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Often appears with: flattery and deceit · vainglory · ungrateful prayers · treaty and league articles · prayer and worship · marcial epigram on truth · equity, mercy, and pardon · contracts, oaths, and obligation · civic ruin · advice to the rich
Usually: censure (2) · indignation (2) · argument (1) · narrative (1) · injustice endured (1)
“But I pray you heartily, tell me the very truth.” And that he spake so heartily that the other thought he would fain have heard the truth, and in that trust he told him a fault in the treaty. And at the hearing of it he swore in great anger, "By the mass, thou art a very fool!” Sir Thomas More, Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation · observation
“I pray thee, good fellow, when thou sayest grace at my board, never bring in a *Gloria Patri* without a *sicut erat.* Any act that ever I did, if thou report it again to mine honour with a *Gloria Patri,* never report it but with a *sicut erat*--that is, even as it was and none otherwise.” Sir Thomas More, Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation · precept
He calls an ungrateful attitude a kind of wrong prayer and urges wishing the benefactor well instead, arguing that even the wealthy need truth, candour, and honest friendship rather than flattery.
may impart to us, and by social intercourse. There is no one so highly placed by fortune as not to want a friend all the more because he wants nothing. XXX. The other is a melancholy opportunity, and one which we ought always to pray may be kept far from us: must the gods be angry with a man in order that you may prove your gratitude to him? Do you not perceive that you are doing wrong, from the very fact that those…
Vincent argues flatterers please vainglorious rulers because they prefer being commended over being amended, then tells how the same prelate angrily rejected a truthful critique of a treaty.
ANTHONY: Surely, cousin, as Terence saith, such folk make men of fools even stark mad. And much cause have their lords to be right angry with them. VINCENT: God hath indeed, and is, I daresay. But as for their lords, uncle, if they would afterward wax angry with them for it, they would, to my mind, do them very great wrong. For it is one of the things that they specially keep them for. For those who are of such vai…