and composition with them to Jet them have their churches quietly to themselves, so that they would be contented to let us have ours quietly to ourselves." After that I had told him many considerations why he had no cause to say so; "Well, said he, I pray God, son Roper, some of us live not till that day:" showing me no reason why I should put any doubt therein. To whom, I said, By my troth, Sir, it is very desperately spoken. 'That vile term, I cry God mercy, did I give him: who, by these words perceiving me in a fume, said merrily unto me, "Well, well, son Roper, it shall not be so, it shall not be so." Whom in sixteen years and more, being in his house conversant with him, I could never perceive as[1] much as once in a fume.
But now to return again where I left: After the supplying of the imperfection of the dispensation, sent, as is before rehearsed, to the commissioners into England, the king, taking the matter
- ↑ Consimili comitate totam familiam moderatur in qua nulla tragocdia, nulla rixa.—Erasmi Epist.
Some have sayde that when Constantine was gotten away I was fallen for anger in a wonderful rage. But surelye thoughe I would not have suffered him to go if it would have pleased hym to have taryed styl in the stockes,—yet neither was I than so heavy for the losse, but that [ had youth enough left me to weare it oute, nor so angry with any manne of myne that I spake them any evyl worde for the matter, more then to my Porter, That he should se the Stockes mended and locked fast, that the Prisoner stale not in again.—More's English Workes, p. 902, col. 1.
