Sir Thomas More:

OR,

COLLOQUIES

ON THE

PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS

OF

SOCIETY.

BY

ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq., LL.D.

POET LAUREATE,

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY, OF THE ROYAL SPANISHI ACADEMY OF HISTORY,

OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF THE NETHERLANDS, OF THE CYMMRODORION, OF THE MASSA-

CHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY,

OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, OF THE BRISTOL PHILOSOPHICAL

AND LITERARY SOCIETY, OF THE METROPOLITAN
INSTITUTION, OF THE PHILOMATIC
INSTITUTION, &c.

RESPICE, ASPICE, PROSPICE. ST. BERNARD.

WITH PLATES.

THE SECOND EDITION, in two volumes.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

MDCCCXXXI.

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Ἢ ζητῶ ἀνθρώποις ἀρέσκειν.—GALATIANS I. 10. Ωστε ἐχθρὸς ὑμῶν γέγονα ἀληθεύων ὑμῖν.—GALATIANS IV. 16.

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DEDICATION.

TO THE MEMORY

OF

THE REVEREND HERBERT HILL,

Formerly Student of Christ Church, Oxford: successively Chaplain to the British Factories at Porto and at Lisbon; and late Rector of Streatham; who was released from this life,

Sept. 19, 1828, in the 80th year of his age.

Nor upon marble or sepulchral brass
Have I the record of thy worth inscribed,
Dear Uncle! nor from Chantrey's chisel ask'd
A monumental statue, which might wear
Thro' many an age thy venerable form.

Such tribute, were I rich in this world's wealth,
Should rightfully be rendered, in discharge
Of grateful duty, to the world evinced

When testifying so by outward sign

Its deep and inmost sense. But what I can
Is rendered piously, prefixing here
Thy perfect lineaments, two centuries

Before thy birth by Holbein's happy hand
Prefigured thus. It is the portraiture