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The workes of Sir Thomas More

... wrytten by him in the Englysh tonge

More, Thomas (1478-1535)

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Twelue rules of Iohn Picus Earle of Mirandula, partely exciting, partely directing a man in spiritual bataile.

The twelue weapons haue we more at length declared as foloweth.

The twelue propertees we haue at length more openly expressed in Balade, as it foloweth.

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These fowre thinges here folowyng Mayster Thomas More wrote in his youth for his pastime.

A mery jest how a sergeant would learne to playe the frere.

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A ruful lamentaciō (writen by master Thomas More in his youth) of the deth of quene Elisabeth mother to king Henry the eight, wife to king Henry the seuēth, & eldest doughter to king Edward the fourth, which quene Elisabeth dyed in childbed in February in the yere of our lord 1503 & in the 18. yere of the raigne of king Henry the seuenth.

Certain meters in english written by master Thomas More in hys youth for the boke of Fortune, and caused them to be printed in the begynnyng of that boke.

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The workes of Sir Thomas More

... wrytten by him in the Englysh tonge

Thomas More

1478-1535

Printed ... at the costes and charges of Iohn Cawood, Iohn VValy, and Richarde Tottell

London

1557