You are staking your own head by trusting the King. Never will I so stake mine, for he has deceived me too often. His favourite maxim is, haereticis non est servanda fides. I am now bald and Calvinist and in that faith will I die.
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William to a supporter of the King, as quoted in William the Silent (1902) by Frederic Harrison, p. 92William the Silent
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