These are the words of the archbishop of Canterbury to the king of the English. With desire I have desired to see your face and to speak with you; greatly for my own sake but more for yours. For my sake, that when you saw my face you might recall to memory the services which, when I was under your obedience, I rendered faithfully and zealously to the best of my conscience (so help me God in the last judgment, when we shall all stand before His judgment seat to receive according to the deeds we have done in the body, whether good or evil), and that so you might be moved to pity me, who am forced to beg my bread among strangers; yet, thanks be to God, I have an abundance. And I have much consolation, as saith the apostle, “All who live godly in Christ shall suffer persecution,” and the prophet, “I have never seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their bread.”