NOTES E G. 



E. Life, p. ii. 



Note from page 412, Biographia Britannica. The Lady Jane Grey was 

 excellently skilled in Greek : and Queen Elizabeth translated several pieces both 

 from Greek and Latin. The most remarkable instance, however, of the spirit 

 of learning which prevailed was in the family of Sir Anthony Cooke : for all 

 his four daughters were perfectly skilled in the learned languages, and his 

 second daughter, Anne, wife to the Lord Keeper Bacon, made both a florid 

 and exact translation of Bishop Jewell s Apology for the church of England, 

 from Latin into English, which was esteemed so useful in its nature, as well as 

 so correct in its manner, that in the year 1567 it was published for common use, 

 by the special order of Archbishop Parker, with some additions of his own at 

 the end. (Strype s Annals, vol.ii. p. 469). There have been many ladies 

 remarkable for their learning and their writings, but very few whose works, like 

 the Lady Bacon s, were published by authority and commended to public read 

 ing : it was this that stirred the gall of Father Parsons, who has reflected 

 bitterly upon this lady (a relation of a conference between Henry IV. of 

 France, &c. p. 197) for her performance, without reflecting that his ill language 

 redounded more to her reputation than all the praises of her friends. (See 

 Mallet s Life of Bacon, 4to.) It was to the great abilities and tender care of 

 so accomplished a parent, that her two sons, Anthony and Francis, owed the 

 early part of their education. 



&quot; Before I went into Germanic,&quot; says Ascham, &quot; I came to Brodegate, in 

 Leicestershire, to take my leave of that noble Lady Jane Grey, to whom I was 

 exceeding much beholdinge. Her parentes, the duke and the duches, with all 

 the houshould, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the parke. I 

 found her in her chamber, readinge Phaedon Platonis in Greeke, and that with 

 as much delite, as some jentlemen would read a merrie tale in Bocase. After 

 salutation, and dewtie done, with some other taulke, I asked her, why she 

 would leese such pastime in. the parke 1 Smiling, she answered me : I wisse, 

 all their sport in the parke is but a shadoe to that pleasure that I find in Plato. 

 Alas ! good folke, they never felt what trewe pleasure ment. &quot; 



Ascham, who was said to be the best master of the best scholar, speaking 

 of his pupil Queen Elizabeth, says : &quot; After dinner I went up to read with 

 the Queen s majesty. We read then together in the Greek tongue, as I well 

 remember, that noble oration of Demosthenes against Eschines for his false 

 dealing in his embassage to King Philip of Macedon.&quot; Lord Bacon, in 

 speaking of Queen Elizabeth, says : &quot; This lady was indued with learning in 

 her sex singular and rare even amongst masculine princes, whether we speak of 

 learning or of language : or of science, modern or ancient : divinity or hu 

 manity. And, unto the very last year of her life, she accustomed to appoint 

 set hours for reading, scarcely any young student in an university more daily 

 or more duly.&quot; 



G. Life, p. iii. 



He had not the advantage of a good constitution of body, his father having 

 been much afflicted with the gout and stone. Birch s Elizabeth. 



In the Novum Organum he says, &quot; We judge also, that mankind may con 

 ceive some hopes from our example, which we offer, not by way of ostentation, 

 but because it may be useful. If any one, therefore, should despair, let him 

 consider a man as much employed in civil affairs as any other of his age, a man 

 of no great share of health, who must therefore have lost much time ; and yet, in 

 this undertaking, he is the first that leads the way, unassisted by any mortal, 

 and stedfastly entering the true path that was absolutely untrod before, and 

 submitting his mind to things, may thus have somewhat advanced the design.&quot; 



Kuwley says, &quot; The moon was never in her passion or eclipsed, but he was 

 surprized with a sudden fit of fainting, and that though he observed not, nor 

 took any previous knowledge of the eclipse thereof.&quot; &quot; None of his servants,&quot; 





