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===**Her tongue was moving in her mouth, and her eyes seemed to be trying to remember something, and then they remembered an her tongue moved again: "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."**===

A man named Latimer said that to a man named Nicholas Ridley as they were being burnt alive at Oxford, for heresy, on October 16, 1555. They were both Protestants who wanted to deepen the protestant religion in England, even though it was against the will of Queen Mary.

We believe that Bradbury used this to show how willing the lady was to die for her books and what she believed in. It also showed Beatty's old interest in books when he explained the statement she said to the other fireman.



ABOVE: Latimer and Ridley getting ready to be burned at the stake. TOP RIGHT: Latimer and Ridley preaching and talking to god before their execution.

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