[The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 by W. Harrison Ainsworth]@TWC D-Link bookThe Star-Chamber, Volume 1 CHAPTER XVI 5/10
For what saith the prophet Isaiah? --'I will punish the stout heart of the King of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.' Let the Great Ones of the land be warned as well as the meanest, or judgment will come upon them." "Methinks that smacks of treason," cried Dick Taverner.
"Our Puritan has quitted us poor fowl to fly at higher game.
Hark ye, Sir!" he added to Hugh Calveley.
"You would not dare utter such words as those in the King's presence." "Thou art mistaken, friend," the other rejoined.
"It is my purpose to warn him in terms strong as those I have just used.
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