_Conscia virtus_, and you may add what belongs to the _genus irritabile vatum_, make him well armed against his assailants.

For the rest, piety, honesty, temperance, freedom from all avarice or meanness, are found in him in a degree suitable to his profession." Suddenly, just when we have read this, and seen Morus self-described as far as to the year 1648, when he was about to leave Geneva for Holland, the book comes to a dead stop.

Diodati's letter ends on page 129; and when we turn over the leaf we find a Latin note from Ulac, headed "_The Printer to the Reader_" and expressed as follows:-- "Our labours towards finishing this Treatise had come to this point, when lo! M.Morus, who had been staying for some time here at the Hague with the intention of completing it, called away by I know not what occasion to France, and with a favourable wind hastening his journey, was prevented from bringing all to an end, and so gratifying with every possible speed the desire of many curious persons to read both Treatises at once, Milton's and More's.

What to do I was for some days uncertain; but some gentlemen, not of small condition, at length persuaded me that I should not defer longer the publication of what of his I had already in print,--alleging that the remaining and still wanting testimonies of eminent men, and of the Senates and Churches of Middleburg, Amsterdam, &c., given for the vindication of M.Morus, and which were here to have been subjoined, might be afterwards printed separately when they reached me.

Wishing to comply with their request, and my own inclination too, I now therefore do publish, Reader, what I am confident will please your curiosity, if not in full measure, at least a good deal.