204, the marquis of Dorset is reproached with these connections.

This reproach, however, might have been invented by Richard, or founded only on popular rumor; and is not sufficient to overbalance the authority of Sir Thomas More.
The proclamation is remarkable for the hypocritical purity of manners affected by Richard.

This bloody and treacherous tyrant upbraids the marquis and others with their gallantries and intrigues as the most terrible enormities.] [Footnote 21: NOTE U, p., 507.

Every one that has perused the ancient monkish writers know that, however barbarous their own style, they are full of allusions to the Latin classics, especially the poets.

There seems also in those middle ages to have remained many ancient books that are now lost.