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agayne Amaurote anye awaye beinge beleve beynge bicause Bishopp Cardinall cause chaunce citie commeth comminge common wealth counsell countrey Cuthbert Tunstall daunger daye death dede divers doth evel everye farre favour frendes furth geve geven Grace hable hath Henry VIII Highnes himselfe honour kepe King King's knowen kynge labour land Latin lawes learninge litle Lord Chauncellor lyfe lyve maner manye matter maye moneye mooste More's mynde myne never nothinge onelye onles onlye Parliament perceave Peter Giles Plato pleasaunt pleasure praye prince punished quod quoth Raphael Realme receave religion Robynson sayd saye selfe sense Shaks shal shewed Sir Tho Sir Thomas Moore sonne stoore syde themselfes thereof therfore theves theyr thinges thinke thou thynge trewe tyme unto Utopia vertue verye warre waye wayges weale publique wherin whome whyche wise witte woorke wyfe wyll
Popular passages
Page 190 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page xlvi - to your first case: The Parliament may well, Master Rich, meddle with the state of temporal princes. But to make answer to your other case, I will put you this case: Suppose the Parliament would make a law that God should not be God. Would you then, Master Rich, say that God were not God?
Page viii - God pray'd him in no wise to follow his counsell, "for my Lord my Master (quoth he) to serve the King's turne will not stick to agree to his owne Father's death." So Sir Thomas Moore returned to the Bishopp no more. And had not the King soone after died, he was determined to have gone 5 over the sea, thinking that beinge in the King's indignation he could not live in England without great daunger.
Page 162 - They invent and devise all meanes and craftes, first how to kepe safely, without feare of lesing, that 20 they have unjustly gathered together, and next how to hire and abuse the worke and laboure of the poore for as litle money as may be.
Page 232 - ... whom is the spirit of the holy gods ; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him ; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king...
Page xiii - And thereupon he required answer of Master Speaker; who first reverently upon his knees excusing the silence of the house, abashed at the presence of so noble a personage, able to amaze the wisest and best learned in a realm, and...
Page 178 - Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods ! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was...
Page 211 - With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat. She was pinched and pulled, she said ; And he, by Friar's lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail...
Page 178 - It was a pestilent fever, but as it seemeth not seated in the veins or humours; for that there followed no carbuncle, no purple or livid spots, or the like, the mass of the body being not tainted; only a malign vapour flew to the heart, and seized the vital spirits; which stirred nature to strive to send it forth by an extreme sweat.
Page liv - I to his Grace for putting me into this place, where I have had convenient time and space to have remembrance of my end. And, so help me God, most of all...