PLEASE it your highness to be advertised that this present morning came unto prior Thomas unto his cell wherein I am lodged, the emperor’s great ambassador, accompanied with a great many gentlemen of Spayne, and demanded of him how he durst be so bold to take upon him to intermeddle in so great and weighty a matter, the which did not only enlessen and elevate the pope’s authority, but also was noyful and odious to all realms Cristenyd.

The Commander says we will make our stand here.

Each had a holstered sidearm: slugthrower, not stunner.

And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.