Thomas More

English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
1478–1535, born in London

Portrait of Thomas More
Photo: Hans Holbein the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Born
16 February 1478
Birthplace
London
Died
16 July 1535

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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before it was neither rhyme nor reason.

Advising an author to put his MS. into rhyme. Reported in Hoyt's (1922), p. 604

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