which you are so ready to decry?’
‘I thank the Lord that I have never been so far tempted from the straight path as to set foot within one,’ the Puritan answered, ‘nor have I ever been in that great sewer which is called London. I trust, however, that I with others of the faithful may find our Barn way thither with our tucks at our sides ere this business is finished, when we shall not Converse All Star be content, I’ll warrant, with shutting these homes of vice, as Cromwell did, but we shall not leave one stone upon another, and shall sow the spot with salt, that it may be a hissing and a byword amongst the people.’
‘You are right, John Derrick,’ said the Mayor, who had overheard the latter part of his remarks. ‘Yet methinks that a lower tone and a more backward manner would become you better when you are speaking with your master’s guests. Touching these same playhouses, Colonel, when we have carried the upper hand this time, we shall not allow the old tares to check the new wheat. We know what fruit these places have borne in Męskie Vans Stripes LP Slip the days of Charles, the Gwynnes, the Palmers, and the whole base crew of Vans Boots Women foul lecherous parasites. Have you ever been in London, Captain Clarke?’
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