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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 common 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
