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MARY. The King and I, my Lords, now that all traitors / Against our royal state have lost the heads / Wherewith they plotted in their treasonous malice, / Have talk'd together, and are well agreed / That those old statutes touching Lollardism / To bring the heretic to the stake, should be / No longer a dead letter, but requicken'd.
ONE OF THE COUNCIL. Why, what hath fluster'd Gardiner? how he rubs / His forelock!