And shall I name one who hath been in our age, and wish him now to live to cure so great a canker? Would God England had a Cromwell: I will say no more. (Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex)

And shall I name one who hath been in our age, and wish him now to live to cure so great a canker? Would God England had a Cromwell: I will say no more.

Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex

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