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In the Master Printer Badge's house -- and he was the uncle of Margot and of the young Poins -- there was a great and solemn dissertation towards. For word had been brought that certain strangers come on an embassy from the Duke of Cleves were minded to hear how the citizens of London -- or at any rate those of them that held German doctrines -- bore themselves towards Schmalkaldnerism and the doctrines of Luther.
It was understood that these strangers were of very high degree -- of a degree so high that they might scarce be spoken to by the meaner sort. And for many days messengers had been going between the house of the Archbishop at Lambeth and that of the Master Printer, to school him how this meeting must be conducted.