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Tents and printing-presses were speedily
erected, and a complete Frost Fair was once more
established; but some persons lost their lives in
walking over the river. Among the productions of
the press upon this occasion, were the following lines
"Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queenhithe,
January the 29th, 1739-40."

Behold the liquid THAMES now frozen o'er
That lately SHIPS of mighty burden bore.

Here you may PRINT your name tho' cannot write
'Cause numb'd with cold: 'Tis done with great delight.
And lay it by; That AGES yet to come

May see what THINGS upon the ICE were done.

In one of the newspapers for the 2nd of January,
it was announced that-

Several vintners in the Strand bought a large ox in Smith-
field on Monday last, which is to be roasted whole on the ice
on the River of Thames, if the frost continues.

Mr. Hodgeson, a butcher in St. James's Market, claims
the privilege of selling, or knocking down, the beast, as a
right inherent in his family, his father having knocked
down the ox roasted on the river, in the great Frost, 1684;
as himself did that roasted in 1715, near Hungerford-stairs.
The beast is to be fixed to a stake in the open market, and
Mr. Hodgeson comes dressed in a rich laced cambric apron,
a silver steel, and a hat and feathers to perform the office.

The breaking up of this famous frost was attended
with some amusing scenes; it is thus noticed in a
newspaper of January 22nd:-

Yesterday morning the inhabitants of the west prospect
of the bridge were presented with a very odd scene; for, on
the opening of their windows there appeared underneath,
on the river, a parcel of booths, shops, and huts, of different
forms, and without any inhabitants, which, it seems, by the
swell of the waters, and the ice separating, had been
brought down from above. As no lives were lost, it might
be viewed without horror. Here stood a booth with trinkets,
there a hut with a dram of old gold; in another place, a
skittle-frame and pins, and in a fourth "the Noble Art and
Mystery of Printing, by a servant to one of the greatest
With much difficulty last
trading companies in Europe."
night, they had removed the most valuable effects.

In 1768 another remarkable frost took place, and
in 1785 another, which lasted for one hundred and
fifteen days. In 1789 the Thames was again frozen
over, and a Fair held on the ice, several booths being
erected on the 9th of January. Passages across the
ice, strewed with ashes, were formed at Gun-dock,
Execution-dock, &c., and these parts seem to have
constituted the principal scenes of attraction.

No sooner, (says a contemporary chronicle,) had the
Thames acquired a sufficient consistency, than booths,
turn-abouts, &c. &c., were erected; the puppet-shows, wild
beasts, &c., were transported from every adjacent village;
whilst the watermen, that they might draw their usual
resources from the water, broke in the ice close to the
shore, and erected bridges, with toll-bars, to make every
passenger pay a halfpenny for getting to the ice. One of
the suttling-booths has for its sign, "Beer, Wine, and
Spirituous Liquors, without a License." A man who sells
hot gingerbread, has a board, on which is written, "no shop-
tax nor window duty." All the adventurers contend, in
these short sentences, for the preference of the company,
and the Thames is in general crowded.

Another specimen of the humour exhibited at this
place, was contained in the following inscription on
a temporary building on the Thames :-" This Booth
to Let. The present possessor of the premises is
Mr. Frost. His affairs, however, not being on a per-
manent footing, a dissolution or bankruptcy may
soon be expected, and the final settlement of the
On Wednesday,
whole intrusted to Mr. Thaw."
January the 7th, a large pig was roasted on one of
the principal roads; and on Monday, the 12th, a
young bear was hunted on the ice, near Rotherhithe.
As usual, too, a printing-press was erected near the

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same spot; the following is one of the Bills printed
on the ice, at the Thames Printing Office, opposite
St. Catherine's Stairs :"-

The silver Thames was frozen o'er,

No difference 'twixt the stream and shore,
The like no Man hath seen before

Except he lived in days of yore.

The frost was severely felt to a great distance down the river; the East India ships were hastily sent down to Gravesend, to which place, and even below it, large shoals of ice had floated. The navigation of boats was entirely stopped, and it was supposed that the river would soon be completely impassable from Every morning at London Bridge to Woolwich. London Bridge, vast quantities of boiling water were be set in motion; and twenty-five horses were daily poured on the water-works before the wheels could employed in removing the ice which surrounded them. At Blackfriars, the masses of floating ice were said to be eighteen feet in thickness; the sur66 smooth for a face of the river in some places was Putney and Fulmile or two," and then "rough and mountainous" "from the morning dawn till the dusk of refrom the bodies of frozen snow. ham, turning evening, were a scene of festivity and gaiety.' The thaw which followed this frost was rapid. It had been for some time expected, and at length it commenced with some rain about two o'clock on Tuesday, January the 13th; and before night, the

streets were almost overflowed.

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Perhaps, (says a newspaper of the time,) the breaking up of the Fair upon the Thames last Tuesday night below bridge, exceeded every idea that could be formed of it, as it was not until after the dusk of the evening, that the busy crowd was persuaded of the approach of a thaw. This, however, with the cracking of some ice about eight o'clock, made the whole a scene of the most perfect confusion; as men, beasts, booths, turn-abouts, puppet-shows, &c. &c., were all in motion, and pouring towards the shore The confluence here was so sudden and imon each side. petuous, that the watermen who had formed the toll-bars over the sides of the river, where they had broken the ice for that purpose, not being able to maintain their standard from this crowd, &c., pulled up the boards, by which a number of persons who could not leap, or were borne down of landing at the Tower-stairs was extreme, until near ten by the press, were soused up to the middle. The difficulty o'clock, occasioned by the crowding of the people from the shore, who were attracted by the confusion on the water. The inconvenience to the shipping is now increased more than ever, since the setting in of the frost, as no persons will venture upon the ice to fetch or carry anything for them, and it is not yet sufficiently disunited for a boat to live.

The last Frost Fair upon the River Thames at London, was held in the beginning of the year 1814. The frost commenced on the evening of the 27th of December preceding, with a thick fog which lasted for several days, and was suceeded by a remarkably heavy fall of snow, which continued for nearly two days with slight intermissions. The cold became intense, the wind blowing almost constantly from the north and north-east; the river was covered with vast fragments of ice and hardened snow, which floated along with the tide, and sometimes united to After this frost had form a hard and fixed mass. lasted for a whole month, a thaw of four days, from the 26th to the 29th of January, took place; and so large a quantity of ice was floated down in detached pieces, that the river between Blackfriars and London Bridges, became almost impassable. But this thaw was succeeded by a renewal of the frost, so severe, that the Thames very soon became one immoveable sheet of ice; and even on Sunday, the 30th, was crossed by some venturous persons on foot in different parts.

On Tuesday, the 1st of February, the usual entries were formed by the unemployed water

men, particularly between Blackfriars Bridge and Three Cranes Wharf; and notices were posted in the streets leading thereto, announcing a safe footway over the river. It is said that many of the watermen received six pounds in the day by the toll which they took from persons passing over their little bridges, from the edge of the river to the firm ice.

The standing amusements of an English Frost Fair now commenced, (says Mr. Richard Thomson in his Chronicles of London Bridge,) and many cheerfully paid to see and partake of that upon the frozen Thames, which at any other time they would not have deigned to look upon. Beside the roughly-formed paths paved with ashes, leading from shore to shore, there was a street of tents called the "City Road," in which gay flags, inviting signs, music and dancing, evinced what excellent entertainment was to be found there. That ancient wonder, peculiar to the place, the roasting of a small sheep over a fire, was exhibited to many a sixpenny audience, while the provision itself, under the name of "Lapland Mutton," sold for one shilling a slice! Several printing-presses were also erected to furnish memorials of the Frost in old verse and new prose.

Some of these papers are amusing; especially those which apostrophize the Printing-press in its novel situation :

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OMNIPOTENT PRESS! Tyrant Winter has enchained the noblest torrent that flows to the main; but Summer will return and set the captive free. So may tyranny for a time "freeze the genial current of the soul;" but a Free Press, like the great source of light and heat, will, ere long, dissolve tyranny of the mightiest. Greatest of the arts! What do we not owe to thee? The knowledge which directs industry, the liberty which encourages it, the security which protects it, and of industry how precious are the fruits! Glowing and hardy temperaments, which defy the vicissitudes of seasons, and comfortable homes which make you regret not the gloom that is abroad. But for Industry, but for Painting, you might now have been con

tent, like the Russ and Laplander, to bury yourselves under that snow over which you now tread with mirth and glee. Printed on the River Thames, and in commemoration of a great fair held upon it on the 31st of January, 1814, when it was completely frozen over from shore to shore. The frost commenced the 27th of December, 1813, and was accompanied by a thick fog that lasted eight days; and after the fog, came a heavy fall of snow, that prevented the country for several days. all communication with the northern and western parts of

Another bill upon the same subject, containing fewer reflections and more humour, promises that the press shall be kept going "in the true spirit of liberty,"-if the public buy impressions.

Friends! Now is your time to support the freedom of the Press! Can the Press have greater liberty? Here you find it working on the middle of the Thames; and if you encourage us by buying our impressions, we will keep it going in the true spirit of liberty during the frost. One of the last papers printed on the river ran thus:TO MADAM TABITHA THAW. Dear Dissolving Dame.

FATHER FROST and SISTER SNOW have bonyed my borders, formed an idol of ice upon my bosom, and all the LADS OF LONDON come to make merry; now, as you love mischief, treat the multitude with a few CRACKS by a sudden visit, and obtain the prayers of the poor upon both banks.

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Given at my own Press, the 5th of February 1814. THOMAS THAMES.

Upon the evening of the very day on which this invocation was printed, "Madam Tabitha Thaw," suddenly made her appearance with a fall of rain; the ice cracked and floated in several places, and about two o'clock on the following day, the tide, which during the frost had apparently not risen above half its usual height, began to flow very rapidly. The river was covered with detached masses of ice, and every vestige of this last Frost-Fair speedily disappeared.

The features of this British Carnival (said Mr. Thomson a few years ago,) are in the memories of the greater part of the present generation; though if it were otherwise, the representations of it are few and scarce, and generally very inferior.

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PART THE THIRD.

EDUCATION OF ELIZABETH-HER LITERARY ATTAINMENTS-HER PORTRAIT. THE Princess Elizabeth, in common with her brother Edward and her sister Mary, received an excellent education; for this she was much indebted to her step-mother Catharine Parr, the last queen of Henry the Eighth. Her instruction was not confined even to what may be called the ordinary learning of the age; for it embraced the Greek language, which, though rapidly rising into cultivation, had not then become an object of general study. Her first master of the learned languages was William Grindal, a pupil of the eminent Roger Ascham; and in 1548, upon Grindal's death, Ascham himself was called to court VOL. XII.

to take his place. He had previously been employed in teaching Elizabeth, her brother Edward, and many other illustrious personages, the art " of writing a fair hand," an art in which he had attained great excellence, and in which, excellence was then highly valued on account of its rarity

We have, from the pen of Ascham, a very interesting account of the course of study through which he led his illustrious pupil, and of the proficiency which she attained in learning; together with some remarks upon her manners and character at that early period of her life. It is contained in a letter which he wrote to a learned friend in the year 1550:

Never (he says), was the nobility of England more lettered than at present. Our illustrious King Edward, in

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talent, industry, perseverance, and erudition, surpasses both his own years and the belief of men. ...... Numberless honourable ladies of the present time, surpass the daughters of Sir Thomas More in every kind of learning. But amongst them all, my illustrious mistress, the lady Elizabeth, shines like a star, excelling them more by the splendour of her virtues and her learning than by the glory of her royal birth. In the variety of her commendable qualities I am less perplexed to find matter for the highest panegyric than to circumscribe that panegyric within just bounds. Yet I shall mention nothing respecting her but what has come under my own observation. For two years she pursued the study of Greek and Latin under my tuition; but the foundations of her knowledge in both languages were laid by the dilgent instruction of William Grindal, my late beloved friend, and seven years my pupil at Cambridge.

The lady Elizabeth has completed her sixteenth year; and so much solidity of understanding, such courtesy united with dignity, have never been observed at so early an age. She has the most ardent love of true religion, and of the best kind of literature. The constitution of her mind is exempt from female weakness, and she is endued with a masculine power of application. No apprehension can be quicker than hers, no memory more retentive. French and Latin she speaks like English; Latin with fluency, and judgment; she also spoke Greek with me frequently, and moderately well. Nothing can be more elegant than her handwriting, whether in the Greek or Roman character. In, music she is very skilful, but does not greatly delight.

He then gives an account of the different writings which were the object of her study under his tuition. She read with me almost the whole of Cicero, and a great part of Livy: from these two authors, indeed, her knowledge of the Latin language has been almost exclusively derived. The beginning of the day was always devoted by her to the

New Testament in Greek, after which she read select orations of Isocrates and the tragedies of Sophocles, which I judged best adapted to supply her tongue with the purest diction, her mind with the most excellent precepts, and her exalted station with a defence against the utmost power of fortune. For her religious instruction she drew first from the fountains of Scripture, and afterwards from St. Cyprian, the Common Places of Melancthon, and similar works which convey pure doctrine in elegant language. In every kind of writing she easily detected any ill-adapted or far-fetched expression. She could not bear those feeble imitators of Erasmus who bind the Latin language in the fetters of miserable proverbs; on the other hand, she approved a style chaste in its propriety and beautiful by perspicuity, and she greatly admired metaphors when not too violent, and antitheses when just and happily opposed. By a diligent attention to these particulars, her ears became so practised and so nice, that there was nothing in Greek, Latin, or English, prose or verse, which, according to its merits or defects, she did not either reject with disgust or receive with the highest delight.

Ascham's employment as tutor to the Princess Elizabeth lasted only two years, at the expiration of which he left her a little abruptly, in consequence of a distaste which he had taken to some persons in her household. "Of this precipitation," says Dr. Johnson, "he long repented; and as those who are not accustomed to disrespect cannot easily forgive it, he probably felt the effects of his imprudence to his death.” He was restored, however, before long, to the favour of Elizabeth; and when she ascended the throne, he was appointed to the offices of secretary for the Latin tongue, and likewise tutor to her Majesty in the learned languages. In this latter capacity he was in the habit of constantly reading with her. In his Scholemaster, he says,—

After dinner (at Windsor Castle, on the 10th of December, 1568), I went up to read with the Queen's Majesty; we read there together in the Greek tongue, as I well remember that noble oration of Demosthenes against Æschines, for his false dealing in his embassage to Philip of Macedon.

Elizabeth retained a great regard for her tutor to the last; and when she heard of his death she is said to have exclaimed, that "she would rather have thrown ten thousand pounds into the sea than have

lost her Ascham," an opinion which, considering
her economical disposition, must be taken to express
a very high estimate of his merits. Of the extent to
which she profited by his instructions, and of the
proficiency which she long retained in the Latin
tongue, a memorable illustration was afforded when
the Polish Envoy, whom she received in great state,
addressed her in a Latin speech, and poured forth, in
his master's name, a string of complaints instead of
compliments-which caused the Queen, in her own
phrase, to "scour up her old Latin which had so long
lain rusting," to rebuke the "malapert orator," an
operation which she performed, according to the testi-
mony of persons present, with great effect.
Elizabeth's studious turn of mind, probably con-
tributed much to that peculiar regard which her
brother Edward felt for her, and which she recipro-
cated. "In tastes, feelings, pursuits, and religion,"
to use the words of Mr. Sharon Turner, "there was
that congeniality of mind which most strongly attracts
and perpetuates reciprocal affection."

Under Edward the Sixth, (says Sir Robert Naunton,) she was his, and one of the darlings of fortune, for besides the consideration of blood, there was between these two princes, a concurrence and sympathy of their natures and affections, together with the cœlestial bond (confirmative religion) which made them one; for the king never called her by any other appellation but his sweetest and dearest sister, and was scarce his own man she being absent; which was not so betweene him and the Lady Mary.

Camden tells us that she was in great grace and favour with her brother King Edward, "who called her by no other name than his Sweet Sister Temperance," as likewise in singular esteem with the nobility and people. "For she was of admirable beauty and well deserving a crown, of a modest gravity, excellent wit, royal soul, happy memory, and indefatigably given to the study of learning."

She wrote frequently to Edward; and though not many years older than himself, "strove to exhibit in her style some of the elaborate but least natural embellishments of literary composition." His affection for her led him to desire her portrait, though with the delicacy of inquiring if he might make the rewith the "artificial flowers of rhetorical diction." quest; and she took some trouble to accompany it Her letter is an interesting specimen of her style:

Like as the richeman that dayly gathereth riches to riches, and to one bag of money layeth a greate sort til it come to infinit, so methinks your Majestie, not beinge suffised withe many benefits and gentilnes shewed to me afore this time, may bid and commande, requiring a thinge not worthy the dothe now increase them in askinge and desiring wher you desiringe for it selfe, but made worthy for your Higthnes request. My pictur I mene, in wiche if the inward good mynde towarde your grace migth as wel be declared as the outwarde face and countenaunce shal be seen, I wold nor have taried the commandement, but preuent [prevented] it, nor have bine the last to graunt, but the first to offer it. For the face I graunt I might wel blusche to offer, but the mynde I shal never be ashamed to present. For thogth from the grace of the pictur the coulers may fade by time, may give by weather, may be spotted by chance; yet the other nor time with her swift winges shal ouertake, nor the mistie cloudes with ther loweringes may darken, nor change with her slipery fote may overthrow. Of this althogth yet the profe coulde not be greate because the occasions hath bine but smal, notwithstandinge as a dog hathe a day, so may I perchaunce have time to declare it in dides wher now I do write them but in wordes. And further I shal most humbly beseche your Maiestie that when you shal loke on my pictur you wil witsafe [vouchsafe] to thinke that as you have but the outwarde shadow of the body afore you, so my inward minde wischeth that the body it selfe wer oftner in your presence; how beit bicause bothe my so beinge I thinke coulde do your Maiestie litel pleasur thogth my selfe great good; and againe bicause I se as yet not the time agreing therunto, I shal lerne to folow this

sainge of Orace [Horace] "Feras non culpes quod vitairi non potest," [Bear not blame what cannot be avoided.] And thus I wil (troblinge your Maiestie I fere) ende with my most humble thankes, besechinge God longe to preserve you to his honour, to your comfort, to the realme's profit and to my joy. From Hatfilde this 15 day of May,

Your Maiesties most humbly sistar,

ELIZABETH. This letter very well illustrates the remark of her tutor Ascham, that she was a great admirer of metaphor and antithesis. Of the few letters which exist, from Elizabeth to her brother, there is another which commences in precisely the same elaborate manner.

Like as a shipman in stormy wether plukes downe the sailes tarijnge for bettar winde, so did I most noble kinge, in my unfortunate chanche a thurday pluk downe the hie sailes of my ioy and comfort, and do trust one day, that as troblesome waves have repulsed me bakwarde, so a gentil winde wil bringe me forwarde to my haven.

Paid to Edmunde Allin for a Bible xxs. Paid the xiiijth of December to Blaunche Parry for her half yeres annuitie, c., and to Blaunche Qurtnaye for the like, Ixvis. viijd.

Paid the xiiijth of December at the Cristening of Mres. Pendred's childe as by warraunte doth appeare, L8.

Paid in reward unto sondrie persons at St. James, her Grace then being there, viz. :-The king's fotemen xls. The under kepar of St. James xs. The Gardener vs. To one Russel, grome of the Kinge's great chamber xa. John Forman xs. To the Warderobe xls. The Violans xls. A Frenchman that gave a boke to her Grace xs. The kepar of the Parke Gate of St. James xs. Mr. Staunfords servants xxs. The Lorde Russell's minstralls xs. In th' ole, as by warrant appereth, ixli. xvs.

Paid in reward to sondrie persons the xth of August, viz., to Farmer that plaied on the lute, xxxs. To Mr. Ashfelde servant, with ij prise oxen & x muttons, XXs. More, the harper, xxxs. To him that made her Grace a table of walnut-tree, xliiijs. ixd. And to M. Cocke's servaunte which brought her Grace sturgeon, vjs. viijd. some time with her step-mother, the Queen Dowager, originally taken from a picture by Holbein, executed Our engraving contains a portrait of Elizabeth,

After her father's death, Elizabeth resided for

who married the Lord Seymour of Sudley, the ambitious and unfortunate brother of the Protector Somerset. The palace of Hatfield was afterwards her residence; and in 1551, Edward granted to her the old abbey of Ashridge, which, at the dissolution of the monasteries, became a royal house. She occasionally visited her brother's court; and Strype records an instance of her riding through London in great state, to the palace of St. James :

March 17, 1551. The lady Elizabeth, the king's sister, rode through London unto St. James's, the king's palace, with a great company of lords, knights, and gentlemen; and after her a great company of ladies and gentlemen on horseback, about two hundred. On the 19th, she came from St. James's through the park to the court; the way from the park-gate unto the court spread with fine sand. She was attended with a very honourable confluence of noble and worshipful persons of both sexes, and received with much ceremony at the court-gate."

A very curious memorial of the domestic affairs of the Princess Elizabeth, about this time, has been preserved—namely, the Household Book for a year, from the 1st of October, 1551, to the last day of September, 1552. It is entitled "Th' Accumpte of Thomas Parry Esquyer, Couferor [Cofferer,] to the righte❘ excellent Princesse the Ladie Elizabeth, her Grace the King's Majestie's most honorable Sister." Every page is signed at the bottom by the Princess herself.

The sum total of receipts, including the " remayne of the preceding year," amounts to 57917. 1s. 34d., with the third part of a farthing. The total amount of the payments within the time of the accompt, is 36297. 188. 8d.; and there was left for the wants of the next year, a remayne" of 15071. Os. Oдd., a half farthing and the third part of a farthing, which sum is stated to have been delivered -into her Grace's own hands upon the determination of this accompt. The expenses of the house amounted to 39381. 188. 7d.; but deductions for " hides, felles, and intrails of the cattle," supplied 2071. 3s. 84d. Under the Buttry and Cellar, great quantities of Beer are entered with "swete wine," " Raynishe wine," and 'Gascoigne wine." Board wages for servants are continually mentioned. Lamprey pies are once entered as a present. The wages of household servants for a quarter of a year, amounted to 827. 17s. 8d. The" lyveries" of velvet coats for xiij gentlemen, at xls. The lyveries of the yeomen to 787. 18s. There is also a sum of 71. 15s. 8d., mentioned as "given in almes at sundrie times to poor men and women.' Among the entries of the Chamber and Robes are the following: Paid to John Spithonius the xvijth of Maye, for bokes, and to Mr. Allin for a Bible, xxvijs. iiijd.

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Paid the thurde of November to the kepar of Herforde gayle for fees of John Wingfelde lying in warde, xiijs. iiijd,

in the year 1551, when she was about eighteen years
of age.
A Venetian ambassador, who was in Eng-
land a few years afterwards, in the report which, in
conformity with the practice of his state, he pre-
sented to the Doge and Senate, thus describes her
personal appearance :

although her face may rather be called pleasing than
She is a lady of great elegance, both of body and mind,
beautiful. She is tall and well made; her complexion, fine
though rather sallow; her eyes, but above all her hands,
which she takes care not to conceal, are of superior beauty.
Camden, as has been seen, describes her in her
youth as being of "admirable beauty."

The simplicity of Elizabeth's costume in this portrait, offers a remarkable contrast to that fantastic style of decoration in which she afterwards delighted to display her person. Holbein was remarkably careful in preserving the features of costume, and we have other testimony to his correctness in this instance. "With respect to personal decoration," says her tutor Ascham, in the letter before quoted, "she greatly prefers a simple elegance to show and splendour, so despising the outward adorning of plaiting the hair and wearing of gold, that, in the whole manner of her life, she rather resembles Hippolyta than Phædra." Dr. John Elmer, or Aylmer, who was tutor to Lady Jane Grey and her sisters, and became Bishop of London in Elizabeth's reign, thus speaks of the taste of the princess in this respect when young, in a work entitled,-A Harbour for faithful Subjects.

The king left her rich clothes and jewels; and I know it to be true, that, in seven years after her father's death, she never in all that time looked upon that rich attire and precious jewels but once, and that against her will. And that there never came gold or stone upon her head till her sister forced her to lay off her former soberness, and bear her company in her glittering gayness; and then she so wore it as every man might see that her body carried that which her heart misliked. I am sure that her maidenly apparel, which she used in King Edward's time, made the noblemen's daughters and wives to be ashamed to be dressed and painted like peacocks, being more moved with her most virtuous example than with all that ever Peter or Paul wrote touching that matter. Yea, this I know, that a great man's daughter, (Lady Jane Grey,) receiving from Lady Mary, before she was queen, good apparel of tinsel, cloth of gold, and velvet, laid on with parchment-lace of gold, when she saw it said, Marry," said a gentlewoman, wear it." Nay," quoth she, "that were a shame to follow my Lady Mary against God's word, and leave my Lady Elizabeth, which followeth God's word." And when all the ladies at the coming of the Scots' Queen Dowager, Mary of Guise, (she who visited England in Edward's time,) went with their hair frownsed, curled, and double curled, she altered nothing, but kept her old maidenly shamefacedness.

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