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He mended his pace , however , and kept close by her side . `` Know you not , '' said he , `` that Satan hath come down upon earth with great wrath , because his time is short ? The next heir to the crown is an avowed Papist ; and who dare assert , save sycophants and time-servers , that he who wears it is not equally ready to stoop to Rome , were he not kept in awe by a few noble spirits in the Commons ' House ? You believe not this -- yet in my solitary and midnight walks , when I thought on your kindness to the dead and to the living , it was my prayer that I might have the means granted to warn you -- and lo ! Heaven hath heard me . '' `` What I was while in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity , it signifies not to recall , '' answered he . `` I was then like to Gallio , who cared for none of these things .