IV. ALLITÉRATION

a) Alliléralion euphonique simple :

And hath graciously stirred your soule to forsake your sin ?.

Whose mynd in tender youth infect, shal redily fal to mischief and riot, & drawe down with this noble realme to ruine à,

Thei.. shall after fall /arthest out of fauour, so that euer at length euil driftes dreue to nought & good plain wayes prosper “.

Among so much pilling and polling, among so many taxes & tallages 5.

Than care we litle for our gay gere, than desire we no delicate deinties 6.

And among so manye badde brethren as I wist well would be wroth with them, should be both sought out and sifted to y° uttermost flake of branne 7.

Howe maie any man content any suche persons, either by prechyng or teaching, or tellyng of any thynge that is profitable 8.

Whan I remembred what a shrewde sorte of our apostatas are assembled, parte runne out of religion, & al runne out of the right faith, me thought grete parell myght arise, if some of that company (whiche are confedered & conspired together, in the sowynge & settyng forth of Luthers pestilent heresies in this realme) sholde maliciously chaunge my wordes to the worse, and so put in prynte my boke, /ramed after their /an-

. More, Richard III, 38.

. Fisher, Wayes to Perfect Religion, 374.

. More, Richard III, 39.

: LIDIG:

. Ibid., 62.

. More, De Quatuor Novissimis, 79.

. Apology of More, 845.

. Elyot, Doctrinal of Princes, 16.