FRANCIS WILLUGHBY. 
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with excellent gifts and abilities both of body and 
mind, a quick apprehension, piercing wit, sound 
judgment, and great industry. He was, from his 
childhood, addicted to study. Though duly 
prizing the advantages of birth, and fortune, and 
talent, he did not content himself therewith, or 
value himself on them, but laboured after what 
might render him more deservedly honourable, 
and more truly to be called his own,* as being 
obtained by the concurrence at least of his own 
endeavours ; and that as soon as he had come to 
the use of reason, he was so great a husband of 
his time, as not willingly to lose or let slip un- 
occupied the least fragment of it, detesting no 
vice more than idleness, which he looked upon 
as the parent and nurse of almost all others. He 
was also so excessive in the prosecution of his 
Willoughbie and most of his company were alive in 
January, 1554. No lesse than 70 persons, including 
marchants, officers, and ship’s company, perished with the 
gallant Sir Hugh Willoughby. The ships, and the dead 
bodies of those that perished, were discovered the follow- 
ing year by some Russian fishermen, and who found the 
papers from which the foregoing account is taken.” 
The reader will not have failed to notice in the pre- 
ceding account, which is copied from Hakluyt, literatim, 
an indifference to authography in several words. This is 
a)so observable with regard to the name of the “ captaine 
general,” which is spelt at the top of the page, Sir Hugh 
Willoughbie, and in the course of the narrative, Willughby, 
though not unfrequently as at the top of the page also. 
* “ Vix ea nostra voco.” This, like the mottoes to 
the arms of many other noble families of England, con- 
veys a most useful admonition. 
