¶Dunstane is accused of yll rule,

IN this counsell were some wise men (as all these writers witnes∣se, though it be sumwhat fayntly) which layed for their marriage the scrip∣turs,* and substancially proued themsel∣ues the maynteyners of vertu therin, and not of aduouterye as they were there vn∣charitably noted. But that wolde not serue them. The holy Ghost might in no wise preuayle, the popes bawdye bulles beynge in place,* but they must nedes ha∣ue the preferment, no remedy. An other sort were there which accused Dunstane of yll rule in the darke.* For Petrus Equili∣nus sayth in Catalogo Sanctorum li, 8, Ca, 49. that he was put to hys purgacyon of ma∣ny things there layed agaynst him. Of Page  66 a likelyhode therfore they had smelled ou∣te sumwhat that was not all to his spi∣rituall honesty. Neyther wolde these ac∣cusacions helpe, the popes Power ones so largely published. The King durst vtter nothynge that was against hym,* for feare of newe penaunce, and for as muche as it was wele knowne that in the time of his olde penaunce he had oc∣cupied one minion at Wynchestre, an other at Andouer, besides alfrede whome he at the lattre gote to wife by the craf∣ty mouther of her husbande Ethelwolde an earle.*