I stand on one leg; because I am then sure to have the other at least safe from the earl's sting.

King, were I like you, I would not have those killed that the blind-worm has stung; but I would root out the blind-worms, that the feet of honorable men might be secure from them." The king cast at him a quick, searching look, which John Heywood answered with a smile.
"Kill the blind-worms, King Henry," said he; "and when you are once at work destroying vermin, it will do no harm if you once more give these priests also a good kick.

It is now a long time since we burnt any of them, and they are again becoming arrogant and malicious, as they always were and always will be.

I see even the pious and meek bishop of Winchester, the noble Gardiner, who is entertaining himself with Lady Jane over there, smiling very cheerfully, and that is a bad sign; for Gardiner smiles only when he has again caught a poor soul, and prepared it as a breakfast for his lord.

I do not mean you, king, but his lord--the devil.