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&quot; forty-five years of better times ; and yet not 

 &quot; through the calmness of the season, but through 

 &quot; the wisdom of her regimen. For if there be con- 

 &quot; sidered of the one side, the truth of religion 

 &quot; established, the constant peace and security, the 

 &quot; good administration of justice, the temperate use 

 &quot; of the prerogative, not slackened, nor much 

 &quot; strained, the flourishing state of learning, sortable 

 &quot; to so excellent a patroness, the convenient estate 

 &quot; of wealth and means, both of crown and subject, the 

 &quot; habit of obedience, and the moderation of discon- 

 &quot; tents ; and there be considered, on the other side, 

 &quot; the differences of religion, the troubles of neigh- 

 &quot; hour countries, the ambition of Spain, and opposi- 

 &quot; tion of Rome : and then, that she was solitary and 

 &quot; of herself: these things, I say, considered, as I 

 &quot; could not have chosen an instance so recent and 

 &quot; so proper, so, I suppose, I could not have chosen 

 &quot; one more remarkable or eminent to the purpose 

 &quot; now in hand, which is concerning the conjunction 

 &quot; of learning in the prince with felicity in the 

 &quot; people.&quot;* So he wrote in the year 1605; but, about 

 the year 1612, &quot; The King,&quot; says Wilson, &quot; cast his 

 thoughts towards Peterborough, where his mother 

 lay, whom he caused to be translated to a magni 

 ficent tomb, at Westminster. And (somewhat 

 suitable to her mind when she was living) she had 

 a translucent passage in the night, through the 

 city of London, by multitudes of torches : the ta- 



* See ante xxxiii. 



