Her proficiency in learning is again mentioned by the fame writer, in his Schoolmaster. "And one example, whether love or feare "doth worke more in a childe for vertue and "learninge, I will gladlie report; which maie be "heard with fome pleasure, and folowed with more profit. Before I went into Germanie, "I came to Brodegate, in Leicestershire, to take. my leave of that noble Lady Jane Grey, to "whom I was exceeding much beholdinge. "Her parentes, the Duke and the Duches, with "all the houfhould, gentlemen and gentle"women, were hunting in the parke. I found "her in her chamber readinge Phadon Platonis "in Greeke, and that with as much delite as "fome jentlemen would reade a merie tale in "Bocafe. After falutation and dewtie done, "with fome other taulke, I afked her why fhe "would leefe fuch pastime in the parke. Smil, 66 ing, fhe answered me, I wiffe all their sport in "the parke is but a fhadoe to that pleasure that "I find in Plato. Alas, good folke, they never "felt what trewe pleasure ment.And howe "came you, Madame, quoth I, to this deepe knowledge of pleafure? And what did chieflie "allure you unto it, feeinge not many women, "but verie fewe men have attained thereunto. “I will tell you, quoth fhe, and tell you a "truth, which perchance you will marvell at. " One "One of the greatest benefites that ever God gave me is, that he fent me fo fharpe and "fevere parentes, and so jentle a scholemaster: "for when in presence eyther of father or mo"ther, whether I fpeake, kepe filence, fit, "stand, or go, eate, drinke, be merrie or fad, "be fowying, playing, dauncing, or doing anie "thing else, I must do it, as it were, in fuch weight, measure, and number, even fo per"fitelie as God made the world, or else I am so "fharplie taunted, fo cruellie threatened, yea . prefentlie, fometimes with pinches, nippes, " and bobbes, and other waies, which I will 66 not name for the honour I bear them, fo "without measure miforder'd, that I thincke 6.6 myselfe in hell, till time come that I must go "to Mr. Elmer, who teacheth me fo jentlie, fo "pleafantlie, with fuch fair allurementes to "learninge, that I thinke all the time nothinge "whiles I am with him; and when I am called " from him, I fall on weeping, because whatfo ever I do els but learning is full of grief, "trouble, feare, and whole misliking unto mee. "And thus my booke hath been fo much my "pleasure, and bringeth dayly to me more plea“fure and more, that in refpect of it all other "pleasures in very deede be but triffles and ❝ troubles unto me. "I remember this taulke gladly, both because "it is fo worthie of memorie, and because alfo "it was the last tanlke that ever I had, and the "laft tyme that ever I faw that noble and wor"thie ladie." Lady Jane Grey, on paffing the Altar of a Roman Catholic Chapel one day with Lady Wharton, and obferving her to make a low courtesy to it, asked her whether the Lady Mary were there, or not. "No," replied Lady Wharton, “but I made a courtesy to Him who made "us all."-"How can He be there," faid Lady Jane Grey," who made us all, and the Baker "made him?" This anfwer coming to the Lady Mary's (afterwards Queen of England) ears, she did never love her after. When the Lieutenant of the Tower was leading her to the scaffold, he requested her to give him fome little thing which he might keep as a prefent. She gave him her Table-book, where The had just written three sentences on seeing her husband's headlefs body carried back to the Tower; one in Greek, one in Latin, and another in English. "The Greek," fays Heylin, "was to this "effect: That if her husband's executed body "fhould 4 "fhould give teftimony against her before men, "his most bleffed foul fhould give an eternal "teftimony of her innocence in the prefence of "God. The Latin added, that human justice "was against his body, but the Divine Mercy "fhould be for his foul; and then concluded "thus in English: that if her fault deserved punishment, her youth at least and her im"prudence were worthy of excufe, and that "God and pofterity would fhew her favour." "She had before," adds Heylin, "received the offer of the Crown with as even a temper as if it had been a garland of flowers, and "now the lays afide the thought thereof with much contentedness as fhe could have "thrown away that garland when the scent was gone. The time of her glories was fo fhort, "but a nine days work, that it seemed nothing "but a dream, out of which she was not forry "to be awakened: The Tower had been to "her a prifon rather than a court, and interrupted the delights of her former life by fo 36 66 66 many terrors, that no day paffed without fome new alarms to disturb her quiet. She doth "now know the worst that fortune can do unto "her; and having always feared that there ftood "a fcaffold fecretly behind the throne, fhe was as readily prepared to act her part upon the one as upon the other.".. On the wall of the room in which fhe was imprisoned in the Tower, fhe wrote with a pin. these lines: Non aliena putes homini que obtingere possunt, SIR JAMES HALES. By the kindness of EDMUND TURNOR, ESQ. the COMPILER is enabled to enrich his Volumes with the following account of a Dialogue which paffed between Sir James Hales and the Lord Chancellor Bishop Gardiner in Westminster-Hall. Sir James was a very exemplary Judge in the time of King Edward the Sixth, and honeftly gave his opinion in favour of Queen Mary's fucceffion; but, not, favouring that Queen's partiality to the Catholic religion, he was removed from his employment early in her reign. The Dialogue is printed from a scarce pamphlet, and is intitled, THE COMMVNICATION BETWENE MY LORD |