It’s either that or he never communicated with her about foreign policy.
Riiiiiiight
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It’s either that or he never communicated with her about foreign policy.
Riiiiiiight
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Wolf Hall episodes are available. I found 2-5. The video quality is subpar but the dialogue is unforgettable. Take this exchange between Thomas Cromwell and Thomas More (way too many Thomases in the 16th century):
Scene: Cromwell working at his desk. More comes to see him to speak to him about Cromwell’s friend and fellow lawyer Bainem who has been accused of {{gasp!}} reading the bible in English and speaking heretical views on grace and communion and purgatory.
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Cromwell: Lord Chancellor, you should have warned me. Will you have something to eat?
More: Thank You, no.
Cromwell: Drink then? Some wine?
More: Your friend, Bainem? He has recanted his heresy and been set free. I thought you should know.
Cromwell: Well, thank you.
(Cromwell returns to his work. More looks disappointed and turns to leave. Cromwell looks up.)
Cromwell: I heard he’d been put to the rack.
More: To save his soul, I would have had him whipped, I’d have had him burned with irons, I would have had him hung by his wrists. In these last 10 years, the Turks have taken Belgrade, lit fires in the great library of Buda, only two years since they were at the gates of Vienna. Why would you want to make another breach in the walls of Christendom?
Cromwell; (laughing) The King of England is not an infidel. Nor am I.
More: I think your faith is for purchase. I think you would serve the Sultan if the price was right. Do you think because you’re a councilor that you can negotiate with heretics behind the king’s back? No. I know about your letters that come and go. I know that you are in communication with Tyndale (note: Tyndale was a proponent of translating the bible into English and was hounded out of England by the Catholic faction)
Cromwell: Are you threatening me? (Join the crowd) I’m just interested.
More: Yessss, yes, That’s precisely what I’m doing.
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They only cause you excruciating pain and death because they love you.
There you go. The 16th century version of ISIS with a Christian twist. Since then, the protestants and catholics have switched on who has the upper hand. In this century, in this country, the protestants do. But they’ve occasionally joined forces with the catholic faction to oppress women.
As for poor Bainem, he soon recanted his recantation. More had him burned. For his own good, of course.
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