where though he was young of years, yet would he at Christmas-tide suddenly sometimes step in among the [1]players, and never studying for the matter make a part of his own there presently among them, which made the lookers on more sport than all the players beside. In whose wit and towardness the Cardinal much delighting, would often say of him unto the nobles that divers times dined with him, This child here waiting at the table, whosoever shall live to see it, will prove a marvellous man. Whereupon for his better furtherance in learning he placed him at [2]Oxford, where when he was both in the [3]Greek
- ↑ Whilst he was a youth in his Father's house in London he devysed a goodlye hangjng of fine paynted clothe with 9 Pageauntes and verses over of every of these Pageauntes, which verses expressed and declared what the images in those Pageauntes represented.—More's English Works. See the Appendix to this volume.
- ↑ At Canterbury College, now called Christchurch, according to his great grandson More: but according to Wood, in St. Mary's Hall. Athenæ, Vol. I. col. 32. Ed. 1691.
- ↑ This was a language not very commonly taught or learned at this time in England. Sir Thomas learn'd it of Thomas Lynacre the famous Phisician.—Ibid.
made perfect. The king put much trust in his counsel, the weal public also in a manner leaned unto him, when I was there: for even in the chief of his youth he was taken from school into the court, and there passed all his time in much trouble and business, being continually tumbled and tossed in the waves of divers misfortunes and adversities, And so by many and great dangers he learned the experience of the world, which so being learned, cannot easily be forgotten."
