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A DIALOGUE


OF


COMFORT AGAINST TRIBULATION



A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, made by the right virtuous, wise, and learned man, Sir Thomas More, sometime Lord Chancellor of England.



ANTONY AND VINCENT.

Vincent.—Who would have weened, oh! my good uncle, afore a few years passed, that such as in this country would visit their friends lying in disease and sickness, should come, as I do now, to seek and fetch comfort of them; or, in giving, comfort to them, use the way that I may well use to you? For albeit that the priests and friars be wont to call upon sick men to remember death; yet we worldly friends, for fear of discomforting them, have ever had a guise in Hungary, to lift up their hearts and put them

in good hope of life. But now, my good uncle, the world

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