"Secondly, By devifing of good laws. I "have fhewed my opinion heretofore what fta"tutes I think moft neceffary to be enacted this "feffions; nevertheless I could wish, that befide "them, hereafter (when time shall serve) the "fuperfluous and tedious ftatutes were brought "into one fum together, and made more plain. "Nevertheless, when all these laws be made, ❝ established, and enacted, they serve to no pur"pose, except they be fully and duly executed.

By whom? By thofe that have authority to "execute; that is to fay, the Noblemen and "the Justices of Peace; therefore I would wish, "that after this Parliament were ended, those "Noblemen (except a few that should be with "me) went to their countries, and there fhould "fee the ftatutes fully and duly executed; and "that those men fhould be put from being Juf"tices of Peace that be touched or blotted with "thofe vices that be against these new laws to "be established: for no man that is in fault himself can punish another for the fame of"fence:

Turpe eft doctori, cum culpa redarguit ipfum.
Shameless the teacher, who himself is faulty.

"And these Justices being put out, there is no doubt of the execution of the laws."

Defunt Cætera.

"King EDWARD's Remains."

Hooker

Hooker fays of this Prince," that though " he died young he lived long, for life is in " action."

MARY.

[1553-1558.]

THE English feem early in their history to have made pretty free with the defects and failings of their Sovereigns. M. de Noailles, in his "Embaffades," tells us, that when Mary gave out that she was pregnant, the following paper was stuck up at her palace-gate:

"Serons nous fi bêtes, O nobles Anglois, que de croyre notre Reyne enceinte, & de quoi le feroit elle, finon d'un Marmot ou "d'un Dogue?"

Mary, till her marriage with that cold and inhuman tyrant Philip the Second, appears to have been merciful and humane; for Holinfhead tells us, that when she appointed Sir Richard Morgan Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, she told him, "that notwithstanding the old error, which did "not admit any witnefs to fpeak, or any other "matter to be heard, (Her Majefty being party,)

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"her pleasure was, that whatsoever could be "brought in favour of the subject should be ad"mitted to be heard; and moreover, that the t Juftices fhould not perfuade themselves to put "in judgment otherwise for Her Highness than "for her fubject."

The turn of the English nation for humorous Political Prints first fhewed itself in this reign. An engraving was published, representing this Queen extremely thin, with many Spaniards hanging to her and fucking her to the bone.

LADY JANE GREY.

ROGER ASCHAM, who was Queen Elizabeth's schoolmaster, thus describes this pattern of every female excellence, in a letter of his to a friend.

"Ariftotle's praise of women is perfected in "her. She poffeffes. good-manners, prudence, "and a love of labour: fhe poffeffes every talent "without the leaft weakness of her fex: fhe "fpeaks French and Italian as well as fhe does English fhe writes readily and with pro

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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

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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 asked her why she "would leefe fuch pastime in the parke. Smil"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

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knowledge of pleasure? 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

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"One of the greatest benefites that ever God gave me is, that he fent me fo fharpe and "fevere parentes, and fo jentle a scholemaster: "for when in prefence 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 <c weight, measure, and number, even fo ́per"fitelie as God made the world, or else I am fo 66 fharplie taunted, fo cruellie threatened, yea presentlie, fometimes with pinches, nippes, " and bobbes, and other waies, which I will "not name for the honour I bear them, fo "without measure misorder'd, that I thincke "myselfe in hell, till time come that I must go "to Mr. Elmer, who teacheth me fo jentlie, fo 66 pleafantlie, with fuch fair allurementes to

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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 whatso"ever I do els but learning is full of grief, "trouble, feare, and whole mifliking unto mee. "And thus my booke hath been so much my "pleasure, and bringeth dayly to me more plea "fure and more, that in respect of it all other pleasures in very deede be but triffles and "troubles unto me.