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Mr. Speaker, I find written in a little volume these words, in effect: ‘Sweet is the name of liberty, but the thing itself a value beyond all inestimable treasure.’ So much the more it behoveth us to take care lest we, contenting ourselves with the sweetness of the name, lose and forego the thing: being of the greatest value that can come unto this noble realm. The ‘inestimable treasure’ is the use of it in this House. And therefore I do think it needful to put you in remembrance that this honourable assembly are assembled and come together in this place for three special causes of most weighty and great importance.
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Porter, H.C. (1970). Speech of Wentworth, February 1576. In: Puritanism in Tudor England. History in Depth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00542-0_14
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