It shall scarce boot me
To say ‘Not guilty’: mine integrity
Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it,
Be so received. But thus: if powers divine
Behold our human actions, as they do,
I doubt not then but innocence shall make
False accusation blush and tyranny
Tremble at patience.

–Hermione from “Winter’s Tale”

The mystical body of Christ as defined in “A Tale Told Softly: Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and Hidden Catholic England” written by Robert Morrison