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CHAP, to a great lord, he acknowledged that he was no good 

 courtier, and excused himself by his plain nature. 



stout and All this that I have said already sheweth him to have 

 ls&amp;gt; been of a great stomach. Indeed he had a natural cou 

 rage : which appeared also not in words only, as we saw 

 before, but sometimes even in deeds : for the Bishop was 

 a man of his arms, and w r ould not turn his back for any 

 man. Sir John Harrington, who lived in this Bishop^s 

 time, and knew him, tells us, that when he was an old man, 

 when no other correction nor sober advice would do his 

 unthrifty son-in-law any good, he took him into an inner 

 room, where they were alone, and cudgelled him soundly. 

 And methinks those words of his in the description of a 

 preacher intimated his skill in fighting as well as preaching. 

 &quot; It is not enough,&quot; said he, &quot; for a man to tell a fair tale 

 &quot; in the pulpit, and when he comes down is not able to 

 &quot; defend it. If preachers and spiritual men be such, where 

 66 be we, when w r e come to hand-gripes ? They must not 

 &quot; only flourish, but they must know their quarter-strokes, 

 &quot; and the way how to defend their head; their head 

 &quot; Christ, I say, and his cross.&quot; 



An odd in- And now we are fallen upon this argument, I will not 

 ^&quot;courage om ^ & tradition that goeth in the family of the Aylmers, of 

 before the t ne Bishop^s stout heart in a pretty odd instance, namely, 

 in causing one of his teeth to be drawn once in the Queen s 

 presence, for the better encouraging her to undergo that pre 

 sent pain for her own quiet and ease afterwards : and indeed 

 I find she was once so disquieted with the toothach, that it 

 gave a concern to ah 1 the Court. It was in the month of 

 December 1578, when she was so excessively tormented with 

 that distemper, that she had no intermission day nor night, 

 and it forced her to pass whole nights without taking any 

 rest ; and came to that extremity, that her physicians were 

 called in and consulted. These differed among themselves 

 as to the cause of the distemper, and what means were pro- 

 perest to be used. There was then an outlandish physician 

 of some note, it seems, for giving ease in this anguish, whose 

 name was John Anthony Fenotus ; him the Lords of the 



