Anne Askew

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“Christopher Dare...asked me, wherefore I said, I had rather to read five lines in the Bible, than to hear five Masses in the Temple: I confessed that I said no less: not for the dispraise of either the Epistle or the Gospel, but because the one did greatly edifie me, and the other nothing at all.”

“Like as the armèd knyght  Appoynted to the fielde,With thys world wyll I fyght,  And fayth shall be my shielde.”