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11* 326 Thomas d Becket. * See, I have set thee over the nations, and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, and to destroy, and to hew down, to build and to plant.* "•^ All his hearers applauded his righteous resolution. In the first message the haughty meaning was veiled in the blandest words,^® and sent by a Cister- cian of gentle demeanor, named Ur- ban.^ The King returned a short and bitter answer. The second time Becket wrote in severer language, but yet in the spirit, 't is sai...d, of compassion and leniency .^^ The King deigned no reply. His third messenger was a tattered, barefoot friar. To him Becket, it might seem, with studied insult, not only in- VI Jer. i. 10. ^ "Suayissimas literas, snpplicationem solam, correptionem vero nnllam vel modicam oonti- nentes."— De Bosham. w Urbane by disposition as by name. — Ibid. ^00 GUes, Ui. 865. Bonqnet, p. 243. Thomas a Bechet. 127 trusted hie letter to the King, but au- thorized the fnar to speak in his name. With such a messenger the message was not likely to lose in asperity.
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