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patriotifm nnd probity, from which ]]c fhru!«i do. When he had taken

nothing could ever (educe him his leave w-iih this gnfwcr, he

whilll he lived. He h.id too much went to his lordniip's chaplain,

intrepidity to be deterred by power, who wa? his intimate fritn i, and

and too great a contempt for the- a{k"d his advice upon the propofal

thini'^s of the world to be allured that had been made him. The

by the profpefl of wealth or ho- chaplain^ beirg a much hontll'.r

nour. But a prince fo tyrannical and a much better man than his

and avaricious as Henry Vlf. could h^rdlhip, diffuaded hini with great

pot fail to be much incenfed at earneftnefs from following the bi-

this vigorous oppofition to a de- (hop's counlel; ' For my lord my

mand of money the favouri'c * maOer,' fays he, ' to f^rve his

meafureof his reign infoyoung * majelly's turn, wll not Iticlc to

a man : and we are not to wonder * confent lohis own father's death.* that he (liould be determined to Upon this we may be fure he re- be revenged on him in fome fnape turned no mere to this righteouj or other, that fo the courage of bifhdp: and he was once on the thii' rifing lawyer might give him point of going abroad, as thinking »o more difturbance. As our pa- it would not be fafe for him to triot, however^ having nothing, live in England, thus expofed to could lofe nothing, the king was the indignation of an arbitrary re- obliged to pretend a quarrel with- vengeful king. For during this out any caufe, againft Sir John time he was obliged, to lay afide iAore, his father; whom his ma- his praftice, and to live in a re- jefty ordered to be imprifoned in tir^d manner at home; where he the Tower, till he had paid a fine diverted himfelf wi:h mufic, arith- of an huridred pounds. .. .. me:ic, geometry, aftronomy, and Soon after tliis offence had been lluuying French ; ^nd in this re- giv^n the king in the houfe cf tirement he made himfelf a perfcdl commons, Mr. More having fome mafter of hiiiory." bufinefs with Fox, bifhopof Win- Of his relbli-te and prudent be-

chcRer the hivourite miniiter havitjur when fpeaker of the houfe

of Henry VIF. his lordfiiip of commons, beildes others he

took him aiide; and pretending gives the foliuwing remarkable in- great kindnefs to him, a/Tured him ftanccs.

that if he would be ruled and «' It happened, however, that a

take his advice, he would remi,ve great fubfidy having been c'emand-

the king's refentment, and reftore ed by the king, which Wolfey ap-

him to his majc-l^y's favour : In- prehenc'ed would meet with great

tending, as it was coojeftured— — - oppofition in the lower houle, he

-in a way not. ua,iirual with this was determined to' be prefcnt when

prelate to get him to confefs the motion fliould be made, in

fome perional enmity to the king, order to prevent its being rejcdt-

that a punifhment might be in- ed. The houfe being apprized of

flifted upcn him not without fome his refolution, it was a great while

ihew of reafon. But he was not under debate, whether it was bell

caught in the bilhop's fnare; and to receive him with a few of his

defired fome lime to confider what Lords only, orwith his whole train.

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