But, having first intervened in English affairs seven years before, at the age of only fourteen, he was already a political old hand and fully able to recognize the weight of expectation vested in him. He had also had time to develop his own model of kingship and deploy his own extraordinary tale...
More seems to have shared more or less the same vantage points as the City chronicler; certainly he reports the same events. But they are transmuted from hobbling prose into the ringing encomia of Latin verse. For More – normally so cool in his reading of human nature, so sceptical of the motives...
