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And I will assert, without fear of contradiction, that no human ingenuity can produce work such as this without pleasure being a third party to the brain that conceived and the hand that fashioned it. Nor are such works rare. The throne of the great Plantagenet, or the great Valois, was no more daintily carved than the seat of the village mass-john, or the chest of the yeoman's good-wife.
But I'm not drunk." "Prithee, friend, be not profane," said Nehemiah Holdenough. "What, my little Presbyterian Parson, my slender Mass-John? thou shalt say amen to this world instantly" said Wildrake; "I have had a weary time in't for one.
You are not, I apprehend, either a Catholic priest or a Scotch Mass-John to claim devoted obedience from your hearers, but a Church-of-England-man, subject to the rules of that Communion and to its HEAD." In speaking the last words, the King lowered his voice to a low and impressive whisper.
"Thank ye, Mass-John," muttered Wildrake; "when did the Presbyterian fail to lend the devil a shove?" "But, I say," continued Holdenough, "that the matter is estranged from our present purpose, for the false brethren of whom I spoke are" "Right, excellent sir, they be those of our own house," answered Cromwell; "the good man is right once more.