Whereas, in the carnal, the longer ye contend the more blows do ye
receive; in these against Satan, the more fiercely and
pertinaciously ye drive at him, the slacker do ye find him; every
good hit makes him redden and rave with anger, but diminishes its
effect.
"'My dear friends, who would not enter a service in which he may
give blows to his mortal enemy, and receive none; and in which not
only the eternal gain is incalculable, but also the temporal, at
four-and-twenty, may be far above the emolument of generals, who,
before the priest was born, had bled profusely for their country,
established her security, brightened her glory, and augmented her
dominions?'"
At this pause did Sir Thomas turn unto Sir Silas, and asked, -
"What sayest thou, Silas?"
Whereupon did Sir Silas make answer, -
"I say it is so, and was so, and should be so, and shall be so. If
the queen's brother had not sopped the priests and bishops out of
the Catholic cup, they could have held the Catholic cup in their own
hands, instead of yielding it into his. They earned their money; if
they sold their consciences for it, the business is theirs, not
ours. I call this facing the devil with a vengeance.
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