"I would ask you a strange question," he said once at Paul's Cross to a ring of Bishops; "who is the most diligent prelate in all England, that passeth all the rest in doing of his office?
I will tell you.

It is the Devil! of all the pack of them that have cure, the Devil shall go for my money; for he ordereth his business.

Therefore, you unpreaching prelates, learn of the Devil to be diligent in your office.

If you will not learn of God, for shame learn of the Devil." But Latimer was far from limiting himself to invective.

His homely humour breaks in with story and apologue; his earnestness is always tempered with good sense; his plain and simple style quickens with a shrewd mother-wit.