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&quot; abroad: as if he be no very base or mean person; if he CHAP. 



&quot; love and fear God; if he be of the same religion, endued XIIL 



&quot; with good and commendable qualities of wisdom, justice, 



&quot; manhood, temperance, gifts of languages, knowledge of 



&quot; countries, pitiful, merciful, constant, sober, no hearer of 



&quot; flatterers, continent, not prodigal, but liberal, no extorter, 



&quot; &c. such an one, if God should allot any Queen, were to 



&quot; be preferred to any abroad. Unless all these,&quot; he said, 



&quot; might be found in a stranger: and thereto joined nobility, 



&quot; and ancientness of lineage, and the nation being such as 



&quot; used not to rule cruelly, but rather fatherly than lordly.&quot; 



We easily perceive what foreign Prince he excluded by 



those words, namely, proud King Philip ; who had already 



made his addresses to the Queen : and she most discreetly 



had declined him. 



His judgment of the French he shewed in these words; His judg- 

 &quot; That they were the proudest, the untruest, and the most French. 

 &quot; tyrannical nation under the sun. I except not,&quot; said he, 

 &quot; the Spaniards : whose dominion the Italians in Milan, 

 &quot; Naples, Sicily, and elsewhere, can much better brook and 

 &quot; abide, than the light and inconstant French, as Caesar 

 &quot; called them.&quot; 



Of the Spaniard, another powerful neighbour of England, Of the 

 these were his thoughts with respect to Queen Elizabeth s pan 

 late denial of him. &quot; If kings be wooers and no speeders, 

 &quot; there can be small hopes that they will be faithful friends 

 &quot; after : for great men cannot bear great repulses ; espe- 

 &quot; cially when their power is such as they can, when they 

 &quot; will, revenge it. A mind or heart,&quot; added he, &quot;where love 

 &quot; hath dwelt, if it begin once to hate, is like a sponge, 

 &quot; which sucketh up as much water of malice, as it had 

 &quot; before honey.&quot; 



A man s wisdom and judgment, and a great deal of his His prover- 

 mind and sentiments, become known by his ordinary speeches bli 

 and expressions. And for this purpose I shall rehearse 

 here divers of our Bishop s proverbial sayings and apo 

 phthegms. 



