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 this matter too tenderly, nor will my conscience permit me to fard or daub over the causes of divine wrath"

"Peace, Ephraim Macbriar," again interrupted Burley.

"I will not peace," said the young man. "Is it not the cause of my Master who has sent me? Is it not a profane and an Erastian destroying of his authority, usurpation of his power, denial of his name, to place either King or parliament in his place as the master and governor of his household, the adulterous husband of his spouse?"

"You speak well," said Burley, dragging him aside, "but not wisely; your own ears have heard this night in council how this scattered remnant are broken and divided, and would ye now make a veil of separation between them? Would ye build a wall with unslacked mortar?—if a fox go up, it will breach it."

"I know," said the young clergyman, in reply, "that thou art faithful, honest,