"If a lion knew his strength," said Sir Thomas More of his master to Cromwell, "it were hard for any man to rule him." Henry VIII.

had the strength of a lion; it remains to be seen how soon he learnt it, and what use he made of that strength when he discovered the secret.
[Footnote 77: F.M.Nichols, _Epistles of Erasmus_, i., 457.].