Conforming my process, as much as I am able,
To your sad behaviour and maners commendable.

He was author of the following pieces.

Lives of several of the Saints.

Salust's History of the Jugurthiam war translatcd into English.

The Castle of Labour, translated from the French into English.

Bale gives this author but an indifferent character as to his morals;
he is said to have intrigued with women, notwithstanding his clerical
profession: It is certain he was a gay courtly man, and perhaps, tho'
he espoused the Church in his profession, he held their celebacy and
pretended chastity in contempt, and being a man of wit, indulged
himself in those pleasures, which seem to be hereditary to the poets.

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Sir THOMAS MORE.

Tho' poetry is none of the excellencies in which this great man was
distinguished, yet as he wrote some verses with tolerable spirit, and
was in almost every other respect one of the foremost geniusses our
nation ever produced, I imagine a short account of his life here will
not be disagreable to the readers, especially as all Biographers of
the Poets before me have taken notice of him, and ranked him amongst
the number of Bards. Sir Thomas More was born in Milk-street, London,