Clement VIII

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“Strange beauty, eight-limbed and eight-handed
Whence camest to dazzle our eyes?”
—Arthur Clement Hilton (1851–1877)

“I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without charity or discretion. Some be too stiff in their old mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their new sumpsimus. Thus all men almost be in variety and discord.”
—Henry VIII (1491–1547)