on to their
faction) behold how, by sundry fine devices, they are either
cut off, worn out, fled, banished or defaced at home," &c.,
fol. 105, rect. The good LORD BURGHLEY, says Strype, was so
moved at this slander that he uttered these words: "God
amend his spirit, and confound his malice." And by way of
protestation of the integrity and faithfulness of both their
services, "God send this estate no worse meaning servants,
in all respects, than we two have been." _Annals of the
Reformation_, vol. ii., 178. Camden's _Hist. of Q.
Elizabeth_, p. 192,--as quoted by Herbert.]

[Footnote 314: "All curates must continually call upon their
parochians to provide a book of the _Holy Bible in English_,
of THE LARGEST FORM, within 40 days next after the
publication hereof, that may be chained in some open place
in the church," &c. Injunctions by Lee, Archbishop of York:
Burnet's _Hist. of the Reformation_, vol. iii., p. 136,
Collections. This custom of fixing a great bible in the
centre of a place of worship yet obtains in some of the
chapels attached to the colleges at Oxford. That of Queen's,
in particular, has a noble brazen eagle, with outstretched
wings, upon which the foundation members read the lessons of
the day in turn.]

LOREN. Had you not better confine yourself to personal anecdote,
rather than enter into the boundless field of historical survey?

LYSAND. I thank you for the hint. Having sermonized upon the general
features of the Reformation, we will resume the kind of discourse with
which we at first set out.

PHIL. But you make no mention of the number of curious and fugitive
pamphlets of the day, which were written in order to depreciate and
exterminate the Roman Catholic religion? Some of these had at least
the merit of tartness and humour.

LYSAND. Consult Fox's _Martyrology_,[315] if you wish to have some
general knowledge of these publications; although I apprehend you will
not find in that work any mention of the poetical pieces of Skelton
and Roy; nor yet of Ramsay.

[Footnote 315: The curious reader who wishes to become
master of all the valuable, though sometimes loose,
information contained in this renowned work--upon which Dr.
Wordsworth has pronounced rather a warm eulogium
(_Ecclesiastical Biography_, vol. i., p. xix.)--should
secure the _first_ edition, as