Margery Kempe drove everyone round the bend.
Archbishops crumbled before her.
Archbishops crumbled before her.
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Then the Archbishop said to her: ‘I am told very bad things about you. I hear it said that you are a very wicked woman.’
And she replied, ‘Sir, I also hear it said that you are a wicked man. And if you are as wicked as people say, you will never get to heaven.’
- Margery Kempe, born c. 1373
And she replied, ‘Sir, I also hear it said that you are a wicked man. And if you are as wicked as people say, you will never get to heaven.’
- Margery Kempe, born c. 1373
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