“So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lies.”

Stebbing's Sir Walter Raleigh, chapter 30, gives these as Raleigh's words on being asked by the executioner which way he wanted to lay his head on the block.
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English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, a… 1554–1618

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