Sst! Sst! Good masters! Pray, sweet lordings, here

Comes Master Wycliffe.

[Enter, in conversation, Wycliffe and Chaucer, followed by Johanna, who seeks to draw Wycliffe away. The Pilgrims greet the last, some with shouts of welcome, others with hisses.]

WYCLIFFE

[To Chaucer.]

Certes, sir, it may

Be as you say.—Good folk! good children!—Yet

To me this England is a gorgeous tabard,

Blazon’d with shining arms and kingly shields;

A cloth of gold, blood-dyed with heraldries