"and lively in his converfation; and both be "fore and after dinner, preferved the fame "fobriety of behaviour. He joked himself, but "with great pleafantry, and permitted it in "others; yet he never allowed his jokes, or

thofe of his friends, to defcend into perfon"ality and detraction, which he abhorred as "much as any man can deteft a ferpent. One "peculiarity he had which was fomething royal; " he never difmiffed any fuitor from him diffatif fied or out of humour."

THOMAS DUKE OF NORFOLK,

in spite of all his fubmiffions, joined with the great merits of his past services, would most pro bably have been executed, had not the death of Henry reserved him for more merciful times.

One of the Articles brought against the Duke was, that he had complained to a Mr. Holland, that he was not of the Cabinet, (or as he termed it, the Privy Council) that his Majefty loved him not because he was too much loved in the country; and that he would follow his father's Jeffon, which was, that the lefs opinion others fet by him, the more he would fet by himself.

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In his petition to the Lords from the Tower of London, he requests to have fome of the books that are at Lambeth; "for," adds he, "unless "I have books to read ere I fall asleep, and after “I awake again, I cannot fleep, nor have done "these dozen years. That I may hear mass, "and be bound upon my life not to speak to

him who fays mafs, which he may do in the "other chamber, whilst I remain within. That "I may be allowed fheets to lie on; to have li "cence in the day-time to walk in the chamber “without, and in the night be locked in as I am I would gladly have licence to fend to "London to buy one book of St. Austin de Civitate Dei, and one of Jofephus de Antiqui

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tatibus, and another of Sabellius, who doth “declare, most of any book that I have read, "how the Bishop of Rome, from time to time, "hath ufurped his power against all Princes by their unwife fufferance."

JOHN HEYWOOD,

"THE following hapned," fays Puttenham, ❝on a time at the Duke of Northumberland's "board, where merry John Heywood was al"lowed to fit, at the board's end. The Duke had a very noble and honourable mynde al

С6 wayes to pay his debts well; and when he "lacked money, would not stick to fell the greatest part of his plate: fo had he done "fome few days before.

"Heywood being loth to call for his drinke fo "oft as he was dry, turned his eye towards the "cupboard, and faid, I find a great miffe of your Grace's ftanding cups. The Duke, "thinking he had spoken it of some knowledge "that his plate was lately fold, said somewhat fharply, Why, Sir, will not these cuppes "ferve as goode a man as yourfelfe? Heywood

readily replied, Yes, if it please your Grace; "but I would have one of them stand still at my "elbowe, full of drinke, that I might not be "driven to trouble your man fo often to call for "it. This pleasant and speedy revers of the former words," fays Puttenham, "holpe all "the matter againe; whereupon the Duke be

came very pleasant, and dranke a bottle of "wine to Heywood, and bid a cup fhould al ways be standing by him.”

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EDWARD THE SIXTH.

[1547-1553-]

IN the British Museum there is a large folio volume in MS. of the exercises of this excellent Prince, in Greek, in Latin, and in English, with his fignature to each of them, as King of England, in the three different languages. Edward's abilities, acquirements, and difpofition were so transcendent, that they extorted an eulogium upon them from the cynic Cardan himself, who, in his once-celebrated book "De Geni"turis," thus defcribes the young Prince, with whom he had feyeral converfations upon the fubjects of fome of his books, particularly on that "De Rerum Varietate :"-" The child was fo "wonderful in this refpect, that at the age of

fifteen he had learned, as I was told, seven dif"ferent languages. In that of his own country, "that of France, and the Latin language, he "was perfect. In the converfations that I had "with him (when he was only fifteen years of

age) he fpoke Latin with as much readiness "and elegance as myself. He was a pretty good

logician, he understood natural philofophy “and music, and played upon the lute. The "good and the learned had formed the highest expectations of him, from the sweetness of his

r difpofition and the excellence of his talents. "He had begun to favour learning before he "was a great fcholar himself, and to be ac66 quainted with it before he could make use of it, "Alas the wretched state of mortals! not only

England, but the whole world has to lament "his being taken from us fo prematurely. We ❝owed much to him as it was, but alas! how "much more was taken away from us by the "artifice and malignity of mankind. Alas! "how prophetically did he once repeat to me,

• Immodicis brevis eft ætas, et rara fenectus?

"Alas! he could only exhibit a fpecimen, not

a pattern, of virtue. When there was occa"fion for this Prince to affume the King, he "appeared as grave as an old man, though at "other times he had the manners and behaviour

of his own age. He attended to the business "of the State, and he was liberal like his Father, "who, whilst he affected that character, gave "into the extreme of it. The fon, however, "had never the fhadow of a fault about him; "he had cultivated his mind by the precepts of "philofophy."

Fuller, in his "Worthies," has preserved the following letter of this Prince, addreffed to Mr. Barnaby Fitzpatrick, Gentleman of his Bedchamber,

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