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THE LIFE

OF

SIR THOMAS MORE.


FORASMUCH as Sir Thomas More, Knight, sometime Lord Chancellor of England, a man of singular virtue and of a clear unspotted conscience (as witnesseth [1]Erasmus), more pure and white than the whitest snow, and of such an angelical wit, as England, he saith, never had the like before, nor ever shall again: universally, as well in

  1. ——cui pectus erat omni nive candidius, ingenium quale Anglia nec habuit unquam, nec habitura est, alioquin nequaquam infelicium ingeniorum parens. Epist. Lib. xxix. epi. 42.