At illi nil horum se facturos, neque illum pro archiepiscopo habituros esse respondebant; conferentes ad invicem, quia si modo nobis adsurgere noluit, quanto magis si ei subdi coeperimus, iam nos pro nihilo contemnet.
But they answered that they would do none of the things requested, neither would count him for archbishop: saying with themselves: Nay, if he would not so much as rise to us, how much the more, if we now begin to subject ourselves to him, will he hereafter despise us and set us at nought!
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