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"England, and the observation of its rites and "ceremonies, and the administration of its Holy "Sacraments, and buzzed these conceits into "the heads of divers young Preachers and "Scholars of the University of Cambridge, and "drew after him a great number of disciples and "followers. Cartwright afterwards disturbs the "state of the University; is recommended to "be quiet, but to no purpose; and is at last ex"pelled, after having refused to affift at a con"ference which Archbishop Whitgift offered "him. Cartwright afterwards published, in

1591, a book of New Difcipline, for which " he was proceeded against in the Star Cham"ber."

Hooker, fpeaking of Archbishop Whitgift, fays," he always governed with that moderation "which ufeth by patience to fupprefs boldness, " and to make them conquer that fuffer." The Archbishop was anxious that the Curates' stipends fhould be raised. His Biographer fays of him, "In letting leafes of his impropriations, if he "found his Curates' wages fmall, he would "abate much of his fine to increase their pen"fions, fome ten pounds by the year, as Maid"ftone, &c."

"Queen Elizabeth," continues the Archbishop's Biographer, "told his Grace, that

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"The would have the difcipline of the Church "of England of all men duly to be observed. " without alteration of the leaft ceremony; "conceiving that these Novelifts might have "wrought the fame mischief in her kingdom "which the turbulent Oratòrs of Sparta did in "that Commonwealth, fo wifely fettled by Ly

curgus's Laws, which, whilft they took upon "themselves to amend, they miferably defaced "and deformed; the inconvenience of which

kind of reafoning the Queen had taken out of "the Greek Poet Aratus, who, when one asked him how he might have Homer's Poems free

from faults and corruptions, replied, Get an "old copy not reformed; for curious wits, labouring to amend things well done, commonly either quite mar them, or at least make "them worfe."

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HENRY EARL OF ARUNDEL.

"THIS Nobleman," fays Puttenham, “ paff"ing from England towards Italie, by her Ma

jeftie Queen Elizabeth's licence, was very "honourably entertained at the Court of Bruf"fells by the Lady Duchefs of Parma, Regent "there. And fitting at a banquet with her,

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(where was alfo the Prince of Orange, with "all the great Princes of the State,) the Earle,

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though he could reasonably well speake

French, would not fpeak one French word, "but all English. Whether he asked any quef"tion or answered it, all was done by Truche

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men (interpreters); infomuch as the Prince of "Orange, marvelling at it, looked afide on "that part where I ftood a beholder of all the "feafte, and fayed, I marvel your Noblemen "of England doe not defire to be better lan"guaged in the foreigne languages. This "word was by and by repeated to the Earl again. Tell my Lord the Prince, quoth he, "that I love to speak in that language in which "I can best utter my mind, and not mistake.”

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SIR ROGER CHAMLOE.

"tell of himfelfe.

"IT is a notable tale," fays Roger Afcham, in his Schoolmaster, "that old Syr "that old Syr Roger "Chamloe, fometime Chiefe Juftice, would When he was Auncient in "Inn of Court, certaine yong Jentlemen were brought before him to be corrected for certaine miforders, and one of the luftieft fayde, "Sir, we be yong Jentlemen, and wife men "before

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"before us have proved all facions, and yet "thofe have done full well. This they fayd, "because it was well known that Syr Roger "had been a good felloe in his youth. But he "anfwered them very wifelie: Indeede (faith he) "in youthe I was as you are now, and I had "twelve felloes like unto myself, but not one of ❝them came to a good ende. And therefore, ❝ folowe not my example in youth, but folowe "my my councell in age, if ever ye think to come ❝to this place, or to theis yeares that I am "come unto, leffe ye meet either with povertie *or Tiburn in the way."

ROGER ASCHAM.

"SYR RICHARD SACKVILLE, a worthie "Jentleman of worthie memorie, in the Queene's (Elizabeth) privie chamber at Windfore, after "he had talked with me for the right choice of

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a good witte in a childe for learnyng, and of "the trewe difference betwixt quicke and harde "wittes; of alluring young children by jentle"nefs to love learnyng, and of the speciall "care that was to be had, to keepe young men "from licentious livyng; he was most earnest "with me to have me fay my mynde alfo, what I thought

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"I thought concerning the fanfie that many young Jentlemen of Englande have to travell "abroad, and namely to lead a long life in "Italie. His request, both for his authoritie "and good will toward me, was a fufficient "commaundement unto me, to fatisfie his plea"fure with utteryng plainlie my opinion in that "matter. Syr (quoth I) I take goyng thither, "and livyng there, for a yonge Jentleman, that "doth not goe under the kepe and garde of "fuch a man, as both by wifedome can, and "authoritie dare rewle him, to be marvelous dangerous."

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"Tyme was," fays Afcham, in another part of his learned and excellent Treatife of the Schoolmafter, "when Italie and Rome have "bene, to the great good of us that now live, "the best breeders and bringers up of the "worthiest men, not onlie for wife fpeakinge, "but alfo for well doinge, in all civil affaires, that ever was in the worlde. But now that tyme is gone, and though the place remayne, yet the olde and prefent manners do differ as "farre as blacke and white, as virtue and vice. "Virtue once made that countrie miftrefs over "all the world; vice now maketh that countrie "flave to them, that before were glad to ferve "it. Italie now, is not that Italie it was wont 9

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