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Henry VIII And His Court

CHAPTER XX
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He has given you life, and you have no right to throw it away; you must seek to keep it so long as you can.

Recant, then! It is perfectly allowable to deceive those who would murder us.

Recant, then, Anne, recant! When they in their haughty arrogance demand of you to say what they say, consider them as lunatics, to whom you make apparent concessions only to keep them from raving.

Of what consequence is it whether you do or do not say that the king is the head of the Church?
From His heavens above, God looks down and smiles at this petty earthly strife which concerns not Him, but men only.

Let scholars and theologians wrangle; we women have nothing to do with it.
If we only believe in God, and bear Him to our hearts, the form in which we do it is a matter of indifference.


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