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ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM
To his Friend
THOMAS MORE, Health :
S I was coming a while since out of Italy
Ai: England, that I might not waste all
that time I was to sit on Horsback in foolish
and illiterate Fables, I chose rather one while
to revolve with my self something of our com¬
mon Studies, and other while to enjoy the
remembrance of my Friends, of whom I left
here some no lesse learned than pleasant.
Amongst these you, my More, came first in my
mind, whose memory, though absent your self,
gives me such delight in my absence, as when
present with you I ever found in your company ;
than which, let me perish if in all my life I ever
met with any thing more delectable. And
therefore, being satisfy’d that something was
to be done, and that that time was no wise
proper for any serious matter, I resolv’d to make
1507 B