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'I have the more cause,' says Hythloday, 'to fear that my words

shall not be believed, for that I know how difficultly and hardly

I myself would have believed another man telling the same, if I

had not myself seen it with mine own eyes.' Or again: 'If you had

been with me in Utopia, and had presently seen their fashions and

laws as I did which lived there five years and more, and would

never have come thence, but only to make the new land known

here,' etc. More greatly regrets that he forgot to ask Hythloday

in what part of the world Utopia is situated; he 'would have

spent no small sum of money rather than it should have escaped

him,' and he begs Peter Giles to see Hythloday or write to him

and obtain an answer to the question.