When the founders of abbeys laid a curse upon those that should take away their lands, I would fain know what power they had to curse me. 'Tis not the curses that come from the poor, or from anybody, that hurt me, because they come from them, but because I do something ill against them that deserves God should curse me for it.
— JOHN SELDEN (1584-1654), Table Talk, p. 1.
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