The Three Advices/Cardinal Wolsey
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CARDINAL WOLSEY
An extravagant young nobleman having sold a manor which contained one hundred tenements, came ruffling into court in a new suit, saying, “Am not I a mighty man to bear an hundred houses on my back?” Cardinal Wolsey hearing this, said, “You might have employed the money better in paying your debts.” “Indeed, my lord,” said the other, “you say well, for my father owed your father three half-pence for a calf’s head, here is two-pence for it.”