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that judgment at his temporal death his success is uncertain and
therefore, though by God's grace not out of good hope, for all that
in the meanwhile in very sore dread and fear and peradventure in
peril inevitable of eternal fire, too.
Methinketh therefore, cousin, that, as I told you, this keeping of
every man in this wretched world for execution of death is a very
plain imprisonment indeed. And it is, as I say, such that the
greatest king is in this prison in much worse case, for all his
wealth, than is many a man who, in the other imprisonment, is sore
and hardly handled. For while some of those lie not there attainted
nor condemned to death, the greatest man of this world and the most
wealthy in this universal prison is laid in to be kept undoubtedly
for death.
VINCENT: But yet, uncle, in that case is the other prisoner too,
for he is as sure that he shall die, perdy.
ANTHONY: This is very true, cousin, indeed, and well objected too.
But then you must consider that he is not in danger of death by
reason of the prison into which he is put peradventure but for a
little brawl, but his danger of death is by the other imprisonment,
by which he is prisoner in the great prison of this whole earth, in
which prison all the princes of the world be prisoners as well as
he.
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