When I had suffycyently publyshed my mynde, he desyred me to entitle the some of my wordes, ād write them for hym, because they semed ouerlonge to be well reteyned in memorye. And albeit I was loth to take the matter in hāde, yet to fullfyll his instaunte intercession, I toke vpon me to touche this terryble tragedye, and wrote a treatyse, whiche beside my paynfull impresonment, is lyke to purchace me moste cruell death, which I am readye ād gladde to receyue with the spiryte and inwarde man (although the fleshe be frayle) when so euer yt shall please God to laye yt vpon me. Notwithstondynge to saye the truthe, I wrote yt not to the intent that yt shulde haue bene publyshed. For thē I wolde haue towched the matter more earnestlye, and haue wryten, as well of the spyrytuall eatynge & drynkynge whiche is of necessyte, as I ded of the Carnall, whiche is not so necessarye. For the treatyse that I made was not expedyent for all men, albeit yt were suffycient for thē whō I toke in hande to instructe. For they knewe the spyrytuall and necessarye eatynge and drynkynge of his bodye and bloode, whiche is not receyued with the teth and belye, but with the eares and fayth, and onely neaded instructyon in the outwarde eatynge, which thynge I therfore onely declared. But now it is commen a brode and in many mens mowthes, in so moche that master More which of late hathe busyed hym selfe to medle in all soche mattres (of what zele I wyll not defyne) hath sore laboured to confute yt. But some mē thynke that he is ashamed of his parte, ād for that cause doth so dylygently suppresse the worke whiche he prynted. For I my selfe sawe the worke in prynte in my Lorde of Wynchesters howse, upon S. Stephens day last paste. But neyther I, nor all the fryndes I coulde make, myght attayne any copye, but onely one wryten copye whiche as yt semed was drawen out in greate haste. Not withstondynge I can not well Judge, what the cause shulde be, that hys boke is kept so secrete. But this I am ryght sure of, that he neuer touched the foundacyō that my treatyse was buylded upon. And therfore syth my foundacyon stondeth so sure and invyncyble (for els I thynke verely he wolde sore haue laboured to haue undermyned yt) I wyll therupon buylde a lytle more, and also declare that hys ordynaunce is to slender to breake it downe although it were sett vpon a worse foundacyon. ❧ The foundacyon of that lytle treatyse was, that it is no artycle of our fayth necessarye to be beleued under payne of dampnacyon, that the Sacramēt shuld be the naturall bodye of Christe: which thynge is proued after this maner as foloweth.