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Suerly my lord I suppose this had been no greate cause more to reiect…

Quote byThomas Cromwell · 1485–1540

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to John Fisher (February 1534), quoted in Roger Bigelow Merriman, Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Volume I: Life, Letters to 1535 (1902), p. 376.

English (original)

Suerly my lord I suppose this had been no greate cause more to reiect the one than thother for ye know by histories of the bible that god may by his reuelation dispense with his own Law, as with the Israelites spoyling the egiptians and with Jacob to hue iiij wifes, and suche other.

— Thomas Cromwell

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