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Another French Bishop, of great Worth, but a professed Enemy to Monks, had some Difference with a great Cardinal, who then governed the Kingdom of France. This Cardinal however had him in so great esteem, that he resolved to draw him into his Party, in order to which he offered him an Abbey. Which the Bi∣shop
refused, saying, that his Conscience would not allow of Plurality of Livings. The Cardinal, amazed at so unusual a Ni∣cety of Conscience amongst Clergymen, made him this Return. My Lord, says he, you are a good Man; and I would Canonize you for a Saint, if you had not writ (as you have) against the Monks. Would to God, reply'd the Bishop, that it were in your Power, and that I deserved it, then we should be both satisfy'd. Thus he ingeniously checkt the Cardinal's Ambition, by tel∣ling him, that, if he Canonized him, they should be both satisfy'd. For then the Cardinal must be Pope, and he a Saint, which was the Thing they aimed at.