: "Qui si postea editus fuit magis id
aliorum voluntate et illius qui mihi imperare
potuit quam mea est factum, mea vero fuit ut
impressus supprimeretur."--Ibid. vol. iv. p. 85.]

[Footnote 116: "Nam cum ad urbem ex Hispania
rediens libros injussu meo typis excusos
reperissem, _toto volumine amicorum studio et opera
non sine ejus auctoritate qui jus imperandi haberet
in plures libros disposito quod ego non feceram_
quippe qui de ejus editione nunquam cogitassem,"
etc.

"Quid aliud hoc significavit nisi me ab his libris
divulgandis penitus abhorruisse ut certe
abhorrui."--Epistola ad Edwardum Sextum: Poli
_Epistolae_. The book being the sole authority for
some of the darkest charges against Henry VIII.,
the history of it is of some importance.

This was not the only instance in which his
recollection of his own conduct was something
treacherous. In the apology to Charles V., speaking
of a war against Henry, he had said: "Tempus
venisse video, ad te primum missus, deinde ad Regem
Christianissimum, ut hujus scelera per se quidem
minime obscura detegam, et te Caesar a bello Turcico
abducere coner et quantum possum suadeam ut arma
tua eo convertas si huic tanto malo aliter mederi
non possis." For thus, "levying war against his
country," Pole had been attainted. The name of
traitor grated upon him. To Edward, therefore, he
wrote: "I invited the two sovereigns rather to win
back the king, by the ways of love and affection,
as a fallen friend and brother, than to assail him
with arms as an enemy. This I never desired nor did
I urge any such conduct upon them. _Hoc ego nunquam
profecto volui neque cum illis egi._"--Epistola ad
Edwardum Sextum; Ibid.]

Edward did not live to receive this evidence of Pole's good feeling.
He died before the edition was completed; and as soon