Protestantism in England From the Times of Henry VIII - James Aitken Wylie

each day. "One day," says Fuller, "they wore one
garb, on another a different one, while their nature
remained the same. He who on Sunday was a priest
or Jesuit, was on Monday a merchant, on Tuesday
a soldier, on Wednesday a courtier; and with the
shears of equivocation he could cut himself into
any shape he pleased. But under all their new
shapes they retained their old nature."[5] Campion
made the south of England his field of labor.
Parsons traveled over the north, awakening the
Roman Catholic zeal and the spirit of mutiny. They
lodged in the houses of the Popish nobles. Their
arrival was veiled in the deepest secrecy, they
tarried but a night, employing the evening in
preparing the family and domestics for mass,
administering it in the morning, and then departing
as stealthily as they had come. At length Campion
addressed a letter to the Privy Council, boldly
avowing his enterprise, which was to revive in
England "the faith that was first planted, and must
be restored;" and boasting that the Jesuits of all
countries were leagued together for this object, and
would never desist from the prosecution of it so
long as there remained one man to hang at Tyburn.
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