Q.Wherefore did you so?
D.To present your majesty with a new-year’s gift.
Q.You could never present me with a worse.
D.Why so, madam?
Q.You know I have an aversion to idolatry and pictures of this kind.
D.Wherein is the idolatry, may it please your majesty?
Q.In the cuts resembling angels and saints; nay, grosser absurdities, pictures resembling the blessed Trinity.
D.I meant no harm: nor did I think it would offend your majesty when I intended it for a new-year’s gift.
Q.You must needs be ignorant then. Have you forgot our proclamation against images, pictures, and Romish relics in churches? Was it not read in your deanery?
D.It was read. But be your majesty assured, I meant no harm, when I caused the cuts to be bound with the service-book.