"If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me"

"I heard the executioner was very good. And I have a little old creaky neck."

"Jesus Christus empfehle ich meine Seele. Herr Jesus empfange meine Seele. Oh Gott, hab Erbarmen mit meiner Seele."

"She became most fervent, continually risking her life by harbouring and maintaining priests, was frequently imprisone…"

"I never cared a bit for philology; my chief aim has been throughout to illustrate the social condition of the English…"

"Like as the armèd knyght Appoynted to the fielde, With thys world wyll I fyght, And fayth shall be my shielde."

"Christopher Dare...asked me, wherefore I said, I had rather to read five lines in the Bible, than to hear five Masses…"

"Time is a feather'd thing, And, whilst I praise The sparklings of thy looks and call them rays, Takes wing, Leaving b…"

"Let's number out the hours by blisses, And count the minutes by our kisses."

"At three words, he is at the top of the house."