1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 17 of 24: The historie of king Edward the fift, and king Richard the third vnfinished, written by maister Thomas More then one of the vnder shiriffes of London, about the yeare of our Lord 1513, accor|ding to a copie of his owne hand, printed among his other workes.
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[1] This knight (I say) when it happened the lord cham|berleine by the waie to staie his horsse, & common a while with a priest whom he met in the Tower stréet, brake his tale, and said merilie to him; What my lord, I pray you come on, whereto talke you so long with that priest? you haue no néed of a priest yet: and ther|with he laughed vpon him, as though he would say. Ye shall haue soone. But so little wist the tother what he ment, and so little mistrusted, that he was neuer merier, nor neuer so full of good hope in his life, which selfe thing is oft séene a signe of change. But I shall rather let anie thing passe me, than the vaine suer|tie of mans mind so neere his death [flattering him|selfe with deceitfull conceipts of inward motions of life to be prolonged, euen in present cases of deadlie danger, and heauie misfortunes offering great mis|trust; as he did that is noted for speaking like a foole:

Non est (crede mihi) sapientis dicere, Viuam:Mani. lib. 4 Astro.
Nascentes morimur, finís ab origine pendet.]