Men dare not openly resist, but they treasure up recollections of a fried grandfather, or a roasted cousin,--recollections which have done much damage to the Henries, and will shake Holy Church itself one of these days.

The Lollards lie hid, but Lollardism will never die.

There is a new class rising amain, where a little learning goes a great way, if mixed with spirit and sense.
Thou likest broad pieces and a creditable name,--go to London and be a trader.

London begins to decide who shall wear the crown, and the traders to decide what king London shall befriend.

Wherefore, cut thy trace from the cloister, and take thy road to the shop.' The next day my uncle gave up the ghost .-- They had better clary than this at the convent, I must own; but every stone has its flaw." "Yet," said Marmaduke, "if you took distaste to the cowl, from reasons that I pretend not to judge of, but which seem to my poor head very bad ones, seeing that the Church is as mighty as ever, and King Edward is no friend to the Lollards, and that your uncle himself was at least a sub-prior--" "Had he been son to a baron, he had been a cardinal," interrupted Nicholas, "for his head was the longest that ever came out of the north country.