VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

LOCATION
KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural

submitted our selues and geuen vpp our power) to deuoure vpp body and soule / and to kepe vs / downe in darkenesse / with violence of swerde / and with all falshed and gyle.

33 deuoure] deuour vs 1573

JEREMIAH: 31.33: 7/32–33,12/27, 49/19,52/29–30, 53/22, 53/34, 54/16–17,64/15–16, 85/26,97/15–16, 111/7, 112/29, 113/21–22, 113/28, 113/32–33, 137/32, 139/15, 151/27, 170/17–18, 175/14, 183/9–10, 195/22–23, 205/27–28

In so moch that if any do but lift vpp his nose to smell aftir the trueth / they swapp him in the face with a fire brande to sengge his smellynge / or if he open one of his eyes to once loke towarde the light of gods worde / they bleare and dase his sight with their false iuglynge: so that if it were possible / though he were gods electe / he coude not but be kepte doune and perish for lacke of knowlege of the trueth.

to once loke] once to looke 1573

122/5–7 houses . . . secretly. The master of the palace hid one hundred prophets of Yahweh from Jezebel, cf. 1 Kings 18.3–4. The wife of a priest in Jerusalem saved the young Joash from Athalia, cf. 2 Kings 11.

[Hand] [1531]

122/7 Nycodemus amonge the phareses. Cf. John 3.1–2.

And in like maner / because christ had institute the sacrament of his body and bloude / to kepe vs in remembraunce of his bodye breakinge and bloud shedynge for oure synnes / therfore went they and sett vpp this facion of the masse and ordeyned sacramentes in the ornamentes therof to signifie and expresse all the rest of his passion. The amice on the heed is the kercheue that Christ was blyndfolded with / when the soudioures buffeted him and mocked him sayenge: prophete vn to vs who smote the? But now it maye well signifie that he that putteth it on / is blynd and hath professed to leade vs aftir him in darkenesse / acordynge vn to the begynnynge of his playe. And the flappe theron is the croune of thorne. And the albe is the white garment that herode put on him / sayenge he was a fole because he held his peace and wold not answere him. And the .ij. flappes on the sleues and the other .ij. on the albe beneth ouer agenst his fete behind and before / are the .iiij. nayles. And the fanon on his hand / the cord that his handes were bound with: And the stole the rope where with he was

Matt. 26.26–28, Mark 14.22–24, Luke 22.19–20, 1Cor. 11.23— 26: 26/29–30, 27/5–6, 70/27–28, 73/8–10

122/11–12 no ieopardy . . . hoste. Cf. CWM 6/1.223/12–13.

Austyne [1531]

Matt. 26.67–68, Luke 22.64: 73/13–15

Amice [1531]

prophete] prophecie 1573

122/17–19 Paule ... to gether. Cf. 1 Cor. 1.10. Cf. CWM 6/1.223/31–224/10. Tyndale omits More's argument that the Holy Spirit would never allow the church to believe what was "dampnable false and fayned" (CWM 6/1.224/20).

The flappe on the amice [1531]

Matt. 27.29, John 19.2: 73/18

LUKE: 23.11: 73/19

The albe [1531]

The flappes on the albe [1531]

Out of the cerimonies sprange the ignoraunce off the scripture. [1531]

JOHN: 20.25: 73/22

The fanon [1531]

Matt. 27.26, Mark 15.15, John 19.1: 73/24–25

122/24–25 the Iewes . . . Prophetes. Cf. CWM 6/1.224/25–26.

The stole [1531]

The corporescloth [1531]