“Mercy my lord! I will never do it again.”
“Will you do it again?”
“No, my lord!”
“Swear then that you will never again enter a church of any kind. Swear, villain!”
“Very good, my lord,” said the other.
Then Talbot made the thief swear that he would never set foot in a church again, which made all who were present and who heard it, laugh, though they pitied the thief because Lord Talbot had forbidden him the church for ever, and made him swear never to enter it. Yet we may believe that he did it with a good motive and intention. Thus you have heard the two judgments of Lord Talbot, which were such as I have related to you.
