They brought it to Walsingham on the 12th July, 1588, and the much enduring man heard it read from beginning to end.

He expressed his approbation of its sentiments, but said it was too long.

It must be put on one sheet of paper, he said, if her Majesty was expected to read it.
"Moreover," said the Secretary of State, "although your arguments are full of piety, and your examples from Holy Writ very apt, I must tell you the plain truth.

Great princes are not always so zealous in religious matters as they might be.

Political transactions move them more deeply, and they depend too much on worldly things.