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SIR THOMAS.
"Quaint and solid as the best yew hedge. I marvel at thee. A
knight might have spoken it, under favour. They stopped her at
Warwick--to see what? two old towers that don't match, {105a} and a
portcullis that (people say) opens only upon fast-days. Charlecote
Hall, I could have told her sweet Highness, was built by those Lucys
who came over with Julius Caesar and William the Conqueror, with
cross and scallop-shell on breast and beaver."
"But, HONEST WILLY!?--"
Such were the very words; I wrote them down with two signs in the
margent,--one a mark of admiration, as thus (!), the other of
interrogation (so we call it) as thus (?).
"But, honest Willy, I would fain hear more," quoth he, "about the
learned Doctor Glaston. He seemeth to be a man after God's own
heart."
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"Ay is he! Never doth he sit down to dinner but he readeth first a
chapter of the Revelation; and if he tasteth a pound of butter at
Carfax, he saith a grace long enough to bring an appetite for a
baked bull's {106a} --zle. If this be not after God's own heart, I
know not what is."
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SIR THOMAS.
"I would fain confer with him, but that Oxford lieth afar off,--a
matter of thirty miles, I hear.
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