Never did Cardinal bring Good to England

Beruchino is right in his suggestion that Dr. Lingard may accidentally have omitted a reference to the place from whence he really derived this saying; for Hall tells us in his *Chronicle* (ed. 1809, p. 758.), that "Charles, Duke of Suffolke, seeing the delay, gave a great clappe on the table with his hande and said, 'By the masse, now I see that the olde saied sawe is true, *that there was never Legatt nor Cardinall that did good in Englande*.'" Whether Charles Brandon was a reader of *Piers Ploughman*, I know not; but the following passage from that poem proves he was giving expression to a…