"Men will not commonly steal women that are nothing worth."

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“That whom he could not by the sword destroy, he might supplant by the law.”

“Bind not the new statutes so to the common law, that their words increased for the King's advantage, should be deprived of their force.”

“Fiction is never admitted where truth may work.”

“Minister doth not always import an inferior to him to whom he doth minister: for the Psalm saith, God hath made man paulo inferiorem Angelis; and yet in the first chapter to the Hebrews it is said, that the Angels are ministering spirits, sent forth for the good of God's saints.”

“A woman cannot be a pastor by the law of God. I say more, it is against the law of the realm.”

“The statute is like a tyrant; where he comes he makes all void; but the common law is like a nursing father, makes only void that part where the fault is, and preserves the rest.”

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