words which they yet give us, thinking our heads to be so gross that we perceive not their abuses".[235] Their persistent advances to Charles had, he thought, done them more harm than good; let the King shut his purse in time, and he would soon have Charles and the Emperor again at his feet.[236] Tunstall was ably seconded by Dr.William Knight, who thought it would be foolish for England to attempt to undo the Treaty of Noyon; it contained within itself the seeds of its own dissolution.

Charles would not wait to marry Francis's daughter, and then the breach would come.[237] Henry and Wolsey had the good sense to act on this sound advice.