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Earl of Wessex Godwin

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Sir king, I have been often accused of harbouring traitorous designs against you, but, as God in heaven is just and true, may this morsel of bread choke me if even in thought I have ever been false to you.
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The Chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon (trans. Thomas Forester), Book VI
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Godwin supposedly said this just before he choked to death on a piece of bread at the table of King Edward "the Confessor", but the story is very doubtful.

 
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