step down to New Inn fare, wherewith many an honest man is well contented. If that exceed our ability too, then will we, the next year after, descend to Oxford fare, where many grave learned and ancient fathers be continually conversant. Which, if our ability stretch not to maintain neither; then may we yet, with bags and wallets, go a begging together, and hoping that for pity some good folk will give us their charity, at every man's door to sing [1]Salve Regina, and so still keep company and be merry together.[2] And whereas you have heard before, he was by the king from a very worshipful living taken into his grace's service, with whom, in all the great and weighty causes that concerned his highness or the realm, he consumed and spent with painful cares, travail and trouble, as well beyond the seas as within the realm, in effect, the whole sub-
- ↑ Tyndall forbiddeth folk to pray to the Virgin Mary, and specially misliketh her devout Anthem Salve Regina—More's English Works, p. 488, col. 2.
- ↑ These Jests were thought to have in them more levity than to be taken every where for current. He might have quitted his dignity without using such sarcasms, and betaken himself to a more retired and quiet life without making them, [his family] or himself contemptible. And certainly, whatsoever he intended hereby, his family so little understood his meaning that they needed some more serious instructions. So that I cannot perswade myself, for all this talk, that so excellent a person would omit, at fit times, to give his family that sober account of his relinquishing this place, which, I find, he did to the Archbp. Warham, Erasmus, and others.—Lord Herbert's Life of Henry VIII. p. 372.
