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13 - Blessed Edmund Campion by Louise Imogen Guiney · Blessed Edmund Campion

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  Speaker 1: by Larry Wilson. Blessed Edmund Campion by Louise Amagin, Guinea, Victory,
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  Speaker 1: December first, fifteen eighty one. Even thus late, fresh proffers
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  Speaker 1: were made to buy Campion over to the state religion.
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  Speaker 1: Such a circumstance, as he had claimed previously, is in
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  Speaker 1: itself a plain disproof of any treason. Hopton, who hated him,
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  Speaker 1: sent Campion's own sister to him with the repeated offer
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  Speaker 1: of a very rich benefice. To the cell door came
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  Speaker 1: one day none other than George Eliott, saying that he
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  Speaker 1: would never have trapped Father Edmund had he thought that
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  Speaker 1: anything worse than imprisonment could be in store. He also
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  Speaker 1: told the man of God whom he had wrong passed Repper,
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  Speaker 1: that he stood in danger from the wrath of the
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  Speaker 1: Catholics and feared their reprisals for his late actions. Campion
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  Speaker 1: persuaded him that they would never push revenge so far
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  Speaker 1: as to seek his life, but added that if Elliott
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  Speaker 1: were truly repentant, he should have a letter of recommendation
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  Speaker 1: to a Catholic duke in Germany who would employ and
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  Speaker 1: protect him. De la Hayes, the keeper in the discharge
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  Speaker 1: of his office, had to stand close to the prisoner
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  Speaker 1: during this interview, and what he heard sake into his
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  Speaker 1: mind and made him a convert. Outside the tower there
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  Speaker 1: was a ferment of excitement over this one of its inmates,
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  Speaker 1: and over the question whether the indignation of all Europe
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  Speaker 1: should be braved by carrying out his sentence. The Earl
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  Speaker 1: of Desmond the Accessory and doctor Sanders, the cole principal
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  Speaker 1: of the late revolt in Western Ireland, were still hiding
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  Speaker 1: in woods and caves and weathering the hardships which were
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  Speaker 1: to be dismally ended for both during the coming spring.
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  Speaker 1: Bergley concisely said, in the finest Elizabethan spirit of punishing somebody,
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  Speaker 1: no great matter whom, when any row was made, that
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  Speaker 1: Campion and Sanders were in the same boat, and as
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  Speaker 1: they could not catch Sanders, they must hang Campion instead.
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  Speaker 1: The Princely Visitor was still at court, and high festival
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  Speaker 1: went on from day to day. The preoccupation of the
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  Speaker 1: Queen with him and his affairs was thought to be
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  Speaker 1: an excellent item of the program, as it kept her
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  Speaker 1: from thinking of Campion and his fate. Delay was dreaded
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  Speaker 1: as a means of getting together of the great English
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  Speaker 1: nobles and the foreign ambassadors with petitions for Campion's release,
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  Speaker 1: and it was thought that the Queen would never resist
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  Speaker 1: any strongly worded request, which so corroborated her own supposed
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  Speaker 1: secret feeling. The Council still thought his destruction desired. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: instant appeal was made to the Duke by the Catholics
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  Speaker 1: generally to use his influence in Campion's behalf. He promised
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  Speaker 1: to interceded for him, and may have done so. At
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  Speaker 1: the last moment, further pressure was brought to bear. His
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  Speaker 1: confessor was sent into the tennis court where the Duke
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  Speaker 1: was about to begin a game, with this message that
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  Speaker 1: the royal blood of France would be disgraced forever if
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  Speaker 1: so foul a judicial murder were not checked. The little
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  Speaker 1: great personage, thus accosted, as we are told by Bombino,
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  Speaker 1: stroked his face absent mindedly with his left hand, then
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  Speaker 1: raised his right hand with the racket in it, and
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  Speaker 1: called to the one opposite to him play. But not
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  Speaker 1: another word did he answer to the tragic matter so
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  Speaker 1: thrust upon him. Burgley fixed upon November twenty fifth, a Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: as the date for Campion's execution. Sherwin was appointed to
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  Speaker 1: die in his company, as representing the seminary at Reams.
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  Speaker 1: They were taken together one day into the Lieutenant's hall
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  Speaker 1: to face some endless argument or other. The opponent, by
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  Speaker 1: report of such as stood by, was never so holden
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  Speaker 1: up to the wall in his life. On the way
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  Speaker 1: back to their cells under guard, they crossed one of
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  Speaker 1: the tower courts. Ah Father Campion, said his young comrade,
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  Speaker 1: smiling at the welcome London sun, I shall shortly be
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  Speaker 1: above yon fellow. Even one hurried, free breath of fresh
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  Speaker 1: air must have meant much to Campion. To be clapped
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  Speaker 1: up a close prisoner, as he had been from the first,
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  Speaker 1: meant that his windows were blocked and their minimum of
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  Speaker 1: air strained through a narrow, slanted funnel, latticed at its
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  Speaker 1: skyward end, and with but one tiny pain occasionally opened
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  Speaker 1: at the bottom. But these things, humanly intolerable, counted for
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  Speaker 1: little on the threshold of light and liberty. Everlasting delay
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  Speaker 1: of our death do somewhat dull me, wrote Sherwin touchingly
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  Speaker 1: to a friend. Truth it is I had hoped ere
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  Speaker 1: this casting off, this body of death, to have kissed
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  Speaker 1: the precious, glorified wounds of my sweet savior sitting in
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  Speaker 1: the throne of his father's own glory. There was a
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  Speaker 1: good deal of haggling and hesitation on the subject. By
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  Speaker 1: statute law, any Cot priest was hangible, but public opinion,
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  Speaker 1: as Simpson reminds us in a brilliant page, did not
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  Speaker 1: always run with the statute law. Moreover, Camden says especially
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  Speaker 1: that the Queen, who is supposed to have supervised and
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  Speaker 1: approved all he wrote, did not believe in the treasons
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  Speaker 1: charged to the silly priests. It is remarkable that the
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  Speaker 1: first defensive pamphlet put forth by the government after Campion's
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  Speaker 1: death was one in which the plot of Reims and
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  Speaker 1: Rome was prudently forgotten the very matter of the indictment.
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  Speaker 1: By the time the day for the execution was finally
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  Speaker 1: set for Friday, the first of December, a third priest
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  Speaker 1: had been chosen from the waiting batch of victims as
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  Speaker 1: representing the English College at Rome. This was the blessed
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  Speaker 1: Alexander Bryant, who had applied from his prison cell for
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  Speaker 1: admission into the Society of Jesus, a fact not known
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  Speaker 1: to his persecutors. If the entry of his age in
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  Speaker 1: the Oxford matriculationless be correct, as is most likely, he
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  Speaker 1: was now only in his twenty sixth year. He was
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  Speaker 1: grave and gentle in character, full of charm and of
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  Speaker 1: the most extraordinary personal beauty. He had been carried off
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  Speaker 1: in the course of a descent on Father Parson's London rooms,
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  Speaker 1: starred and parched in the Marshall Sea, tortured by needles,
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  Speaker 1: and kept in the entire darkness of deep dungeons in
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  Speaker 1: the Tower Norton. The rack master, on three occasions proceeded
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  Speaker 1: in his own phrase, to make him a foot longer
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  Speaker 1: than God made him. Yet he has that he stood still,
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  Speaker 1: with express refusal, that he would tell the truth. The
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  Speaker 1: truth meant information of the whereabouts of Father Parsons, a
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  Speaker 1: former tutor and devoted friend, and of the place where
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  Speaker 1: Parson's books were being printed. Bryant had been condemned the
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  Speaker 1: day after Campion's trial in Westminster Hall, where his angelic
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  Speaker 1: looks outlasting a hell of almost unique torment, did not
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  Speaker 1: pass unnoticed by the public here, though some accounts say
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  Speaker 1: it was at the scaffold he carried in the palm
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  Speaker 1: of his hand and gazed upon often a little cross
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  Speaker 1: of rough wood which he had managed to whittle in
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  Speaker 1: his cell, and on which he had traced an outline
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  Speaker 1: in charcoal of the figure of the crucified Pedro Sarrano,
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  Speaker 1: the secretary of the Spanish ambassador, saw it taken away
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  Speaker 1: from Bryant, and heard him say, you can wrest it
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  Speaker 1: from my hand, but never from my heart. Lot long afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: George Gilbert died in Italy, kissing blest Alexander's little cross,
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  Speaker 1: which he must have taken pains to buy back. These
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  Speaker 1: three fathers, Campion, Sherwin, and Bryant were led forth on
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  Speaker 1: a bitter morning and bound to their hurdles in the
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  Speaker 1: rain outside the tower gates. Campion's life for the past
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  Speaker 1: week had been nothing but fasting, watching and prayer, and
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  Speaker 1: he was never in more gallant spirits. God save you all, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: so he saluted the crowd on the first coming out.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you all and make you all good Catholics.
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  Speaker 1: The two younger men were strapped down on one hurdl's
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  Speaker 1: side by side, Campion alone on the other. The mud
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  Speaker 1: was thick in the unpaved streets of London, and the
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  Speaker 1: double span of horses, each flat hurdle, being tied to
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  Speaker 1: two tails, went at a great pace through cheapside Newgate
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  Speaker 1: Street in Holborn. There were intervals, however, when the jolted
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  Speaker 1: and bemired prisoners were able to speak with their sympathizers,
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  Speaker 1: who surged in upon them and thus saved them for
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  Speaker 1: the moment from the incessant annoyance of Clark and other
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  Speaker 1: accompanying fanatics. Some asked Father Campion's blessing, some spoke in
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  Speaker 1: his ear matters of conscience. One gentleman courteously bent down
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  Speaker 1: and wiped the priests bespattered face, for which charity or
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  Speaker 1: haply some sudden moved affection, may God reward him, says
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  Speaker 1: one annalist, who saw the kind deed done. The new
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  Speaker 1: gates spanned the street where the prison named after it
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  Speaker 1: stood until yesterday, and in a niche of the new
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  Speaker 1: Gate was still a statue of our lady. This Father
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  Speaker 1: Campion reverenced, raising his head and his bound body as
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  Speaker 1: best he could, as he passed under the three martyrs
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  Speaker 1: were seen to be smiling, nay laughing, and the people
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  Speaker 1: commented with wonder on their light heartedness. A mile or
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  Speaker 1: so of sheer country at the end of the road,
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  Speaker 1: and Tibburn was at hand, stark against a cloudy sky,
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  Speaker 1: with a vast crowd waiting to see the sacrifice. More
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  Speaker 1: than three thousand horses, says Sarrano in the contemporary letter
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  Speaker 1: already quoted, and an infinite number of souls. And he
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  Speaker 1: goes on, in the truest Catholic temper, speaking for himself,
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  Speaker 1: the ambassador, and their little circle, to say, there is
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  Speaker 1: no one of us who had not envy of their death.
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  Speaker 1: Just as the hurdles halted, the sudden sun shone out
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  Speaker 1: and lit up the gallows with its hanging halters, Father
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  Speaker 1: Campion was set upon his feet, put into the hangman's cart,
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  Speaker 1: driven under the triangular beams, and told to put his
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  Speaker 1: head into the noose. This, the first martyr of the
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  Speaker 1: English Jesuits did with all meekness. Then, with grave countenance
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  Speaker 1: and sweet voice, he began to speak as he supposed
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  Speaker 1: he was to be allowed to do according to custom.
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  Speaker 1: He took the text of Saint Paul, we are made
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  Speaker 1: a spectacle. Unto the world and too angels and to men,
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  Speaker 1: we are fools. For Christ's sake, Sir Francis Knowles and
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  Speaker 1: other officials promptly interrupted him and reminded him to confess
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  Speaker 1: his treason, so once more he must needs say. I
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  Speaker 1: desire you all to bear witness with me that I
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  Speaker 1: am thereof altogether innocent. I am a Catholic man and
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  Speaker 1: a priest in that faith have I lived? And in
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  Speaker 1: that faith do I intend to die? If you esteem
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  Speaker 1: my religion treason, then am I guilty? As for other
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  Speaker 1: treason I never committed it. God is my judge. He
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  Speaker 1: spoke of the names which he had been hoodwinked into confessing,
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  Speaker 1: and protested that all the secrets held back were spiritual confidences,
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  Speaker 1: and that there were no secrets of another nature between
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  Speaker 1: his hosts and him. He also put in a plea
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  Speaker 1: for one Richardson, imprisoned on account of the Decamraciones, whereas
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  Speaker 1: he knew nothing whatever of that book. He then tried
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  Speaker 1: to pray, but a schoolmaster with lungs named Herne hastily
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  Speaker 1: stepped forward and read a novel proclamation, first and last
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  Speaker 1: of its kind, declaring in the Queen's name, that these
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  Speaker 1: men about to be executed were perishing not for religion
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  Speaker 1: but for treason. Diligent reassertion in those days seems to
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  Speaker 1: have established anything as a fact. The lords and Sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: present reverted to the bloody question, what did master Campion
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  Speaker 1: think of the bowl of pious Quintus and the excommunication
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  Speaker 1: of the queen? And would he renounce? The Pope of
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  Speaker 1: Rome answer wearily that he was a Catholic. One voice shouted,
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  Speaker 1: in your Catholicism, all treason is contained. A minister came
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  Speaker 1: forward to bid the martyr pray with him, but with
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  Speaker 1: marked gentleness, was denied his will. You and I are
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  Speaker 1: not one in religion, wherefore I pray you content yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I bar none of prayer, But I only desired them
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  Speaker 1: of the household of faith to pray with me, and
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  Speaker 1: in mine agony to say one creed. The creed was
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  Speaker 1: chosen to signify that he died for the confession of
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  Speaker 1: the Catholic and Apostolic faith. He endeavored again to pray,
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  Speaker 1: probably using aloud the words of some of the Vulgate
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  Speaker 1: psalm or ritual hymns. When a spectator called out angrily
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  Speaker 1: to him to pursue his devotions in English. I will
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  Speaker 1: pray into God, answered Campion with all himself, and the
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  Speaker 1: answer in the language which we both well understand. He
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  Speaker 1: was again interrupted and ordered to ask forgiveness of the
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  Speaker 1: Queen and to pray for her. But his sweetness and
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  Speaker 1: patience held out till the last. Wherein have I offended her?
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  Speaker 1: In this? Am I innocent? This is my last speech.
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  Speaker 1: In this give me credit I have, and do pray
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  Speaker 1: for her. Pray you for Queen Elizabeth was the insinuating
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  Speaker 1: query made often and answered often as here Campion said,
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  Speaker 1: yea for Elizabeth, your queen and my queen, and to
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  Speaker 1: whom I wish a long, quiet reign with all prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: He had barely finished this emphatic sentence when the cart
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  Speaker 1: was drawn away. The multitude, with one accord, swayed and groaned.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody in authority. One account names the Chamberlain of the
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  Speaker 1: Royal Household, Lord Howard of Effingham, mercifully forbade the hangman
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  Speaker 1: to cut the rope until he was quite dead. The
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  Speaker 1: other rope with which Campion was bound Parsons vanished to buy,
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  Speaker 1: and he had it laid about his own neck. When
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  Speaker 1: he came to die in sixteen ten. It is now
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  Speaker 1: at Stonyhurst that then frayed old cord, some twelve feet long.
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  Speaker 1: Close to the quartering block stood a spectator, a young
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  Speaker 1: gallant of twenty three, eldest son of a Norfolk house,
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  Speaker 1: who had great gifts of mind and was given to
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  Speaker 1: writing verses. His name was Henry Walpole. He was a Catholic,
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  Speaker 1: though it would seem a worldly one. His generous instincts
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  Speaker 1: of humanity, however, had led him to befriend hunted priests,
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  Speaker 1: and a love of Campion in particular was already kindled
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  Speaker 1: in him through this association. As the executioner threw the
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  Speaker 1: severed limbs of a blessed soul into the great smoking
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  Speaker 1: caldron to parboil them before they were stuck on spikes,
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  Speaker 1: according to sentence, a few drops were splashed out upon
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  Speaker 1: Henry Walpole's doublet. The incident roused his mind and pierced
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  Speaker 1: his heart, and was to him the instant cry of
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  Speaker 1: his vocation. Like many another spiritual son of blessed Edmund Campion,
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  Speaker 1: and nearer to him than they. Because he entered the society,
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  Speaker 1: he was granted the glory of following him through faults
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  Speaker 1: of his own, through innumerable hardships, and through martyrdom at
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  Speaker 1: York in April fifteen ninety five, into the peace of Paradise. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the hangman had seized the second victim, saying, come, Sherwin,
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  Speaker 1: take thou also thy wages. That manly man looked upon
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  Speaker 1: the bare, bloody arm of the other, and, eager to
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  Speaker 1: show some public veneration of his sainted leader, first bent
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  Speaker 1: forward and kissed it. Then he leaped into the cart.
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  Speaker 1: Young Bryant presently endured death for the faith with an
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  Speaker 1: even calmer courage. The populace, much wrought up. Over all
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  Speaker 1: three went home through the winter mists and tears. Most
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  Speaker 1: of them who had prejudices against the Church lost them
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  Speaker 1: for good, and very many straightway entered her communion. The
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  Speaker 1: government sent forth publication after publication in lame defense of
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  Speaker 1: its action. Soon France, Austria, Italy were inundated with accounts
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  Speaker 1: of the event. These everywhere produced the deepest impression. At home,
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  Speaker 1: a great tidal wave of conversion to the old Church
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  Speaker 1: swept in Campion's death. Last and best of his wonderful
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  Speaker 1: missionary labors bore the most astonishing fruit. The long storm
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  Speaker 1: of persecution raised at its full fierceness after fifteen eighty one,
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  Speaker 1: and it burst over the heads not only of a
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  Speaker 1: far more numerous, but a far more heroic body. Edmund
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  Speaker 1: Campion's spirit had been built in good time, as it were,
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  Speaker 1: into the unsteady wall. Robert Parsons had an intense feeling
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  Speaker 1: for his first comrade in arms. I understand of the
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  Speaker 1: advancement and exultation of my dear brother Campion and his fellows.
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  Speaker 1: Our Lord be blessed for it. It is the joyfulest
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  Speaker 1: news in one respect, that ever came to my heart.
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  Speaker 1: The same feeling breaks out with powerful irony addressing the
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  Speaker 1: Geneva colored clerics, who so long haised the martyred group
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  Speaker 1: of fifteen eighty one their blood. Will I doubt not
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  Speaker 1: fight against your heirs and impiety many hundred years after
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  Speaker 1: you are passed from the world. Altogether, they are well
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  Speaker 1: bestowed upon you. You have used them to the best
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  Speaker 1: and Allan in a private letter, says on his part,
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand sermons would not have published our apostolic faith
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  Speaker 1: and religion so winningly as the fragrance of these victims,
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  Speaker 1: most sweet both to God and to men. No remote
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  Speaker 1: mystic was Edmund Campion, but a man of his age,
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  Speaker 1: with much endearing human circumstance about him, and in him,
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  Speaker 1: caring for nothing but the things of the soul. He
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  Speaker 1: had yet caught the ear and the eye of the nation.
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  Speaker 1: The tidings of his inn meant much to many of
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  Speaker 1: the great Elizabethans. Not least personal was it perhaps to
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  Speaker 1: the lad Shakespeare, whose father had been settled as a
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  Speaker 1: stout recussooned by the Warwickshire ministrations of Parsons. An aged priest,
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  Speaker 1: Gregory Gunn, came up before the Council in fifteen eighty five,
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  Speaker 1: his thoughts and tongue too busy in Campion's praise. The
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  Speaker 1: day would come, he said, when a real religious house
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  Speaker 1: would stand as a votive offering on the spot where
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  Speaker 1: the only man in England had perished. There was still
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  Speaker 1: no sign of such a thing when mister Richard Simpson's
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  Speaker 1: Great Monograph was first published, and that was twenty years
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  Speaker 1: before Pope Leo the thirteenth beatified the blessed Edmund Campion
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  Speaker 1: on December ninth, eighteen eighty six. But now there is
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  Speaker 1: a convent with perpetual adoration in its little chapel and
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  Speaker 1: two bright English flags ever leaning against the altar on
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  Speaker 1: the ground of the London Tiburn. And is it wonderful
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  Speaker 1: that the vision of a worthier memorial haunts the imagination
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  Speaker 1: of those who go there to pray for their country?
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  Speaker 1: Blessed Edmund Campion was a religious genius, with a creative
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  Speaker 1: spirituality given to few even among the canonized children of
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  Speaker 1: the Foal. But in his kinship, with his place and time,
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  Speaker 1: his peculiar gentleness, his scholarship lightly worn, his magic influence,
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  Speaker 1: his fearless deed and flawless word, he was a great
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  Speaker 1: Elizabethan too. He had sacrificed his fame and changed his career.
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  Speaker 1: He had spent himself for a cause the world can
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  Speaker 1: never love, and by so doing he has courted the
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  Speaker 1: ill will of what passed for history up to our
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  Speaker 1: own day. But no serious student now mistakes the reason
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  Speaker 1: why his own England found no use for her diamond
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  Speaker 1: other than the one strange use to which she put him.
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  Speaker 1: He is sure, at last of justice in the Church
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  Speaker 1: that name of his will have a never dying beauty,
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  Speaker 1: though it is not quite where it might have been
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  Speaker 1: on the secular roll. Call to understand this is also
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  Speaker 1: to rejoice in it. For why should we look to
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  Speaker 1: find there at all those who are hidden with Christ
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  Speaker 1: in God. End of Chapter thirteen, End of the Blessed
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  Speaker 1: Edmundcampion by Louise i'magen Guinea