And upon that point, falsely testified, they will take
occasion to compel him to forsake the faith of Christ and turn to
the profession of their shameful superstitious sect, or else will
they put him to death with cruel intolerable torments.
VINCENT: Our Lord, uncle, for his mighty mercy, keep those
wretches hence! For, by my troth, if they hap to come hither,
methinketh I see many more tokens than one that we shall have some
of our own folk here ready to fall in with them.
For as before a great storm the sea beginneth sometimes to work and
roar in itself, ere ever the winds wax boisterous, so methinketh I
hear at mine ear some of our own here among us, who within these
few years could no more have borne the name of Turk than the name
of devil, begin now to find little fault in them--yea, and some to
praise them little by little, as they can, more glad to find faults
at every state of Christendom: priests, princes, rites, ceremonies,
sacraments, laws, and customs spiritual, temporal, and all.
ANTHONY: In good faith, cousin, so begin we to fare here indeed,
and that but even now of late. For since the title of the crown
hath come in question, the good rule of this realm hath very sore
decayed, as little a while as it is. And undoubtedly Hungary shall
never do well as long as men's minds hearken after novelty and have
their hearts hanging upon a change.
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