Vulgar words in History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. (Page 1)
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[Sidenote: He recovers his courage,] The following Sunday, at the church of St. Augustine, he rose in his seat with the fatal English Testament in his hand, and "declared openly, before all the people, with weeping tears, that he had denied God," praying them all to forgive him, and beware of his weakness; "for if I should not return to the truth," he said, "this Word of God would damn me, body and soul, at the day of judgment."
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[28] There is no better test of the popular opinion of a man than the character assigned to him on the stage; and till the close of the sixteenth century Sir John Oldcastle remained the profligate buffoon of English comedy.
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The king," he hoped, might suffer "a violent and shameful death;" and "the queen, that mischievous whore, might be brent."