"They count it a great reproach that so many men should be kept idle, as if the wealth of the whole country lay in the number of its beggars."

"The King's highness is a gracious prince, and I trust to God that he will show himself merciful unto me."

"They think that the chief happiness of life consists in pleasure."

"I am not so foolish, as to change my conscience for the King's pleasure."

"I fear me, I shall never be able to answer the King's Grace in these matters, but with peril of my life."