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Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol.…Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol.…
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol. 2, part 1] with an universal history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Newly revised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time again published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the help of Christ our Lord) John Fox, which desireth thee good reader to help him with thy prayer.Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 2, part 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
London: printed by John Daye, 1583London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1583
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Book 8 › The kings answer to the rebels.Book 8 › The kings answere to the rebels.
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to whom the Bishop rehearseth again his negatives, and maketh a long discourse, bringing in conclusion for all that he could do, that nothing I should have of him, and this rehearsed he still on end, I am sure above a dozen imes, and that with a Pilates voice, so that all his company standing more then three or four pair of buts length off, heard him· When I saw that he would make no end, but ever rehearsing one thing still, I said to him, my Lord, I beseech you, seeing I shall have nothing of you, but of M. Doctor here, let me give him thanks that deserveth it, and not trouble you therein no more,1 but leaving communication therein, let me desire and pray you, that we may common of the kings matters. And that I may have therein knowledge as well of the state thereof, as also of your counsel in that behalf. The Bishop was so hot and warm in his own matters, that he would not hear, but needs would return again, and show why that I could have nothing of him. My Lord (quoth I) here is still on end one tale, which me thinketh, seeing that I understand it, ye need not so oft to repeat it,2 especially seeing that it cometh always to this conclusion, that I shall have nothing of you. Ye lye (quoth he) I said not so. I report me (quoth I) to M. Thirleby here present, whom I shall desire to bear record of your sad and discrete honest behaviour with me. I say you lie (quoth he.) My Lord (quoth I) I thank you. I do not say (quoth he) that ye shall have nothing of me: but I say, ye can have nothing of me.3 And though the one here comprehendeth the other, yet there is a great diversity between these two manners of speakings: I can spare nothing unto you, and therefore ye shall have nothing, and though I can spare you, yet you shall have nothing: for in the one is an honesty in the speaker, which would if he could do pleasure, and in the other, there lacketh that honesty. My Lord (quoth I) to examine whether I shall have nothing, because ye can spare nothing: or shall have nothing, though ye have plenty, because ye will I shall have nothing, it shall not much help me in my journey. Wherefore, seeing ye bide upon this, that I shall have nothing, I will thank you for nothing, and provide otherwise for my self. Turd in your teethe (quoth he) and provide as ye will.