Vulgar words in Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln - A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England (Page 1)
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The canons chose three men, all courtiers, all rich, and all well beneficed, viz., their dean, Richard Fitz Neal, a bishop's bastard, who had bought himself into the treasurership; Godfrey de Lucy, one of their number, an extravagant son of Richard the chief justice; and thirdly another of themselves, Herbert le Poor, Archdeacon of Canterbury, a young man of better stuff.
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His earlier austerities were avenged by constant pains in the bowels and stomach troubles, but in dedications of churches, ordinations, and other offices he would out-tire and knock up every one else, as he went from work to work.
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He asked whose it was, and when he learned said sternly, "Take her hence, for she was a whore.
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Then in 1195 the inevitable Geoffrey Plantagenet, the bastard, Archbishop of York, before mentioned, has a lively dispute with his canons.
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For doubtless upon the family of King Henry the scripture must needs be fulfilled which says there shall not be 'deep rooting from bastard slips' and the 'seed of an unrighteous bed shall be rooted out.'
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"We remember to have cited you elsewhere," a common legal phrase, would damn a document if he did not remember, literally and personally, to have done so.