Pope: Becket maintains that the election of Clarendon was not a free one, that he owes his nomination solely to the royal whim and that consequently the Honour of God, of which he has now decided he is the champion, does not allow him to bear this usurped title any longer. He wishes to be nothing more than an ordinary priest.
Cardinal: [after a moment's thought] The man is clearly an abyss of ambition.
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Jean Anouilh, Becket (tr. Lucienne Hill, 1960)
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