Have it, or have it not, as thou wilt, sirrah. I have writ my words and all the outrage in the history of Christendom will not undo them, have what you may.

As for scurrilous slander, th'art the author of such slanders as make mine own seem but a paltry moue upon a maiden's fairest visage, caused by the trifling passage of shadows in SPringtime.


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