His friends pleaded, and his foes threatened, and the flesh shrinks from the fiery trial.

He will read this confession or recantation tomorrow at St.Paul's, and help to fling the precious books upon the devouring flames.
"Ah me! Let us not judge him! Judge nothing before the time, till the Lord come.

Oh, would that Ho would come Himself, to bring to an end this dark night of persecution and terror, and take the kingdom and the power and reign!" And again the voices of the brethren answered, "Amen!" "Are there any others who take part in this strange pageant on the morrow ?" asked Clarke, after a brief pause.
"Yes; five honest fellows from the Stillyard, who have been detected in bringing books up the river and landing them.

They are condemned to appear tomorrow, and to assist in the holocaust with their own hands.

Being humbler men, they are dealt with more lightly; and men all agree in this, that the cardinal would rather persuade men to escape, and make the way easy for them to abjure what he calls their errors, than drag them to the stake.