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At no time have I had any hope of safety, and my dearest wish is this: to drink of the martyr’s bounteous and brim-full cup, and die on the field of sacrifice, delighting in that wine which is the most precious of God’s gifts. This is my highest hope, this my most vehement desire. O handmaid of God, who tremblest even as a fresh and tender branch in the winds of the love of God!
"No, Allah be my witness, I will accept nothing from thee neither thanks nor anything else, save thy conversion. Hast come to seek instruction in accordance with thy promise? Alas! I cannot bid thee enter, for my wife and children are abed; the hour is late. What ails thee that thou tremblest? Art afraid of the powers of darkness, poor Brûtestânt without a saint to guard thee?
Then Antinous chid him, and spake and hailed him: 'Thou lubber, better for thee that thou wert not now, nor ever hadst been born, if indeed thou tremblest before this man, and art so terribly afraid; an old man too he is, and foredone with the travail that is come upon him. But I will tell thee plainly, and it shall surely be accomplished.
"Is not the forest beautiful; doth it not tempt us forth, my sister?" "And wherefore are those heaps of stone piled together?" "Let others answer; I piled them not." "Thou tremblest brother: we will return." "Not so; by those stones is a bird that my shaft pierced to-day; a bird of beautiful plumage that I slew for thee." "We are by the pile: where hast thou laid the bird?"
He bears in mind that the king will find no rest until the Howards also have gone to rest. Ah, King Henry! King Henry! Thou callest thyself the mighty king of the world, and yet thou tremblest before the arms of thy subject! My lord, if you go to the king to-day, give him Henry Howard's greeting; and tell him, I wish his bed may be as easy to him as the grave will be to me. Now, come, my lords!
Thy soul is filled with the beauty and glory of the Lord, and thou hast not a word of sadness now. Thou leavest thy lamb among wolves thy consecrated one with the "sons of Belial" yet thou tremblest not. Who shall guide his childish feet in wisdom's ways when thou art far away? What hinders that he shall look on vice till it become familiar, and he be even like those around him?
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