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The Star-Chamber, Volume 1

CHAPTER XVII
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He will promise fairly, but his deeds will falsify his words.

Recollect how his Judas kiss betrayed Somerset.
Recollect his conduct towards the Gowries.

But imagine not, because you have been evil intreated and oppressed, that the King will redress your wrongs, and reinstate you in your fallen position.

Rather will he take part with the usurers and extortioners who have deprived you of your inheritance.

How many poor wretches doth he daily condemn to the same lingering agonies and certain destruction that he doomed your father.
Lamentable as is the good Sir Ferdinando's case, it stands not alone.


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