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A certain versifier, a false one, said, 'Just as England has been filthy with the defiler John, so now the filth of Hell is fouled by his foul presence'; but it is dangerous to write against a man who can easily do you wrong.
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| Matthew Paris
(1200? - 1259?)
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English chronicler and monk
Referring to King John of England (reigned 1199-1216). This quotation is better known in the form used by J. R. Green in his Short History of the English People (1875): "Foul as it is, Hell itself is defiled by the fouler presence of King John." |
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| Chronica Majora, 1216. |
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