His courage was splendid.

There never, for the matter of that, was a braver man than Guy Fawkes.

But when Campian pretended that his mission to England was purely religious he was tampering with words in order to deceive.

To him the removal of Elizabeth would have been a religious act.

The Queen did all she could to make him save his life by recantation, even applying the cruel and lawless machinery of the rack.