Let whosoever desires to see the sequel expect it as soon as possible." Was there ever such an unfortunate as Morus?
Everything everywhere seems to go wrong with him.

Here, at the Hague, having absented himself from Amsterdam for the purpose, he has been writing his Defence of Himself against Milton, doing it cleverly and in a way likely to make some impression, when, suddenly, for some reason unknown even to his printer, he is obliged to break off for a journey into France, just as he was approaching the heart of his subject.

Had he absconded?
This seems actually to have been the construction, abroad.

"Morus is gone into France," writes a Hague correspondent of Thurloe, Nov.

3, 1654; "it is believed that he has a calling, _et quidem a Castris_, and that he will not return to Amsterdam.