...Transubstantiation. With admirable presence of mind, Elizabeth replied in these extemporary lines : — " Christ was the "Word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it ; And what His Word did make it, That I believe and take it." , An answer BO ambiguous yet so apt that her most...

...pulpit here are written these verses, said to be composed by Queen Elizabeth : " Christ was the word and spake it, He took the bread and brake it; And what the word doth make it, That I believe and take it." Here is preserved the gossip's bridle, intended to be fastened...

...what she thought of the words of our Saviour, " This is my body," whether she thought it his true body that was in the sacrament ? It is said, that after...spake it, He took the bread and brake it ; And what that word did make it, That I believe, and take it. GOLDSMITH'S History of England, 88th Ed., by Taylor...

...princess Elizabeth ; for being asked one time, what she thought of the words of God, thu it my body whether she thought it the true body of Christ that...pausing, she thus answered:— Christ was the word that spoke it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it...

...Queen Elizabeth's homely lines are, after all, an excellent comment on this point of divinity : His was the word that spake it ; He took the bread and brake it ; And what that word did make it That I believe, and take it. Notes on The Hind and the Panther, Scott's Dryden,...

...Queen Elizabeth's homely lines are, after all, an excellent comment on this point of divinity : His was the word that spake it ; He took the bread and brake it ; A : nl what that word did make it That I believe, and take it. Notes on The Hind and the Panther,...

...of Christ in the sacra mental bread and wine. Elizabeth, who was no mean poet, replied thus: — " Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and br&ku it. And what His word did make it, That 1 believe and take it." HEE REPLY TO MARY'S DYIKG REQUESTS....

...Lady Elizabeth. For being asked one time, what she thought of the words of Christ, ' This is my body,' whether she thought it the true body of Christ that...answered : — • ' Christ was the word that spake it, lie took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it.' " Walpole...

...impious to be calm ; Passion is reason, transport, temper, here ! Young, STiv.639. TBANSUBSTANTIATION. He was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it ; And what that word did make it, I do believe and take it. Dr. John Donne, On the Saff,"M"' These lines have...

...fact, than a required definition of the Eucharist — is almost too well known to need quotation here : Christ was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it ; And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it. Two of Queen Elizabeth's more studied poetical effusions...