mitted
treason." When the executioner asked his forgiveness, he kissed him
and said, "thou wilt do me this day a greater benefit than any mortal
man can be able to give me; pluck up thy spirit man, and be not afraid
to do thy office, my neck is very short, take heed therefore that thou
strike not awry for saving thy honesty."

Thus by an honest but mistaken zeal fell Sir Thomas More; a man of wit
and parts superior to all his contemporaries of integrity unshaken;
of a generous and noble disposition; of a courage intrepid; a
great scholar and a devout christian. Wood says that he was but an
indifferent divine, and that he was very ignorant of antiquity and the
learning of the fathers, but he allows him to be a man of a pleasant
and fruitful imagination, and a statesman beyond any that succeeded
him.

His works besides those we have already mentioned are chiefly these,

A Merry Jest, How a Serjeant will learn to play a Friar, written in
verse.

Verses on the hanging of a Painted Cloth in his Father's House.

Lamentations on Elizabeth Queen of Henry VII, 1503.

Verses on the Book of Fortune.

Dialogue concerning Heresies.

Supplication of Souls, writ in answer to a book called the
Supplication of Beggars.

A Confutation of Tindal's Answer to More's Dialogues, printed 1533.

The Debellation of Salem and Bizance, 1533.

In answer to another book of Tindal's.

Treatise on the Passion of Chrift.

----Godly Meditation.

------Devout Prayer.

Letters while in the Tower, all printed 1557.

Progymnasmata.

Responsio ad Convitia Martini Lutheri, 1523.

Quod pro Fide Mors fugienda non est, written in the Tower 1534.

Precationes ex Psalmis.

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HENRY HOWARD, Earl of SURRY

Was son of Thomas, duke of Norfolk, and Elizabeth, daughter of Edward,
duke of Buckingham. The father of our author held the highest places
under King Henry VIII, and had so faithfully and bravely served him,
that the nobility grew jealous of his influence, and by their united
efforts produced his ruin. After many excellent services in France, he
was constituted Lord Treasurer, and made General of the King's whole
army design'd to march against the Scots: At the battle of Flodden,
in which the Scots were routed and their Sovereign slain, the earl of
Surry remarkably distinguished himself; he commanded under his father,
and as soon as the jealousy of the Peers had fastened upon the one,
they to