History & Politics

A Groome of the Chambers religion in King Henry the eights time

by Sir John Harington 1560–1612

From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 2

History & Politics

ONe of King Henries Fauorites beganne,
To moue the King one day to take a man,
Whom of his Chamber he might make a Groome,
Soft, sayd the King, before I graunt that roome,
It is a question not to be neglected,
How he in his Religion stands affected.
For his Religion, answered then the Minion,
I doe not certaine know whats his opinion:
But sure he may, talking with men of learning,
Conforme himselfe in lesse then ten days warning.

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Book 2, Epigram 35

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