"I stand on the topp of the hill, where I knowe the smallest slipp semeth a fall."

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Politicians from EnglandMilitary leaders from EnglandProtestantsChancellors of the University of OxfordPeople of the Elizabethan era
Original Language: English

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From a letter to Thomas Wood (19 August 1576); Patrick Collinson, ed., Letters of Thomas Wood, Puritan (1960), pp. 13, 14