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Title: Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation
With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens

Author: Thomas More

Translator: Monica Stevens

Release Date: November 16, 2005 [EBook #17075]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by David McClamrock

DIALOGUE OF COMFORT AGAINST TRIBULATION

by St. Thomas More

with modifications to obsolete language by Monica Stevens

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PUBLISHED 1951
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NOTE

This edition of the Dialogue of Comfort has been transcribed from
the 1557 version as it appears in Everyman's Library. The Everyman
edition is heartily recommended to readers who would like to taste
the dialogue in its original form.

The first plan was to change only the spelling. It soon became
evident that the punctuation would have to be changed to follow
present usage. The longest sentences were then broken up into two
or three, and certain others were rearranged into a word order
more like that of today. Nothing was omitted, however, and nothing
was added except relative pronouns, parts of "to be," and other
such neutral connectives. Finally, obsolete words were changed to
more familiar equivalents except when they were entirely clear and
too good to lose. Thus "wot" became "know" but "gigglot" and "galp
up the ghost" were retained. Words that have come to have a quite
different meaning for us, such as "fond" and "lust" were replaced
by less ambiguous ones--wherever possible, by ones that More
himself used elsewhere.

The text has not been cut or expanded, re-interpreted or edited.
Any transcription seems to involve some interpretation, conscious
or otherwise, but an effort has been made to keep it to a minimum.
Passages that seemed to make no sense have therefore been left
unaltered. If other readers find solutions for them their
suggestions will be welcomed.

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