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MEMOIRS
OF
SIR
THOMAS MORE,
wmi
NEW TRANSLATION
HIS
OF HIS UTOPIA,
III,
% ARTHUR CAYLEY,
Like Cafo firm, like Aristides just. Like rigid Cincinnatus nobly poor,
A tlauDtless
soul, erect,
who
smil'd on death.
thojsok
IN
TWO VOLUMES.
Vol. I.
LONDON
PUBLISHED BY CADELL AND DAVIS, STBAND.
1808.
..
2>A
CONTENTS.
CHAP.
Biograpliers of Sir
I.
Thomas More.
Sir
Mr. Roper.
.
.
The knighfs
.... His
ancestry
,
, .
John More.
his infancy..
Sir
Thomas* mother.
birth.
Anecdote of
. .
.
His school-education.
.
.
.
More's early
.
talents.
Specimen of
.
his
He
.
is
sent to Oxford,
.
. .
JVolsey.
More studieth
F"!/.
He
is
made
and
Henry
. .
He
discovers
some
him
Dean
.
Colet.
. .
More's
letter to
him
.
nion of More.
.
Colte.
.
His family by
.
.
.
her.
...
He
Henry VII.
More't
. .
early patriotism.
...He
offends
.
.
the king
.
Henry's revenge.
in retirement.
More
His application
... .
CHAP.
Accession of
IL
his
Henry PUT.
Consummation of
marriage with
Catharine of Arragon
verses on the coronation.
.
More
.
and
writes
More's attucltment
sheriff's.
.
to
Erasmus.
He
is
made one of
. . .
the under-
laivyer.
He
replies to
Dor-
pius
vice:
. .
.
His second
Henry
desires to
engage him
in his ser-
He
His
letter to
Eras-
mus on
hti
embassy
More's
Is knighted,
letter to
Jt^arham
He pleads a
&c
12fA)571
Ti
CONTENTS.
His account of hhjirst advancement.
T/ie /ling's intimacy tvilh More.
.
.
.
Luther.
.
. .
Erasmus persecuted.
....
mus.
More
. . .
More
.
.
Brixitis attacks
Erasmus
,
. .
defe'uls him.
Morels
letter
to the university
.
.
of Oxford.
He
.
is
made
'.
occasion.
him
to
Progress of Luther.
.
,
Henry
and
More
mus
is
suspected.
^ Eras.
. .
More
.
is
exhorted to
is
ivrite.
His
character
the
Ciceronianus.
. . .
He
made
chancellor
.
of the
.
duchy of Lancaster.
is
More
loss
His
hyfire,
and
letter to his
wife
59
CHAP. m.
Cardinal IVolsey.
Charles.
. . .
Anecdotes of
marriage.
.
.
The kings
.
scruples
regarding
tlie
his
.
His inconsistency.
. . .
More's conduct in
. . .
matter.
fVolseys fall.
More made
chancellor.
.
The
More's imimpartiali.
provement
in the office.
.
His respect
to his father,
aud
. .
ty to his family.
He
clears
He
is
offered
money by
Is
He
JVhich he at
last
effects.
Henry' s promise
him.
is
more concerned.
Anecdotes of her.
More
and
calls
His
tion.
letters to
.
Death of hvs father, and his filial affection. His monumental inscripErasmus on his resignation.
.
.
The remarks of
, .
CONTENTS.
Fox and
Unies.
. .
Tu
otJieis
State of the
Mon's own
g5
CHAP.
Morf:^s anticipation
IV.
public business.
to
of his fate.
Cromhis
Malignant scrutiny on
letter to Cromivell,
.
conduct.
More's
and a
.
curious anecdote.
More
Cou'
. .
More's firmness.
. ,
.
His
ply.
<
He
is
accused of ingratitude.
His re.
Anecdote on
his return
bill.
home.
.
The
king's
conduct.
.
titles.
.
and of
their adversaries.
More
He
Jiis
is
cited to appear at
.
.
Lambeth,
letter to
.
daughter.
curious letter.
.
More and
More's 141
CHAP.
Henry
V.
.
.
FHI
.
atid
Constantius
More' s firmness.
His pains
Anecdotes. ..."
Mrs. Roper
manner.
.
.
visiteth
to meet his fate in a becoming His rejection on the execution of Reynolds, &c. His
. .
.
him
of
the
privy -council.
His two
.
to
his
daughter
.
His
. .
More
to the
More's answer
indictment
Rich
guilty
His arguments as
cellor's
to the insufficiency
The chan-
Farther proceedings
His meet-
. .
viii
CONTENTS.
ing with
ter.
. . .
his
children.
Anecdote.
sent to
His
.
last
letter to his
daugh-
Sir
.
Thomas Pope
last jokes,
him.
.
death.
His
and
execution.
His burial
19 r>
CHAP.
Anecdote.
.
.
VI.
in
More's cause.
to jesting,
. . .
and
witty sayings.
His behaviour
natural.
His
disinterestedness,
. ,
and
.
integrity while
chancellor,
and
virtue as
.
a patriot minister.
Queen Catharine's
opinion of More.
good management of
family.
Other
traits
.
of
his
character.
letteis,
and
.
controversial writings.
.
.
The
editions
.
.
of More's
.
His pergonal
peculiarities.
.
.
His fa.
.
Mrs. Roper.
Basset.
Her
letter
Her daughter
More's
letter to Gonellus.
.
. .
character.
25f
APPENDIX.
Erasmus R(4.
Vlrtco Hulteno
2^7
306
310
in
Clarorum
et
laudem Thomct
Mori
328
MEMOIRS
OF
SIR
THOMAS MORE.
Vol.
I.
MEMOIRS
OF
SIR
THOMAS MORE.
CHAR
Biographers of SirThomas More
knight's ancestry.
birth.
.
.
I.
Mr. Roper.
.
.
Mr. More
.
. .
Tht
His
Sir
John More.
. .
Anecdote of
.
his irfancy.
His
. . .
. .
Car-
dinal Morton.
More's
earli/ talents.
Specimen of
and
reflection.
. . .
He is sent to
.
Oxford.
Erasmus.
JVolsey.
More
studieth
He
His
is
made
verses on
Henry VH.
. .
He
.
discovers
some inclination
.
.
for
Dean
More.
More's
him.
.
.
Colet^s
high opinion
her.
.
.
of
Colte.
His family by
. . .
He
the
law.
Henry VII.
. .
More's early
.
He
offends the
king.
Henry's revenge.
in retirement.
More
Four
escapes
Dr. Fox's
snare.
His application
. . .
Juvenile
poems by him,
MJ'MOIRS OF
most
rigid integrity,
of
life itself in
man
Sir
Tliomas IMore.
Our most
him
respecting
that written
by Thotwo by
mas
]\Iorc,
Escj. his
great-grandson
and a
letter or
Erasmus
domestic
arc
histor}'.
The other
on
his
Thomas
little
else
than copies
light
Mr. Roper,
naturally the
more
likely
accused of allowing
his affection
to prevail in
some mea-
true, attach
us to
it
in a degree of enthusiasm,
we must allow, peculiar difficulties to encounter in this way, when he afterward became his biographer. As to his qualification in point of information, however, we may allow his own words to be imanswerable, knowing hi? doings and mind no man living so well, by reason I zc-as con-
SIR T.
ibiually resident in Ids house
MORE.
hij
and
more.
And
though
epitaph, as pre-
Hie jacet
Vencrabilis vir Gulielmus
Filius ct hasies
Roper armiger,
armigcri;
Uxor ejusdcm
Filia
Gulielmi,
militis
cancellarii
in
Fideliter ministrasset,
Fuit
is
Mitis, raisericors
incarceratorum,
baculus.
Oppressorum
et
paupcrum
duos
et filias tres
ex
iis
Uxorem
viduatus uxore,
Tandem
is
fuller
than
may
be presumed from
his direct
relationship,
to
ME.MOIRS OF
have made
his additions with authenticity.
He
is
and to
liave
been employed by the English clergy as their agent in Spain and at the court of Rome. On his death, the English
catholic clergy erected a
Roman
monument
to his
memory,
had of
A
;
while
it is
his
Life of Sir
Thomas, that
be expected from
His
and
his biogra-
^\'e will
add
his
D. O. M. S.
Tlioma'
-Alagni
L't
illiiis
Moro
Tlioma
ris
Anglic
canccllarii
martj
Viro probitatc
Qjii,
In
Patriinoiiium, et presbyler
Romae
factus,
Postca
cleri
Et
iv
SIR T.
Surama
MORE.
'
integritate et industria
Tandem de subrogando
anglis episcopo
felicitei
Ad
XI
migravit
:
m.dcxxv
^tatis
suae Lix.
Sir
Thomas More,
as all
of
two
ceed
We
shall find
their ac-
we
pro-
and should
either
to us a false step,
we must endeavour
have
ever,
Sir
left
n*; ill
infunued.
From
John
the great-grandson,
howquar-
we
INIore, knight,
the father of
his coat
his birth,
having
tered.
By reason
but
us in his epitaph, that he sprang fi'om no noble family but of an honest stock.
Sir
to
MEMOIRS OF
lie
is
1440.*
talents
and
integrity,
justices of the
King's
Bench
in the reign
He
is
described
by
Sir
Thomas
in the epitaph
already alluded
to,
homo
;
ci-
vilis,
an-
nis
vivido.
He
Camden,
which
will
in his
Remains,
relates
fair
He comhis
pared a
into a
man
who dipped
hand
it
eel
was
tzienttj to
he caught the
eel.
After this,
we
was
we
of his
first
wiic, the
mother of
in
;
Sir
Ilandcombe, of Holywell
Bedford-
The age
and Dr.
More, reported of
her, that,
on the night
after her
number and
SIR T.
ried to
MORE.
S
calls
noble gentleman
the father of
Elizabeth,
Rastell
;
wife of
Rastell, Esq.
Judge
Of Sir John's other wives we christian name of the last was Alice.
in Hertfordshire,
She
lived
on her jointure
at a
messuage
Being debefore her
and was
Sir
at his
i46o.
in
Milk-street,
in 1480,
An-
that one
day
as she
in her
in-
by accident
and dangerous hole. To give the infant, a chance life, she threw him over a hedge into a field, and
her
own escape,
The
in
school of
S'.
Anthony
to
persons, numbereth
t More.
Vol.
I:
10
WE.MOIHS OF
among
his
its
scholars, aflord-
education.*
Here
man named
INIr.
whom,
passed
to use
voured than lehuvcly chezved his grannnar rules, and far surall his
schoolfellows in understanding
and
diligence.
By
became an
inmate of the house of Cardinal Morton, f of whom he hath transmitted us a high character, as well in his Utopia
as in his History of Richard
saith
in the state,
his
wisdom
his
his-
and
skill
his
memory
on
very extraordinary.
it
was
his policy
him archbishop of Canterbury and chancellor of England, to which the pope added the honour of cardinal. Mr. Roper informs
dinal's house,
us, that
while
More was
among
in the car-
among them,
zchich
made
than
all
The
cardinal, he adds,
took sreat
deliirht in
SIR T. MORE.
often say of
11
More
to the nobility
who happened
to
be din-
ing witli him, this child, here waiting at the table, zvhosoever
shall live to see
it,
will
The
and
reflection,
'
in
fine
And
were painted the things that the verses over them did
effect declare.
Which
In the
first
as fol-
CHILDHOOD.
I
am
is all
ray
miud
To
and a
ball,
;
top can I
and drive
to
it
in his kind
But would
God
Were
in a fire burnt to
I lead
powder small
Then might
my
life
always in play.
Which
life
God
send
me
to
JS>
MEiMOIRS Of
In the second pageant was painted a goodly fresh young
man,
fist
riding
upon a goodly
horse, having a
hawk on
hiu
And under
in the first
And
over
this.
Manhood
am,
therefore I
me
delight
To
to nourish-up
and
feed,
The greyhound
hawk
to the flight,
And
Yet
to bestride a
good and
liisfy
steed
indeed.
sweeter,
man
no
game
But what, no
better.
And upon
man
stood the
this
little
God
Cupid.
And
pageant
AND
CUPID.
might
Whoso na knoweth the strength, power, and Of Venus and me her little son Cupid
;
Thou Manhowl
shalt a
mirrour be aright
By
us subdued
fiery
My
Now
Shall
thou
who
small
wax
my
thrall.
SIR T.
MORE.
14
And
was painted
the image of
geant.
And
AGE.
Old age
am
I,
Of
our short
discreet
Wise and
I help to rule, to
my
Thy
childish
game and
idle business.
In the
fifth
under
above
man
And,
DEATH.
Though T he foul, iigl>, lean, and jiilshape, Yet there is none in all this world wide,
That may
my power
withstand or escape
set
be to your pain,
To me,
In the sixth pageant was painted Lady Fame, and under her feet was the picture of Death that was in the fifth
a
pageant.
followetli.
MEMOIRS OF
And
FAME.
Fame
For
I
am
called,
Though
with (ongucs
is
am compassed
chief living,
I
all
round,
in voice of people
my
O cruel
When
Maugre thy
confound.
thou a noble
teeth, to live
man
Of
and under
of
Fame
that was
And
this Avas
seventh pageant.
TIME.
I
whom
thou
sees
Am
named Time,
and
land.
O
Who
simple Fame,
of his
bow
darest thou
man
honour,
;
Promising
name an
endless flower
may
in the world
W^hen
I shall in
Lady
her
crowned with
aji
imperial croAvn.
And under
SIR T.
MORE.
was
it
15
and above
this eighth
pageant was
written as foUoweth.
ETERNITY.
He
*
needeth not to boast, I
am
Eternity,
signifieth well.
in every degree
When
For
all
sitting in
and over
this
in Latin following.
THE POET.
Has
fictas
animura
sic
pascere rebus,
Ut
Namque videbil
Tam
cito
Gaudia, laus
et
diffidite rebus,
Qui
munere vitam
f ;
;
16
MEMOIRS OF
About
the age of seventeen, Cardinal
Morton commit;
according to
He
Mr. Roper,
in rhetoric, logic,
and philosophy
arc,
intimacy
its
origin
this
was probably by
friends, assisted
by
his
own
taste, that
More was
led not
to neglect the
for
it
Greek language
in his
classical education,
in
our country.
He
acquired
we
and he continued
AVolsey also, was at this time bursar of IMagdalen college, and, as well as Colet
* Edit. Roper. f
SIR T.
MORE,
17
intimacy of
He was
More
as yet too
young
and humble
the cardinal
and
it is
probable that
we know
Erasmus
certainly
had done.
At
is
said to
1498.
not
Greek
languao-e.
He
seemeth not
to give
tion or eloquence.
From
accordmg
to the
same
writer, i45.
he removed to New-inn to
rsell
prospered for
and
At
this
money
that he
could not dress with decency, and exacted from him a most
particular account of his expences.
Yet
this
conduct was
apjilauded by
More
having preserved
him from
neral.
idleness,
Furnival's-inn,
by Roper's
ac-
18
MEMoms or
must have obtained that
also read a i)ublic
lecture
on
S'.
the church
of
S.
Lawrence
in the
resorted, saith
his son-in-law,
all the
Dr. Groci/n an
We
also learn
from Erasmus that More had a numerous auditory at this lecture, and that neither priests nor old men were ashamed
or repented of having derived sacred
wisdom from
the
young
layman.*
1503.
The death of Elizabeth, queen to Henry VII, in 1503, afforded More another occasion for the exercise of his juvenile muse. The following curious specimen of the poetry
and language of that age,
works.
is
SI
rueful
Hamcntattou written
by Mr. Thomas
jNIore in his
Henry VIII, Avife to king Henry VII, and eldest daughter which queen Elizabeth died in childto kino- Edward IV bed, in February in the year of our Lord 1503, and in the
;
SIR T.
MORE.
]fi
truat
and confidence
frail prosperity,
That
so live here as
me
think there
may
now
no better be.
in this realm
lo
was
and
here I
lie
Was
I not
Was
not
my
mother queen,
my
father king,
Was I
Had
a strange reckoning
me
forsaken,
and
lo
now
here I
lie.
me
When
]\Ie
Obey we must,
thr-rp is
now
here I
lie.
Yet was
blandishing promise,
O
How
false astrology
and devinatrice,
thyself so wise
Of
God's
is
secrets
making
true
for this
The year
now
here I
lie-
MEMOIRS OF
O brittle
Thj
Account
with pain
my
sorrow
first
and
my
distress
The joy
For
all
and
dare saync,
I
lie.
my
and
lo
now
here I
castles
me
lord,
now
My
palace builded
is,
and
lo
my
worthy
lord,
The
both combine,
dean
resign,
To
The
Erst were
you
father,
now
here I
lie.
Farewell
my
daugtitcr,
full
Lady Margaret,
grieved hath
God wot
oR
it
my
mind.
Now am
left
you behind.
!
we
That we
most nigh,
and
lo
now
here I
lie.
SIR T.
Farewell
MORE.
21
Madam, my
a worth, for
lord's
worthy mother,
Take
all
it
will
be none other.
Farewell
my daughter
me
to
To prince
Pray
for
Arthur, mine
own
here
child so dear.
weep
or cry,
I lie.
my soul,
for lo
now
my loving
son adieu,
estate.
Our Lord
Adieu
increase
my daughter Mary, bright of hue, God make you virtuous, wise and fortunate.
Adieu sweet
heart,
my
little
daughter Kate,
thy destiny,
Thou
shalt, sweet
babe, such
is
Thy
lo
now
here I
lie.
Lady
Farewell
!
my
well-beloved
sisters three.
Lady
Lo
And
Now
ye that earthly
folly flee,
now
here I
lie.
Adieu
my
my
lords, adieu
my ladies all,
chone.
I
Adieu
Adieu
whom
;
never shall
me commend
thy
infinite
mercy
here I
lie.'
Shew
now
52
MEMOIRS OF
Tiic religion which then reigned
in oui
counli7 hud
al-
ready
made a
some
mind of
lie
lived
fre-
age of twenty
quented
thiiiy
the spiritual
exercises
of the Carthusians.
friar,
Once he
inclined to
become a Franciscan
and
is
said
by observing
panion
son,
\\ illiam
Lilly
but God, exclaims his great-grandto another estate not to live in soin
had
allotted
him
litude,
bringing-up
deavour
to the
good of
their
country
ij06.
In 1506, Erasmus Avas in England and dedicated the Tyrannicida of Lucian, as well as a declamation of his
in
own
answer
to
it,
to
Fox.
in that dedication.
Latine declamare
itti sets
hosti
sni T. MOIIE.
23
temperaturus.
iSeque enbn
vehemcns
in
il-
omnigenis absolutius.
mira
festivitas, salis
ut nihil
in CO desideres
PVom
the
same
sreat scholar
we
leani that
More
cou](i
not shake-off"
and he therefore
He
life,
it
is
said, as
a pattern of
Picus of Mirandula,
whose
life,
letters,
adds
;
his
Dean
of
S.
Pauls
Avhose
Paul's school
More compares
barbarity.
one of his
issued to subvert
More
to Colet,
own mind
at this time.
It
here translated.
* Epist. to Hutten.
f Eng. Works.
24
MEMOIRS OF
I
I
But when
long
sadness
was
cast.
'
me
than to be deprivI
was
and example
amended,
tion I
lastly, in
were
ported.
And
had
now
ed back upon
I relapse, I
you look not back upon me), know not by what impulse or necessit3% into
her, I, because
my
'
former obscurity.
For what
?
is
there in this
is
town
to incite
any one
to a
good
life
Or
rather, Avhat
sand devices and allurements, draw him from the arduous path of virtue, Avould
well in
it ?
his
disposition guide
him never so
in
"N^'hcrever
one
})lacc, the
hum
of flattery, in another,
and
SIR T.
litigation?
MORE.
eyes,
25
who
seize
behold the
sky
and
it is
'
From
more
loving to abide
plicity, free
in the country.
craft.
from city
ature of the air refresheth, the very aspect of heaven delighteth you.
to
bounteous
gifts
Yet would
you can.
be
al-
now
in
enjoy.
may afford 3'ou comforts equal to those you And thence you can occasionally visit the city,
for the exercise
of
your goodness,
'
in
them-
answer
there.
the disorder in town, any but the most skilful shall attempt the cure in vain.
the pulpit of
A'
is
S.
Paul's those
who promise a
But
af-
OL.
I.
26
ler
MEMOIRS OF
having appeared to preach with phiusibiliiy,
tlicir
hfe
is
so
much
themselves
they are
tiiat
by the diseased,
fills
and aversion.
health
But
if (as \\ic
wise affirm) he
is
littest to restore
^^at no one
so
fit
town
as yourself?
their
By
to
whom,
sutt'er
wounds
sufficiently experienced
and
it is
now
by the love of
all
prevails
your return.
Come
then at length
my
day by day as
be
doth a child
its
you ought
to regard as
Lastly, though
this
come
for
my
sake,
who
Meanwhile
pass
as
my
The
first,
;
you know,
sole
master
of
my
life
in
;
your absence
the thud,
my
studies
my
dearest
companion
in all I un-
dertake.
me
as
SIR T.
MORE.
27
Colet in his turn admired his disciple, and would sometimes say, England had but one wit, and that was
young
Thomas More.*
In a
letter to
Colet's
The
and
if
little
to his
admired them.
They were
and a freedom
no small
many
ijimself.
re-
semblance to Erasmus
Colet
it
In the number of
Newhall
in Essex,
who
Colte
had frequently
it
invited
More
to visit him.
it
The
invitation,
Jvlr.
proved that
honest conversation
and virtuous
we
believe
may
More
On
life.
this
occasion
Jortin.
J More.
2S
lection
.MEMOIRS OF
was
daughter
yet when he
to the eldest,
to
her younger
sister
pre-
ed his fancy
to her,
her.
It
is
to be wished
al-
It
suftcred his
heait to
become
in
the
elder.
Upon
proved herself
that he
it
is
possible
may have
what he
it is
in this case
judged
j;ro/?/7e/?/,
true, Avas a
lukewarm
principle.
girl,
who
he
sisters
in
the country.
to his friend, as
own manners
in her education.*
pist. to
Hut ten.
SIR T.
MORE.
no
As More
lived
may
date this
years of age.
among the Carthusians, we marriage 1507, when he was twenty-seven By this wife Jane, who survived their union
four 3'ears
in virtue
1507.
and John
and
learning, saith
Mr. Roper,
hrought-icp
from
his
their
youth
whom
take virtue and learning for their meat, and play for
sauce.
Upon
in Bucklersbury,
and
to
his
The year after More's marriage, Erasmus dedicated him his celebrated Praise of iolly, on which occasion,
before to
friend.
to as
his
isoa.
compliments
be
later'
and
may be
Edward IV died in More's infancy the short reigns of Edward V and Richard III folloAved, and aftbrded him in
;
for historical
composition
filled
death approached.
to
no great sagacity
to discover, that
The
love of ac-
i,
35. and
ii,
30
MEMOIRS OF
in
liis
their
in
tempering
it.
P^nip-
this
humour
in
employment
them.
On
sJelf
wise considerations
Henry had
closely with
enemy of England.
whose eldest
match
Males
was
sister be-
earl of FlanSjiain,
triple alliance
hundred thousand
ages with any
many
made
her no
less
acceptable to Henry
VH.
when
and
it
a state of pregnancy.
The
reasons of
existing,
it
France
still
feeling
no inclination
to
ye/////</
the jointure,
S[R
T.
MORE.
?1
ed to Catharine.
terbury,
acknowledged
God.
l>ut
dis-
It
what was
much
papacy, though
Julius II was an
some
cardinals
to
enemy
to strengthen alliances
England
to
main-
from
it
to the crown.
But
it is
Upon
But
ed
it
this
is
bull
contracted.
there
as a politician,
this
step be-
fore
he died.
More
incurred
Henry
VII.'s displeasure,
who wanted
to
ruin him.
He had been
what means
demanded a subsidy
for the
marriage of
his
32
MEMOIRS OF
nuMit of
this
tlic
On
oceasion
tegrity, patriotism,
mayed by
at
tiie
less
The means
his avarice
unworthy of
ing
his
princely station.
him from a reasonable prospect of gratiticaiion, the king devised a groundless quarrel with his father, and Sir John
in the
Tower
until
he had paid a
fine
More, shortly
sellor,
after this,
who
called
him
if
ness,
promised that
advice
it
he should soon be restored to the king's favour. terward appeared, that the prelate's design was
But
to
af-
inveigle
More
punishment
justice.
might be
to,
escape
AMiitford, the
was More's
intimate friend.
On
More by
no means
for
my Lord,
to sei've the
SIR T.
MORE.
own
3S
father'' s death.
to the bishop.*
him by the
a voyage
Henry VII
yet, as
in 1509.f
in retirement,
like More's,
not
We are told
arithmetic,
language,
history,
his ex-
memory,
to which,
In
his
youth for
his pastime,
and
first
The
will
deem
suffi-
reader
will, in
ing disused
* Roper
among
and More.
I.
Vol.
^iJiMOIRS
ol'
OF
little
idhieuient or atYectatioii
cliaiiiro.*
and
settled
and
it
poems, as well as
prose,
were considered by
his con-
though
The
to our notice
mind.
'
9 mcrrg
3iC0t, hon'
to
Wise men
Adirm and
Tbat
best
'tis
.ilway
say,
for
a man,
Diligently
For
'J'Lc
to
apply
*
;
And
in
no wise
To enterprise
Another faculty.
For he that
will
skill
And
can no
Johneon.
} Thrive.
SIR T.
MORE.
35
He
And
that hath
left
The
hosier's craft,
falleth to
making shone.
that shall
fall,
The smith
To
His
painting
thrift is
well-nigh done.
A
To go
black draper
With
white paper,
to writing school,
An
I
old butler
cutler,
fool.
Become a
ween
shall
prove a
And
an old
trot,
cup,
With
Till she
her physic
sick
A man
The ways
to
of law,
buy and
sell,
Weening
to rise
1 pray
A
By
all
merchant eke
will
That
go
seek,
the means he
may,
To
fall in suit
Till he dispute
56
MEMOIRS OF
Pleading the law
man
strife,
With
I cannot
'bate
and
life
But by
tell
my
you whan.
When
an hatter
Will go smatter
la philosophy,
Or
a jjedlar
W^crc a meddler
In theology.
Such
craftes
new,
They
That evermore
They do
therefore
at last.
Beshrew themselves
And
Here by a
verified
serjeant late
thriftly was,
That
Rapped about
the pate,
While
See
that he would
how he
could
frere
;.
Now
if
you
will
Know how
it fell
shall hear.
SIR T.
It
MORE.
37
happed
so
A thrifty man
there died,
gold
For
to begin withal
But
to suffice
small.
Yet
I
ere this
day
cast
less.
But
So
His money
this
young man
well
began
to employ,
certainly
That
His policy.
To
see
it
was a joy.
For
lest
some
blast
Might
overcast
Men
And
3S
For
All
to
MEIVroIttS
put out
OF
manner doubt,
He made
a good purvey
By
And
bis
own
wit
First fair
and well
Thereof
much
deal
He
digg'd
it
iu a pot,
And
there he
left it
not.
So was be
fain
From
thence again
To put
it
in a
cup
And by and by
Covetously
He supped
it
fairly-up.
In his
own
breast
it
He
thought
best
His money to
inclose,
Then
wist
lie
well
Whatever
fell
He
could
it
never lose.
He Of
men
Kcver paid
I'p he laid
it,
it
In
like
manner
wise.
SIR T.
Yet on
tlie
MORE.
39
gear
He
So
it
were nice,
As
Of joly com[)any
In mirtli and play
Full
many
a day
He
lived merrily.
He
When
he went out,
on the may'r;
But he doubtless
Of his meekness Hated such pomp and pride And would not go
Companied
so
But drew
lumsell aside.
40
MEMOIRS OF
To
He
gat
Saint Cath'rine
Strait as
a line
him
at a tide,
For devotion
Or promotion
There would he needs abide.
There spent he
Till all
fast
was past
there
And
to
him came
many
To
The
he was fain
to pledge.
To
lay his
gown
Then was he
there
In greater fear
Than
ere that
he came thither,
as fain
And would
But that he
Depart again
wist not whither
Then
after this
To
a friend of his
there abode,
He went, and
Whereas he lay
So sick alway
He might
not
come abroadc
SIR T.
It
MORE.
4gt
happed than
merchant
maa
to
Of an
officer
What him
And he
Take an action
I
ans'red
afraid
" Be not
therefore
you
behest,
I shall
him
'rest
And
I fear
quoth he
not be
It will
For he
will not
come
out.
The
sergeant said
be brought about.
In
many
game
same
Like
to the
Have
And
But
if I
for
your sake
Let me be bake
do
this cure."
Thus
And
Apace
this officer
And
tor a
day
AU
his array
He changed
with a
frere.
Vol.
I.
4f
So was he
MEMOIRS OF
ilight
That no
man might
and dook'd
Him
for
I
a frerc deny
le tlopp'd
He
So religiously.
Yet
in a glass
He
toted
and he peer'd
for pride
His heart
Lept
in his side
To
see
how
well he frer'd.
Then
Unto
forth apace
the place
nigh
unlock'd.
The
friar said
God
Here
speed
fair
maid
lotlgcth
It
is
such a
man
told
Sir,
me
quoth she,
?
Well
And
if
he do what than
SIR T.
Quoth
he, mistress
doubtless,
MORE.
43
No barm
It 'longeth for
our order
To
But
hurt no man,
as
we can
Every wight
to farther.
With him
Sir,
truly
I.
my fai
him
to-day.
Quoth
he, fair
mai
Yet
This
you pray
much
at
my
de>ire
Vouchsafe to do,
As go him
to
friar
And
say an Austin
Would
And
For
matters break
Quoth
she, I will
still
Up did
And
As she was bid
she
go
so
told
him
to say.
way
11
MEMOIRS OF
And
fetcli
liim liithcr
That we together
May talk. Adown she go'th. Up she him brought No Lami slie thought
But
it
made some
folk wroth.
When
he was come
aloft
And
Took him
he again
Riffht fflad
and
fain
there
by the hand,
You
With
be dism.iy'd
trouble I understand.
Been
better than
Sir,
quoth the
frerc.
Be of good
cheer,
Yet
shall
it
after this.
For Christ
his sake
Look
that
you take
No
SIR T.
But
I
MORE.
45
would now
with you,
please,
Commune
la counsel
if
you
Or
elles not,
Of
matters that
Down
The merchant
frere,
this tiding
When there
The
friar
was none
grace
Said, I
'rest thee,
Come on
with me,
And
have thee in
my
clutch
Thou
For
all
the pence
m his pouch.
there,
This merchant
fear
He
With
a mischief,
46
MEMOIRS
And with Upon the
lie gave
liis fist
01'
list
The
friar
did overthrow.
Yet was
this
man
slain
Well
Lest he the
feardcr than
fri'r
bad
Till with
good raps
And
licavy claps
He duwdc him up
again.
The
A nd
well
lie
friar
took heart
start
And up he
And
Many a
laid about
so tlierc go'th
They
Each
Togctlier round
SIR T.
So long above
MORE.
47
To
break the
strife
fast.
And
The
v?hen they
captains
lie
spy
Adown
While he was
Lent him
laid
blind
Many
About
With
a great battledoor.
They
laid his
mace
About
pain
The
he was
friar frap
nigh
slain.
48
MEMOIRS OF
Up they bim
And
witli
ill
lift
thrift
Headlong along
tlie stair
Down
And
Commatd
said adieu,
us to the mat/r.
The
But
friar arose I
suppose
his
Amazed was
head
his ears
He shook
And from
lie
great fears
afled.
Quoth
he,
now
near,
lost
Wc be never the
111
must he thceh
That caused me
To make
myself a
frcrc.
Now
End
there
masters
all
Here now
as I
I shall
began,
In anywise
1
would advise
And
His own
All
craft use
new
refuse
And
lightly let
them gone
frere
;
Now
make good
cheei
And welcome
ev'ry chone.
SIR T.
MORE
49
'
8c
tt)Oct0
Mi.VE liigh
estate,
If ye ne
spy
That
and
all
di<,'nity
Joy,
rest,
things finally
may come by
To man
Is all at
and sustenance,
my
devise
and ordinance.
AYithout
my
favour there
is
nothing won,
Many
a matter have
brought at
last
To good conclude that fondly wixs begun, And many a purpose, bounden sure and With wise provision, I have overcast. Without good hap there may no wit suffice,
Better
'tis
fast
to be fortunate
than wise
And
therefore
My
To my
But
deadly
and
written
dispraise.
for
And
list
me
not friendly on
Thus
like the
The
them
But
let
them
is
in vain
Much
better
is
W ithout my help,
A very
To
all
ever comfortless,
and eke
to himself both.
Vol.
I.
JM
MEMOIRS OF
Uut he
tliat
by
my
to
favour
may
asccnil
To
njiglity
A commonweal
O
And
in
how
in
Himself
honour
au<l felicily,
over that,
may
farther
and cncreasc
and peace.
rebt
Now
is
no more
to say,
;
the governance
And
mc
And
let
him
be.'
'
Cgomnss
art
i^orc to
Tiiou (hat
That hcapest-up
wretched world
its
treasure,
Thy
And
variance.
Sometime she
and bright
But
this
chear feigned
may
our pride.
And
look'th as fierce as
any fury of
hellt
SIR T.
Yet
for all that,
MORE.
are fain,
51
we
is
brittle
men
So wretched
As soon
as fortune list to
fair
laugh again
With
Not one
To crouch and
Then
Silver
stone,
On
And gape
Fortune
therefore as dogs
do
for a bone.
at thenr laugheth,
and
in her throne
Amid
and sorrow
all
bewept,
Eke
restless
and Tyranny.
all
;
He
asketh land
and He
all
to pass
would bring
;
He would in love prosper above all thing He kneeleth down and would b made a king He forcetli not so he may money have,
;
Tho'
all
him
for
a knave.
52
MEMOIRS OF
Lo
thus ye sec, divers heads divers wits,
all,
ilits,
among
tiiem
And
Not
But
to all
at a venture
down
fall
Catch whoso
rnnj',
men
as
for the
most part,
among a
few.
And
may
not
last.
He
them
looketli
And And
She
giv'th
them
to another
to
by and by.
continually
slily toss
loss.
thus from
man
man
iis'th to
One man
to
winning of another's
And when siic robbclh one, down go'th his pride. He wecp'th and wail'th and curscth her lull sore. But he who receiv'th it on t'other side
Is glad
and
But
in
a while,
when
she lov'th
gifts
him no more.
they too,
And he
Alas
cease',
Nor
the}' the
;
harm do
feel.
how hcdolh
set
;
think himself
full
well
That may
Tie holdcth fast
SIR T.
Thus
fell
MORE.
53
Thus
Thus
fell
may
well rehearse.
list
reverse
her
way and
li'th
them
aloft
all
And suddenly
The head
mischieveth
the flock,
and
full toft
Instead of pillows
li'th after
on the block.
And
The dainty
a knave.
this,
Up
start'th
a knave and
down
The beggar
Hatred
This
is
rich
is
gifts will
nothing take,
With merry
And
seeth
how
many
a leash
Of
old philosophers.
And
54
JIEMOIRS OF
With her is Bias, whose country lack 'J defence And whilom of their foes stood so in doubt That each man hastily 'gan to carry thence
And asked him, why he nought carried out / bear, quoth he, uU nmc zcilh vie about. Wisdom he meant, not Fortune's brittle tecs,
For nought he counted
his
?
which he might
lecsc.
lleraclitus eke
list
fellowship to keep
With
glad poverty.
Democritus also.
Of which the first can nevtT cease but weep To see how thick the bUnded people go, With labour great, to purcliase cure and
That
other laugh'th to see the loolisli apes
earnestly they
woe.
How
walk about
their japs.*
Of
this
poor sect
it
is
Only
Banishing clean
other surplusage
They be
No
The
niggard eke
by them an ye
wull.
That one
is free,
That one
That one
Who
As great
list
shall
we
sec
Jt.
SIR T.
MORE.
list,
53
Now
That
humble poverty
your
fist
to say,
now
li'th it in
To
But
an ye do
after
me,
Draw ye
And
first
upon
And
Embrace
wandering eyes,
a while
;
and
for
in fool's paradise
list
And
She
forthwith
all,
it
whatso thou
devise,
liberally perhaps,
But
beware of afterclaps.
sure.
You may
Or
an hare,
And make
And
As her
to
the burning
fire
all this
world in compass to
make by
ever variable.
Upon
And
in conclusion, that
And
With
Pluck
wth
sorrow.
56
WLereforc,
MEMOIRS OF
if tliou in surety list to stand,
let
Take
Receive no
cometh from
hand.
Which
Then mayst
Siie
double Fortune
tliou IjoUlly
may
lier
defy
turning chance,
can
tliee
But an thou
wilt needs
treasure.
it lib'rally,
m'.'asurc,
in tlie sky.
who
climbeth high.
Remember The
gifts
'
nho
seek Fortune.
Wiioso
and assay
lot,
Of
command you
full
not
and ckc
in
well
you wot
my
fist, list.
The
rolling dice in
You know 3 ourself came never in my hand. Lo in this pond be fish and frogs they both,
Cast in your net, but be you
lief or loath,
as Fortune
fishing
list
assign
your own
SIR T.
MORE.
9f
And though
In
in
Grudge not
merry
face,
many
But
amend.
There
no
man
lie
is full satisfied
Fortune
is
stately, solemn,
And
catch'th an halfpenny,
less,
some more.
From
ev'ry
man some
therefore
still.
Can be not creep by no manner of stealth. To some she sendeth children, riches, wealth,
Honour, worship, and rev'rence
all his life.
wife.
Then forasmuch
as
it is
Fortune's guise
things that he will aksj
To
grant no
man
all
But, as herself
list
and tax
your packs
And take nothing at all, or be content With such reward as Fortune hath you
sent.
Vol.
I.
58
MEMOIRS OF
AU
things which in
tliis
book
that
you
bhiill
read.
Do as jou list, there shall no man you Them to believe as surely as your creed,
But notwilhslandiiig
J durst well swear,
bind
certcs in
s true
my mind
shall
you
them
find
As
SIR T. MORE.
59
CHAP.
Accession of
II.
Henry VIII.
. .
Consummation of
his
marriage with
Catharine of Arragon.
More
.
and
writes
.
.
Morels attachment
sheriffs.
. . .
to
Erasmus.
He
is
made one of
.
.
the underto
He
replies
Dor-
pins.
vice.
His second
Henry
desires to
engage him
.
in his ser-
He accompanies
.
. .
Tonstall to Flanders.
His
.
letter to
Eras-
mus on
his embassy.
. .
Mare's
letter to
Jf'arham.
nighted,
&c
.
. .
His account of
advancement.
. .
.
Henry's earlier
.
.
court.
The
....
mus.
Luther.
. .
.
Erasmus
persecuted.
More
. . .
More
. .
Erasmus
,
defends him.
More's
the
letter to the
.
of Oxford.
He
.
.
is
.
made speaker of
Spain.
commons.
Progress of Luther.
.
.
Henry
and
More
mus
is
suspected.
Eras. .
writes
against Luther.
the
More
.
.
is
exhorted to
is
zvrite.
His
character in
Ciceronianus.
.
. .
He
made
chancellor of the
.
.
duchy of Lancaster.
is
More
loss
His
sicccess at
Cambray.
. .
His
iyfre, and
; ^
60
MEMOIRS OF
r EW
more de-
in jealousy, avarice,
and
who,
severity, as he
advanced
in years,
men
beheld a prince
future conduct,
much more
and
The
nobility,
crowded
His
engaged him
The
proficiency he
lie
made was
no bad prognostic of
learning
his parts,
as the
failings
The contending
in
of
York
unknown
his
but alas
ed a tyrant.
One of
attention,
the
first
widow of
brother.
in tlie
SIR T. MORE.
61
Henry's
sions
own
person, were
still
in
force
desirable ;
bourhood
to
still
a virgin,
well as
expence
the kingdom, a large dower must be yearly remitted iiom the country.
ing, this
That
scriptural authority
;
and have no
dead
marry without imto a stranger, her husband's brother go in unto her and take her to him to wife, and perform
an husband's brother unto her
:
the duty of
and
it
shall be
name
of
his brother
Israel.*
which
name
be not
was
also urged
and
in fine,
about
six
weeks, after
his fa-
MEMOIRS OF
commencement of
the reign in
;
and probabl}'
to greater
and
his
acfjuircments in
soli-
Latin
is
an elegant compliment
satire
Henry and
his
his
queen,
and a severe
on the reign of
rapacious father.
qui nevus ac
amatissiine.
Dudley, those
vile ministers
of Henry
in his infant
populari\vith
his father's
fame. More,
his usual
nit}',
is
humaI
doixe
better than
you ? Dudley
is
said to
in reply, that
The character of
yet but
little
it
was as
celebrated, had,
seems,
its
due influence
and
their studies,
appears by
inlet-
to a strong attachment,
Vol.
ii.
of
this.
SIR T. .MORE.
63
tcr
When
is saiil,
tlic
Enghmd
in
1510, he
on
ijio.
to have lodged
with More.
meeting
mus
and
his friend, as
we have
akeady seen
preceding chapter.
Soon
London, by which
and was
his profession
^400
no cause of importance
of the Stilyard.
Erasmus,
his integrity
and modera-
in his profession,
Lincolns-inn,
viz.
and
sixth years of
Henry
VIIL*
But
his heart
was too
disinterested,
and
his
mind too
ex-
M
pansivc, to confine
fession.
MEMOIRS OF
him
rigidly to tlie
in the hitter
duties of his
pro-
Thus
Ave
find
him
listing in the
cups or
in private,
ria?
who wrote against Erasmus. He condemned the MoEncomium, as a satirical work in which the author riall
diculed
ecclesiastics,
He moreover
endeavoured
New
S*.
Jerom.
Knowing
inveigled
his
youth and
ductility,
by others
Erasmus
replied with
He
His friend
epistle,
More
which
also replied to
is
Dorpius
his
in
preserved
among
Latin works.
In this letter
More proves
poses in
and he ex-
Whatever motreat-
in such
an attack.
nuilignant
SIR T.
spirit
MORE.
to
M
condemn
writings which
man
who was
affording the
pubhc important
instruc-
More's
their
we have already remarked, survived union only about six years and two or three years
first
wife, as
this
widow with one daughby whom he had no children. More used to say of lady, that she was nee bella, iiec puella, and the great-
More
in
whom
She was of
have heard
by
and worldly.
his,
reported, he
wooed her
for
a friend of
But she wisely answering him, he would speak in his own behalf, tellsaid unto him, with his
ing
liis
friend
good
liking he
And
in-
I think,
Vol.
I.
86
MEMOIRS OF
moved any man
to love her.
scarce ever
But yet
she prov-
his children, as
;
he
to
also,
Mr.
The same
More taught
this wife
less worldly.
"NVoIsey
in dignity
having by
him
also
in
his
Wolsey, we are
sion,
told,
and endeavoured
He
as-
represented to
More
and
them with
sta-
More was
tion
which
his ability as
;
of a courtier
admitted.*
and the
now gave him, for that excuses he made were for this time
a lawyer
No man
More
strove to
keep out of
He
1516.
and pro-
Epist. to Hutten.
SIR
T.
MORE.
affairs,
m
as
he informs *
us, of
this service
appears to have
produced him, on
this
offer,
a pen-
To
More
in his service
may have
In a
letter written to
Erasmus soon
and pre-
More
count of
this expedition.
'
Our
all else
which
concerneth me,
you,
hath
proceeded
happily
affair
home,
sumed above
on that embassy.
was the
Yet a conclusion
suf-
ficiently agreeable
But
and
the
initials
of
still
among
I
On my way home
at
'
Neithei*
G8
is it
MEMOIRS OF
likely to suit us
laymen
so well as
it
siastics,
who
either
find
Jittie
And
when an
ecclesiastic sets-out,
will,
may
it
take his
home
made
But when
am
absent
support, one at
abroad.
The
provision
by the king for those I took with me was sufficiently liyet no regard was had to tliose who must be left at beral
;
will conceive, I
could desire to
hus-
my
absence, as you
know what a
cost to themselves
easy.
,
not so
Nevertheless, on
my
return, a pension
would have
been given
profit,
me by
and think
continue to do
so.
For
if I
accept
it,
my
very
much
;
some
dissatisfaction to our
citizens
with
whom and
any question
would think
me
for
my
pension.
SIR T.
'
MORE.
in
ay
For the
rest,
some occurrences
my
embassy gave
me
peculiar delight.
And
;
first,
than
conduct or agreeable
in his conversation.
Then
formed a
to treat
me
magnificently,
and
The
ele-
gance of
monuments of
I take
his
still
know
and
me.
more eloquent
But
in the whole of
my
peregrination, nothing
was more
agreeable to
me
;
of Antwerp
friendly, that
man so learned, merry, modest, and tmly may I perish if I would not freely give a
property only to enjoy constantly his in-
good part of
tercourse."
my
Hieronymus
of the
an
ecclesiastic
Low
and
bequeathed
taught.
divines
in the
who harboured
there, while
desert, extolled
Busleiden's
They
are
are, double-tongued
indeed
7a
jMEMOiRs or
this letter,
To iEgidius of Antwerp, also commended in More addressed his Utopia, which celebrated
written about this time.
Avill
piece was
find
him no
The good Warham, choosing rather to retire from public employment than to maintain an unequal contest with
AVolsey, resigned his office of chancellor.
Stapleton hath
this occasion,
is
More on
interest-
here translated.
Thomas More
*
to
Archbishop Wai^iam.
father,
lot.
'irst,
much
fice
of chancellor, and
office,
now
still
hapj)ier,
when, having
re-
signed that
to a desirable
may
live
to
God and
yourself- a re-
more agreeable than were those ocopinion more honourable than were
the worst of men,
cupations, but in
all
my
your honours.
be
in office
;
may
ries
obnoxi-
To
lay
down
then, as
you
did, of
SIR T.
sion for which I
MORE.
trouble),
7i
know
cost
you much
none but a
to appreciate
not
occasion.
Indeed, I
among the least strenuous on this know not, whether most to applaud
of the con-
certainly
your singular
how strongly I congratulate this how much I rejoice for you, when I
and
Avell-resigned
life,
and philo-
'
My
think daily
overcome,
to
pay
letter
you
this,
ill-finished httle
werp, precipitated as
73
MEMOIRS OF
it
without
my
knowledge.
think
it
unworthy of your
dignity, experience,
and
am
of your kindness
and
and
your goodness,
it
you
its
worth,
author
'
An
More
had
so studiously avoided.
A
and
him learned
cause
;
was requested that the cause might be tried publicly, and More had the honour of being chosen, as in his presence.
the propcrest lawyer of the time, to be counsel for the
star-chamber.
much
learning
and
the ship restored to the pope, but himself, adds Mr. Roper,
among
for
his upright
meanour therein
so greatly
for-
SJR T.
MORE.
73
Having no
first
Henry
at
af-
the Requests,
and a month
made him a
privy-counsellor.
The precise date of these honours is not very certain, but we may safely limit them to the year 1517* Weston, treasurer of the exchequer, dying some time afterward, the
king without sollicitation gave that place also to More.-f-
1517.
Of
his first
this
here
'
came most
to this
knowme.
one
eth,
joke
tells
And
day
seem
to sit as
awkwardly
there, as
But our
prince,
am
far
from being
all,
is
so afso
and kind
to
him be ever
diffident, findeth
some reason
loveth
him
selves that
London matrons persuade them_ our Lady's image smileth upon them as they
just as our
it.
pray before
am
perament
do so
yet such
and
learning,
and such
vance
in
good and
and
court
to
* Lord Herbert.
Vol.
74.
MEMOIRS OF
may
be sup-
his
judgment.
The
sweetly everywhere
for she
num-
Wc
find
arc
now
therefore to behold
More
in
a very dilferent
which
Ave lately
viewed him.
We
his practice as
become an
officer of
taken
we may
truly say,
he certainly acquiesced
own
for
possible that he
may have
he
still
and
in the
end
it
veiest of
human
first
trials.
In the
Henry
was
Thomas and
SIR T.
MORE,
his closet
75
on astronomy,
af-
of state.
together in
converse
early
of,
The
kino- holds
More
fereth
ters,
in
him
him
if
if to
companion.f
The company of
in the evening
Sir
Thomas was
to he
indeed,
it
seems, so
for
him
about
this time,
far,
Mr. Roper.
ciple
This went so
advancement, I must
chat ziith
wife
and
prattle with
my
children, %
was ia
danger of usurpation.
taining to the king
his fa-
More, however,
just-
Restraining, therefore,
the natural vivacity of his disposition, he caused his conversation in the roj'al presence to
* Roper.
become by degrees
% Utopia.
less
f Epist. to Hutten.
76
iAlEMOIRS
less attractive
;
OF
M'as, that his
and
and
tlie
consequence
time
became more
Leo
his
own.*
time everywhere pubUshing his imlulpretence, of waging war with
S'.
was at
this
gciiccs, to raise
money under
The dominicans being employed by him in Germany on this occasion, the augustinians, who pretended that the office
irritated.
examined
full
this doctrine
of indulgences.
gifted
as he thought,
of
error,
and being
by nature with
silent or in-
in 1517.
From
this
time,
Erasmus began
to
be most maliciously
and
way
Erasmus, they
and Luther
hatched
it.
The
religious disputes
produced
religious
who
upon him
the resentment of
to
The minorite
* Roper.
be
SIR T.
MORE.
77
complimented
egg
With
his strong
it
-<
seems from the following anecdote that Sir Tliomas expected one day the success of the reformation
in this country,
and perhaps
his
to the surmise.
when he commended
to
More
the
happy
and learned a
clergy, so grave
and sound a
in
nobility,
and
all
one
faith
the
knight
indeed son
;
him
in
commendation
J pray God
upon
the mountains, treading heretics under our feet like ants, live
not the day that we would gladly he at league and composition with them, to let
selves, so
to themr-
us have ours
quietly to ourselves.
also
about
this
He
not only
erudition
and no
;.
and did
all
down and
ruin him.
Eras-
mus
in return
7S
MEMOIRS OF
tl)au
and malicious,
court,
Lee.
Yet
this
at
and ahnoner
IVIore,
1^19-
dis-
In 1519, and
Lee, which arc
his life
letters to
by Dr. Jortin
in the
appendix to
of Eras-
mus.
They inform
Lee
from publishing
sorry
his censures
inferior to
as well in
knowledge and
credit
and
judged
this exploit
Thus
our Lee (adds the Doctor), who, had he kept the fool within doors,
Among
make
it is
and
to
among scholars
to the reformation,
and
is
ex-
SIR T.
MORE.
79
Soon
Thomas was
Rabe-
himself attacked.
lais calls
poem
in
1513, intituled
la Cordeliere.
As
in-
he had given a
false
More wrote
several
the faults
;
in the
poems of More
*^
but
1520.
till
Erasmus,
to
in
a very good
though
English
freely, insinuated to
child
compared
in praise of his
friend.f-
More
that, to
it,
at
Erasmus
he held
himself. J
;
He,
Avhich
was no
+ Epist. 511.
% Latin works.
80
MEMOIRS or
it
Yet Erasgood
nmch
^.
'
when attacked by malicious and inconsiderable adSuch characters require a friend to advise them, versaries.
leave these
men
to
own
all,
jp*
writings,
in
yours ? and
it is,
after
no such
truth
must put
folly to tlight.-f-
To
this
period also.
Wood
More
gave of
by
Grocyn came
was manifest-
ed to
his progress.
who had
their
Priam, Hector,
the
new
learning,
to
More wrote
a seminary,
chancellor
a well-timed
letter
;{:
in
that her
own
ri-
the end have the old proverb applied to themselves, sero sa-
inunt Phryges.
* More.
t See
Jortin.
J Printed
at
Oxford
in 4'.
l633.
sm
T.
MORE.
81
1^23.
speaker.
office,
He was
very desir-
this
is
here
manner of the
age.
'
it
cause
it
to
reverend father in
cellor,
God my
lord legate,
above
thai I
may
;
bear, to enable
me, and
me, meet
rather than
you
commons
that they
shall
had made an
be ready, obe-
am
therefore
and alway
and commandment.
beseeching your most noble magrace's favour, before 1 far-
'
In most humble
Avise
jesty, that I
make my humble
* Roper.
petition for
two low-
Vol.
I.
^a
Iv petitions; the
MEMOIRS OF
one
piiviitely
'
if it
mishap me,
in
on
liie
my
misit
message, and,
in
tiie
lack of good
utterance, by
my
may
m^ijest}',
of your aliundant
wonted
pity, to
pardon
my
simpleness; giving
me
commonon
their
in-
house, and there to confer with them, and to take their substantial advice,
in
whatwise
I shall
my
me
simpleit
Which
thing, if
if
should so happen, as
it
were
like to
mishappen
oversight,
it
your
my
could not
to be, during
heart.
my
life,
to
my
manner
first
afore
remembered,
my
gracious sovereign,
my
low-
ly suit
and humble
petition unto
'
My
is
this.
Forsomuch
by
your parliament, a
who
are, after
pointed
in the
common-house
common
ati'airs
among
tliemselves apart;
and
albeit,
most
SIR T.
MORE.
83
in sending-up to
men
sembly of
and
politic persons
yet,
most
every
every
man man
wise alike,
among so many wise men neither is nor among so many alike well witty
and
it
often
happeneth that
polished
see
likewise as
speech, so
much folly is uttered with painted many boisterous and rude in language
;
deep
also
and since
is
so often occu-
man
rather studieth
what
to say
man and
is
best
fer-
spoken
in
would afterward wish to have been uttered otherwise, and yet no worse will had he when he spake it, than he had
when he would
liament
so gladly change
it
therefore,
most
graci-
to let
and put
to silence
from the
givino-
of
their advice
3'our discreet
affairs,
commons,
common
except that
commons were
81
MEMOIRS OF
and
fears,
cloubts
to
how anything
that
it
'
And
in this point,
an<l
proved
is thtr
man
in
is
your
iiigh nrajesty,
fmd themselves
stv-
away
'
It
may
therefore, like
your conmions
man
and boldly,
in
cident
among
And, whatsoever
your majesty of
liaj)i)en
any man to
say, that
it
may
all
like
in
good part;
inter-
how cunningly
soever they be
profit
of
the prosper-
we
all,
cordmg
SIR
It
is
T.
MORE.
85
probable that
tlie
was
to
known haughtiness
;
Avilh
parhaments
awe and
In this point
first
may appear
Of this
ed
is
related.
Wol-
had expresssaid or
in
that no sooner
was anything
it
done
in the
every alehouse.
When
to
manded, the
com-
mons, determined
A debate in
consequence arose
The majority of
in
my mind
seal too
be amiss to receive him with all his pomp, with his maces, his
pillarSf pollaxes, his crosses, his hat,
86
MEMOIRS OF
he the bolder from ourselves to lay the blame, on those
we may
whom
his
witli
solem-
an end
reply.
lie address-
no answer,
for
At
last
he demanded
Jirst
re-
make answer
it
was
neit^ier expedient,
all
with their
wits, he alone in so
ter
was unft
make
his
grace answer.
ISIore
this
farce
was played only upon the insolence of the cardinal who, adds Mr. Rojier, displeased with Sir Thomas More who
had not
in
this
parliament in
all
A
lery
Thomas being
to
in
Wolsey's gal-
him, would
God you
SIR T.
MORE.
I made
replied
ijoii
87
had been
at
zi-hen too,
speaker.
;
Your
would I
More
like this
much
better than
him.
He
dor.
gave a proof of
this
afterward,
by
his
endeavour
to
When Henry
proposed
it
to
represented to his
ma-
jesty
how
there, yet
was ready as
in
duty bound to
his
life.
fulfil his
pleasure,
It
is
Mr. More
we
to
to
we have
seen, he
had commenced
in 1517,
had
to
truth,
upon which
88
MEMOIRS OF
Henry
treatise
established.
rcahii, liad
pul)hshcil a
against
wiiich obtained
him
Irom
tlic
From More's supposed instrunjentality in this publication, wc shall iind that he was afterward accused as the cause of Henry putting a sword into the pope's hand to fight against himself. But the knight, we shall also find from his own
letters,
pleaded
?iot
guilty
to
this
accusation.
He owns
that,
by the
king's aj)iK)intnent,
writers,
but
it
in fact advised
Henry
and a blasphemer.
rejoinder
appeared
in the
name
A\ illiam
Ross,
is
to Sir
ThonMS, and
The
writer,
to refute
The soundest
sense
and the
strong-
spirit,
and even
scurrility,
generally be found
SIR T.
MORE.
89
by the deformity
gifted
felt his
much
at
The importunate
solicitations of the
last,
Roman
field
to take the
by the publication of
yet
on
freewill.
This
and candour
it
in
se-
De
servo
sufficient reason,
much
pro-
More's strong attachment to the church of Rome, ren- dered him of course no tiiend to the great cause.
a letter* of his to Erasmus in 1525, containing
We
have
spite
1525.
much
him
And two
for read-
1597
years later,
licence to
him
by employing
his leisure in
answering them.
That
this
we have
but
we
will
Vol.
I.
90
MEMOIRS OF
The
celebrated Ciceronianus of Erasmus, one
ot"
the
most
ably
1523.
rallies
who
More
at this time
in-
terestinfT.
'
nihil
nou
Civ-
potuisset efticerc
totum
his studiis
vacare
licuisset.
terum,
iilo
grarat in Angliam.
leges
mox
catus,
stu(ha.
Tandem
regiorumque
(juam
j)otcst studia
est,
ma-
subtilij
tatem,
quam ad
TuUio
inlierior est.
Quo-
tliu
poetam agnoscas
et in oratione prosa.'
About
this
room, without
king
made
Sir
Thomas More
he was somehis
Avith
visit
SIR T.
MORE.
91
came
ed in
and
after dinner
garden
for
knight's neck.
'
As soon
as his grace
was gone,
relates
Mr. Roper,
I re-
to Sir
Thomas
Alore,
how happy he
Wolsey,
was
whom
I
any
whom
indeed,
saw
his
I thank
as
my
and I
me
any
tell
subject within
thee,
realm.
I may
I have no
my head
France
to go.'
(for
More
While
Sir
Thomas was
Cliarles in Flanders,
and again
I029.
bert Tonstall to
Cambray, where he
more
benefits
unto this
realm, than at that time by the king or his council, zvas thought
Roper. t Lord Herbert.
N2
92
possible to be compassed.
in
lliis
MEMOIRS OF
And
it
was
for
liis
good
services
when he
afterwiird
made
Sir
Tliomas chan-
On
his
Thomas rode
directly
Here information
his
dwelling-house at Chelfire,
and
all
The
letter
he wrote to
sion
is
we
will
The former
part of
it is
per-
latter
own benevo-
Sir
Thomas
to
Lady More.
I
'
Mistress Alice, in
to you.
loss
my
I
most heartywise
recommend
son Heron
with
all
it
me
And
whereas
am
informed by
my
of the
also,
great pity of so
much good
corn
lost,
yet since
it
hath
liked
him
we must and
lost
are bound-
He
sent us
all
that
it
we have
away
SIR T.
filled
!
MORE.
it
93
in
good
'
And
peradventure
to thank liim
for his
wisdom better
Therefore
the household
seeth what
I pray
is
good
for us than
we do
ourselves.
all
with you to church, and there thank God, both for that
he hath given
for that
us,
from
us,
and
he hath
left us,
which,
if it
if it
crease
less,
when he
will
and
it
at his pleasure be
pray you to
mj'^
poor
neighbours have
fore
;
lost.
And
bid
there-
no poor neighbour of mine bear no loss by any chance, happened in my house. I pray you be, with my children and
3'our
household,
merry
in
God
and
devise
somewhat
way were
it
made
in
year coming,
still
ye think
ground
that
our hands.
And
whether ye think
it
good
we
away our
folk
Howbeit,
if
we have somewhat advised us thereon. we have more now than ye shall need, and
94
MEMOIRS OF
tlieui.
us of
But
ly sent
At
my coming
still
hither, I perceived
none
should tarry
But now
week
see
all
you
and then
shall
we
farther de-
vise together
things,
what order
shall
be best to
take.
And
all
our child-
ren, as
ye can wish
At Woodstock,
Your
loving husband,
THOMAS more/
SIR T.
MORE.
93'
CHAP.
III.
Cardinal Wohey,
Charles.
.
,
tvith
the emperor
Anecdotes of
.
.
More and
.
Wol^ey.
The
.
hing\s-
scruples
His inconsistency
. . .
Morels conduct in
.
More made
ch-incellor
.
.
The duke
More's improve'
ment
in the office.
.
. .
family.
He clears
the chancery
of causes.
Is
He
is
offered
money by
He
.
determines ta
to
IVIvch he at
last
ejffects.
Henry* x promise
.
him.
A/ore's contempt
.
of
ivorldly
. .
.
grandeur.
His wife
is
more
concerned.
./Anecdotes
of
her.
More
.
attendants,
and
His poverty.
Death
his
his
fHal
ciffection.
His
letters to
.
. .
Erasmus on
More's
re-
persecution of heterodoxy
More's own
It
is
now
made
the
3
way
for Sir
Thomar
96
ME.MOIRS OF
lie re-
mar-
quis of Dorset's family, to wliich his assiduity soon the friendship of his patron.
added
In time
lie
Avas
promoted as
Margaret of Savoy.
him
his master's
death, for a
whom
he cast
his
eye as a
rival to
rising
man,
Surrey
churchman
promoter.
But the
fact
fa-
Fox
and
in his confidence.
parties of pleasure
his years
his
and forgetting
all
promoted
the gaiety
men
by
his
owed not
their
their jealousies.
better
Avas
authority to one
othei-
who
will,
could have no
view than to
service,
him-
SIR T. 3I0RE,
self,
97
The
proud of maintaining
public councils,
ter's
and Wolsey, while he directed the pretended a blind submission to his mas-
authority.
Of
list
his acquisitions
there
seemed
to
be no
deeming
politic to
engage him
hohness
many were
train,
and the churchman's ostentation obtained a kind of proverbial fame. The good Warham, as we have seen,
chose rather to
retire,
On
of chanretire-
was given
to
Wolsey
and the
ment of
and
Suffolk,
and of bishop
On
pope
the recal of
his fruitless
com-
mission, Avas,
by the
the
all
the laws
new
Vol.
I.
f)8
MEMOIRS OF
tlie
forded
cardinal a
favourite state,
new opportunity of displaying Ins but being now by the pope's commission
all
and
liie
power, ecclesiastical
as well as
court, a tribunal,
no
man knew
the boundaries.
He gave
laity
it
and the
judge.
to purchase indemnities,
his
by large sums
By
virtue of his
comthe
mission, he pretended to
all
and
testaments
and he presented
to
whatever benefices he
When
became candidates
his
the
dominion of Europe.
upon
his friendship
and
But
Low
countries, of paying
Henry a
;
still
and
it
Avas
here that that politic prince instilled into the aspiring cardinal the
Leo
in the
SIR T.
pa]nil chair,
MORE.
visit
9Sr
to
Eng-
As Adrian's
when Adrian died and Clement VII succeeded, Wolsey became fully
for that time dissembled his
resentment
but
and began
to estrange
More had
Wolsey
he
in the council,
as well as in parliament.
To
mas no doubt
letterSj-f-
in
one of
his
'
it
wise, that
we should
sit
still
But evermore
my
men
rain
But when
made
the
ut-
their caves
and would
ter their
wisdom, the
And
we
us.
Avould
sit in
fall
upon
This
a fair
to
spend
many
penny.'
knight alludes
Hume, &c.
f Eng. works.
100
MEMOIRS OF
Wolsey
book of comfort in tribulation^ wlicii speaks of a great prelate in Germany, who, when he
also in his
f)liintil'r'
to
lie
ask those
tie
who
and
commendation of
it,
tcaa
'
On
'
drawn a draft of
between Eng-
tell hin), if
and he spoke
verily
But when
in
Thomas had
dealt
reall3' therein,
a rage and
all
Ijc
said, by the
!
of
the
council
At which
God
in all
his council*
and
will
archbishop.
certainly disagreeable
to
be placed in
take
it
in
incense, as
would
Jortin.
SIR T.
MORE.
historians,
101
who
ascribe to
And
continues Roper,
'
it
Which
of,
opened
therein,
ed somewiiat to serve
Cam-
Now
ly
Henry's case,
if
;
we beheve himseF,
Avas complete--
a case of conscience
account of
dow.
But
his majesty's
if
word
in his
own cause
to be al-
Avay relied
upon? and
again,
was con-
void
Did not
his pleasure
cause require
a limit to the papal power, while his principles and his application to the
will it
and
102
-AIEMOIIIS
OF
liis
coiiUl nut
cany
his point
and preserve
any
way
he might
God and
The
pence
of rclis;ion?
fact
is,
than
Henry, and the purity of her character was a poor recomin his estimation for the
all
loss
of her beauty.
Her
and
children, save
one daughter,
the king was very desirous of having male issue. the beauty of
Lastly,
Ann
occasion
and her
except
di-
no hope of gratifying
the throne.
his passion,
by
raising her to
No
More perused
the king, but excused himself from giving an opinion, because he had 7Wt professed dhhiifi/.
him
so strongly, that
More besought
;
a deliberation of
such importance
him
bishops of
Durham and
Bath,
'
Now
would
to our
Sir
Tho-
SIR T.
MORE.
103-
at Chelsea water-side,
to
know what
'
these three
be these.
The
were
all
at universal
is
peace.
The second,
many
errors
and
heresies,
third,
were settled
in perfect
uniformity of religion.
is
The
now come
God and
quietness of
parties, brought to a
good conclusion.'
When
'
Sir
kino-,
to
lord of
Durham,
rest
nor
my
to be wise,,
virtuous,
and learned
prelates, nor
3'our grace's
of
all
own
servants, for
us, so
your
much
in
if
my mind meet
counsellors for
But
neither
own
'
king,',
104
MEMOIRS OF
like-of,
very well
in all his
kinc; in
and often-
and declared
to
him,
appeared
Henry then
y But
it
was
no hope of
from
him
to swerve
former opinion.
More
The
SIR T. MORE.
CleiDent,
this
slill
105
knew
that
nion in Florence.
The cause of
compared
to
that of Henry.
No
to try the
in-
Rome.
fore-
this
his
mi-
The motion of
became now
as ac-
celerated, as
advancement; and
by the king
to Sir
Thomas More.
Thus the
to
fall
of Wolsey
made way
is
for Sir
it
Thomas More
reason with Henry for giving him the seal, was to render
Wolsey himself
thought no
man
in
than More.*
The knight
Vol.
Avas
his
I.
106
MKMOIRS OF
by
his
tlic
.Sullblk.
spt'cvli
made bv
TItc
Duke of
liis
Noi'fo/h^s Speech.
'
it hatli [)leased
majesty (and
!)
may
it
prove happy
tor the
nity
man
suHiciently
known
done
and
to his
kingdom.
this,
from no
otlicr
because he perceived in
his
this
man
all
the
endowments which
inte-
His understanding,
liis
tiie
innocence of
his life,
and
his
happy
genius, have
among his countrymen from his early youth, but known for many years past to the king Of this his majesty hath had very ample exhimself also. perience in many and great concerns at home and abroad,
not only been celebrated
in various offices
which he hath
filled,
in foreign embassies
affairs
of
He
hath thought
his
wisdom
in
deliberation, his
his elo(juence in
and
I'rom such
man
every thing
is
to be
expected
and
and
justice,
;
may
fame.
SIR T.
'
MORE.
this
107
It
may seem
it
a novelty that
dignity
is
conferred
birtli,
respects,
tues of this
man, and
his
incomparable
gifts
of genius and
of nature.
The king
but what a
his station,
man he
but
of Sir
not his
titles,
but
his merits
not
his ability.
shew
are
by
his choice
Thomas More,
his
that excellent
laity, to
;
men
not wanting
fices
among
fill
the of-
which being a
his
blessing
more
it
rarely afforded
by the Deity,
majesty
esteemeth
ceive then
spices,
his
the greater
for
to his people.
Re-
More
Sir
'
my honourable lords
on
this occasion,
and gen-
tlemen.
know
me
and which
is
as un-
it
were
true,
and
me more
and commends
my
me-
J08
(liocrity to
MEMOIRS OF
you so lionourably.
^Aiid
I
yoiu" grace
fied tlie
my
commands
oration.
majesty
to-
Mixrd
me,
his royal
mind
to
me, by which
my
now
for
many
this
1,
cause
aiu
these commendations.
or
my
father, that
his
should accumulate so
Inferior to the least
many and
so great honours
upon me?
to the dis-
nour
am
of
certainly unworthy,
its
eliaro-e
duties.
'
Unwillingly
came, as
;
his
but
is
most of
all
against
my
will.
Yet such
and
of his subjects
richly
remunerates
his servants,
little
In
this
number
though
among
all
the meritorious.
will
my
di-
may answer
me.
grateful to
me, the
aids I
more
knew
the difficulty of
my
duty,
SIR T.
MORE.
unwortiiy
ol'
109
had
to
thcin.
Tlic
burden
greater than
my
;
greater than
my
merits
it
soli-
must bear
Avith
my
best exer-
and
fulfil
But a
I ac-
great stimulus to
my
hath through
life
been highest
my
knowledge now
jesty's
chietiy to actuate
me, of
ma-
more easy
your good
wills to
For
my
my
endeavours, and
though small, seem great and praise- worthy. about cheerfully, we achieve happily
received appears best executed.
best possible of me, so, though I
;
and Avhat
kindly
As
therefore ye
hope the
But when
gi'cat
when
I recollect
who
and how
template
of what
persons have
sat in
it last,
before me,
when
I con-
who
skill
man
in business,
at last, I see
my
situation
mv new
hoit
nour
is
rendered
to
less grateful
and pleasant
to
me, than
may seem
many.
For
it is difficult
110
MEMOIRS OF
burning a candle after
lall
s like
tlie
setting sun.
And
is
the un-
of so great a
man
a terrible adplease
much, or
its
splendour
me
too
'
I therefore
ascend
this seat, as
it is
one which
is full
of
la-
solid
honour.
The
higher
it
is,
must guard
against, as not only the nature of the thing, but the recent
example
sufficiently
unless,
his
under these
cir-
majesty toward
will
all,
which
I gather
from your
I
might
stumble at
this
this seat
woidd not seem pleasantcr to me, than did the sword which
hung by a
Damocles while he
in the
midst of ho-
This then
Avill
my
continue with
all
care
and vigilance
to administer
I
my
wisdom, and as
keep
in
mind
my
enjoyment of
ni}-
it
may
The
one,
diligence
ought to accomplish
cessor teach me.
ni}^
prede-
'
all
the
more
easily ap-
preciate
what pleasure
this
high
of the
.SIR T.
MORE.
Ill
noble duke, or
this
me/
'
And
as they
him,' adds
Mr. Roper,
'
to administer inditierent
;
so
if
any time
in
duty
fidelity to
it
God and
they not
to disclose
to his grace,
who
otherwise might
his fault
The reader
ficult subject,
a man's
self.
sufficiently
it
would not
own
conscience
Sir
Thomas More
to the
summit of
and
we
and
mind
i53o.
The
112
MEMOIRS OF
to persons of
bim inaccessible
to his
only.
new
more
chancellor, the
aftably
business,
dis-
He
used
Mr.
Roper) to
sit in his
open
any per-
son had any suit unto iiim, they might the more boldly
come to his presence and open their complaints before him. Ilis manner was also, to read every bill himself before he
would award any subpoena
;
if
otherwise, he can-
now
was
still
More
be-
came
chancellor.
if his
had seated
liimself ere
re-
down
in
in the sight of
if it
them
all,
duly ask
And
he,
at readings
Lincoln's-inn,
met
together,
office
as
they
his high
he would
;
to his
to take
father
it.
though
No
will
be sur-
SIRT. MORE.
prized at finding, that
tiie
113
him
in the
impar-
administration of justice.
One
chamber, but
his
very door-keeper,
made
great profits
in his
any
for
fee,
though commendable
him.
*
You
do not
mislike that
many
by
For sometimes
stead
if
;
may
my
I
in
and sometimes
hear him before
may
my
letter
help him
or
may
cause be not
to
all
may
move
if
the parties to
this
some end
or arbitrament.
Howbcit,
the
I assure thee
call
on ray
faith, that
parties will at
my
hands
for justice,
then were
his
it
my
and the
devil
on the other,
cause
right.'
Another of his sons-in-law, Mr. Heron, had a cause pending in chancery, and presumed so
much upon
the favour
Vol.
I.
ni
to
MEMOIRS OF
any compromise.
The
His talent
for drollery
An
attorney of the
name
of Tul),
said,
for subscription,
which
Tale of a
Tub
in
triumph, without
While he was
to
him
More
dog
which belonged to
The
to brins; the
dog with
He
took
it
into
sit
here,
he
said, to do
call
of them to
forsook his
the dog-.
mistress
The
little
new
upon which
by pur-
Thomas one
'
God's body,
my
lord chancellor,
clerk,
t More.
said
his
grace as they
?
a parish clerk
%
you
dis-
Ibid.
SIR T.
lionour the king
MORE.
'
115
and
his office.'
Nay/ rephed
for serving
Sir
Tho-
mas, smiUng,
'
your grace
will
may
with
me
God,
his
Few
was chancellor
of
to stop proceedings at
common
law, he
the
judges
Sir
to
Thomas hereupon caused the chief of the six clerks make a docket containing the whole number and causes
all
of
his time,
the judges
him
in the
council-chamber at Westminster.
clearly the
in
my
he
said, drive
me
to that necessiiij
of award-
I perceive,
son,
he add-
Q2
IIG
MEMOIRS OF
k'^i/
cd to Mr. Roper,
For they
see
that they may, by the verdict of the jury, cast-off all quarrels from
chief defence.
And
all
therefore
am I
adventure of
such reports.*
in the dispatch of
that
it is
said,
during
cause,
the7'e
gave
gram.
been
The same
shall never
more be seen
much
in
leisure
Yet
his
were
profitable
heresies secretly
in the realm.
The
t More.
SIR T.
MORE.
117
clerg}-^,
to
sum
money (supposed
to
thou-
among them.
The bishops of
in conse-
name of
the
convocation.
thanks, that
it
More
and
whom
their
When
Not
so
my
lords,' said
the knight.
that either I
it
cast in the
Thames than
or any of
my
lords,
set I so little
by
my
profit
and so much
have
lost
by
my
pleasure, that I
would not
in
good
faith
the watching of so
liberal offer.
many
nights for
much more
that,
all
than 3'our
And
I, for all
upon con-
my
books
my
labour
The
that
More was
ot-
il8
MEMOIRS OF
he certainly
far surpassed in
whom
knowledge, to wrile
against tlieni.*
In
Thomas hath
on
this subject.
I will not
some good
have
my
I
good
will
given
But
could
me much more than ever I dare take God and them also never fee me with one penny
it.
ly told
the
men and
is
my
I
God
that
their better,
theirs.
and
1
for
whose sake
am
disposition, withI
am
1
both
be hired /or
moiici/, to
have
taken in
this
1 began.'
-f-
Soon
upon
Henry
again importuned
More upon
Mr. Roper,
The
knight, saith
his
on
his
sought
to
him
as
mind
)-
his majesty's
p. ^6/,
words
Eng. worki,
SIR T.
MORC.
119
on
look unto
God, and
God
unto him.
tliat
if j\Iore
could
not conscientiously serve him in that matter, he was content to accept the knight's services in other ways,
and
to
of"
it
;
whose consciences
conscience with
But
this
heart as
it
fiom what
alway was.
Dr.
remarked by accident
company of Gardiner,
secre-
tary of state, and Fox, the king's almoner, that the readiest
the
pope must
find
very
difficult
to resist
his favour.
Several
universities
wish
time
complied
also.
still
under the
summoning Henry,
But
of
by proxy,
citation as
to
appear at Rome.
insult
;
an
and the
earl
120
JfEMOIRS OF
Wiltshire, father of
Ann
marry
Ann Boleyn
his
at all events,
and that
all
his
His
office
pany with
lords to the
universities
af-
commons,
tale,
which certainly
satisfaction
the lelhng.
But
Alore's
to allow
him
now
the
undergo similar
trials.
who would
this
abbreviate
of the pope in
country, he saw
now by
intended against the catholic cause, not to mention the objections he appeared to have to the di\orce.
We shall
SIR T.
MORE.
ISI
by the knight
resignation
More
for so
much
More
to
the
make
such a proposal
fi-om the knight;
it
much importunity
well,
his
worth too
to listen to
without
repeated solicitation.
last obtained,
The
majesty by ap1532.
'
Which,'
continues
Mr. Roper,
'
as
his
grace, with
office,
at
it
which he behonour
in
any
suit
he should find
his highness
how
when
he
Vol.
I.
122
MEMOIRS OF
left
him by
his father, or
purchased by himself
It
ed from
he had ascended to
his fortune,
He
serenity.
When
on
his
he laughed at
losing a
their distress,
misfor-
tunes.*
have been
sion.
less
During
been
his chancellorship,
one of
INIore's
attendants had
over, of go-
was
pew
to inform her
when
gone.
Sir
The
said,
first
bow,
gined
it
;
madam,
ini/
lord
is
gone.
His lady at
little
first
ima-
this to
be one of
his jests,
and took
notice of
ed the
The
facetious knight
and asked
?
if
appearance
* Hume.
SIR T.
gative,
MORE.
la
eth
somewhat awry ? *
reported to have exclaimed with her
Tilli vally,
is
what
will
and make
es ? it is better to rule
than
to be ruled, f.
More's
first
He
used
all
;
among
the nobility
and bishops
and next
whom
own
hitherto he
house, in the
manner of an ancient
ly
patriarch.
glad-
all
their
expences himself, he
.'*
AVhen he saw us
silent,'
then
shew
my
'
have been
and
and
so
from the
j'early
least degree to
this
the highest
I in
revenues at
present left
:
me
above a hunhereafter
so that
now must we
f More.
we
124
MEMOIRS OF
But by
butors together.
for us to
fall
my
counsel,
first.
it
shall
will
not be best
We
not therefore
;
descend to Oxford
but
right
we
will
many
well together
first
AVhich
if
we
to
maintain the
we
down
to
New-
many an
fare,
honest
man
we
is
well-contented.
the next year
will
after
descend to Oxibrd
and ancient
Which
if
our power stretch not to maintain neither, then ma}' Ave yet
Avith
some good
folks
Avill
keep com-
together.'
'
And
he
whereas,' adds
"was
Mr. Roper,
'
fore,
whom,
in all
the great
and and
cares, travails
beyond the
whole substance of
he was not
drink, fuel,
SIR T.
MORE.
126
am
well
And
he had not
left
know
(his
chain ex-
dred pounds/
When
was not
his
to
who knew
should Jind his wife^s gay girdle and her golden heads^'
It
was about
this
INlore,
of
and departing
Sir
Thomas
on
is
the strong-est
filial
affection
last,
this
occasion
man
breathed his
son.-j^
Little, if
More by
Sir
who
outlived
Thomas about
Hertfordshire.
:j:
And
in
More's
this time,
in all
he
Ibid, and
Roper.
126
MEMOIRS OF
fees as
and
is
I have of
(whose
tin uv)
my I pray God
his
mother-in-law liveth
long keep and con-
worth yearly
my
charitj',
and
contempt of wealth
his
More
office,
some
interesting passages
'
have wished
for
Desiderius, which
rejoice in
and
myself occasionally,
namely,
from
some time
to devote to
God
last
and myself,
that,
have at
it
as I wished.
For
of
my
life in
a state,
Avhicli,
though suitable to
my
me
to enjoy
dis-
my
But
it
remaineth
in
the
hand of God,
whether
plished.
this
Meantime a
disorder of 1
hath attacked
pain than
my
breast,
by which
present
it
in fear
of the consequence.
* Eng. Tforks, p. 867-
For when
had
SIR T.
MORE.
127
plagued
cians
me without abatement some months, the physiwhom I consulted gave their opinion, that the long
it
continuance of
possible
;
but that
altera-
Neither
could they
fix
the period of
last.
my
recovery, or ensure
me
complete cure at
Considering
office, or
this,
saw that
must
it
either lay
down
my
of
discharge
my
duty in
incompletely.
And
office,
my
life,
lose
both
life
and
both.
Where-
my
own
my
good and
great prince, that from the high office with which (as you
know) he honoured me by
his
my
of
pretensions,
above
my
hopes, above
I
my
wishes,
he
should
it.
now
release
me, sinking as
'
I therefore
who
alone
is
;
able,
may
majesty toward
me
that
and
inclination and
ably.
strength of
body
also,
employ
it profit-
For, under
bad
health, I
am
nor,
my
good
friend, are
we
all like
God in
kindness seems
128
MEMOIRS OF
For who but yourself
you,
who
mankind by your
excellent
and
ill
you of no-
'
it
though
dissembled
;
lu}'
sentiments, I gave-up
my
I
otlice
unwilhngly
my monument,
it
have
really was, in
my
anybody could,
such insinuations.
could not tax
me
me
not of
some degree of
Avho think very
ai'rogance.
;
But
certainly not
on
my own
God
account,
of what
men
say
wliile
approveth,
in the
most disputed
tenets, I
conceived that
my
character.
know how
these
behoved
taph, by which
you
will
see with
what assurance
I leave
men
may
the
less
say of
nie
what they
I
my
SIR
official
T.
MORE.
lyc)
challenge
my
integrity.
my
me
The
suc-
when
my
a very
first-rate
personage, took
scat, his
ma-
jesty
commanded
England, to
more than
my
me
to repeat,
and
to say
;
that he dismissed
me most
unwillingly at
my
entreaty
and
be
this to
inscription
above alluded
to,
was
in-
wife being
removed
thither,
he
many
years pre-
The
original
and a
Thomas Morus,
Urbe Londinensi
familia non celebri sed Iiouesta natus,
Quum
et causas aliquot
foro,
Et
English work>.
Vol.
I.
130
xAIEMOIRS
OF
iiuiulilu coiiligil
Ut FIDEI DEFENSOR,
Qualcm
el
praDslitit,
Mcrito vocaretur)
Adscitus in aiilam est
Delcctusque
ProqujEstor
in
primum, post
caiiccUarius Lancasliiaj,
factus est.
tandem
Angliie,
Comes ct
Quo
RtdditamqiiP
mundo
El
Quam
Ut
sui^ri
pacem
quum
ita versarctur
Ncquc
Homo
civilis, suavis,
Annis quidam
plusquam pro
sibi
ajtate vivido,
Postqnam eo productain
vitam vidit
Lt
Satis in terra
jam se moratum
ratus
At
filius,
defuncto patre,
et
Et
ipse
quoque
sibi
vidcbatur,
sill T.
MORE.
131
Et editos ex
se libeios
Apud
aiiiraum
suum
ca-pit pcrscnesccrt.
Auxit liunc
afl&^^ctum aiiimi
sattir,
rem a puero
Ut
ultimos aliquot
vitaj suaj
annos obtincret
liberos,
Quibus hujus
vitae negotiis
paulatim
se
subdacens
(si cccptis
annuat D'us)
sibi
Qaod
mortis
cum nunquam
Translatis
Luc
Extrucndum
curavit.
Quod
Neve
ne
Mortemque
ut sibi non
omniao mortem
Sed jaimara
Precibus eiim
Chara Tboma;
jacct hie
Joanna hunc
iixorcula Mori,
destine,
quique
milii.
Una
Me
tuit
uUa
suis.
niccum
Charior inccrtum
hc
sit
an hc
fuerit.
S 2
132
MEMOIRS OF
O
At
simul
Quam
socict
bene,
fatum
rcligiocjuc siiiaiit
!
Sic mors,
vita, dabit.
Tbomas More,
Bora
in the city of
Somewiiat of a proficient
When, in iiis youtli he luid pleaded at the bar some years And discharged the olhce of under-slieriff in that city He, by the redoubted king Henry VIH
(To
whom
Of
As indeed he
nEFENDEn
provetl himself
THE FAITH,
as well as the pen,)
by the sword
to court
Was ciilied
England
And
to
Cambray,
since of
Durham,
learned, wiser, or better.
A man
than
whom
more
and
to negociate
The
And the restoration to the world of long, wished- for peace. Which jxace may heaven confirm and long preserve!
When
his
conduct
Nor
the peers or
commons
disapprove,
Though
SIR T.
At length
Appointed by
xMORE.
John More,
ISS
his majesty
A man of courtcousand pleasant manners, harmless, gentle, full of compassion, just and uncorrupT,
Old indeed
in years, yet fresh for his
Thinking he had
'
tarried long
enough on
earth,
The
Compared
to
son,
father,
whom,
young man,
And
And beholding
Wanting now
Began
own and
eleven grandchildren,
old.
to fancy himself
this
growing
And
By
A
The
symptom
as
it
Having then
And
business
Might have
on
That thing
at last (if
God
approve)
By
Having
And
he hath erected
this
monument,
first
Having removed
wife,
deatli.
As a constant memorial of
That he may not have done
ever-approaching
this in
And
existence.
Do
assist
As
well
now while he
I'M
MEMOIRS OF
Here
lies
Thomas More,
And
Tlucc
my
girls,
a boy,
my
M'ith
rarest !>tep.laiues
may my
Alic vie.
.
my
jouthful ycius
ith love,
my
matiuer day,
Each seems
prove
my
Here brac'd
we
live
And
death
all'ord wUiit
lilt;
To
the elegant
is
pen of
tlie
the reader
of the verses.
Within
This,
this
tomb Jane,
for Alice
More
The first, dear object of my youthful vow, Gave me three daughters and a son to know The next, ah virtue in a stepdamc rare
Nursed
my
With both my years so happily have past. Which most my love, I know not first, or
last.
had
How
But be we
tomb,
in
heaven
allietl
life
So kinder death
shall grant,
what
denied.
for
No
less
SIR T.
laid
MORE.
liis
135
residence
of whicli, that
re-
Mr.
that Sir
Thomas
it
built
a chapel or chancel
Chelsea-church
and furnished
give
it
liberally with
it
good men
This
is
said to
have
his
in the east
Avindow of which,
Before
will
we
it
his fu-
Of our
martyrologist Fox,
it
More
are,
Strype
thorities,
utmost height
his aversion to
heterodoxy.
Tiiis
man,
1S6
MEMOIRS OF
tlie
quuintance with
vei ;v
noble
spirit
who had
i)resent
would
deeni-
somewhat
ot"
events been so
irritated
it is
true,
been able in
many
in-
man
and
the ignoot"
the
usual progress
men's
lie
to
adduced at
\\ere
day
in extenuation of his
conduct.
There
evil prin-
ciples,
who abused
it is
own
vilest
purposes, that
not to be wondered at
if
More, as well
it.
Germany
was
as if all
Who
light
how many
and
on
this
pretence of reforma-
tion, to
severity of
this
power
Were
it
not for
check,
rich,
SIR T.
MORE.
137
But what
Avill
man
of
own
behalf, to
be found in the
Apology, printed
in his English
works
with which
we
will
seem
to
need no comment.
'
The
lies
Divers of
them
such as were in
my
house
tor-
them with
my
garden
And
this tale
had some of
mine did of
late,
much speaking
thereof.
'
AVhat cannot these brethren say who can be so shamesay thus? For, of very truth, albeit that for a great
less to
done by some
officers
other prisons
well deserved pain,
after-
ward should
stick
many
have done to
many good
folk
Vol.
I.
133
MEMOIRS OF
a great deal
much more
liarm
vet thousli
so did in
thieves, nmrderers,
all
they,
yet, saving only their sure keeping, I never did else cause
to be
tvpain.
in aJl
my
except only
child,
in
came
ment of
house,
the altar.
Which
my
who
And, upon
amendment
'
after that
he had
fallen into
And
albeit that
remembrance
to
come again
to
fall
And
in his
to the trouble of
good
SIR T.
MORE.
139
people
in
And And
specially
would he be
most busy
at the secrets
of the mass.
if
he spied any
woman
he were
kneeling at a form,
and
if
lift-up all
as he
came
and
town
wandering by
my
bounden
he Avax-
And
appeared well
it
went
about in grazing
it
Avas
beaten home.
For he could
then very well rehearse his faults himself, and speak and
treat very well,
verily,
and promise
!
to
do afterward as
well.
And
God
be thanked
I hear
And of all who ever came in my hand for heresy, as help me God saving, as I said, the sure keeping of them
'
!
much
as a
fillip
on the forehead.
T2
140
*
MEarOIRS OF
And now
known
if tliis
pacifier
had by expe-
rience
much
own
Howbeit, what
my
not in so
sort of folk
may
alone, even in
would
mat-
new brotherhood
in a
man/
SIR T.
MORE.
141
CHAP.
IV.
More*s anticipation of
his fate.
He
tvithdraws
from
public business.
to
Cromhis
His behaviour
.
.
to the bishops.
Malignant scrutiny on
letter to
conduct.
The nun of
.
Kent.
More's
Cromwell, and a
.
curious anecdote.
More
Con.
.
More's firmness.
.
His
ply.
He
is
accused of ingratitude.
.
.
His
,
re.
Anecdote on
his
return home.
bill.
.
The
king's conduct.
in parliament.
Acts passed
Henry's triumph
in his
new
. . .
titles.
and of their
adversaries.
More
He
is
cited to
appear at Lambeth.
. . .
letter
.
.
to
.
his daughter.
letter.
.
More and
More's
XI IS
voluntary resignation of
this
world's dignity
was the
112
'
MEMOIRS OF
He would
talk,'
sijys
Mr. Kopcr,
'
unto
his wife
hell,
and
and pains of
of the
and deaths
And what a happy and blessed thing it was, for the love of God to sutler the loss of goods, imprisonment, loss of lands,
and
life also.
Wherewith,
fell
and the
like
virtuous talk, he
had
when
he afterward
liis
trouble was to
When
and to
he resigned
his office,
More withdrew
his attention
to prayer
He
own
houses.
He
is
many
to
sleepless nights in
the anfor
and
courage under
Jillip.
it,
endure a
He
once went so
a pursuivant to come
house, and, knocking
on a sudden at dinner-tinie to
hastily at the door, to
summon him
next day.
had
to expect.*'
Ann
Boleyn,
Cod
Thomas
to
Mr. Roper,
SIR T.
MORE.
143
One day when Thomas Cromwell came to him at Chelsea with a message from the king. More said to him, Mr. Cromwell you are now entered into the service of a most
'
If
you
will follow
my
poor
you
shall in
your counsel-giving to
to do, but never
what he
able to
do
so shall
and
For, if a lion
knew
his
own
les-
for
any man
to rule him.'*
More's
Henry
as he thought
new
him
queen's coronation,
More
receiv-
ed a
letter
chester, requesting
Tower
and
to accept of
20
More
their lordships
money but remained at home, and told when he saw them, that as he had complied
who made a
it
was a
first
Now
and
how
ed to enforce
his law.
When
his council
* Roper.
144
MEMOIRS OF
for sonic time,
matter
Avhy
ter?
a good, plain
lords
man
arose
and
said,
make ye
let
'
so
much ado my
first
her be
may
she be
devoured.
knight,
'
And
in
have
matrimony hitherto
my
lords
first
be
and next
and
finally to write
books to
ed ye, then
will
they not
fail
my
lords,
it
lieth
It
to the queen,
More.
But
it is
his great
move
the knight
began now to
prevail,
adopt
At
least
malignant
sciiitiny
appears from
in
this
time to
discovering
some
SIR T. RIORE.
145
is
More
to
Thomas Cromwell,
vindi-
cating himself against a false report which had been circulated, that
justifica-
commonly
called the
curious letter
lio-ht
upon
this subject,
for the
and
is
here presented to
Sir Thomas
More
to
for
your goodness
in
accepting of
my
rude long
letter,
me,
it
liked
your mastership
to break with
my
son Roper,
who were
my
writing
Of
which
my
demeanor, that
it
liketh
you
to be content to
own
writing,
Vol.
I.
14(5
ME^rOIRS OF
It
is,
'
^\as
At which time the bishop of (God absolve his soul !) sent unto
had, as report was then made,
it
words of
hei*s,
which
in
at sundry times
spoken
pleased
to
me
the
roll,
commanding me
1
thought
tiiere-
me,
him, that
I
in
good
faith I
Words that
that
also
some part
!
God
saw
wots
rude
for
that I
therein, a right
it
smiple
woman
my
mind, speak
of her
it
own
was
God wrought
And
tlie
in hcr^
king's
light, as it al-
proved lewd.
about christmas was twelvemonth,
'
From
that time
till
saving that
my
my
faith I
had
Sm
'
T.
MORE.
tell
MI
Now,
as I
wa3 about
to
friar
my
house.
Where,
after supin
he went to
his
chamber, he
fell
com-
munication with
tion of holiness,
me
commendathino",
and that
God wrought in
Which
and thanked
God
thereof.
Then he
life,
me
my And
;
my
legate a revelation
of hers, of
God had
put in
my
lord legate's
hand
which
if
God would
lay
it
sore to his
charge.
The
first,
his chancellor;
and the
third, she
said,
in
trust with
his
re-
marriage.
And
any
doubt-
God
with his grace and wisdom, that the thing should take such
end as
God
When
he heard
me
say these
conmianded her
he
And
148
MEMOIRS OF
I
and
ter.
Nor, since
after, to
his
never saw
at
him
my
remembrance,
saw him
Paul's
cross.
After
this,
little
mond.
And
as
we
.''
fell
in
talking, I
And upon
1 said yea,
me,
me
of the holy
nun of Kent.
And
and that
/ would
not,
quoth he,
;
you again
but
by her, which
you if I
And therewith he asked me, whether father Risby had told me any thing of her being with my lord cardinal? And I said j/ea. Then
thought you had not heard them already.
he
told
I.
swords.
Yea
verilyy
quoth
she
Did
he
tell
had concerning
the king's
grace?
I,,
nor if he would have done, I would not have given him the
hearing; nor verily no more
since she
hath been with the king*s grace herself and told him, methought
it
a thing needless
father
me
1
or
to
any man
else.
And when
And
thercAvith
my
I required liim
SIR T.
to
to
sit
MORE.
U9
with
me
London.
After that night I talked with him twice
house, another time in his
once in mine
at the friars.
own
own garden
mean
folk I
But
and that he
had
com-
me
I
that she
had
told
him
For
if
he had,
told
would
me, and
host with which, as I have heard, she said she was houseled
mass
at Calais, if I
had heard
it
of him as told
I
would have
I
both liked him and her the worse. But whether ever
heard
since she
was
in hold, in
good
I
cannot
it,
But
it
heard
methought
marvellous to be true
and very
told
it
had
told
And
doubted,
but that some of these tales which were told of her Avere
untrue.
But
yet, since
I
I
As some
lies
150
in heaven,
all that.
MEMOIRS OF
and yet many nuracles indeed done by them
for
After
this,
me
and
slieweti
thing's
in her.
spoken with
her,
how
to
Whereupon,
I
when
came
and
At which
communication, had
sent but
in
we two.
to her
OCT
But
shewed, that
'
my
to
coming
pleased
God
to reveal
I
her.
which
nnght have
in
remember me to God
her
good,
that, as
ed that
many
own
vourable minds,
many
trutii.
And
ly
that of
me
she had
many
al-
me and
I hearti-
thanked
lier.
SIR T. MORE.
f
151
I said
much
me
and
xnsions as she
had
seeti,
cast
And
Ji
verily she
credence zinto you, and thereupon hath left to lean any longer
hereupon she
saith,
shefndless
for ever
since, she
things as she
was wont
sir,
To
point
answered me,
Forsooth
there
in
it
this
God
to
as
appeareth
soul,
my
rude warning
so well
and her
visions reproved.
liked her in
good
many
reported by her.
sion,
me upon
that occa-
how
of.
who
visions, to take
they
come
And
communication she
told
me,
that of
flutter-
was
flying
and
dow.
'
For conclusion
we
159
MEMOIRS OF
else,
nor
in effect
of any
man
to
woman
Jkit after
no long
connnunication had
ever
we met
my
time
came
go home),
pray
for
me and
her
spake
witli
after.
had a great
in great estimation, as
you
shall
For afterward
because
n^i^ht
men
;
women, used
folk are
to
have
much
and many
of nature in-
and
curious,
whereby they
it
fall
to forbear, of
no-
thereit
Wliich, since
may
be
lost,
I shall insert
the very
copy
tiiereof in
this
present
letter.
-words
right dearhj-hdoved
!
Lord God
i\fter
I shall beseech
you
that
to take
I
my
good worth
and pardon
me
am
and
also with-
out necessity
to give
counsel to you
good inspirations and great revelations, which it liketh Almighty God of his goodness to give and shew (as many wise,
well-learned,
have
my
soul, to
SIR T.
vice.
MORE.
it
153
For
surely,
pleaseth
little
God
some-
estimation,
the light of the spirit so far above them, that there were
(as
he suffered
his
high pro-
some
things advised
and counselled by
Lord
I bear
in
my
wisdom considered,
to
God and
direct you.
Good madam
in the begfinnino; of
I neither
my
And
least of all of
it
the realm.
In case
so were that
God
had, as to
many
not
good
folks beforetime
you such
them.
things, I said
I Avas
'
Now madam
many
folk desire to
who
little
peradventure of
my mind
and some
to
of things which
much harm.
As
for
I think Avas
late
duke of Buckiuiiham
moved with
Vol.
I.
an holy
154
MEMOIRS OF
as attcrward was
liis
it
of
liis
bloody
sulUceth me,
things.
put you
in
rememhrance of such
spirit
As
of
God
with
shall
(s[x;cially
But only
to
com-
mune and
talk with
any person, high and low, of such manto the soul be profitiible for
ner of things, as
may
you to
And
thus,
I
my
:
sister in
make an end of this my needless advertisement unto you AVhom the blessed Trinity preserve and
our Lord,
increase in grace
;
and put
in
in
me and mine
sea, this
unto him
At Chel-
Your
heart3'-loving brother
and bedesman,
K'.
THOMAS MORE,
'
At
letter,
she answered
my
at
servant,
Soon
came
Shene,
Who
nothing talked
me, but of her and of the great joy that they took in
;
her virtue
munication
But
came
SIR T.
to
MORE.
155
me and
told
me
a long
tale,
of a knight in Kent
to destroy himself.
who was
we talked of, nor should have done of likelihood though we had tarried together much longer, he took so great pleasure, good man
And none
other thing
to
tell
all
'
"When
which there
to Sion,
on a day
in
mc
is
how
I liked the
howbeit,
quoth
I,
she
zvere
her other,
till
she
is
happened
he proved naught.
I
And
in
good
faith that
my manner
mdeed, except
were
set to
upon
likelihood of
some cloak-
ed
evil.
For
in
my
as yourself hath
in this
matter. Wherein
my mind
to your great
Whereby every
other
wretch
may
own
manner and
woin-
God.
For
verily this
man
who
own
when
I sent
word by
my
156
A^EMOJRS OF
cliaiterhousc that
slic
tlie
Avas
undoubtedly proved a
false,
opi-r
so
good
scantly believe
me
therein.
Ilowbeit,
it
many
man
beside;
ed naught/
A
letter
it
When
It
INIore's
this
was resolved,
acknowledged a martyr
might per-
and
it
from
More
1534.
in her
way.
The
name was
at
first
bill,
and
t Burnet
ex M-S.S. Norfolc.
SIR T.
MORE.
]57
his
own
defence.
Henry, how-
ever, appointed
cellor, the
examine him
to use his
to obtain
his
discharge
from the
bill,
he answered he would.
and
atfair
For
in-
More
this
compence
add
his
consent to
and
the universities
had
al-
replied,
'
No man
there
my
lords,
who would
than
and bountiful
most
I
liberally
bestowed on me.
this
Howbeit
hoped,
matter more
my
mind unto
his grace,
which
iiis
IflS
MEMOIRS OF
a most gracious prince, very well to accept, never mind-
like
me more
And
therewith.
Since which
to
is
move me
any
change could
in all the
never
find.
if I
could, there
it
none
world
than 1/
of the nun
in
which
it
it
membrance of what
his majest}'
More
to
It
may
like
your highness to
your gracious
re-
membrance, that
room and
office
my
you were
so
my
me
of
poor humble
suit to discharge
my
life
to
come about
my
soul in the
for
service of
God, and
it
to be your
you
you (which
it
my
deserving to com-
suit
which
mine honour
(the
word
SIR T.
it
MORE.
tluit
IbO
liked
sliould per-
tain unto
my
profit, I
So
is it
is
and
And
worldly
profit, I trust
daily
greedy thereof.
'
But now
is
my
most humble
suit
same somewhat
my
poor
honesty.
Howbeit
principally,
that of your
accustomed
grace,
my
truth
my
give cause.
I
For
nun of Canterbury,
trusty counsellor
b}'
my
writing, as
Which my
his
de-
goodness
which
my
dealing, whether
any other
man may
hand
of
to
nor
lieth
it
in
my
it is
my
said
seem
evil,
my mind
160
*
MEMOIRS or
Wherefore, most gracious sovereign,
it
yet can
well
my
ness, consider
And
if
that in your
mind
shall
many manner
or
of ways used
imto me,
as could with
digress
any of them
all,
living,
from
my bounden
I
loss
of
all
may
lose,
goods, lands,
and fmally
my
life
me
a pennyworth
of pleasure
short
life
my
my
and
prosperity
!),
should
am
will
be
till
howsoever your
Howbeit,
if in
the considering of
my
God you
shall),
demeaned my-
SIR T. 3IORE.
self
IGl
than well
may
stand with
of the dread
and
fear,
by that
bill
put by your
me)
lest
sinister information,
'
Which
if
God and
will
not
then in
my
most
albeit
humble manner
very
that in respect of
slight
;
my
former request
this other
thing
is
since I
now have
life
to
'
it
may like
my
bill
poor honesty
and never
suffer,
by the mean of
to take occasion
such a
any man
Who
should yet,
by the
peril
of their
shall,
own
I
souls,
than me;
who
trust, settle
your
truth
Vol.
I.
162
MEMOIRS OF
of heaven, and not
aiul liojie
upon the
fallible
opinion, or
'
And
thus,
lord, I
all
who
and
amend
all
the contrary.
Among whom,
ever
be, or
When
move More
if
course to threats, and told him that the king had ordered,
gentleness would not win him, that in his
name they
there
For
a book
to his
dishonour through-
put a sword
in the pope's
hand
to
My
lords,' replied
More,
me.
'
for children
and not
for
But
answer to
that,
where-
my
charge
for
f Roper.
SIR T.
MORE.
1G3
none
is
there
who can
my
excuse more
Who
by
majesty thereunto,
was
finished,
his grace's
appointment, and
unto
thing,
and that
i/ou
this.
a prince as
princes.
are,
and
other christian
It
may
may
gro'ssi)
think
it best
and
'
'
that shall
it
not.
We
are so
much bounden
honour
to it.
'
Then did
tute
remembrance of the staof premunire, Avhereby a good part of the pope's pasI
farther put
him
in
his high-
will set-
grace told
his
4
me
with his
own mouth.
when
and
Y2
jGI
MEMOIRS OF
gracious rcincinbruncc
call to his
my
doings
in
that bciialf,
speak of
it
me
there-
thoroughly himself.'
And
t/iey,
for
Mr. Roper
rejoicing to see
him
so,
hoped he was
bill.
When
walked together
inint sir that all
in the garden,
is
It
is
so
God I answered
the
knight.
Jire
Bj/
my
I never remembered
it.
Never remembered
near,
it !
and
us all for
your sake
I am
sorry to hear
all
it ;
for I
verily trusted
uell.
so merry, that
had been
why I was
so
merry
sir.
SIR T. MOilE.
1&3
foul fail
those
lords
I had gone
so far,
as
More
for
what was
little less
liberate falsehood,
and
in his
own
bill.
defence, that
were best to
name from
to
the
much bent on
He
lists,
his
favourite
when
the
bill
should pass
much
in
awe of him,
to reject
it.
The committee of council, however, were of a different opinion. They feared, or pretended to fear, the talents
and eloquence of
Sir
Thomas,
and
deem it prudent to hazard his appearance to plead in his own defence, whose virtues and amiable conduct had prejudiced so many in his favour be-;
commanding
fore
he spoke.*
* Roper and Warner.
JOG
MEMOIRS OF
to
give
way, the
point,
^\'hether they
difHcult to say.
If his
we
re-
jiarlia-
ments we
shall
lat-
ter cause, or to
if
postor.
rest
(says
Mr. Roper)
at last besought
Henry on
their
him
to
to serve
For
in this cause
accounted
in,
so
Henry
at length complied
desired
him
\\
to
tell
More, that
his
name was
this
bill.
from
ISlrs.
Roper,
in
faith
Megg, he
quod
differtur
non aufertur.^
The
confidence
SIR T.
MORE.
167
In
this
I.
the crown
and the
Ann was
confirmed.
An
this succession,
and of
forfeiture of
goods and
chattels.
II.
The parliament
conferred on
Henry the
title
of the
By
and
Avhich,
ecclesiastical discipline
was entrusted
to
them
the
his apostles
and
was
set aside
made
to devolve
civil
Christianity to
depend on the
will
f 26 Hen. VIII.
c. l.
168
MEMOIRS OF
III.
An
uhich
it
was
iiuidc
high
will,
or desire,
by words or
any of them,
of the dignity,
title
or
name of
Soon
after the
triumphed in
his
new
title.
'
Nos
Deum
otVicii
nostri,
quo
anima
exer-
in corpore ct sol in
ceamus
in
Dei sedulo
animam
inducere potuimus,
quam
ne
ut
(juid aliud
faciendum
aliis
prae-
scriberemus,
ipsa
Dei lege ne
vel trans-
We have
also
the
Henry
had
SIR T.
MORE.
169
inscriptions.
A representation
lyn's
of this medal
may
Numismata.
those days
in
it
seems understood by
king
&c.
But
their adversaries
his authority
;
by
their immunities,
who claimed
princes
and
title
countries.
challenge
any point of
faith or
matter of
much
be supreme judge
or governor of
and prohibit
but
error,
and by wholesome
laid neither
and
in his
domi-
The oath of succession was generall}' taken, and bishop Fisher and More were the only persons of note who entertained scruples as to
for virtue
its legality.
and
integrity
others,
made
it
supposed that
would influence
to con-
VOL.
I.
170
ME>[OIRS OF
tliis
vince him on
point.
But
and whatever
we
conscience
we must
admire.
Mr. Roper
to
More,
duke of Norfolk
it is
said
one day
'
the mass
Mr. More,
would wish
perilous striving
Avith princes
therefore I
j'ou
somewhat
to in-
est.'
Is that all
my
lord
?"
re-
then
in
is
good
this
between
me
but
and
you to-morrow.'
About a month after the law for the oath was passed, certain clergy of London and ^Westminster, and More, were
cited to
CroniAvell,
them.
Avent to
More, as was
Mr.
his
from
all
whom
him
to his boat
and there
suffer
fare-
well, then
woidd he
to fol-
low him, but pulled the wicket after him and shut them all
from
him.
SIR T.
MORE.
17i
and
he suddenly whispered
!
the field
is
won.
As
his
mind appears
permitted to return
his favourite
home from
Lambeth,
Sir Thomas
More
to
'
When
was the
first
who was
albeit that
]\Ir.
divers others.
my
me
roll.
Then
which was
me
in
a printed
'
my
purpose
was not
to put
any
fault either in
the act or
or
nor to
of any other
man
in
good
faith
my
conscience so
moved me
mat-
ter,
deny
sion, yet
mc
could
my
soul to perpetual
172
.AIEMOIRS
OF
I
damnation.
And
that
if
did re-
my
conscience, or for
satisf)-
them by
mine oath
Which
if
mc any
oath
And
if
I,
they trusted
that of their
me
which
was against
my
*
conscience.
Unto
this
my
all
were
me
me
And
they said
highness to conceive great suspicion of me, and great indignation toward me.
And
me
the
roll,
and
let
me
see the
names of the
who had sworn and subscribed their names already. AVhich, notwithstanding, when they saw that I refused to swear the same myself, not blaming an}' other man who bad sworn, I was in conclusion commanded to go down into the garden.
'
And
thereupon
burned chamber
Dr. Latimer
divers
which looketh into the garden, and would not go down because of the heat.
INIr.
come
my
lord of Canterbury.
And
for
SIR T.
or twain about the
MORE.
if
173
they had
been
women
wanton.
lords,
After that
forth
from the
my
was
calicd-in before
not
tell.
;
But
them
And
that they
were not
their
made
and
cost, as suitors
wont
So
to be, but
went to
my
butter3'-bar
and called
and
When
it
And
then
since I
I laid
went
Wherein
answer^
-
no blame
no man
own
self,
ed as before.
'
Now
as well before
;
as then, they
somewhat
laid
unto
me
for obstinacy
174
MEMOIRS OF
I
swear,
vhicli grudged
my
fore.
Tor thereunto
had
said
leared
sure
enough toward me
tiiat if 1
And
I
Which
all
would
in
nowise do
abide
the
danger and harm which might come toward me, than give
his highness
me.
to
me
for stubbornness
the oath nor yet declare the causes why, I declined thus far
I avouUI
his
my
sufficient war-
rant that
my
put
me
in
And
over that, to
causes by any
man
in suchwise answered, as 1
satisfied, I
would
'
To
this I
me
I
not serve
Whereto
I said,
liis
that yet
if I
had them,
peril for
trust of
honour, at
my
SIR T.
MORE.
lo
!
175
the remnant.
that if I
may
not
them unde-
no
ohstinacy.
'
My
upon
that that
said, that
I condeynned not
me, that
it
the consciences of
^ve\\
said unto
for
appeared
fully
ful.
Hut
then,' said
my
lord,
'
and a thing
obey your
And
and take
it.
the sure
zeay in obeying of
swear
'
Now
all
was
it
so that in
this
me
sud-
onl}^
because that in
my
conscience
I
this
cases, in
which
Since
should
my
prince.
thought in the matter, Avhose conscience or learning not condemn nor take upon
science the truth
would
con-
me
to judge, yet in
side.
my
I
Wherein
had
not informed
my
the
matter^
176
MEMOIRS OF
of
trutli if that
And
reason
all
may
concliule, then
have we a
perplexities.
For
in
whatsoever mat-
commandall
list,
solvcth
the
'
Then
said
my
lord of
had cause
to fear
mine OAvn mind was erroneous, when I see the great council of the realm determine of my mind the contrary
;
ought to change
if
my
conscience.
To
there were no
my
side,
would be sore
so
many.
But on
so be that in
I
some
have,
have, as
think
upon
my
am
my
to the council of
Christendom.
Upon
he
who
tenderly favoureth
me, said and swear a great oath, that he had leaver that his own only son (who is of truth a goodly young gentleman,
and
shall,
trust,
1
come
to
nmch
For
sus-
Canterbury was
all
my
drift.
To which
I said,
SIR T.
that the contrary was true
MORE.
well
177
and
it
lay not in
my power
with-
my
soul.
'
Then
did
my
lord
me my
re-
fusal
And
I
re-
Whereunto
/ would be content,
conscience.
that
too,
my
oath in
manner
as mi;^ht stand
with
tary
my
I'hen said
that
lie
ni}' lord,
mark
will
Verily no
my
lord,
quoth
I;
will see
it
made
in suchzeise first, as
shall myself
swear against
my
conscience.
'
peril.
But
and think
it
reason, that to
I look well
and
set
!
my
hand
IJowbeit, as help
oatli, I
never withdrew
it
;
will put,
any scruple
in
man
to his
own
And methinketh in good faith, that so were it good reason, that every man should leave me to mine.'*
conscience.
* English works.
Vol.
I.
Aa
F7b
MEMOIllS OF
wc have heard should proceeded from Cranmer, should for a moment have
Every man, saith
S'.
own mind,
and
un"
a)id he
who doubtcth
is
damned
if he
eat.
Thus, a
thins:
Avas
yet
if it
ap-
jieared to
More
God
(to
which another
he was so
legislature),
far
conscience
have violated
it.
conscience
Others
who saw
it,
their
duty
sion, that
More
Avas
means
Ihat
it
folloAved.
He
it
Avould be sinful in
him
thought
On
fit
tlie
there needeth
it
Avas
very
his
oAvn conscience.
Srt Warner.
SIR T.
MORE.
to
179
the custody of
abbot
be taken
ill
effect
of contending
More
letter
and
Fisher,
severity
is
preserved in the
in too
Cotton
a
light,
strong
not to
demand a
Archbishop Cramner
to
Secretary Cromwell.
you do
right well
remember, that
to
my
lord of Rochester
and
What was
less it
am
uncertain,
Neverthe-
of the autho-
bishop of
Rome,
king's
first
pretenced matrimony.
But
they
if
meseemeth
it
if
powers
a 2
180
MEMOIRS OF
For hereby
shall
and potentates.
satisfy the
be a great occasion to
princess dowager,
damn
they should
not only
it
their estates.
And
much
credence to
or doing
my
all
lord of Rochester
and
ISIr.
More speaking
did with
them.
And
peradventure
this
it
realm,
such
men
I
should say,
is
good
is
and according
not one within
it.
to
God's laws.
realm
For then
think there
this
reclahn against
And
alter
will
not, or of
their minds,
if
and per-
they should
now vary
Rome
yet
if all
hend the
said
succession, in
my judgment
Which
shall
it is
a thing to
thing,
although I
God
that
it
little
and oaths of
j\Iore,
and Mr.
SIR T.
MORE.
181
And
if
the
might be suppress-
ed, but
when and
some com-
you ever
in his conservation.
From my manor
at Cro^'don,
ever,
THOMAS CAXTUAR.
But
this wise
may
credit
much
irritated against
them according
statute
to law.
the Tower.
apprehended that
AVhen
the.
king sent a general pardon, More and Fisher were not only
More
in .par-
and
to
sow
sedition
among
the kino's
;
subjects,
and refusing
the
king's grants to
him were
and ho
192
MEMOIRS OF
this
treatment,
;
some thought
necessary in so important a
crisis
lest
indulgence to him
and be corrupted
affection
to the king.
second marriage.
science,
and
if
the severity
it
was probably
impolitic.
If his reputation
his suljjects
it
was
higher.
"VVe
have
in his
More
to
we
will
extract
what he
primac}',
'
Upon
a time at
my
sea,
where
duty
my
Hamptonand shew-
At which
the
gallcr}',
brake with
it
me
ed me, that
marriage was
not only against the positive laws of the church and the
Avrittcn
also, in
of nature, that
sill T.
MOKE.
1S3
able.
Now
so
was
it,
before
my
iii
certain faults
bull should
which were
whereby
tlie
by the law
And
The
truth of
which
brief
was by the
and much
diligence
of that point.
not remember.
'
But
I rehearse
first
you
this
to the intent
you
shall
know,
that the
it
began
laid
tell
me
himself,
and
me
and
far-
me
moved
his highness
and asked
me
ther
what myself thought thereon. At which time, not preto look that his highness should
suming
my
poor mind
shewed nevertheless, as
my
duty
was at
his
commandment, what
AVhereupon
highness, ac-
184
MEMOIRS OF
ccpting benignly
my sudden
ed
me
to
comnmnc'
farther witli
Mr.
J'ox,
now
his grace's
making
'
my
hkc a
men.
was
v^^ell-learned
At which
them.
in so great a matter
most
among
made
in
my
lord
cardinal's
chamber
And
they
all
his
mar-
well
and virtuously,
sue
and procure
to
have
his
of the church.
'
After this the suit began, and the legates sat upon the
matter.
During
all
which time,
to
do
for the
upon the
SIR T.
MORE.
185
matter,
it
company of my
in
em-
bassy, about the peace which, at our being there, Avas con-
king.
And
well
after
my coming home,
unworthy
as I
his high-
was there-
made me,
after
as
you
know,
Soon
which time,
his grace
moved me
;
and
Avell
and
And
if it
me
he would
me among
And
me, that he
conscience
would
nowise that
I
own
and
the
after
first
me and that I should first look God unto him which most gi-acious
;
unto God.
words, was
my
first
coming
'
me
very comfortable
and much
hap
matter
in the matter.
Whereupon
Vol.
I.
me
ISG
5IEM0IRS OF
his grace's
Whereupon
my
and considered, every such thing as I could find myself, or read in any other man's labour which 1 could get who anvthino; had written thereon, but had also diligent
conference with his grace's counsellors aforesaid.
\\
hose
but
in this point,
and
will
me
but a a
mind
as toward
and
my
wherein,
to
do him
service, I
have been
I
either
his
highness, graci-
my
good mind
in
in the
whom
his grace
on that
part.
And
as well
to
whom
his
other
business.
man
any man
in
rufHc,
or trouble of
con-
SIR T. MOIIE.
'
187
Nor never
in quiet to
mind
nor
let lie
by
me any book
I
made on
his
made on
heard say
Moreover, where I
had found
of
my study a
book which
id
before borrowed
my lord
made of the
and that
;
matter,
I shcAved
home
his
book again
he told me,
that in good
mind of
remain
in
my
at
had thereof
home.
And
me
to burn the
book too
and, upon
my
faith, so
did I
'
Beside
this,
divers other
ways have
it
so used myself*
that if I rehearsed
them
his
all
his grace's
demeanour, whereby
manner
For, likeit
am
not he
who
either can, or
whom
could be-
come
to take
or decision of
Bb2
18S
MEMOIRS OF
a weighty matter (whereof divers points a grerft
sucli
way
pass
my
learning)
so
am
I lie
his grace's
tUithful
sul^jeets, his
highness being in
possession
of
liis
As touching
1 nothinti
the
third
point, the
meddle
in that mailer.
Truth
that, as
told
you Avhen you desired me to shew you what I thought therein, I was myself sometime not of the mind, that the
b\'
the institution of
God
'
At
tlie first
reading whereof, I
moved
more
to
slenderly
for
after
might hap
fall in (juestion,
between
his highness
shewed
me
lieard before.
But
had read
I
his grace's
have seen on
and more,
have found in
S'.
effect, the
substance of
all
the
the
Ignatius,
disciple of S'.
John
own
and Greeks,
SIR T.
so consonant
MORE.
189
and agreeing
in that point,
also, that in
on
me
to think
iii
that
my
right great
to be provided
by God.
did, yet can I nothing, as I
Which
if
we
shewed you,
that
perceive any
denial
;
by
avoiding of schisms
sion,
of holy
S',
And
one corps,
without the
then,
if
we may not
if
lawfully leave
it
God
As
to
The
Or
authority
else,
undoubtable.
were
90
MEMOIRS OF
on every man's art'ectionate reason, all things might be brought liom day to day into continual ruflle and confusion, i'roni A\ hich, by the general councils, the spirit of God, assisting
every such council well assembled, keepeth, and ever shall keep, the corps of his catholic church.
And
verily, since
Lord send
his
it
grace
my
poor mind,
could
his grace's
own realm
seem
before, either
to derogate
by laws making
or books putting-forth,
ly the
Which
high-*
for,
in the
may may
have
for
I
thought
the
among
therein, that,
realms,
And
my
wrote not
1 wot-Aveil live
SIR T.
times,
MORE.
S'-
191
who
that
grant
it
his
successors.
And
book made,
spoken-of.
in
either printed or
my
compiled together
time as
I little
Ijetween the
as
is
king's highness
fallen
to-
since
when
likely to
draw
it
I suppressed
utter-
into
my
Which
matter against
were
therein.
'
And
thus have
Avith
I,
your mistership
Avith
But
but that
it
may
like you, at
may
find, to
fully
informed of
my
true, faith-
mind.
rather,
my
mind than
1P2
ME^!OIRS OP
good.
Nor yet
I
in
else,
nor never shall there be, any farther fault found in me, than that
own conscience
groAvn, in
giveth me.
pleasure, of
rising
for lack
of bet-
my
Whose only I so much esteem, that I nothing have of mine own this world, except only my soul, but that I will with
noble grace.
it,
displeasant look.'
Sm
T.
MORE.
193
CHAP.
V.
Constantius.
. . .
More' s Jirmness.
to
Anecdotes.
visiteth him.
His pains
His
of Reynolds, &c.
visiteth
his
His
Lady More
letters
of
the
privy-council.
His two
.
to
daughter.
.
His
More
to the
. . .
More's answer
His answer
to
Rich.
guilty.
.
His arguments as
cellor's anstoer,
to the insufficiency
of the indictment.
.
The
cha7i. .
and More's
.
.
reply.
Farther proceedings.
. .
His meet-
Anecdote.
His
. . .
daugh-
Sir
. ,
Thomas Pope
last jokes,
sent to him.
death.
His
and
execution.
His
J.
HE
later times of
well
enough
compared
tmly or
tion,
to those of Constantius.
Of
this
emperor x\mall
who
were charged
Avith
treason.
Any
;
accusahis sub-
how
I.
man
and
jects
were so
far
from daring to
tell
Vol.
191
>iioul{l
IMOIOIRS OF
have
o.
upon them,
If
that
fliey
dared not
oxen
we except
sacrifice of Sir
Thomas More.
by kingly power,
maintained
in
man-
his resolution
tomed facetionsness of
in his
way
to prison.
It
was
IMore's
his neck,
on as usual.
this
His conductor
to
to the his
ornament home
sir,
Nay
replied
More,
ene-
that will
mies,
feld
by
my
I would
tl^e
At
More
his
upper garment.
was very sorry
it
his cap,
and
who soon
gown.
to his
appartment by the
John Wood,
to attend him,
Sm
lieirtenant, that if
T.
MORE.
195
immediately declare
it
to
it
might be
The
lieutenant, adds
]\Ir.
now
him good
cheer
hazard the king's displeasure, he trusted More would accept his good will and such poor cheer as he dared to
ford him.
lieve, as
'
af-
'
verily be-
my
me
for
And
cheer
assure your;
Mr. Lieutenant,
I so do,
do not mislike
my
but when-
soever
doors.'
his
punishments, as
were hardly
sufficient
to
aj)-
in the
I believe
among
who have
me
a high displeasure.
Cc
]9G
MEMOIRS OF
faith
a\
on m}'
for
if it
I
my
ifc
my
children,
straight
room and
straighter too.
without mine
will
own
discharge
me
of
my
in
care,
and with
supply
my
lack
among
ye.
I find
no cause,
thank
God
INIeg, to
reckon myself
For methinketh,
God maketh me a
me on
his lap
moment
to
have
lost
sight of the
to.
end which
that he
it
was
probable he should
irritable habit
come
He owns
was of an
by nature, and weak against bodily suftering. Yet the whole force of his mind appears to have been exerted at this time, in preparation to meet his fate with
constancv and composure.
gi-ees
He
interest,
in-
Tliough few
men have
in iheir
ever had
more
own
Maker's
Christ.
We
endeavours, even to
human
eyes, were
won-
derful
that no
man
dread
SIR T.
MORE.
in
tiie
197
Looking out of
his
window
affair
Tower one
da}'
when
on the
premacy,
'
Lo
'
he exclaimed to
his daughter,
now
as cheer-
fully
and painful
life
religiously,
and such
as
have
in the world,
sumed
all their
For
God, considering
Whereas thy
most
silly
Meg, who
like a
wicked
caitiff
life
God,
>
come
to that eternal
leaveth
still
in
Secretary Cromwell
came
to
in the
Tower-
and pretending
his
him that
majesty
his
19S
MEMOIRS OF
court too well, to
;
liis
fix
mise
and
to
prove what
credit he attached to
it,
he
Ey
Or
my
my
iifi'lliou sliult
I
me
not iK-guile.
Trust shall
"Ilis
a storm.
Lady More
'
at length
procured permission to
in her usual worldly
visit
her
manner.
wise man,
filthy
now
lie
prison,
rats
and be content
;
to
be shut-up
among
his
mice and
at your libert}',
and with the favour and good-will both of the king and
council, if
and
best-
And
seeing
you have
at
Chelsea a right
i'air
other necessaries so
handsome about
me
your wife,
here
still
More
ask-
if his
own
iiouse
And
since, if he
to his
own
SIR T.
to find
MORE.
199
some
him
therein
it
and
tell
who would bid him get out of doors was none of his, why he should love a house
its
master ?
enjoy
it
How
?
long,
he addyears,
live to
Some twenty
she replied.
it
danger
*
to
lose
IIozo
to
much
the rather, if
!
we be not sure
one day
an end
It is possible
that the
good
lad}^
in-
strument employed by the court, to endeavour at prevailing on her husband to meet the wishes of the kino.
least,
At
no attempt appears
to
no small importance.
Suffolk, Cromwell,
to
More
at
two
At
either of these
More wrote
describing to her
As
these letters
us the
we have of
are here,
200
MEMOIRS OF
Our Lord
bless
you
daughter
'
Lord be
their
nolds of Sion be
matters
trouble
now judged to death for and causes I know not), may hap
fear of
treason (whose
to
put you in
and
mind concerning
it
is
nie,
soner
my-
have thought
;
it
very truth
to the
end
giveth, lest
;
it
shall
the last
in here
day of April
unto
in the afternoon,
me and
AA'hereupon I shifted
my
where I
met many, some known and some unknown, in the way. And in conclusion, coming into the chamber where his mistership sat with
Mr. Attorney,
I
INIr.
Solicitor,
Mr. Bedyll,
and them
i\Ir.
;
Dr. Tregonwell,
in
was
offered
to sit-down with
which
nowise
would.
'
SIR T.
MORE.
by such
friends as hither
501
I had,
had
have no conversation
little
need
I
for rae to
bestow
much
book
and therefore
re-delivered the
and the
in
marked,
remembrance.
first
?
whether
whereunto
answered
it
yes.
Then
his mistership
was
now by
and ever of
right
assembled, should
therein.
demand mine
opinion,
and what
my
mind was
'
Whereunto
answered, that
king's
in
good
faith I
had well
question to be
from
my mind
and
good
in
faith discharged
my mind of
titles
all such
and
neither
true,
nor popes'.
will be
;
But
the king^s
faithful subject
I am, and
and
all his,
I.
all
Vol.
505
MKMOIIIS OF
nil the realm.
ami for
tend
to
And
otherwise
meddle.
'
this
satisfy
kind's hiijrhness
answer.
And
his
king's highness
mercy
and
]jity.
And
in
any of
when he should
that,
find
And
his highness
me
in
formable wa3's, as
might be abroad
among
'
Whereunto
inward affection of
my
mind, answered,
in the
world again
And
to the
answered in
effect as before;
shew-
had
fully
world
but that
my
this world.
'
Upon
this I
was commanded
a<2;ain.
to
go forth
for
a while,
At
"which time
Mr. Secre-
condemn-
SIR T.
MORE.
203
And
thought, that
me
Whereto
Whereunto he
would be gracious
to
And
stiff
his
mis-
my demeanour
made
others so
therein as
they be.
'
Whereto
man
occasion to
man
for
ad-
way
I,
And
con-
come
ject
Ins,
thereof.
lam, quoth
;
and
I do nobody harm, I
And
if this
be not
to live.
enough
to
keep a
man
alive,
in
And I am
that
!
I thought
to
die
the
therefore,
my
poor,
is
would (Jod
my
d 2
504
'
Ml'MOIIlS
OF
in ?
to
you any
in
W'liercto I answered,
sir,
me
statute either,
speak thereof.
AVhereunto
finally
niisterslii|)
said
full
there should
And whether
taken, I
he said farther
there
was none
to be
am
ed
made unto
highness,
and
known.
'
^Vhereupon
to
Mr. Lieutenant,
and
so
was
I,
by Mr. Lieutenant,
here
my
chamber.
And
am
I
I yet, in
That that
beseech,
hand of God.
"\\
honi
mind
in
may be
of
all
my
my body
children,
yours and
my
wife
and
all
my
our other
and ghostly,
all,
And
the
whatsoever
happen me.
it
For
verily
trust in
never so evil to
this world, it
Your
loving father,
THOMAS MORE,
KX^.
SIR
'J'.
MORK.
205
'
Our Lord
bless
you and
all ijours !
'
it
is
likely,
that
you
either
and that
have thought
ter standeth.
it
how
And
be short, I perceive
the last.
For, as far as I
can
see, the
whole purpose
is,
either to drive
me
to say
'
Here
sat
my
lord of Canterbury,
my
lord chancellor,
my
in
lord of Sutlolk,
my
lord of Wiltshire,
tary.
And
after
my
had been
by
been answered by
me
to them, at
his
them here
good
faith,
last
which thing
Avell,
very
as I
and
heartily
hereupon he added
my
de-
meanour
in the realm,
evil
my
his subject
al-
command me
1
to
make
206
MEMOIRS OF
I
and that
it
lawful
England, or
'
Whereto
answered, that
utter.
had no
malignit\',
and
there-
fore I ct)uld
none
And
I
none
other answer
his mistcrship
make than
which answer
liowbeit
if
his highness
many
that
evil things
of
me
which were
to
which
his
day; howbeil
the
morrow
l^y
Avhom
giace should
know
the truth of
mine innocency,
Avith
it
1 should in the
consideration of that.
And
be great heaviness to
me
nion of
me
for the
no remedy
to help
it
know
world.
Cod
shall
declare
my
him and
all
the
And
whereas
it
in
thanked
Cod
that
my
u)atter,
liarm
for a
man
For
had no cor-
SIR T.
MORE.
20r
rupt
afllection,
but that
me
at
my
first
coming
most
virtu-
Whose
great
it.
me now
such opinion,
I said,
is
my
heaviness
but
have no mean, as
to help
But
my
truth toward
I
him
shall
well be
known.
And
in
this
matter farther
'
To
this it
was
said,
by
my
lord chancellor
by
his
laws compel
me
make
a plain
other.
Whereto
king's authority
what
For
might do
it
such a case
to
but
I said,
seemed
me
somewhat hard.
so were
me me
to
make no
declaration), then
I
it
compel
mo
to say, either
precisely with
against m}^
-
my
my
body.
'
To
this
Mr. Secretary
said, that I
had ere
thieves,
this,
when
I Avas chancellor,
examined
heretics
and
and other
deserv-
malefactors
and gave
me
my
908
MEMOIRS OF
And
he said that
I then, as
he thought,
and
to
examine heretics
and used
to
compel them
to
make a
And
to
here,
'
intended
not to defend
my
but, I said
Because
like
a thing agreed
truth in other
for
realms.
'
and therefore
as
good reason
to
compel them
other.
is
make
man
in his
conscience,
where there
by a law
in
made
some
the
man
reasonableness or
to precise
answer,
SIR T. :\IORE.
stantleth not in the respect or difFerenee
209
between heading
in
charge of
aud
'
Much was
in
this,
cretary
and ray
chancellor,
overlong
me
And
an oath, by which
tliiniis
should be sworn to
make
as
own
person,
\yhereto I answered,
that
veiily
I
wliile
lived.
Then they
that
;
said, tliat I
if I
would refuse
for every
I said,
man
I
doth
in the star-chamber,
where.
sight,
But
had not so
but that
of mine interrogatories
at the
first,
and
as
good
it
was
to refuse
them
as afterward.
'
Whereto
my
guessed truth,
them.
And
I
so they were
shewn
me
the
first,
whether
believed
I
tliat it
\Vhercupon
refused
I
and
said farther
first
had
Which was
Vol.
I.
'IW
'
SIE^rOIRS
In the
OF
it
communication betbre,
tliat I
I
was
said, that
it
was
marvelled,
stack so
much
in
my
conscience while at
I said,
the uttermost
I
therein.
Whereto
that
it is
by such diligence
may
own salvation. I meddle not with the conwho think otherwise ; every man suo damno
am
no man's judge.
Tt
was
also said
in
if I
had as
lief
be out
I
of the world as
as I
had there
said,
why
It
did
not
appeared
AVhcreto
die,
is,
though
I
said so.
that
man
;
of
such holy
lest
might be bold to
myself to death,
God
for
I
my
presumption
n)iglit sufter
me
to
fall
and
therefore
bcit if
How-
God draw me
shall
mercy, that he
not
fail
me
'
me
this
last time,
lor then,
he said, he pitied
not well.
and so
me much and now, he thought, I meant But God and I know both, that I mean well pray God do by me I pray you, be you and
!
friends of
fall
of
me
for
me, as
do
and
you and
all
them.
tender, loving father,
Your
THOMAS MORE,
KK^.
Sm
It xvas
T.
MORE.
Rich, then newlj
11
soon after
this that
made
the
More
to take his
books
from him.*
sometime previously,
saith his
when he came
to
they laid
hands upon him and held him, these gentlemen took from
him
all
his
More hereupon
de-
windows.
And when
Tower inquired
he
calls
it,
It hath
this
tliat
More
dispute
and
if
nothing could
fairly
any rate
to have accused
it
More
falsely.
But a design of
upon our con-
this kind,
although
now
rest
jectures only, antl cannot be expected at this distant day to admit of tresh proof.
Certain
it is,
Ee
21
'J
MEMOIRS OP
said to him, since he
More,
was learned
in tlie
law and
Icing,
mc for king
More,
Yes
sir,
replied
that zvould I.
I put
not
TVcre there
an act of
parliament that
state of
would put
law that
say that
God
God
Mr. Rich
were not
God
No
sir,
not
since no parlia-
called
upon
to this answer, no
When More
had been
for
bar,
he
above a year
new
attacks of the
SIR T.
gravel and stone.*
MORE.
213
Weak
He was
this trial,
and
cheerful.
tried,
mission, before
Cliancellor Aiidlcy,
Chief-justice Fitzjanaes,
Sir
John Bildwin,
Richard
Leister,
Sir
John
Spilraan,
Walter Luke,
Sir
Anthony
Fitzherbert.
were
Thomas Palmer, Thomas
Peirt,
Sir
Sir
George Lovell,
Thomas Burbage,
Geoffrey Chamber,
Esqrs.
Edward Stockmore,
William Browne,
Jasper Leake,
Thomas
John
Billington,
^Gentlemen;
Parnel,
Richard Bellame,
George Stoakes.t
so long, that
p. 1434.
More
declared he could
^ More.
tH
scarcely
Mr.MOIRS OF
vemcmbcr
Ilis chief"
a tliml part of
him.*
wliich
was termed
ma/iciotis,
in
trriito7-ous,
ond diabolkal.
IJis
two examinations
the charge.
And
it
was
allesjjeil,
tliat
prelate likewise
made
l>y
More.
Upon
the whole,
traitor to his
j^rince
juristlic-
tion in ecclesiastical
government.
made
his
law
common-sense on
his caprices
all
occasions
;
that
his
parlia-
ments followed
of Sir Tiiomas
with servility
all
sense of shame.
The
fate
More
is
a striking,
among many
truths.
other la-
iee
is
now how
Yet he
so merciful, that if
you
will
opinion,
we hope
SIR T. IVrORE.
215
To
this,
cause
to
your courtesy.
beseech Alin,
through
words.
'
When
of
my
weight of what
that
my
I
understanding,
my memory,
bodilj^
and
terance, so
may
still
fail
me
in
the w
Ik;!.-
am
affected
by the
weakness which
I iiave
suffered from
my
imprisonment.'
Here a
seat
was ordered
to
Ii
'
There be four
;
divisions, if I
mistake not, of
my
indict-
ment
which
I will
answer in order.
'
To
Nor am
I
wise of
science
it
than
my
con-
is still
the same.
of
my own
nor ought
19
I to
MrMOmS OF
have clone so wlicn the
triilli
was domandecl of
this
me
it-
occasion attach
Mich
and the
tranquility of his
kingdom de|)endcd,
spoken with
I
more regard
to comj)liance Aviih
his wislies
than to truth,
I
am
treachery.
But even
mine,
if it
be a
fault in
it,
man
al-
to
his prince
when he asks
I
have
ready
punishment.
from
cci in
all
'
A SECOND
lor,
head of
my
indictment
is,
that
am amen-
when
I
in
ness, treachery,
by that act
in
his
new
title,
szf-
htad
oil
'
when
twice
his
questioned
piibon
new authority?
in
would give
no
otlier
ed not to
bomid
to
answer to statutes
A\liich 1
SIR T.
MORE,
217
be condemned
jected to
for
it
me
that, re-
the time to
to
come
my own
'
passage from
own
made
this ansAver.
But
maintain that
this
any
capital offence
committed by
it.
They
are
actions;
God
of secret thoughts.'
Here the
was a sure
ward
sign of his
;
of his malice
for
no man
in
his majesty,
being interrogated as to
would
'
My
silence,' replied
More,
'
is
evil
disposition in
me,
it
as his majesty
may know
b}-
many
your law.
It is to
silent
seemeth
to consent.
As
your inference respecting the duty of a good subject from the example of all England, I am of opinion, that it
to
is
VoL.
I.
218
tian at thf^
MEMOIRS OF
same time
tliat
;
he
is
a good
suliject,
to ol)cy
God
rather thafi
man
to
his
conscience
his soul,
certainly
my
1
case,
conscience
fence, no scandal,
ly athrni, that I
no sedition
to his 'prince.
this
For
solemn-
never opened
conscience of mine to
any mortal
living/
'
come now
1
to
the
third head
of
my
indictment.
By
Avhich
am
my
my
having
indictment,
to
interchange
this
pose
may
be produced
and read,
since
condemn
or acquit me.
I will
But
you say
tate to repeat to
Some
intimate friendship.
ter of inquiry,
One
this
I
contained
I
my
answer to
in
his let-
what reply
on
had made
subject.
prison to the
king's counsellors
new
'Jo this I
made no
he might
soul as 1
my own mind, and make-up his. So God love me and preserve my wrote him nothing else, and as God is my witness
had made-up
sill T.
MORE.
!
afS
is
this
and nothing
else
is
the truth
I
Thus
there nothing in
to
which
The FOURTH and last allegation against me is, when I was examined concerning this law in prison, I
'
that
said,
it
was
like
a two-edged sword
it,
who opposed
it
destroyed
his
confounded
his soul.
From
made
it, it
'
answer that
this expression
was more
qualified
on
my
part.
Namely, that
I
was danger,
whether
it
was
;
like
ways
deed.
tending to myself,
who
7ny
contradicted
it
These were
not.
words
how
know
hath arisen
In short, ye ma}'
to
have never
spoken
though
any mortal
perhfijis
some
false reports
Though no
word malice,
farther
to
More, the
mouth of
And
Ff
220
MEMOIRS OF
called, lo relate
More upon
him by
this
'
If I was a
man my
I
'
who
did
needed
not, as
it is
well
known, stand
an ac-
and at
this time,
it"
nor in
this
case, as
cused person.
And
it
this
God
in the face,
which
would
his con-
Tower
'
am
sorrier for
shall
your perjury,
own
peril.
And you
understand, that
nor no
man
else to
my
man
ance,
I,
com-
you know, of no small while have been acquainted with you and your conversation, who have known you from your youth hitherto, for
municate with you.
I,
And
as
we
can
Where, as yourself
to say)
am
sorry
you compel me so
you were
no commendable fame.
And
so,
in
SIR T.
MORE.
221
Can
it
therefore
seem
in so
likely
to
ships, that I
would
man
of
me alway
reputed of
little
above
sellors,
my
that I
at
my
is
not
unknown unto
owa
?
Tower
to
me,
for
And
yet, if I
my
lords, as
Mr.
in secret fami-
cannot justly
never think
my
lords, that
so
many
ful,
honourable personages,
virtuous, wise,
making of
that
law were
meant
to
have any
man
punished by death in
whom
there could be
222
MEMOIRS OF
;
found no malice
vialitia
I'or if
no
man
is
there then
who
est.
scducemus
And moreover
By which
word
maliviously
in this
statute
/o/t/Tj/c is in
statute, if a
man
put not
lie
/b;"c/7>///,
it is
no
oti'ence
it
but
if
is
an
of-
fence,
and so
shall
he be punished by
term forcibh/.
'
Beside
this,
ness himself,
who
very
hath been so
many ways my
singular
good
lord,
oven at
my
coming
and worship
most
advancing
me
and
finally,
room of
his grace's
man
own
royal
officer in this
my
and meet
own
the
me by
(until at
suit it pleasdd
me
to
my
life
my
to
soul
the
service
SIR T.
MORE.
223
all this his
extended
in
my
mind,
my
lords,
matter sufficient
by
this
man
so wrong-
imagined ag
linst
me.'
his
conversation
o'f
When
The
More guilty
less'
and
was 'proceed^
commissioner, with no
hasty servility to
was customary
in
The
chancellor hereupon
to say
to
demanded of More
thus replied to him.
wiiat he
?
was able
this
in-
Mr. lloper,
'
Forasmuch,
my
lords, as
this
indictment
is
grounded
upon an act of
of
God and
his
holy church,
the
supreme government
temporal prince pre-
may no
to take
upon him,
as rightfully belonging
'
224
MEMOIRS OF
Rome, a
spiritual pre-eminence,
to the see of
by the mouth
earth,
of our Saviour
only to
see,
S'.
liimsclf,
persoually present
upon the
by special
therefore, in
law,
among
christian
men,
insufficient to charge
any
chris-
tian man.'
The knight added, that as the city of London could make a law against an act of parliament which bound
whole realm, neither could
catholic church
statutes
this
not
the
realm
make a
particular
that
it
was contrary
for,
to the unrepealed
ecclcsia
et
il-
of the country,
sit,
by Magna Charta,
Anglicana, lila
l(csa
:
et liabeat
that
it
was contrary
by Henry
;
that
no
to the see of
'
Rome,
than a child to
to the
natural father
for, as S'.
Paul said
Coiintliians,
I have regenerated ye
Gregory, pojie of
mij children in
Christ, so
might
S'.
Rome
my
(suice
by
S'.
we
first
received
the
christian
children, be-
cause
to his children,
The
SIR T.
to the act,
it
MORE.
225
was
wonclcit'ul
them
all
and argue
so strongly against
'
If the
universities be so
mateit,
rial/ replied
as
then see
I little
cause,
my
why
that thing in
my
con-
science should
make any
change.
this
For
nothing doubt,
but
that,
though not in
realm,
yet in
Christendom
men who
of your
be yet
alive,
who be
opinion therein.
But
if I
who be
I
dead, of
very sure
whom many
it is
be
now
am
the
all
way which
now
And
therefore
am
not bound,
my
lord, to con-
form
my
The
justice,
Fitz-james re-
my
must
the indictment in
my
conscience good.
An
that
;
answer
it
re-
if this
man
The
Vol.
chancellor
I.
now proceeded
to
S26
MEMOIRS OF
of" liani;ing, lialli
sentence
chawing-,
and
(luarU-riui;
loi-
wliicli
llcniy VI 11
cond
fices
Plialaris.
this
mitigated to
a sul>iect which
afforded
G.td
the
jesting.
siicfi
forlr'id,
more
inero/ unto
unt/
God
/dess
nnj posferifi/
from such
yardons.*'
If
we may
credit
ment was
ly
God knew,
conscience
would now
freely
When
was
of
this
power of the
Roman
pontiff
derived, he directed
his'
But
dis-
l)e,
head of the
Tiie chancellor
is
integrity
to have reijun-
Christendom
years.
More.
]>ioro
SIR T.
MORE/
227
More answered,
'
More have
not to say
my
lords,' replied
S'.
the knight,
'
Paul, as
we read
in the
the death of
him
in
to death,
friends
together for
ever
and
ly pray, that
been judges to
my
in
heaven
all
meet together,
condemna-
temper of mind
o[' life
;
v.hicli
he had discover-.
and
lor death,
to him.
tall,
strong,
Mr. Roper
calls him),
At
the Old
heart, tears
More
farewell.
t Roper.
g 2
^ifS
]\[t:.MOIRS
OF
'
'
Sir
Thomas More,'
seeing him
as he could,
so sorrowiiil, comforted
saying, good
him with
as
good words
Mr. Kingston,
For I
will
good cheer.
ZiiJ'e,
my good
lady your
zmc
thai we
may meet
shall
be
Soon afterward.
ashamed of myself,
Sir
AVilham
said, in
Thomas More,
Mr. Roper I
zcas
that, at
my
my
to
A
the
jiencil.
IJis
Tower-wharf, and on
his
round
filial
affection.
More seemed
to rc-act the
same tender
scene,
amid
it
many
of the spectators.
More.
SIR T.
MORE,
229
his
week intervened
to his
which he passed
in
and
in
such disciphne as
his
persuasion induced
him
to beheve
his usual
would tend
Yet
him
A
ters
him, having come to the knight, not to talk of serious matbut to urge him
to
change
his
by
his
I have
The report of this soon reached the king, and More was commanded to explain himself. The knight now
changed
his
meaning he
now changed
his
mind, and
Two
of More's
The former
is
rich merchant,
who
this
is
knowledgment
friistra fecero
si
nam
qutim
sum
tit
rcferat
cujus sim.
The
latter, to his
* See More.
'230
.MK.MOIRS
o''>
Of
1335.
ten on July
anil
is
Sir
Thomas More
to ^[rs. lioper.
Our Lord
bless yovi
little
boy, and
yours
all
and
all
n)y ehdd-
and^U my
god-eliildren
and
our jiiends.
'
to
my
good daughter
!
Cicily,
whom
and
send
hei
my my
blessing,
1
and
to
all
pray her to
coni-
and God
'
]\Iy
in
parch;
ment which you delivered me Irom my Lady Coniers her name is on the back side. Shew her that 1 heartily pray her, that you may send it in niy name to her again, for a
token from
me
to pray for
me.
'
Dorothy Coly.
this
unto her
be she
whom you
wrote
me
you may
Aleyn
.
my
god-daughter Joan
too.
Give
her,
me
this
'
but
v.ould be
SIR T. MOKiJ.
r^I
sorry
S'.
if it
should
lie
For
it
i.^
me
when you
me
when daugh-
my
you and
I
your
we may
cost.
merrily
meet
in
heaven.
thank you
your great
'
send
;
now
I
to
my
I
stone
and
my
god-son, and
all hers,
God's
re-
blessing
and mine.
to
commend me
my
!
goodson,
John More.
him and
I
natural fashion.
Our Lord
to
bless
his
good wife
my
his
loving daughter
whom
if
come
to
Daunce.
that they
And
shall
have/
'
'
it
was pro-
of Tuesday July
to
Thomas Pope
came
him
Avith
293
that he sliould
suflfcr
MEMOIRS OF
death on that mornnig before nine of
tluit
Mr. Pope,'
saitl Sir
Thomas,
'
for
lieartily
thank you.
much bounden
to
hath
stilj,
on me.
ting
And
am
put-
me
where
me
niost
it
highness, that
my end. And, so God of all, Mr. Pope, am I lx)vinden to his pleaseth him so shortly to rid me from the
And
therefore will
I
not
and
also in
'
The
king's pleasure
is
farther,'
added Pope,
words.'
'
that at
shall not
use
many
'
you do
well to give
me
warning of
had
wherewith
ofi'ended.
am
ready
commandment;
and
mean
at
to his
burial.'
highness, that
my
is
daughter Margaret
may be
my
'
The king
SIR T.
MORE.
friends, shall
233
have hberty to
'
O how much
!
beholden
then,' said
More,
'
am
unto
his grace,
burial vouchsafeth to
have so
gracious consideration.' *
command,
he
many
words,
death.
He was
speaker, and
how
among
the people.
He was
his prisoner
and
offensive freedom.
this
occasion
add
to our
retiain
'
and be not
and
discomforted
each other
full merrily,
we where we
shall shall
bliss eternally.'
his
best clothes
which,
when
the
to take
them
Vol.
I.
554
MEMOIRS
(3F
who
sliould
have
Ihcm.
'
shall I
account
bene-
him a
fit?
it
who
shall
do
me
it
Nay,
well
bestowed on him, as
S'.
his
'J'he
him
to re-change his
left to hinj,
<]ress.
Yet, of the
little
the
At the appointed
by
time, he
his prison
;
place of execution
his
and
hands a red
cross,
Yet
his facetiousness
remained to the
On
Avas
ascending
this structure,
;
be
Ibund
it
so
weak
that
it
ready to
see
fall
upon which he
and for my
so pru-
I pray
tm
tip
safe,
coming donn
tJently
let
me
shift
for myself
As Henry had
time,
imposed
silence
upon him
at this
More only
desired of his spectators that they would pray for him, and
Roper.
Roper.
SIR T.
MO [IE.
233
56"",
or the
57'^.
lie then
rose cheerfully,
his forgiveness.
More
kissed
him and
me
this
day a greatto
give me.
office.
Pluck-up thy
spirit,
to
do thy
My
neck
is
very short
hen he
laid his
head
he
upon the
till
had removed
'
treason.
So with great
'
alacrity
and
spiritual joy,'
fatal
his great;
grandson,
he received the
which
his soul
where a crown
of martyrdom was put upon him which can never fade nor
More's behaviour in
this
last
by some
stoic
as hght
him on
all
occasions,
it
The more candid, however, manner having been so natural to was not peculiar upon this but
;
it.
She
is
said to
its
have
inter-
in a leaden box,
and
to
have ordered
Hh
256
MEMOIRS OF
o-wn bod} in
tlie
Dunstan's, Canterbury.*
S'.
chapel of
Peter
in the
'J
Fisher,
who,
like
in
Some
of our
removed
to Chelsea
by
his
daughter Maigaret
but this
is
by no means
jirobable for
satisfactorily
made
out,
and appeals
to be im-
SIE T.
MORE.
237
CHAR
jinecdote.
. . .
VI.
in
More's
caitse.
Morels
to jesting,
. .
and
witty sayings.
His behaviour
ivhile
His
disinterestedness,
. . .
and
integrity
chancellor,
and
Queen Catharine's
opinion of More.
excellent temper,
and
good management of
Other
traits
. .
.
of
his
character.
HI, epigrams,
letters,
and
.
controversial writings.
.
zvriter.
The
editions
.
.
of More's
.
His personal
peculiarities.
. . .
His fa.
,
. .
Mrs. Roper.
Basset.
Her
letter
Her daughter
More's
letter to GonelliLS.
.
.
character.
The death of Erasmus and view of More's remonstrances with him misrepresented.
his
1T
is
said that
when Henry
lie
238
IIEMOIRS OF
;
left
the
game.
fell
He
betook himself,
added, to
his
chamber, and
into a
fit
of melancholy.*
^Vhatever credit
ers
who
assert
may be due to this anecdote, those writthat Ann was instrumental to More's execuit.
tion,
per-
for
it is
irrit-
to extremities.
resy
Ann was
a patron.
If then only to
remove
to
an enemy
to herself
^ay,
if
to confirm
in the first
him
Henry,
mo-
ments of
Cranmer, as well as Ann, had, we know, very considerable influence on Henry's purposes
erted
all
;
this
influence,
More's
life.
But
it
is
made such an
SIR
T.
MORE.
is
259
ed her
in this
manner; and
it
power
to
odium upon
the reformers
who consented
to
it.
We have
at least very
to us,
More made an impression, far be3'ond own country, and of deeper stamp than it
chiefly
who,
like
by
his vir-
tues in civil
who
neither feared
Henry
as their
him from
Upon
sea,
his friend
More's death
said to have
had so much
influence,
Mr. Roper
relates, that
re-
Thomas
put
said to him,
we understand that
and
the
his faithful
plied,
said the
em-
peror,
too
true.
And
this
uill u'e
940
MEMOIRS OF
had
have
these
lost
many years no
small experience),
zse
would rather
lost
such a
mas
and
to other
friends.
CarcUnal Pole, to
whom
Italy,
book pro
in
compares
^Slore's
I have
seen,
the history of
it,
of
his fate.
And I
I was
his
at this distance,
when writing
and
his virtue
probity,
is
I shed
in-
my
letters,
I proceed
with
difficulty."^
of Macedon
for the
Antony
is
Nero
death of
Socrates.-f*
* Lib.
iii.
Ep'st- Nucer.
SIR T.
MORE.
2H
We
uill
by Paulus Jovius,
own
words.
'
instabilis,
infaustaque
virtuti, si
unquam superbe
et
quem
rex,
paulo ante,
ad summos honores
extulerat, ut inde
cum,
fatali
feram, crudeli
mox impetu
praicipitem daret,
quod
ipsius
omnibus
religionis at-
que
justitiae
lari noluisset.
Dum
enim
ille
magno probro
abdicare pro-
Morus,
scrinii
causam ad
damnatus
est, uti
;
nere, necaretur
quorum
piternam
pietate, sepelire.
Sed Henricus,
vel
hoc uno
fa-
non
potuit, quin
ad semin
Uto-
The
mark-
ed and prominent,
the memoirs of his
far into
ed with
it.
some
traits will
be
tiror.
Vol.
I.
li
am
found to have
less
MEMOIRS OF
strongly impressed our attention as \vc
proceeded, than
closer view
tiic
may on
appear
to
demand
is
aliow^-
itself as
a prominent
in reference to
which he hath
his faculties
priest,
enthusiast.
The
little
assertion
may
hazardous, that
ore's
foil
to
his character,
less interesting
in the
eye of posterity.
Born,
as
in
dawn
of religion, as
|
Avell
naturally
which he
lived.
And
to
Ave
may
Erasmus
saith of
More
in
and
in
all
superbtiuon.
SIR T.
It hath
tliat in his
MORE.
2^3
youth he was
free
Yet we know
monkish
that such
was
discipline, that
he wore secretly a
hair-shirt
next
appear
like
other
men
in his apparel
his
and
sole
oiitzmi-d behaviour.
She was
in the habit
of
this
and he sent
it
to her the
day before
'
as
when he
was
first
made
like
weighty matter
upon him,
to
and be houseled.'
The great-grandson
fused to
stir till it
More
re-
God
and then
the king.
li 2
eu
The
MEMOius
private devotions of
or
as well at lionic as in his
More,
with
chapel, were
also observed
the
strictest
regularity.
blessings
upon
his
them was
entitled.
marked good
forttine, saith
Erasmus,
And
his
biographers
have gone so
when
his favourite
the sweating sickness, produced the liappy effect of suggesting to his miud a remedy, which very unexpectedly led
to the re-establishment of her health.
in
com-
sufficiently eviTliis,
liis
deportment, gave
life.
And
we decide
ns advert
which he
lived,
when ignorance of
and
bi-
gotry
to
More
tions
is,
surd view of
commuting them
vices
his
inten-
that
we have
to excuse
It
is
his
manner of complying
Avith
his religion.
true
SIR T.
MORE.
245
in-
his
in this
Bur-
can only be
accounted-for by ascribing
it
to the intoxicating
charms of
prejudice
against
the
some were,
pope
papal power.
In
his
Con-
common known congregation of under one head the pope. Nay, he afis
and that
may
he both admonished
in-
corrigible
mind and
This
is
lack of
and
changed*
lif,
More seemeth
patriarchs or archbishops.
246
MEMOIRS OF
Quid
vetat
was SO
stedfastly
his propensity to
One
of our chro-
man
i'ol-
Jowing epigrams
of the knight.
Halle, tibi
Morus
Stultus crat
sapiens.
Wise foolish,
To More
Lei earth
be
(illcs
given
(lie fool
despise
liini
Jjeaven.
We
to learn
from a
letter
of his friend
jest
w hich
It
is
own jokes
but spoke on
tl)ese oc-
much
The
More
SIR
tensive collection, if
T.
MOIIK.
to
217
we attempted
embrace
all
of them
An
may
here
amuse the
reader.
When
that
ners.
it
was true
in English
lor
then
it
applied to Man-^
When
and the
ously,
arts.
money in the grave, concluding pompmemento morieris, More answered him, memento Mori
When
tion, the
one of
his
his
friends brought
More an
ill-written
its
work, to receive
opinion of
it
previously to
it
publicaverse.
it
would be better in
it,
book, versified
and brought
Yea marry,
rhyme
;
now
it is
some-
When
him
in
an arrogant fellow
at
it
out that
any
art whatever,
in
More caused
to be put-up
;
utrum
averia ca[jta
adding,
am-
248
Mi:.M(>n{.s
or
bassador
who wouUl
the bragga-
reply to
ed
at.
As
related
by
ISIore's great-
of the early
From what wc have seen acquaintance of More and Erasmus, the cir-
It
is
reported that he
At diimcr-time they
so shar])ly
aiit
into
argument, and
last
Erasmus was
he
Morns
es
ant nidlus.
More
More being
him that a
at
fo-
As
mayor ordered one of his officers to take care of the gentleman and give him what he liked best. The officer
took Erasnms into the lord mayor's
to eat oysters
cellar,
where he chose
as the
to
custom then
saluted
On coming
More he
him
in Latin;
More,
U7ide venis ?
y--
SUl T. MOllB.
-ij^
Erasmus,
Ex
inferis.
More,
Quid
ibi
agitur ?
Eras.
More,
,
An
Aut
tu
me
noscis ?
X'-
'
.Eras.
More,
tu es
Morus aut
nullus.
Et tu
es
One
who had
be served
so.
More was
with
also delighted
in those
whom
he conversed.
we have
seen,
name was
it.
Silver, told
him
in his jesting
way
silver
But
this
quicksilver, replied
With
And
own
be propitiated with
difficulty.
Vol.
I.
Kk
250
MEMOIRS OF
last
scene of
this lite,
hath been
But the
fact probably
is,
that
tliis
behaviour was so
him such
less
tors.
satisfaction
even-
many
of his specta-
M. de
S'.
he discovers
in
Our own
so pleased
this,
that tf he
was
humour
in
much
nobler instance of
in Sir
Thomas More.
correct writer,
was famous
and, as Erasmus of
life
tells
him
and
in all parts
like a se-
cond Democritus.
is
upon a point of
religion,
him
to the last.
scaffold,
which he used
shew at
his
table
there
was nothing
He
head from
his
body
as a circumstance
SIR T.
MORE.
251
in the disposition of
which ought
his
to
mind
and
settled
hope
as
had nois
terrify
him.
There
no
na-
men's
be a
sufficient
guard against
it.
I shall on-
ly observe, that
in this extraordinary
one who
dotli not
resemble him
and manners.'*
More was
up
did
and
lay-
on
earth.
On
his
disinterested'
ness Mr.
it,
Roper
in this
manner expresseth
himself.
Thus
life,
by
his doings
all
appear, that
his
were
only upon the service of God, the prince and the realm
Whom
heard in his
lat-
Of
his integrity
when
chancellor
we can have no
to
strong-
allege
against
kino-
in
Kk2
iJi32
ME^fOlRS OF
.^lore's adversity,
Mi.
him
in this
fix
particuhir,
all
of which,
we
sluill
find, Scl'vctl
only to
his integrity.
He had made
as
cup,
Beino;
summoned
before
the council,
More
was, long after the aforesaid decree, brought him for a new~
year's gift, he,
of,
my
lords that
ye should find
this
matter true
More
nours indifferently
He
much
difficulty
it
When
she had
pledged him, he gave her the cup again, that she migl)t
gi\e
it
to her
husband as a new-year's
though
gift
from him
and,
much
wife,
Vaughan's
l\!rs.
whom
gift
with
much
difficulty
he
ii.id
made a
SIR T.
tng forty pounds in angels.
zvere against
MORE.
Mistress, said
53
More,
since
it
good manyiers
to forsake
a gentlewoman's
;
nezi)-
year's
gift',
your gloves
Mr. Gi'esham
also,
chancer}^ sent
More a
gilt
He
one of
his
own
to
present
it
to his master
Of
*
The water
bailif
ing,
ly to rail
came
to
he had heard.
and authority
And zcerc I, sir, quoth he, in such favour uith my prince as you are, suc?i men surely
Wherefore I would
to their
zvish
you io
call
them,
and
them.
More
by you
rt/??/,
Mr. Watcrbailif
in God's
xvould
benefit
than
who
be
name
speak-
954
as lewdly as they
list
MEMOIRS OF
of mCy and shoot never
zc;hat
so
many
o/rozk^^,
at
me
am I
it
the worse ?
little
But
indeed a
trouble me.
Howbeit I
to
trust,
touch me,
I have
more cause, I
as-
Mr.
them.
More appears
have attained
in fact, either
by nature or
religion, to
hope
of evil tongues,
all his
In
fortunes,
still
to
same
equabilitj'.
In
his
cent of a charge alleged against him, would treat his accusers with insolence or persecute
them
Avith
power.
it,
In-
when he had
in crush-
who opposed
or slandered hini,
re-
more
benefit
his friends.
And
to More's early
as a patriot
minister.
abilities in
In him
we have an
instance of a
man
of the
first
SIR T.
prejudicial to his country.
MORE.
this in
2S5
And
a reign,
in
which
such opposition, so
to
far
advancement,
Avas
went unpunished.
in-
to
change
conduct, as
is
When
places
stiU
his solicitation,
he
filled
The
idea, as well as
name, of
patriot,
;
sunk
nor did
his
relatives.
him with a
com-
blaze.
in his
Henry had only one kingdom, and that was More the
to say, that
;
More
first
judgment; and as
for
then the
own ends
256
JIEMOIIIS
dignity which
OF
so mucli temper,
The
England cut
off,
and that a
office
rupture was
he retired from
with a greatness of
mind hardly
inferior to
The
while
was agitated at
Rome
life
deemed a
great enough
and
t\^e
certainly
one of
liis
reign.*
those of a
mind sublimed
life,
i'cehngs of sense.
his
were dross in
he viewed the
ol>jects
and having
most
stedfastlj'
on the things
His
life
SIR T.
MORE.
257
manity.
in
the sixteen
years cluriuf^
lie
More
in
a fume.
mas chide
in so
her,
he did
it
in so grave,
Erasmus
tate toiam
rixa.
And
servants, he
any of them
to
be
idle.
He
some avocation or
sloth,
the source.*
became
taste
character.
His pleasures,
it
true,
rational, be-
coming a
christian
and a philosopher
conviviality,
for friendship
and
'
and
of our nature.
ters to
More,
I.
'
Vol.
LI
258
teifeit
:mi:-moii{s
of
trifles,
jewels
account your-
you can
find
u true friend.
No man
music, as you do
in
pleasant companion.' *
From
would
IMorc's great-grandson
we
learn, that
he seldom
;
nlioin he
li-
upon
;
t/uiii
his large
beraliti/,
and
zv/ien
he zcas a
nor pupils.
est stations,
whom
patron to every
On the other hand, he was a friend and man of letters, and he maintained epistomost of the leained
in Christen-
dom
of his day.
His chief
gularity
;
foible
is is
said to have
been an affectation of
his
sin-
and he
gown
of
awry, that one shoulder might appear higher than the other.
Cranmer
deviate
More was
so
desirous
of his
judgment.
tion
and
if
must
after all
be pronounced to be of too
* Farrag. pi$t.
p. 536.
trivial
a nature
SIR T. IMOUr.
for
259
To what study
soever Sir
Thomas applied
He
and
characteristic
which distinguished
]\lore in
him
to
appear to the
marked
Arrogance or
his writings
ment had
and others
no influence on
his
own
on a light and
it
Of
his
no
own
island, or
be consecrated to Vulcan
and of
his
had not
liked
do,
been published.
Powerful as he was
lated of him, that
in
it is re-
was unable
to
LI
2oO
MK.MOIRS OF
man
his
his
ready
to
make answer
visited
majesty
when he
and whenever
or abroad, he
More
to
own country
them
himself.
king,
appointed to
make
His celebrated
political
in
speedily gained
him great
test
of nearly
It hath,
fate, in
being
known and more admired abroad, than by the auown countrymen a circumstance which may in some
;
measure sanction
the day, though
living
its
its
merit
its
de-
any advantage by
translation.
It
this
ingenious
fiction
notions of governcreates a
kingdom
he had observed
SIR T.
MORE.
;
261
heretics
full
known
in
our
He
It
i->
gave
his
mind
scope
and considerj)hilo-
it,
what
his
thoughts
Had
the
communion of
opportuni-
Upon
things, he appears to
many
of his
sentiments
and
remarked, to
ed in him.*
we have
already
More
enemy
to
the severity of our laws, and to have thought in this particular in the
same
charitable
his
many
others
The History of King Richard III was written about the year 1513, More being then one of the under sheriff's
of London.
He
wrote
it
in
but
it
was never
it is
finished
by
In the volume of
to
his
English works
have been
See Burnet.
v. c. 167.
962
in
liis
Mi:.>rOIR.S
OF
tluit
own
in
is
liaiulwriting
and
iVoni
vohune
it
is
re-
printed
which
ly
httlc
known,
aiul
which
is
on account of the
writer.
this history, ii
is
so
fhci/
Englishmen
to
read them
somewhat extravagantly,
unfinished.
Above a century
More's opponent
death, George
Buck
took-
made him
later,
work
came a noble
cfjual
who seconded
this
The
tbrmer's
censure of
credit as
writer, that
now be deemed
worth}-^
of a serious
repl}'.
The
beautiful one,
est
it
to be
he wrote the
sure
he did
his
lei-
and exercise
it
his fancy.
He
and embroidered
and
in the
SIR T.
MORE.
203
At one moment,
in
piece, the
same
author from
tion,
whom
he challenges as foresworn to
make
Yet
had
little
The most
;
our
and
By
a passage
in
this tract, it
appears that
More once
thought also of
Avriting the
;
history of
Perkin Warbeck
but
it
is
found
leisure for
some measure
fettered,
\'11I.
to
and othere of
;
time,
is
allowed
to have
and a more assiduous application to the muses would probably have made lum a superior one. His epigrams are highly commended by
been no indifferent poet
Rhenanus,
as will
be seen by the
epistle prefixed to
them
Our own
coiTcct
and
2(54
MEMOIRS OF
;i
lady
ol"
whom Move
is
liad
been deejv
in
his
was secretary
the choice
ol"
to his heart.
The
on
For
am
and
me
I
or
for
the amuse-
To Candidus.
EiNOUGu by vagrant
Dear
j otitli
love.
:
rise (licac
joys above,
And
Some
Heart link'd to
embrace
Wbo with
Your
So did
for
transmitted charms
lengthening line
may
grace.
yoayour
with
sire
The
ilebt,
interest
due,
Postcrily require,
My
Nor be
it
dune,
Sought
; : :
SIR T.
MORE.
265
No
It vanishes in air,
And
Nay,
ere
it lives,
expires.
fortune's courted
charms
Fade
When
doom'd within
his
arms
An
And
Or
By
fever's tooth
decays
Then vows
With
Bound
singly
by
that chain,
But genuine
is
the love
Which
Above the
assault of years.
Be
The mother
Next
in herself be seen
Good
Still
Unruffled by a frown
Vol.
I.
Mm
;;
SOS
AIEMOIIIS
OF
And
still,
Be
hcr's sweet
modesty
No lover-clasping
arm,
eye.
No love-provoking
Far from her
lips' soft
door
;
Be
noise,
be silence stern
And
Or
her's the
power
to learn.
With books she'll time Ijeguile, And make true bliss her own
Unbuoycd by
fortune's smile,
So
still,
And
She'll
Where myriads go
So,
left all
meaner things,
While
While
Is
still
Words
they, of
power
to soothe
woe
With With
eloquence's flow.
: ;
SIR T.
Such Orpheus'
wife,
MORE,
fate
2QT
whose
With Or
Have
Whose muse
And
Her
The
to distant
days
My
One
girl,
of equal grace,
this
E'en in
Single, worth
all,
she stands
By
Hail'd
repose
Were
Enough of beauty
her's.
With whom
Enough of
a husband's
blest
To whom
enough's a
feast.
Mm2
968
So
.MKMOIRS 0^
lov'd, were she (I swear)
Than Than
So
lov'il,
were she
(I
swear)
Than
I'd think
lier
Than
kinsrs
with
2o
Eliza,
whom
he loved in youth.
Thou
eyes restored,
!
more
Many a
1
has roU'd
Scarce had
bid
my
sixteenth
summer
hail,
;
And two
in thine
taJe
When thy soft mien ah mien for ever fled On my tranc'd heart its guiltless influence shed. When on my mind thy mucli-Ioved image steals.
!
And
self reveals
Torn from
thyself, to
me
thou'rt
left
behind.
The
my
to
make
my
is
breast
fed,
its
throne
And And
its
languid head
!
So thou, though changed (ah changed indeed) Kindlest the love, that once was thine, anew.
to vie
Now on my memory breaks that happy day. When first I saw thee with thy mates at play
See vol
ii,
p. 308.
SIR T. .AIORE.
269
On
lies,
With snow
Thine
vies.
arrowy radiance
shine,
And
I
my
own
gaze
in tix'd
amaze
And
form
Or from
Lit in
it's
ripen'd grace as
thrills
my
breast the
undecaying flame
Or some
common beam
to
pour
For one, who knew with what chaste warmth you burn'd,
Had
my
love return'd.
we thence pursued,
:
day
my
Has given
Crimeless,
thee safe to
my
delighted eyes.
my
Iieart
you
prime
And
love,
w hich
in
my
long
youth prevail'd
fail'd.
pure, if lionour
five
lustres past,
last,
when number'd
may
1 still
* See ToL
i,
p. 350.
270
MEMOIRS OF
Epigratns.
Our
sins,
our
sins,
Have wrought
A monk it chanc'd
And round him,
Yet
still still
fossM
And
One
sailor,
rest,
still
oppressM
all.
And
So
said so
done
They throw
And now
sin to
know,
With which
frail,
To Hodge,
Retum'd
And
iields.
Poor Hodge he
and draws
his
sword
stone
Hodge
singles out
See
vol.
ii,
p, 321.
SIR T. M01{E
271
You own
By
Jove,
I'd
it
do you
then,
Brag
cries,
;
'Tis well
if
you speak
the truth
you had
tooth !*
your power.
appendix to Dr.
Joitin's Life of
Erasmus, and
in
the edi-
knight's
Latin
letters.
It hath
they are
more
in the style
of orations than of
epistles,
long^
Of
all
But
in those days, as
we have
al-
him
it is
in
abuse.
If ever
upon these
when
religion
in agitation,
er himself.
sense, of
adversary Luther,
Ibid. p. 339.
* See
314.
272
his
MEMOIRS OF
zeal
horses,
M'hich ran
away with
Thus
it is
swer to Luther,
throw out
the greatest heap of nasty language which ever was put to-
gether
that the
book throughout
is
nothing
l)ut
it,
downright
and gave
in
Europe
at calling
bad names
in
good Latin.
More's English
much
lu
Apology, printed
his
English works,
More endeabut,
Youreth to extenuate
him by
his adversaries
one of
his
arguments.
Burnet
sailh
of
More
all,
nor
critical
learning
upon the
scriptures
He was
also
no
less
dexter-
ous
in
exposing
all
the
ill
SIR T.
MORE.
f78
tales
He
wrote
Mary
in
whose reign
it
to
Ser-
been prefixed
very scarce
tents of
it
it
to the volume.
As
this
book
now become
may
in this place.
Four
The The
life
A
sima,
treatise (unfinished)
et in
upon
these
The
The
Vol.
Nn
i74
AinMoms or
Icfter impu!!;nin; tlic
tlie iiltar.
erroneous writing of
John Frith
srjcramcnt ol
The
apolo^'y of .Sir
Thomas More,
tlie office
kniijht,
after
of lord chancellor of
EiyUnd.
The
treatise
upon the
A A
virlual-
]y both.
treatise
An
prayers,
made
and
collected while he
Of More's Latin works, three editions have passed The first was printed at Basle in 8'", in 1563; press.
second at Louvain in foho in 1566
published by C. Gensch in
folio at
;
the
the
and Leipsic
in
1689.
con-
may
also.
in
laudem
et
mortem T. Mori.
SIR T.
MORE.
S75
sub Gulieliui
Cliristi.
Itossci
numinc edua.
Quod pro
fide
mors fugienda
iioii sit.
Pncalio tx Psalmis.
T. Mori Utopia.
T. IMori Poemata, quibus praemissa sunt quaedam ipsius
progj mnaimata.
et
Guiielmi
Lilii
in
Latinum sermonem
conversi, adjecta
T. Mori
et
Erasmi episiote.
Of
his table
himself, which
was coninKjnlj
salted meat.
He used
coarse
milk, cheese,
sc
eggs,
and
\\
hatever
disli
is
he hrst tasted
In
his
youth he
from wine
in
his later
years
when
diluted with
mind
more
at
when he pledged his friends. To recreate the the same time with the body, or perhaps to allow
and digestion
to his meals,
leisure
he employed a
made
his
thought.
M hen
his secre-
More.
Nn
MHMOIRS OF
once tokl him that
his shoes
876
tary, Harris,
desired
him
who
own
discretion,
and
whom
he called his
portance
and that
him
complexion
tending
to
Ids
eyes grey,
nor
it
;
was not
his
much
in 7nusic
body
for Sir
Thomas,
to
One
however, at
is
allied
to the Ropers.
It
is
pro-
Yorkshire.
More's family, as
* More.
we have
daugh-
SIR T.
ters
MORE.
277
and a son
with
whom
issue,
Thomas,
manied
of
to
Lucy, daughter of
Sir
whom we
Khzabeth, mar-
ried to
ward Bray, Knight; Margaret, married to William Dawtry, Esq. and Mary, married to Stephen Clarke, Esq. and af;
Esq.-f-
Heron, Esq.
and Ann.
John, the only son, married Ann, daughter and heiress
of Edward Cresacre, Esq. of Baronborough, Yorkshire, and
had
issue
It
is
first
wife of Sir
f Ropet by Lewis,
J More.
j Ibid.
Ibid.
97
MEMOIRS OF
their
loiig
and
tlie
kniglit
iiad
prayed so
produced one at
I.
last
who would be a
less
boy as lung as he
live.
lie
was certainly
;
ornamental
or?
'J'he
him, and
'
appear
to
ced.
Among
in
one addressed to
him, a youth of
him,
stileth
great hope.
works of Aristotle
also, printed in
Creek
by Forben's
to
him by Eras-
mus; and
stil-
academy
ot
lato.
however, he adds,
h)
ot
ti.e
comparison
lor
in Plato's
virtues
but
this
tian duty.
it,
Neither
man
nor
in
in
though religion
was seen
idle.
Each had
excellent
his oc-
economy,
Farrag. Epist.
lib.
27.
SIR T.
baiis et Eruclitce ladies,
MORE.
279
nameth
tlie
The
ture
Costerius, in
his notes
not unworthy
of the ablest
critic.
Slie also
both with so
much
eloquence, that
it
was
ditficult to pro-
She wrote
had written
letter,
himself.
Erisstill
mus complimenteth
more than
Pole read one of her
her in a
for her
;
learning,
or mannei's
letters,
One
works.
father in prison,
English
Mrs. Roper
to
Sir
Thomas More.
to
me no
little
t More.
290
RIEMOms OF
ot"
tnatj
be expefruitful
diiMit, ajid
and delectable
the
faitlilul
riti
corrupt
it)ve
of
God and
fatner,
laithful servant of
God.
Who,
stJid,
hatli) pre-
\it
sit
mens sana
in
all
covpwe
earth-
sano
ly consolations,
luily,
willingly, gladly,
and
Father, what think you hath been our comfort since your
your
sel,
life
past,
rest
and gladness of
your
lieart,
devoid of
all
earthly dregs
pleasant palace
God
to rest in.
W ho
goodness he
from
all
us your
we praise in you, and to our only comfort remember and commune together of you that vve may m conclusion meet with you, mine
;
SIR T. MORE.
281
own dear
precious blood
and bedeswoman,
MARGARRT HO PER,
who
that
ly
to
be
in
Jolm a
hope
hearti-
Wood's
do you some
service.
But we
live in
pray
God
less attentive to
the
own mind.
The
celebrated Roger
Ascham
him
father's
was thought
been
this subject, it
may
not be uninterest-
by Stapleton.
Vol.
282
MEMOIRS OF
More
Sir Thomas
to
Goncllus.
'
have received,
my
letters, as
and
Your
I
love of
my
children
their
I
;
see
for
I
by
3^our letters,
your diligence
gather from
own
was
each of their
letters pleased
me.
But espe-
cially
a decenc}' of demeanour in
my
me
more, than
could
all
Tor
ing which
all
and
if
we
separate from
letters
Their proficiency
will
upon
their learning.
Nay, they
own
ig-
of these
woman
in
(which I
I
wish
may be
my
girls,
and
which
have
the greatest coniidence under your auspices), to great excellence of character unite even a moderate portion of learning, I
deem her
if sIkj
'
And
this
SIR T.
MORE.
S8J
But because
be borne
;
reward of wisdom
the wings of
its
is
more
substantial than to
away on
it
riclies,
since
placeth
on the tongues of
which abound
is
in folly
and
evil.
For
man,
since
ill
But of the
I reall\f
man,
deem none
but their
utility.
Which
like
their
learning,
and
it
been delivered by
ail
the most
human
life.
more on
cast of
I I
this subject
of vain
glorj',
my
letter,
that
my
daughter Margaret's
this opi-
my
mind, and
doubt not
in yours also,
he
ac-
his
njind,
who
And
virtue
who esteemeth
and
ti'ue
Oo
884
MEMOIIIS Of
liit;l),with
all,
disregard,
on
tliose
shadows
at,
in ignorance, greedily
catch
substance.
'
As
this
seemed
to
me
1
rccjuested
you
my
mme
own
piety
I
would have
you
know
1
to
have done so
ot
your
my
wile, to
whom
ail
a sufHcient unpulse as
that
after ^ard
that,
valk
the pleasant
meads of modesty
not
;
them
themselves
ivhich
erroucoublv admiied b^
lio better
by
second good
and that
to
God,
chaiit}
to
man,
modesty and
own deportment.
'
Thus
shall
shall
of an innocent
in the
the^
praises of
1
men, nor
esteem to be the
and genuine
SIR T. MOklT.
283
not put-forth by
this view, 1
all
maintain
fection.
It mattereth not to
it
;
man
or
Avoman
sowed
and
if
the
name
MA>f, whose
reason distm-
is
cultivated,
and
like
field
tillage,
equally becom-
eth either,
woman
more productive
many
letters
ma}',
by industry, be corrected.
fathers,
thought thus.
Of
whom,
horted ladies
Jerom and Augustin not only exof the highest rank and worth to the acquimight the more
easily ac-
complish
it,
much
men
of our day,
and
my
the
my
(laughters read.
know
Avill
teach
them
to
esteem the consent of God, and a good conthe best fruit of their labours.
So, placid
.science,
mid
esc
RiEMoms of
tlie
any
bite
'
But
my
child-
ren
is
for
who
is
there,
so strong
and
But,
my
friend, the
more
diiKcult
do
deem
is
Nor do
evil
think
there
unavoidable
sticketh
we
are born
it is
sown
in
and brought
to per-
tiie
love of praise,
it
cometh
to that
we study
to please the
majority,
and
wc grow ashamed
of being good.
'
That
this
plague
may be
children,
do you
my
my my
tliat
their
ears,
vain glory
is
is
no-
will
inculcate by
;
them good
ratiicr
and
Sm
you
T.
MORE,
287
tions.
And
end, than
the reading to
fathers.
These,
they knoAv, are not angry with them; and, from their venerable sanctity, their authority must have great weight.
'
"Wherefore, if
you
will
my
(for
and
Cecilia),
you
will
my own
ligations to you,
And my
their
child\,y
me by
virtue,
nature, then
shall
more endeared
and
become by
superior
'
Farewell.
At Court, Whitsuneve.'
^Vhen
INIore resigned
his
his
office
of chancellor, he
;
made
a disposition of
landed property
his life,
reserving to himself
after his
term of
and
death as-
his wife,
mainders over.
Though
this
was
and
to his son's
by the crown.
But
it
had so happened,
he altered
More had
288
his first inlcntiou
iitid
MliMOIRS
;
01"
ht'c,
hkc the
c(iiisefirst
queuce of
this, as
tlie
conveyance,
Icstiition.
Ropers jeserved
without mo-
and Henry, of
his
for
end
tlieir
liberty.*
Erasmus survived
and concluded,
in
his friend
]\Iore
July
1.536, his
true piety.
till
necessity
Early
in life
made
;
religion
to consist in
observe
in the
which
SIR T.
MORE.
289
a conviction of
its
importance.
ed the
pacifier
Rome
The
re-
to proceed with
more mildness, and the Lutherans, on the more submission and modesty.
and the
their requests,
justly censured
for his
weakness
in
many points disapproved and in finding fault with those whom, on the whole, he resembled much more than he But they who compelled him to this did their adversaries. conduct, Avho hated the name of reformation, and treated as vile heretics all who dared even to wish for amendment,
were
far
more blameable.
ture, they
and an innocent
time-serving, which
reli-
however we must
gion, ^-c.
use as not to
the
Lutherans
for
Had
they
all
met
his
still
have been
involved in
Vol. L
PP
590
MFMOIKS OF
in tlic fifteenth
world
far
So
doning
interests,
superstition, that
been
established
in
Italy,
and
all
christian
countries,
then testability
Germany
Had
all
(Jermany submitted
to
Leo and
Erasmus himself would undoubtedly have been one of the The court of Rome, no longer apprehensive first sufferers.
he should
crifice
sa-
who
did
a thousand times
more
Had
many.
The apprehension of
he
still
linquish,
fear of being
excommunicated
upon one of more courage than Erasmus, and rehim from speaking freely of the controversies then
agitated.
He
still,
Sm
Lutlier,
T.
MORE.
his point,
291
and
some
rcfoi-niation
of doctrine and
manners
Luther would
The
to say
and do
Henry VIII, Charles V, the popes, George of Saxony, Wolsc}', W'arham, More, Campegius, Bembus,
Sadolet,
and
others,
might influence
it.
his
judgment though
to suppose,
There
is
no necessity
church of
Rome
much
as piety
censuring
her defects.
conduct of Luther
more
like
an apostle or
pri-
Concord
to
is
yet
it is
not
liberty.
These
are infinitely
trancpiillity be-
dominion, under
faction, soli-
had the
pacific
Though
least
divisions in general
this
do much harm,
have at
produced
good
Pp
S92.
ME^rOIRS OP
of
would
liave
ol'
our ancestors^
Erasmus
himself;
cabals,
who having
his
and mangled by
his
writings,
if
weakness and
and theo-
lile,
and recomfaith-
mended him
ful edition
by an elegant and
of his works.
Erasmus,
it
in i)ropor-
we
lie
consider
and how
little
had
ments (more of Avhich he might have obtained), we cannot In him we have a class him with the inj dices literati.
Tery remarkable instance of a man,
avIio,
with numerous
j)oor,
talent
and
in^
first
the greatest
It
is
Erasmus.
SIR T.
MORE.
293
men
like
More and
been broken
though,
if
we
to
an infraction
ed.
may appear
life
have been
sufficiently hazard^
still
As
lte in his
his
as he
corre-
sponded with
friend,
In
'J'hus
a misrepresenta-
though the use made by the reformers of the theoloworks of Erasmus might perhajis not unreasonably
for
gical
him
by such arguments.*
We
will
three letters by
Erasmus
relative
to
More.
The
first,
to
minute
particularities
That
to
manner
his daughters.
The
ele-
name
IS ucerinus, gives us
an
More and
294
Fisher,
MEMOIRS OF
and
tliougli
SIR T.
MORE.
commonly,
antl with
to
Erasmus-
As much
will
ot"
and we
day, re-
his
lative to ]\lore
and
appear to demand
a place on an occasion
APPENDIX
TO THE
MEMOIRS,
APPENDIX.
Erasmus Rot.
Ulrica Hutteno S,
D.
QaoD Thomx
rum
Mori ingenium
sic
quibus ut vere
neque
multis
cum
commune
tuorum
est ilia
est,
etiam.
Nam
is
propemodum
invideam.
Haec videlicet
quam uUs
Non
fit
cernitur
quidem
animo
Grxcorum
Per bos
quos nee
fit,
t quemadmodum vulgo
ita
impense delectemur,
cae-
non
Cseterum, quod a
me
flagitas,
ut
tibi
totum
Morum
gam, utinam
Nam
omnium
suavisfimi
Voir.
I.
208
conlcmplationc vcrsari.
spexisse.
APPENDIX.
Scd priinum
illi-
pcr-
luturus
Sec cnim
opcrK
Monim
quain Alexandrum
Magniiin aut
nee
illi
quam
at vcreor, iie
tibi totius
quam
Ajjellis.
Expcriar taincn
quam
wl
mcminissc.
intelligcs
Quoil
si
quando
fiet
demuin
quam non
aut invi-
me
dcntix incuses aut cxcutientiae, qui ex tarn multis bonis tarn pauca vel vidcrim
lippus vel
invidiis.
tibi
Worus
modcsi-
omnium membrorum
omnino
rcm, quanquam
subllicct, capilli
nisi
quod
tennis
mavb
quibusdam
inferspersi, quse
magis capianlur.
infcstari vitiis.
Vul-
amicam
;
fcstivitatem
semper prse
se ferens,
ac
ab ineptia
prcscrtim
sciirrilitatcque.
Isevo,
cum
incedit, id
quod
illi
manus tantum
conferantur.
subrusticae sunt
duntaxat,
si
ad reliquam corporis
specieni'
Ipse
omnium qus ad
adeo ut nee
mus
fuit,
ilia
magnopere curare
sit solitus,
fuerit adolescenti,
nee otiam
APPEiVDIX.
licet atlSf
Kit^dfiiii
209
non majorem annis
conjiccrc;
quanquam
viginti tribus,
prospera
nam nunc non multum excessit quadragesimum. Valetudo magis quam robusta, sed tamcn quse qnantislibet laboribus sufSciat
Spes
est vi-
vacem
fore,
quando patrem
liabet
admodum
villi
gelaque senectufe.
Niminem adbuc
minus morosum
est,
ciborum.
fuit.
Ad juvenilem
id
illi
patrium
Vc-
fallebat
Vinum,
ore
quoniam
illic
mos
est
ad idem poculum
vicissira
invitare sese,
summo
nonnunquara
communi-
quam
lib cibis
aJj
Lactariorum,
;
et
in ar-
esum ovorum
habet.
Vox neque
a natura
Linn-ua
grandis
est
nee
admodum
exilis,
loquentis est
mire explanata
art iculataque,
Cuitu
simplici delectatur, nee sericis purpurave aut catenis aurcis utitur, nisi
cum
integrum non
est ponere.
Dictu mirum
quam
negligens
;
sit
ceremoniarum
morum
civilitatem
harum non
Sed niuliebre putat viroque indignum, cjusmodi ineptiis bonam temporis partem absumerc.
lubcat uti.
ignarus,
Ab
illi
semper pe-
quemadmodum
multum
squalitas gratissima.
Vix au-
tcm rcperies
ullani
aulam
non
muKum
omni
cum
ac modcstius.
datur lu-
Natura
libertatis
ita
avidior, sed
quemadmodum
otio
cum
bens utitur,
nemo
Ad
ami-
300
APPENDIX.
est cultor, ct
longc
ten;i-
Nee
ille
Nulli
non patct ad
modissimus
iieccssitudinis foediis.
non
possit,
Quos
sinceros repcrit, et
horum
puani
vitse
Nam a
tenipom txdiiim
est
prorsiis
ah-
negligciitior, ita
nemo
diligentior iu
Quid
multiij ? si qu'is
absolutum vene amicitise rcqnirat exemplar, a neIn convictu tarn rara comifas ac
quam a Moro.
tristi
sit
morum
tam
snavitas, ut
nemo
tain
ingcnio
qucm non
Jam
nee mordacitatcm
Si
unquam
csset
e^it.
quod dictum
salsius]
usque
ingcnium
primis
rcdolentibiis
est
mule
ct
cpigram-
Luciano
cum
est,
ut canielus saltarcm,
ille
Nihil
autcm
in
est
unde
in rebus
si
maxime
seriis.
Si
cum
cum
Ncc
offenditur morionibus,
niira dextcrilate ad
omnium
aiiectus sese
accommodans.
Cum
mulieribus
fere,
atque etiam
cum
dam
Nemo
riirsus
nemo minus
avium quod
communi.
illi
voluptas
est si)ectare
formas, ingenia ct
est
diversorum animantium
alat, si
domi non
quod
E?Y. 715.
APPENDIX.
Terra, mustcla, et bis consirailia.
301
Ad hsc si
solet,
sit
morclur
ac
totics silii
reiiovat
Cum
quam
astas ferret,
noa abhorruit a
sic ut oblatis
coitu.
Bonas
litcras
Juvenis ad Giaecas
liieras
ac
philosophise sfudium sese applicuit, adeo uon opitulaate patre, viro alioqui
omni
subsidio destitucret
ac pene pro
is
Britanni-
profitetur.
Quse
generc
sibi
illius iu-
sludiorum genus.
nisi
Ab
hoc igitur
cum
ijn
nihil aliud
agebant
Quin
ct
evolvendis ortbodoxorum-
Augustiiii Jibros
De
Civitate Dei
publice professus est adhuc pene adolescens autlitorio frequent!, nee puduit nee
pcenituit sacerdofes ac senes a juvene profano sacra discerc.
pietatis
Interim et ad
aliis-
vigiiiis, jejuniis,
prccatienibus
Qua quidem
in re
ille
sapiebat,
quam
pleriquc
isti
&ssiouem ingciuut
Neque quicquam
quod
obstabat'
quo minus
sese
huic
vitse
quam
sacerdos impurus.
Tamen
virgincm duxit
admodum
Hanc
nere natam,
semper habitam,
instruendam
quo magis
ad suos mores
et literis
50?
curavit et omiii Musiccs gcncrc
APPENDIX.
dodam
quicum
lubuissct iiniversam
tulissct c
Ires,
medio
quorum adhuc
supcrsunt pucllx
viI'u-
Margarda, Alojsia,
amicorum
consiliis
paucis mensibus a
voluplati,
quippe nee
acrcm ac vigilantcm
vivit,
ac
si
pucUa
Quid
eflecit,
ut mulicr
jam
ail
senium vcrgens, ad
cilliara, tcstudine,
mo-
modera-
qua
quid
exstitcrit,
protinus aut
mede-
autcomponit.
inimicus.
vixit qui
qua'daiu videtur
qua nemo
fiunae
labem conlraxit.
ut buic
Quin vix
quibus
sic
convenerit
cum
matre,
cum
noverca,
nam
adamavit ac matrem.
Nuper
Morus
unquam
est,
vidisse melius.
usquam
Animus
quod
a soresse
dido lucro
putat,
illis satis
quod
Cum
silium,
magb
illorum
suis
Id
si
minus
li(i-
quam
uiininio dispendio
quando quibusdani
liic
animus
est ut
litilwis etiani
ddectentur.
In urbc
est,
(nam nou
ad
prandium)
cum
Nemo
nemo
quam ex
..
APPx\DIX,
qui
litigant.
303
Ires
Siqiiidcm ante
litis
drachmas,
cffecit,
His moribus
ut
tentus, qua; ct satis babcret auctorilatis, iiec tanieu cssct giavibus obnoxia periculis.
est
in legationem, in
qua cum
se
cordatissime
iioininis octavus,
do?
pcrtrabcret
NuUus unquam
gere.
vcbeaientius ambiit in
esset
aulam
Verum cum
cum
Morum
in
nunquam
visum
patiatur disccdere.
Sive
seriis
utendum
sive
amas-
nioribus laxare
animum,
nullus
comes
sic
festivior.
Sxpe
res
vem
ct
Morus
tiam.
Nee tamen ab
eo quisquam impetravit, ut
munus a quoquara
acciperet.
Mori
Nee
ad
literas
adamatas subindc
redit.
Quicquid
gratia pollet, id
omne juanimus
;
vandx
Semper quidem
adfuit
eum
nunc magis
excrit,
quando
commcndatione provehit
;
succurit
nullum unquam a
Morum
aliena-
esse
si
putat accessisse,
si
quem oppressum
perplexum
et
impeditum
explicuit,
tum
redegit in gratiam.
Nemo
nemo minus
comes
ex-
probrat.
Jam cum
tot
nominibus
felicissimus, et felicitatis
fere soleat
esse jactantia,
set
ab hoc vitio^
Primam
aetatcm
J04
diu luctatus
est ut
APPENDIX.
prosam orationcm reddcrct moUiorem, per omne
sit
scripli
?
go
quid
attinct
commemorare
lib! prae-
Declamationibus prsecipuc
quod
ingeniorum
Piatonis
Unde
adolcscens
nrgumenlo
me
fiat,
faceret,
Utopiam hoc
commode habeant
mox
yter
respublica?
scd
Brilannicam
eilinxit,
quam
Secundum
inaequalittis.
felicius dicat
et
extempore, adco
fclici
ingcnio
felix lin-
gua
subservit.
Ingenium prxscus
cum omnia
lempus aut
promte
et iiicontanter suggerit
quicquid
summis
unicum
esse int^cniuni,
cum
Verx
pietatis
non
ab omni
superstitione alienissimus.
Habet suas
lioras
quibus Deo
litet
prccibus, non ex
more sed
e pectore depromtis.
Cum
Ac
talis
Morus
est
ctiam
in aula.
iiiveniri nisi in
mo-
nasteriis.
in cubi-
vcrum etiam
invitat,
ncc invitat
modo verum
etiam
Hos habet
Ab
quam luxu
perditis jnvcnibus aut mulierculis, aut ctiam torquatis Midis, aut Insinceris ofiiciis
;
quorum
alius
alius
ad tyrannidem in-
In hac aula
si vixisses
quanqnam
vi^is ut
irite-
APPENDIX.
griorem nee optare possis. Stromerus ac Coppus.
305
rebus optimis faveant, veluti
1
SeJ quid
paucitas a
(aiitma
examea
insigtiiuna
virorum, Monfjoii, Linacri, Pacsei, Coleti, Stocschleii, Latimeri, Mori, Tonstalli, Clcrici,
quorum queincumque
norainaris,
est
mundum omnium
haudquaquam
unicum
his
exempio, ut idem
et
ipsi suae
Flabes
non optime
Sed
delineatam.
illud
Ea
tibi
minus placebit,
si
possis impitigere
quod
tibi
minus paruerim,
scri-
benti visa est longior nee tibi legenti, sat scio prolixa videbitur;
id faciei
Mori
nostri suavitas.
Verum, ne
nihil
deam, &c.
Antwerpiae,
X.
Cal.
Vol.
I.
APPENDIX.
JErasmiis Rot,
GuUclmo Budteo,
S.
D.
Niim rex
quam posnUendo
suo a thesauris.
Ea
functio apuil
Briest
cum
non adinudum
riec
molestis nej^otiis.
sat gralios-
qui sic ambiebat Iioc muiieris, ut non gravarelur suo victu ciboque gcrerc.
rex optiinus hie ccrtissininm in
At
Moruni
favoris
quam
sit
Ncc hoc
adjecit.
Ncqiic dubitandum
amplioribus ornnmentis
ali-
principibus.
sit
At Morus
sic est
emancipandus.
Priorcm enim,
quam
virginera
dux-
extubt
et
animum hoc
pares cssent
quibus
sic favet,
ut
si
animo
I'acultates,
feiicibus ingeniis
candidus ac
beiiignus Maecenas.
pus
sibi
Nee
diibito
Quid
libi venerit
usu,
Ef tamen
quum
adeo
non abuiidaret
illi
quod
Nee hac
studiis
parte solum
ornat studia,
quod
doctis omnibus,
honestissimis literarum
excolendam curat
sed
quod
brevi
filias Ires,
quarum
maxima
natu Wargareta
jam nupta
est juveni,
primum
nostris stndiis.
Om-
primum
castis
APPENDIX.
n/tatis gratia alit, ut
illis sit
30T
soJalis.
j;iin
aliquot
nuptam juveni
cujus
moribus
aureum.
est i\loro
in lileris profecissent.
Jussit ut
est
illi
omnes ad me
quidem suo
quisqiie Marte.
est
Nee argumentum
;
suppedilatum,
correclum
eteuim
cum
velut offensus
incommoda
scriptura,
describerent.
Id ubi factum
misit.
est,
ne syl-
laba
quidem mutata,
literas oljsignatas
ad me
nihil asque
talis,
sum admiratus.
sponsis
NuTlam
illic
T. Livius
est
manibus.
Nam
quod
incidat verbum,
quod me quoque
fortassis
quam
omne
collegium,
l^yoJiaVlK
qucnquam nee
frivolis
occupari.
queri,
duo mala
agit, ut
conciliasset.
At Moiiis noc
hoc
omnibus no-
minibus,
et
apud
sit
quod
prosperiorc
gratiosus,
valetudine,
principi,
quod
quod
et
re lautiore,
quod cognatis
affinibus utiUor,
quod ad
vitae
Primum male
cultori.
munem
adimerent addicto
Nulla
libellos
Moro de manibus
exculiant
et
magis
sit
verae prudentiae
est,
cum
tanta
morum
suavitate conjunxerit.
ut
quum
amor ad omne
praesidium vel
n03
APPENDIX.
iiiutilis",
ornamcnlmn liaberdur
majorum imasiiuibus
iiarciiis ipsis
sit
magmlum,
qui
lii)cro5
ul
Quiii ct
mo-
in quibus litcrarum
leritia ilesulcretur.
Jam nemincm
litcras ct
fere niorlaliiim
ct
non liabebat
ad caslitatom
ad fainaiu
esse inulilcs.
luilii
Nee
ipse
quondam
prorsus
ab
iiac
Moms
Etcniin quuni duabus rebus potissiniuni pei iclitetur puellaium castitas, olio ac
lascivis lusibus,
Nee
tuctur
sunt,
famam
iutegram,
quam mores
incontamiiuUi.
Nee
ulla:
firmius casta
quam
Nequc
Verum
tum pucUx
animus ab
Alque
liinc pruiter
hoc
quod
lem ad virlutcm
inscitia pudicitiae
instituaiit
et inllamment.
rerum
jacturam
attulit,
priusquam
scirent
sit
thesaurus pcriclitaretur.
liabeant morigcras
si
maritis
ractucndum,
siiit,
iic
minus
doctas habeant,
nisi si
qui
tales
ut ea velint cxi-
Irao
mea
sen-
diorum
Atque projicmodum
rem docuit.
Ad hxc
quum
Equidcm
viliata.
auri puri,
alias
quam
talenta
multo
plumbo scoriaque
Audimus passim
vuUum
sit
ho-
quod
Hx
si
quid
stulte, si
quid impie,
fieri
eflutiit ecclesiastes
(qucmadmodum
vel dclcatiui.
videmus)
Atque hoc
dcmum
c^t
cum hujusmodi
APPENDIX.
demum
vere
309
islis
jucundum
in
est conviverc.
Plurimum enim ab
dissenlio,
qui
coHJiigcs
non
quam ad
obscqiiiiim vohiptatis,
quam ad
faniiliam
rem magis
qux
contineat in officio,
qus
qux
marito per
omnia
satisfaciat.
Caetcrum
illud objccissem
Moro, quod
si
quid huin-
si
quid accidcrit
quod
viliari
non
malim
quam
indoctas.
Moxque
milii
venit in
mcntem
cum
uxor ncchimartt mi
uxor,
anme
vialles
cogitatio subiit
animum meum,
ct pluribus
in
quis Camil-
Tu
cum
Cseterum quod tu
bitat et in
es moliri,
hoc
ille
non du-
uxoribus
prxcellif.
Tu
rursum
ulriusquc litera-
pobtcrum aucturus,
cUirgiri.
pulum
quod
quam ille, copiosius eliam, uti nobis pollicemur, modo coeperis opes tuas a scriuiis dcpromlas.in poQuanquam ct a Moro magnum aliquid cxspcclat juventus,
si
ille
mullum adbuc
absit a scnectulc, ct
patrem
liabct
octoginta mire vircnti senectutc, ut vix alium reperias qui bcllius gcstct seta-
lem
uncle licet et
Moro
Ex
rure Anderlacensi,
Anno
,310
APPENDIX.
S.
D.
QuoNiAM
omnia
esse
commuiiia, reckesse.
communes
omiii
Accipics
gciierc
laeta, seil
lacrymarum
quanquam
arbitror
iamam
istuc
jamdudum omnia
baronis inciyti,
dum
;
qucm
illi
cancc4Lrium appellant.
apud cam
coque
Qux
sum
Jiic
circumfcrun-
nam
nihil
burum
vidi.
ISed priust^uura
Thamysim flumcn
nomcn
sic
in
longnm porrccta
est,
apud
iiarum
Lugdunum,
Ad
arccm bene munitam, qua regcs interdum utuntur, vulgus Turrim appellat.
Sed in cadem servari solent
yiri
nobdi
s,
est
ct
parum
domus
spaciosissima,
qua sedent
minet, ut bine
illinc
cymba
vebi possint.
raultis
mensibus
fuisset captivus,
est
baculo innixus tarn longam viam, corporc gravi aegrotationc in carcere dcbili-
APPENDIX.
tato, nihil
ticuli
311
prse sc ferens.
Primum
qui
criminum quae
-Nortfolciij
objicicbantur.
in
ISIox cancellarius
Moro
successit,
acdux
hunc
modutn
rciitn
appcUarunt.
En
vides Magister
More
(sic appellant
Atlamen spcraraus
niodo rc-
veniam a
regis
dementia consequuturum.'
Ad
tias
hsec
Moras
'
cordis afFectu
pro
ista vestra
arnica erga
me
voluntate
in
tantum
illud oro
Deum
orani-
mc
Cseterum
quum
reputo
quam
prolixi
quamque
graves arliculi sunt quibus oneror, vereor ne mihi nee ingenium suppetat, nee
sufficiat
ad respondendum omnibus
praesertim
quum
in carcerc
detentus, in
corporis debilitatem,
qus me nunc
ctiara babet.'
qua
sederet.
Ubi
consedisset, prosc-
sermoueni hunc in
modum.
Quod ad primum
conafur osteiidere
meam
in re-
gem
gotio
me
-
Semper
serenissimx majcstati.
dicere,
Nee
est
quicquam aliud
:
quam quod
me
conscientia
per
quam
ut
non debebam,
ulla proJitio
meum
prin'
celare veritatcm.
Nee
liic est
qnx
untie
quod nunc
objicitur,
ma-
Ob
hoe delictum
(si
modo
delictum appellan-
dum
est)
Sed
Quod
con
mc
qu proximo
312
silio proillla os(,
APPRNDIX.
mc jam
in carcere
agonto
]iorfitliose,
snb^
Jesu Ciiristo
supremnm caput
ecclesiw
Anglicanx
inprimis res|iondel)o ad
hoc quod
tis illiiis
milii ol)jicitiir,
quod Domino
consil
oiftu^
qux mea
tantum
esset
nihil aliud
voluerim rcspondcre,
godisnmplius
ChrisH.
^olicitari, sod
Dico
me
(1 .;5in;iri ca|>itis,
uUx
leges
mnndi
possuiit
Dc
occullis
enim
Ad
cvidcns
argumentum
est
animi male
senticntis
de jam
si
Nam
omnem
goric
cgium cdicium
esse
Ad qux
quam
IVIorus
'
Si
verum
est
quod habetur
in legibus,
eum
qni tacct
videri consentire,
improbavit.
vestram constitutionem
fidelem obligari ut re-
spondeat caterorice
inlerrogclur,
&c.
et
rcspondeo,
bonx
fidci
ulli
subditum
alii
magis obligatum
esse
Deo, conscientix,
si talis
<
rci in
(i.minosuo.
Nam
illud
raortalium
in re conscieutiam
meam.
'
Kqui-
qux me
vel con-
Cxierum quando
illx,
quemadmodum
prxdicatis,
per episcopum exustx sunt, ipse non gravabor recitarc sententiam earum.
In
APPENDIX.
cida ac familiarUato.
(eras
tioiic.
313
li-
quo pacto
rcspon.lissL-in
do
ista coastitu-
Ad
i.>sc
nii)il
id iiilul aliud
lescripsi, nisi
Aiiiiiia;
me jam meam
composuLssu conscicrtteste
tiain,
compoiiertt suam.
aliud
ill
mese periculo, ac
!
Deo
vobls asse-
vcro,
illls
Uteris a
me
scriptiim luisse
Haniin
coiisiifutioiicni
addici
mi)rti.
'
Superest
tcrtiiis
arficulus,
qm
de vpstra constitutiono
secanti, proptcrea
quod
quis vdlet
cam
scrvare,
[x-rderet aiii.uain
si
Idem q.ioniam,
Iluftbiisis,
perspicunm
fuisse
est
esse infer
Ad Uxc
respondeo,
me uu.iquam
loquutum,
cdictum, quaiis
ghidius utrin-
mea
fuit oratio.
ncscio
si
il-
lius oratio
congruebat, id ncquaquam accidit ex conspirationc, sed potius ex ini^eniorum ac doctrinaz similitudine. Brevitcr: illud pro certo ha-
cum mea
betotc,
menunquam qnicquam
:
raalifiosc fuisse
stitutionem
at fieri potuit, ut
ad benignam
regis
fuerit deiatura.'
quondam ex
ostiariis
duodccim
super
viri,
juxfa gentis
consuetudinem, quibus
illis
consultarent, ac
quartam partem
dignus
Ac mox
rium
His ita peractis Thomas Morus hunc in modum orsusest loqui: ' Age, quando sum conderanatus, quo jure Deus novit, ad exonerandam conscientiam
liberius eloqui
volo
quod
sentio
de vestra constitutione.
Primum
in
illud dico,
me
lai-
VOL.
I.
514
APPENDIX.
cu, aut ut vocant, sccularis, possit aut dcljcat esse caput status spiritualis aut
ecclesiastici.'
Hie
canc;llarius
omnibus episcoDominc,
ct
nobilitate, toto
denique regno
Ail
qnx Morus
inquit,
Cancellarie, pro
iiabcs
ortbo-
mecum
quod
tale sit
et
omnia.
Nunc More,
inquit>
Ad qu2 Morus
stantes) ut
prx-
andam
conscientiam
meam,
Deo, qui
hominum.
Prxtcrea dico
V()>
et illud,
constitutionem vestram
unquam
moli-
qux
unica
est,
concordiam
christianitatis.
qnamobrcm
assent ire in
niiseri-
quemadmodum
iidera
usque ad
mortem,
et
tamen
nunc
et
dis-
mundo,
per-
Hac
cum
His
ita pcractis,
Thomas Morus
Hie
obiter accidit
miserabilius.
mediam
ad parentcra peuctravit.
Quuui
et
mulier
esset, et
metum
et
pvidorera
omtiem excusscrat
cum
audisset patrem in
APPEND
curia morti addictum esse.
gredcretur.
X.
arcis
51b
portam inali-
Hoc
accidit
priusquam Morus
complexu
quidem
ijiterim
potuit proloqui.
Movit
stipatores,
Horum
nosti
i(aque permissu
Morus
his verbis
te discrucies
amplius
est
voluntas
Dei; jampridem
gentis,
si
mei
ilia
simulque dedit
digressa esset
in-
osculum ex consuetudine
quern dimittunt.
rccurrit, et
At
cum
ad decern
vel
magnitudine.
Cui pater
nihil lo-
quutus
moto.
est,
Ncc
quam
ut
Deum
deprecaretur.
excidere.
Ad
hoc
pietatis
Erant
et inter satellites,
la-
crymas
res
sit,
tenere
non potuerunt.
adeo valida
Hie apud
pectus.
se quisque rcputet
quam
Thorns Mori
magis
:
ut
non
alius
Morum
sententiam
quam
quw
collum amputavit<
est
est in
planiciem,
qu^
est
ante arccm.
Mos
loquantur.
ut pro ipso
At Morus paucissimis
Deum
orarent in hoc
mundo, se
vicissim in altero
pro
ut
ipsis.
Mox
illi
dignaretur impertire
regis
bonum
bonum
Uxc
que vultu
flexis
multorum gemitu.
fere continebantur in
Ss
.516
Ari'KNDlX.
Quisqtiis
:tc
au(om
sciipsil,
videtur ac(u>
iii-
(crfuissc.
Qux
deinccps refeiam,
pardm
li.
libus arco]ii.
cpiscoptis
iiistraiulLs
c.
XV.
t'al.
liulloiisiii,
sancliiiiuiiia
alque
(uni aiimi-
mira
libcralilatc in egcnos,
ex urcc dicia
in
qua
ad curiam, qua: ut
arinntorum
sti-
sati-llituin
patu jierduclus
est,
ob corjjusculi dcbilitatcm,
;
quam
licet
ipse valetudincin
suam semper
altenuasset.
Jllc
men
porturbatus
sed
bilaritatcm composito
visum
csset.
Hoc adjectum
deduci.
suspicor,
si
forte
j)osset a sententia
fxdnm
et Lorribile,
:
quo tamen
ut crc-
fuerant
aflTecti
quod
quod ex
illius
coUuquio comperi,
quum
in
Nam
fuisse jjer
viam
tractos, dein
eliamnum
exsccta iiitcstina-s
fuisse
et,
sed
omnium
incrcilihilcm
constantiam.
vidctur Jioc
rumor rebus
tristibus
aliquid addere.
At
si
liic
vcrus
esse consilium
eorum qui
cxteros absterrcant.
iri,
Nam
plurimis improbatum
prxsertim
copura rcdco.
Is
quum
relur in
est,
vultu, Plurimam, inquit, optimi viri, vobis babco gratiam ))ro officio,
quo
me euntcm
et
redeuntem deduxistis.
APPENDIX.
]jcr
317
se furebat, ut
neoiiiii
prx
non
essct
Ncc
din dilata
est
mors.
Ad decimum
furris coUera,
vulgo dicunt
verum
populum.
prolixa
Primum
regi
Mox
ardcnti magis
:
quam
simuJque procurabens ia
genua, gracili
et
damnato
in
apparatum
iioc
caput amputant.
Quaiito
cum
in pas-
Cxte-
rum quod
qui
si
sententia, sunt
in
sponte cxpirareU
Ego
suspicor,
Jerritus
mufaret scntentiani.
leratam mortem,
episcopura Koflcusera
ob
Ex ami-
corum
cmarcuisse,
effloruisse,
:
quod
quibusdam niartyribus
est
facatin-
tum legimtR.
qne abditum.
gentcs excitat.
letur,
quum
At
veriti
ne idem cvcnirct
est,
in oapitc IMori,
aqua
fervenli
decoctum
horroris.
:
liritannis viciriiore
Utinam hue
jjervu'nissent
acta Hoffensis,
qucniadmodum
Mori
pcrvenerunl.
E\ Mori
quam
ante
palinodiam.
Quo animo
Morum
cxtincti sunt.
Morum
cducatos, in honore babitos, in carecre dednct, non dat vitam, sed longiorem
SIS-
APPENDIX.
Ego
si
ct
accrbiorcm mortem.
illi
mca
stultitia
cona-
tus fuisscm
ab
Oritannise luminibus, (otiqiic orbi notis abstiiicrd, aut ccrte pa?na mi(iore
coiileiitus cssi-t.
Rursus,
si
qui pcrieruiit
me
adiiibuissciit in
consilium, sua-
incommode
resistas,
Equi
feroces,
quemadmo-
dum
ct tonitrua, iion vi
Res
Veluti
quum
jierierunt,
quorum
erat
si
JVI.
TuUius.
Qui monarchis
serviunl,
iis
quxdam
dissimulanda sunt, ut
jion
saltern aliqua
ex parte mo-
mortem oppeten-
dam.
veritate.
ponenda
cervix.
Sed aliud
est
silere,
aliud abjurarc.
Si
licuisset
.Sed ineple
facio,
nunquam
inter-
aliis relinquo.
quid
eccarint, nulla in
regem malevolentia
sibi jicnitus per-
Hoc
quod tuebantur.
alteri asserere
Arguinonto
sit,
est,
quod
regnum, aut
conatus
nee
uUam
molitus
seditionem,
ac nc vcrbum quidem
si licuiss< t,
excidit
odium conspira-
tionemve rcsipiens.
Silen-
cupiebant
tem exceperunt,
nihil aliud
quam regi regnoque bene prtcantes. At in atromagnam cuipx partem excusat simplex ac pura conTurn apud
APPENDIX.
est habitus.
Sl
Plafoni
apud
in castra
Philippi regis
Non impune
nisi
non ob aliud
quod
esset
philosophus.
narcharum
in eruditos benignitas
conciiiat, i(a
De
liis
apud omnes
nationes, et
quorum memoria
apnd
Ncc
re-
minimum
iegarit.
Uxc nequaquam
quod
etiamsi
cum
impiis prin-
csset
sed
ut
ostendam quibus
commendationejam
Plausibilis
suleret.
fort
semper
praepotentum dementia
Omne
solum
forti
feiiciter.
Quum
rex Galiiarum
regis
Ludovicus Xlf,
filia,
regnum adcptus
fallor,
pararet divortium
res displicuit
cum Lodovici
XJ,
Maria, ni
nomine,
et
Deum
oran-
dum
boniim
lii
coiisiliutn.
dicuntur,
ad seditionem
nihil aliud
et
Rex tamen
:
quam
vertere
solum
at
ille
moderatione rex
suo consuiuit
institute, et
gravem invidiam
cvilavit,
quod uterque
csset
et ii, quorum institufo pro viribus adhominis in cranes candor, lauta comitas, tanlaquc
3^0.
beiiignilas.
.\PPi:\DlX.
Qumi
Jam
illc
\\\
mc(li<>criler eni.Iiluin
iidii
ab
se
diiuiait
?
iiulonaliim
."
Ant
qiiis fiiit
stiiduoiit
bcno lUTcri
;
MaUI n.m
ille in
tUvcnt
G "rmaiii
at
Ilibcrnos,
li.ec naliirx
IMoriim dinniuin
sfcus ac paiviitcm
iicc vidcraiit
oflicio
ab co
fucratit alll-cli
prosiliuiit.
ac rcpiignarili iacrynia;
ciii
Quamodo nunc
iuit aaiicilia,
Eiasmii.n nostrum,
cum Moro
Cb.sc
(:im .arcia
ut prorsus, jiixtu
vidcri'tiir aiiiina?
si
Sunt
sed
dcplorandos
esse,
gratiilauibim potius
love doloris Ion imen
lis,
:
qui
tali
at
diosorum
gratiu,
fiiin
vcro pi.tcipiie
:
causa,
jam maritum ac
rum parentcm,
rcm
fidelcm,
filias (res,
et lias
uxo-
sustulit.
ITas
omncs
cum
(aq'.ie
ginum.
Hie
niibi cogita,
Quot
sccleris
Quibus vix
liabco
quod
amicorum
Uteris
ac fama
est,
rcpudium cum
cvasura, ultro
ejus negotii
religiosae,
res cssct
deposuit canccliarii
munus,
alia
exequutor
esse,
quod apnd
sese
privato licebit
fore, ut cogcrc-
Videbat
APPENDIX.
tur multos coiidemnare morte, quos judicabat oplimos
:
321
ad hxc exitum
tanti
reges ferociam.
Tale
si
quid natum
fuisset,
prima victima
asset tarn
fuisset cancellarius.
At me
si
Morus
in consilium adhibuisset,
quum
scieiitia,
test,
dehortatus fuissem
eum ne
susciperet dignitatem.
Vix cnim
magnis
fieri
po-
pariter ac
parvis jiistitiam ad
unguem
observent.
fastigio
coUocatum, respondete
soleo,
Nee regem
arbitror latuisse,
:
quam ob
Homerus
causiim
indicat,
irritatior,
adjecit ani-
mum
quum
ad vetus
illius
regionis
excmplum,
ut
regnum a jure
pontificis
Romani
suprcmam potestatem
sibi viiidicaret.
Caiterum
instituto abhorere,
ue qua coorirc-
tur seditio,
pontificis
promulgatum
Romani
novum matrimonium,
nisi
capitalis tssef.
promulgatum,
Roifcnse ct
Moro jam
ductis in
semper plurimum
pudium
libris
quum adhuc
et
integrum
esset
consulere.
Morus
regis
animum
tutam,
quam
putabat
Deo gratam,
et regi
et
regno salutarem.
Erat
illi
magna
familiarifas
cum
episcopo Roffense
turn praediuni
quod ha-
ct
quod majus
Ab
causam
tueretur
at
ipsum aliquid
efFutisse
quod rebellionem
saperet, nuiiqiiam
sum
Vol.
I.
322
APPENDIX.
comperj, qui fam racduUitus amarit priiicipem suum, aut
vcllcf,
Anglum
magU
ex
animo bene
qtiam
iUc.
Unde
vir
igitur Lie
est, conscicntia
fcfcllit
magis mctucns
Deum
Maluit
offciKlcre,
si ille
eum
pcrsuasio.
At demiror
e^t,
ut sic
obfirmaret
si
animum.
ipse perpeli,
quam
id,
in alios facere,
et
quod
necesse fuisset,
in suscepto
munerc
perse verassct.
Quin
rcgins
multos miseret,
in
non lantum ob
ledacta
Icri est,
florens,
nunc
eum
statum
ncc
al-
ut
ob divortium nee eo
vixit,
verum ctiam
dubium
quin
IIuJus porro
Deus
novit.
necem
beali
Tbomx
Acrensis,
plurimum
ct auctoritatis et
opum
siastico
apud Anglos.
Qui
res
omnia
vcrtere in
snam gloriam.
Tantum
si
e scheda,
rumoribus
et
amicorum
Uteris,
tibi
coramunicabo.
Tu
mus quid
cum
suis prophclis,
populoquc
dc quibus
Apud
Ann. m.u.xxxv.
::
APPENDIX.
323
T.
STAPLETONUM.
est
Uteris clari,
Munera
Sed
feliciter
omnia possunt.
hxc omnia,
at
idem
:
est
Moribus insuavb,
Hie
laudes:
Sed moriens
Unus
erat
Ingenio, (2)
clarus
Maxima
(6)
Familiam
gubemat.
et suavis, regi
illustris
populoque jucundus.
Virtutum
I'uit
Vis scire in
literis,
Thomas
ille
Tt2
324
Orator
APPENDIX.
fuit clogans, discrtus
:
Non Gra;cum
Nee
callct
moJo
sed tuetur
ilia,
Quam
Res gests
satis
Aiiglorum gravis et
tjranni.
Quantus
patrumque
libris
Quid Morus
Quos contra
Scribcndo
(Sunt
valuit,
probant labores,
hercticos
:
domi forisque
libris
tulit
hos
Latinis
testes
Pomeranus
et
Lutherus)
clegans volumen.
Nee
Augmentnm
Nee quicquam
scripsit
securi.
:
NOMINIS AITIOAoriA
More, nee
PER EUNDEM.
es ISIaurus,
IVIori,
Nee
fatuus,
quod vox
nominis omen
vigor et candor
maximus
in:nii.
APPENDIX.
325
DE REGE HENRICO
Cur bonus
in
VIII,
ROFFENSI ET MORO
Henn'ce, juventa,
EJUSDEM.
prima
florens,
Impius
in (enebris
Nempe
Prsefuit
Morus
erat.
sacris
Dum
Imo
Morus immeritx
flent
Et
ait,
Non
tetro
sanguine canicies
Hie
est ille
Thomas Morus.
Diva tenax
veri
fuit
sancta fides
Nemesis.
mortis
Quarum prima
causa et
fuit altera
erit.
ALIUD, EJUSDEM.
State viri.
habet
decus regni
quondam
et
Quod
tulerat talem,
quod modo
3?G
llli lit
APPENDIX.
salva foret pictas,
lit
pridcm aula
rclicla est.
est.
Salvo
Fide
modo
Thoma.
Quantam
tiiis
Rcgalcsquc
manibus
ALIUD, EJUSDEM.
Ad
Styga
cum Mori
venisset flebilis
umbra,
immaduit lacrymis.
damuarat adulter,
letlio iiifami
Addidit
infernis judicibus
;
socium
Ca:dis ut authorem
fuerit
cum
morfe peremptus,
Addicat
diris suppliciis
infestet
meritum.
Virentem intcrea
lorva
umbra tyrannum
coUa colubris,
Semper,
et
Et vos Eumcnides
IN
MORTEM THOMiE
Morum
MORI.
Vos mihi
mus
Dictate, et
mecum vatcm
;
lugete peremtum,
Insignem cythara
Nee
coedcs exhorrescis
memorare
cruentas.
APPENDIX.
Dextera ades,
327
Tu
Trimcatnm
inlerea tuimilo
componite corpus,
Et tumulo
Sacrum
laurigeri vatis
complexa sepulcbrum,
Te quoque
Roffensis praesiil
tua
maxima
liicta
Vulgabunt
alii, et
praeclara
volumina condent,
Tempus
erat,
ruina,
At
dolus, et fastus, curaque impietate libidoet livor edax, fulvi et sitis auri,
Ambitioque,
Grassantes
late,
qua
sol subllmis
utrumque
Miscebantque profana
Turn
furiae
tenebris,
cristas,
Armatx
Fatorum
Nee mora,
gnarae,
Cum
Atque
Hymcnxos,
in parte locaret,
:
Vilem animam,
et nullo
At regina
32S
APPIiNDIX.
Primus qui Alauros rcgnis cxcgit
avitis,
Quo nuiiquam
Ni sua Mundi
tccta
conscius jelher
Occanus
paler, et circumflua
Tethys
Rex
ipse,
maritus
Jam
lUx
Exfimuit
aut<
iramquc deorum.
Hymcnacos,
Gaudebant
Et vencrem,
et
voluc
is (ela
indignaiitur Amoris.
Ergo
dirumquc frementcs,
Pellicis insinuant
atrum
in praecordia virus,
Et
raentemque animumque.
suum majoribus
ausis
summi
monitis, (quibus
in
ille
jubebat,
Ejiceret
moecham, (iuilamique
jura vocaret
Legitimam uxorem,
Ipse
sibi
jus pontificis,
nomenque sacratum,
et
Quara
late sua
omnem
qux gaudia
sentit ?
.'
Prsecipue,
et houcsti
Prodit amor
More
inlelix, sic te
tua virtus
APPENDIX.
Perdidit
?
335
nostri.
Bvi scelus
atquc infaraia
Tu
idem
Sed minus
Coaditio
Vi(x
quam dura
rclf-fa
fait insonti ? si
vera professiis,
:
Applaudens
stupris,
infandxque ambitioni,
in;.
Ille
cultorqiie
et
deorum,
procumbens
Purpureum
Tota patct,
tibi rex
supeium
victricia serta
magno applaudente
omnes
senatu
Coelicolum,
et volucres
Omnes
el
dulce cancnles
Ca3ruleum
Quis
mcestissima Margarelta,
fletu
Nata
patris miseri
!
Unclabanl
Nam
Non
te credibile
tibi
efit,
quanquam
jT:U'rnam
conciliant
femamqne decnsque,
illo,
Vol.
I.
11
330
Quill
APPENDIX.
durum
Acres
Osculu pallidulo
ferres
moribunda
paieiiti.
Tu (amen
Nee
nomine corpus,
at polluta cruore
Ncu
Labraque
Mortua vilaiem
Hocne
?
6 inceste, tropxum
Erigis
et
Posse pufas
iras in te convertet
acerbas
Atque
aliis iteruni,
atque
aliis
Tunc,
Flebis, et invisa
sumcs de
pcllice poenas.
Incandens, multoquc
animum infiammatus
iaccho,
At postquam furor
ille
animi discussus,
et oranis
Consumptus
mcutemque
rcccpit,
APPENDIX.
Ipse
33J
manus
inferre sibi,
soles,
Ne quicquam
Tu quoque dilectum frus(ra plorabis amicum, Cum tibi discusso mens pura redibit amorc.
Iiitcrca boirifica
Umbra viri, muKoque caput foedata cruore^ Quo te cunque feres dira occursabit imago,
Supplicium
ssevis
exposcens horrida
faclis.
Namque
j\Iorus
tuis
et exul,
Nulla
est violentia
longa
indictaeque
moram
Numina,
justitiara
quorum baud
tristia
funera, More,^
6 bone vates,
Tu mortem
Crudelem.
templa,
(ibi aras.
Seu
templa
Accipe
fronte laborcm.
Morum
ille
Tam dignum
Mortuus
Post
quam
mortem
Uu
332
APPENDIX.
tibi
cum Moro,
?
<ali
irulignissima cive
dict-rc iiiepta
Anglia
quid pergis
tuum
Tu
Catonem
Persequeris
pium.
Proinde
sile.
Nam
quo maculam
JO.
II.
EPIGRAMMATUM.
situs est
Thomas Morus,
cecidisse gemit.
enses,
Dum
dcflentque
Camoenx
Nee damnum
Italia, et
testis
semper Grscia
testis erit.
qux
vis,
qux copia
fandi,
Quae mens,
^ui
membra necu
APPENDIX,
Scilicet ut rairis vixisti dofibus auctus,
333
Te
Vita
feiicior at
mors,
peperit.
:
Ordo
tuus per
te
sed sunt
Instar
Rarus in orbe
lUius similes,
liber
est.
imo multo
at Utopis.
Et Mori
similes,
ALANI
Quis vivente
velit
COPI, LONDINENSIS.
Thoma non
vivere
Moro
?
Quis Moro
mori
ALIUD, EJUSDEM.
Mortuus an Morus, qui
Vixerat, ut mors
sit
sic in
mortis agone
?
Imo
piis
morum
meritis
nunc
vivit et orbi.
t pura mentis
relligione
Deo.
fingimus
at
non
Tam
facile est
mores
fingcrc,
More,
tuos.
331
APPENDIX.
Quam
vcllem pictor milii tain pcrfcctus adcsset,
'
f-ii:-
^<.
An
terris nostris
Nam
furit Lie
Gotthus,
dum Symmaclius
afque Joannes
Aniiltiint
carum
Dum jacct
Sjevit
Albinus,
dumque
Expulsus Ticini
tristia fata
?
gemit
Alexander Magnus
?
Clitumquc
fidcloin
?
Enecat
et
An Nero
Hoc
oris,
At que
facit Ilcnricus
cgif,
Dum Dum
te,
More, nccat,
dum
Nero
tu
qnoque More,
quod Senneca
More, perire
luxit
facit.
Arbitrium, quod
Ut non
est
mirum,
si sic
Nero
tollat
amicum,
;
Qui matrem
Qui
suam
matrem
aliis si
ante suam.
Non mirum
Cum
Hanc
prius
afllixit,
quam
tibi.
More, nocet.
Et quia communem
nolles
pessundare matrem,
monstri
cur
obit
APPENDIX.
Non
licet iiigenuis nalis
335
r
dcfcndcre raatrcm
violare lidem
:
Aa
Scilicet
scelus est
veram non
Non
Et
membro,
non
dum
illc
premit
illc
caput.
Qui graviora
patrat,
minora
tinicbit,
facit.
:
scelus audaces
ad mala plura
Culpa
trahit
culpam
Poena
est peccati
Cum
Cum
Cum
Venit
rex
rex schisma
novum deformi
crimine
;
fecit,
Cum
Cum
usque papalc,
;
Non
passus libros
Assumsitque
sibi pontificale
decus
Cum
Cum
Cum Cum
rex
omne malum
fecit
Moro
placuit,
quod
vivere nollct.
non
Dum
quoque Morus
at ilia
Quam primum
Rex plus
in sumniis
bunc pro
pictate locavit,
pietate necat.
Moro
Vita
vita fides.
Nam dum
: :
manet
ilia,
manebat,
qua percunte
perit.
33G
APPENDIX.
Quam
pius
est
Morus pro
pietate codens
parcere IMoro,
sic
Moms
O rex
si
niultos
Morus
ccrtiitiir
unus,
Quanta
labc
notasti,
Quum
Quis
ferit
clarum
tollere fidus,
i
Qua; tua
nccare
?
Hoc
liber ille
?
?
Hoc
tituhis,
ille
tuo
tolkndo
(itleles ?
?
ipse necas
?
Judiciumne
Consilium curas,
facis judicis
ora premens
et consiliarius iste,
perit ?
Ut
sit
perfectuni,
scititlis
de corpore membrura
?
?
Ecquis arare
solct
Aut
sulcare fcrura,
ista facis,
Et tamen
dun
Morum
funcre toUis,
Quem
Morus ubique
penna securi
mori
fecit
vivere
penna facit
APPENDIX.
'S37
ALIUD, EJUSDENf.
Quseiis, Arislidcs cur pulsus
ab urbe fugatur
est,
quam
illc
bonus.
cxul
?
Qujcris, cur
magnus
ille
Nempe quod
Qujeris, cur
bonus, veriloquusqire
?
fuit.
Morus
In promtu ratio
optimus
ille fuit.
ALIUD, EJUSDEM.
Quando tuam mortem
recolo, celeberrime
ille
More,
Tunc
Ille fori
venit in
mentem TuUius
meam.
Tuque
Ille
eras.
;
Tuque
Dum
furit
Antonius,
occiditur
ille
Dum furit Henricus, tu quoque fata subis. Dum cadit ille, sua cum lingua Fulvia ludit Dum cadis ipse, tua morte Bolenacanit. Dum pcrit ille, caput rostris affigitur illis,
In quibus
liic
Dum
damnaris in aula,
soles.
In muUis
ambo
manet ambos
Moras
sic
Angios puriloquente
sic
stjlo.
plurima Morus,
Ciceronis erunt.
quam
Vol.
I.
S38
APPExXDIX.
In niultis vicit Ciceronem Morus
Vicit subjecto malcriaque Vicit iQ ingenio
: :
in ipso
libri.
Moro ?
nam
cancellarius istc
Uiio anni
uniiis consule
major
erat.
:
amorc
Morus
Morus
carmine ludens,
fuif.
:
major in orbe
Piiilosophus
summus,
si
Morus
erat custos
Supremus judex,
Nee
latuit
Morum
Morus
erat
speculum
:
vitse,
fideiquc patronus,
erat.
Insignis
A
Non
ferunt.
Urbs
fuit ilia
Tu
Tu
eras.
Tu monstrum
Obruor
senum
rerum
erit.
Qui nunor
IJoc
si
est
Morum
APPENDIX.
339
T.
dixit in urbe
quum
fecit
verba
s.-natu,
sai.
scribens,
Talis
Talis in
Dum
talis erat.
talis erat.
quum
Quum
Primo post
quum
Dogmate pro
vident.
N.
GRUDII EPIGRAMMA.
MORUS LOQUITUR.
iSe lugetc
meo
mea
fata velim.
Truncum
Et mea jam
quod agat
X x2
340
APPENDIX.
Tu quoquc sjiectalor,
Qui
tibi
tranquillum
si
cupis
xvum
pone
membm cadant nullo in discrimine Quum sint natural lege caduca sux.
J.
Roma
Comes ac
quondam
Virtutum ex
aliis
Gentibus,
et
quod huic
Una
semel totam
summam
totius houesti
sunt
iiic
dulcissima quseque
hxc
insula abundat,
Quo
Hie
suse.
CORN. GRAPHiEUS
AD LECTOREM.
\ is
modos
APPENDIX.
Vis qui virtntum fontcs
Principia
? ?
341
vis
imde malorum
in rebus inane latct
?
et
quantum
Morus
dcdit
ille
colore,
Morus, Fiondinae
iiobilitalib
honos.
ob infrequentiam.
Platonicse,
ilia litteris
Nunc
civitatis
xmula
Fortasse victris,
(nam quod
una
praestiti
EJUSDEM TETRASTICHON.
Una
ego terrarura
omnium absque
pbilosophia
C.
GOURADI DISTICHON.
araator
Utopiam
scribens tradidit
Eufopiam.
JO.
LELANDI MORIADES.
Roma
tui,
nam
Non
Fed
illis
Carpcrc, non
duccrc
fila
niaiiu
monumcnla Lalini
Ncc
miiiiLs aiilliorcs
G'rxcos cvolvcrc,
Homcrum
libros
dex'.
Ul nee
Aristotclis
dona
crit
ignorare Mincrvx
niulicbris amct.
adco quas
^lufideU, Doig,
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