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In More sdedicatory letter to Thomas Ruthal of his translation into Latin of three of Lucian sdialogues, he complained that writers of the lives of saints some times indulge in falsehoods: They have scarcely left .a life of martyr or of virgin without foisting into it somei thing untrue piously, no doubt! for of course there was a danger lest truth, left to itself, should not be able to stand upri... More

In More sdedicatory letter to Thomas Ruthal of his translation into Latin of three of Lucian sdialogues, he complained that writers of the lives of saints some times indulge in falsehoods: They have scarcely left .a life of martyr or of virgin without foisting into it somei thing untrue piously, no doubt! for of course there was a danger lest truth, left to itself, should not be able to stand upright; so that it was necessary to prop it up with lies! I may say that my first anxiety in composing this Life of the illustrious writer, chancellor and martyr, has been not to merit this reproach; to state nothing that I did not believe, and to accept nothing for which I had not historical evidence. My first care was to collate the biographies of More already in existence. In giving some account of the principal of these, I shall be able at the same time to state the sources from which a correct and complete life of More can be drawn. I taque nullam fere martyrit, nullam virginis vitam praetermiseninty in quam non aliquid hajusmodi mendaciorum inscruerint; pie scilicet, alioquin periculum erat ne Veritas non postct sibi ipia tufficere, nisi fulcirettir mendaciis. This epistle is ascribed to Erasmus in the Leyden edition of his works; but wrongly. It is Mores, and bears his name both in the original edition and in his collected works.
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