VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
xiiij.

M. Wicleffe was the occasion of the vttur subuersion of the realme of Bohem / both in faith and good liuynge and of the losse of many a thousand liues. T. the rule of their faith ar christes promises / and the rule of their liuynge gods lawe. And as for losse of liues / it is trouth that the pope slew I thynke an hundred thousande of them because of their faith and that they wold no lenger serue him. As he slew in englonde many a thousande / and slew the true kynge and sett vpp a false vn to the effusion of all the noble bloude and murtherynge vpp of the cominaltie / because he shulde be his defender.

M. The constitucion of the bisshopes is not that the scripture shall not be in englysh / but that no man maye translate it by his awne auctorite or reade it / vntill they had approued it. T. if no translation shalbe had vntill they geue licence or till they approue it / it shall neuer be had. And so it is al one in effecte to saye there shalbe none at all in englysh / and to saye / tyl we admitte it / seinge they be so maliciouse that they wil none admitte / but fayne al the cauellacions they can / to proue it were not expedient. So that if it be not had spite of their hertes it shal neuer be had. And therto / they haue done their best to haue had it enacted by parlament / that it shuld not be in englysh.

xv.

He iesteth out hunnes deeth with his poetrie where with he bylte vtopia. Many greate lordes came to baynardes castell (but all namelesse ) to examen the cause (as the