"So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lies."
— Walter Raleigh

January 1, 1970

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Stebbing's Sir Walter Raleigh, chapter 30, gives these as Raleigh's words on being asked by the executioner which way he wanted to lay his head on the block.