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''It was my good happe not longe since, in a Friends House, to light upon a briefe History of the Life, Arraignement, and Death of that Mirrour of all true Honour, and Vertue, Syr Thomas More, who by his Wisdome, Learning, and Santity, hath eternized his Name, Countrey, and Profession, throughout the Christian World, with immortal Glory, and Renowne. ''

Finding, by perusal therof, the same replenished with incoparable Treasures, of no lesse Worthy, and most Christian Factes, then of Wise, and Religious Sentences Apophthegmes, and Sayings; I deemed it not only an errour to permit so great a light to ly