MORE: In good faith, Rich, I am sorrier for your perjury than my peril.NORFOLK: Do you deny this?MORE Yes! My lords, if I were a man who heeded not the taking of an oath, you know well I need not to be here. Now I will take an oath! If what Master Rich has said is true, then I pray I may never see God in the face! Which I would not say were it otherwise for anything on earth.CROMWELL: That is not evidence.MORE: Is it probable - is it probable - that after so long a silence on this, the very point so urgently sought of me, I should open my mind to such a man as that?
Robert Bolt
A Man for All Seasons
1960
