The Life of Sir Thomas More/Appendix 9
No. IX.
Another Letter of Sir Thomas More to his daughter Mrs. Margaret Roper, written with a cole.
Myne owne good daughter, our Lorde be thanked, I am in good helthe of bodye, and in good quiet of minde: and of worldly thynges I no more desyer than I haue. I beseche hym make you all mery in the hope of heauen. And such thynges as I somewhat longed to talke with you all, concerning the worlde to come, our Lorde put them into your myndes, as I truste he dothe and better to by hys holy spirite: who blesse you and preserue you all. Written wyth a cole by your tender louing father, who in hys pore prayers forgetteth none of you all, nor your babes, nor your nurses, nor your good husbandes, nor your good husbandes shrewde wyues, nor your fathers shrewde wyfe neither, nor our other frendes. And thus fare ye hartely well for lacke of paper.