8 THE LIFE OF 



CHAP, that rare woman s praise, than that same letter: Nam, as he 



wrote back to Fox, et pie et prudenter^fortasse etiam docte, 



scriptam dices; i. e. &quot;For you will say it was piously and 



&quot; prudently writ, and perhaps learnedly too.&quot; 



Assists Mr. He was, while in these parts, a great fautor and for- 



Fox the t -, 



rnartyroio- warder oi that godly laborious man in the works he was 

 upon; particularly in two: 1. His edition of the History of 

 the English Martyrs in Latin ; and 2. Of Archbishop Cran- 

 mer s Vindication of his Book of the Sacrament, against 

 Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, translated by the said 

 Fox into Latin ; which last however was never printed. 

 And of Ay liner s great learning and accurate judgment such 

 an high opinion had Fox, that he chose him of all other 

 learned men in those parts then in exile ; and sent to him, 

 then at Zurich, his translation, making him alone the judge 

 of it, and resolving according as he approved of it or disap 

 proved, so the work should stand or fall : Cujus [solius] 

 censurd hos ejus labores vel probari vel improbari vellet ; 

 as Fox wrote to him. To which Aylmer modestly answer 

 ed, &quot; That in this he could not so much approve his coun- 

 Ayimer a &quot; &amp;gt;se ] as embrace his love.&quot; Avlmer was indeed a severe 

 tic. critic ; and so he confessed himself, and looked upon it as 



Int. Foxii his fault. Sum enim, ut vere de meipso dicam, ex eorum 

 numero qui Jhcilius reprehend it nt, quam emendant: ut mi- 

 noris multo negotii est solvcre quam componere, et ut philoso- 

 phis placet, destruere quam excedificare : i. e. &quot; For to speak 

 &quot; truly of myself, I am of the number of them who do 

 &quot; more easily reprove than mend ; as it is much less labour 

 &quot; to undo than to do, or, as the philosophers speak, to de- 

 &quot; stroy than to build up.&quot; But so correct, it seems, was 

 Fox s work, that even this critic bestowed much commenda 

 tion on it; nay, though, as he acknowledged himself, he 

 had more accurately and nicely weighed and examined it, 

 upon divers accounts ; partly because they both were Eng 

 lishmen, and coupled together in the same bond of reli 

 gion, and so he was the more concerned that his country 

 man and fellow Protestant should not set forth a raw and 

 undigested work ; partly because he esteemed it a crime to 



