"The Gettysburg address is my favourite pece of political writing. "that government: of the people, by the people, for the people," - Has anyone else described the democratic ideal so succinctly and eloquently?"
"For thei trowed, that the body of Crist scholde have stonken; therfore thei made that pece, that went from the erthe upward, of cypres: for it is welle smellynge; so that the smelle of his body scholde not greve men, that wenten forby."
"And than the preestes casten the gobettes of the flesche; and than the foules eche of hem takethe that he may, and gothe a litille thens and etethe it: and so thei don whils ony pece lastethe of the dede body."