[1] And as for the recantation aforesaid, with manie tears he protested, that he had subscribed to the same against his conscience, onelie for feare of death, and hope of life. Which seemed true: for when he came to the stake, & the fire kindled, he put his right hand into the fire, and held it there a good space, saieng: that the same hand should first burne, bicause it held the pen to subscribe against his Lord God. Upon the death of this Cranmer I find these reuerend verses:

Infortunatè est foelix, qui numine laeso,

Cuiusuis gaudet commoditate boni.

[page 1132] Infoelix ille est verò foeliciter, orbi

Inuisus quisquis tris [...]ia fata subit.

Hoc Cranmere probas, vitae praesentis amore,

Dum quaeris sanctam dissimulare fidem.

Et dum consilijs tandem melioribus vsus,

Praeponis vitae funera saeua tuae.