A dialoge of comfort against tribulacion, made by Syr Thomas More Knyght, and set foorth by the name of an Hu[n]garie[n], not before this time imprinted

¶The .iii. Chapter. He deuideth tribulacion into three kindes, of vvhiche three the laste he passeth shor••ly ouer.

ALl maner of tribulacion Cosin that any man can haue, as fa••re as for this time cometh to my mynd, falleth vnder some one at y^e least of these th••ee kindes: ••ither it is such as himselfe willingly ta∣keth, or secondly, such as him selfe willingly suffereth, or finally, such as he cannot put from him. This thyrd kinde I purpose not much more to speake of now•• for therof shal as for this time, suffise those thinges that

we treated betwene vs this other daye: what kinde of tribulacion this is I am sure your selfe perceiue, for sickenes, imprisonment, losse of goodes, losse of frēdes or suche bodely harme as a man hath already caught, and can in no wise auoide, these thinges and such like, are y^e third kind of tribulaciō that I speake of•• which a man neither willingly taketh in the beginning, nor can thoughe he woulde put afterwarde away. Nowe thinke I, that as to the man y^t lacketh witte and faith, no comforte can serue whatsoeuer counsaile be geuē, so to them that haue both, I haue as for this kind said in maner inough already, and considering that suffer it nedes he must while he can by no maner of meane put it from him, the very necessitie is halfe counsayle inough to take it in good worth, & beare it paciently, & rather of his pacience to take both ease & thanke, then by fretting and fuming to encrease his present paine, and by murmure & grudge fal in farther daūger after by displeasīg of god with his froward behaueour, & yet albeit that I thinke that y^t which is saied suffiseth, yet here and there shall I in y^e seconde kinde, shewe some such comfort as shall wel serue vnto this last kinde to.