Charles Morris
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4,189 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 18 Aug
Charles Morris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Leave your plough in the furrow, they said to him.
Nobler work awaits you.
You have been elected King of Spain.
There is no nobler work, answered Wamba.
Seek elsewhere your monarch.
I prefer to rule over my fields.
The astonished heralds knew not what to make of this.
To them, the man who would not be king must be a saint or an idiot.
They reasoned, begged, implored, until Wamba, anxious to get rid of them, said
I will accept the crown when the dry rod in my hand grows green again, and not till then.
The good old husbandman fancied that he had fairly settled the question, but Miracle defeated his purpose.
To his utter surprise and their deep astonishment, the dry stick which he thrust into the ground at once became a green plant, fresh leaves breaking out on its upper end.
What was the old man fond of his plough to do in such a case?
He had appealed to heaven, and here was Heaven's reply.
He went with the Heralds to the Electoral Congress, but there, in spite of the green branch, he again refused to be king.
He knew what it meant to try and govern men like those around him, and preferred not to undertake the task.
But one of the chiefs sprang up, drew his sword, and advanced to the old man.
If you are still obstinate in refusing the position we offer you, he sternly said, you shall lose your head as well as your crown.
His fierce eyes and brandished sword gave weight to his words, and Wamba, concluding that he would rather be a king than a corpse, accepted the trust.
He was then escorted by the council and the army to Toledo, feeling more like a captive than a monarch.
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