onclusions are drawn from the same fact
by opposite writers. Heylin, arguing that Udall had been
justly condemned, adds, "the man remained a _living
monument_ of the archbishop's extraordinary goodness to
him in the preserving of that life which by the law he had
forfeited." But Neale, on the same point, considers him as
one who "died for his conscience, and stands upon record
_as a monument_ of the oppression and cruelty of the
government." All this opposition of feeling is of the nature
of party-spirit; but what is more curious in the history of
human nature, is the change of opinion in the same family in
the course of the same generation. The son of this Udall
was as great a zealot for Conformity, and as great a
sufferer for it from his father's party, when they possessed
political power. This son would not submit to their oaths
and covenants, but, with his bedridden wife, was left
unmercifully to perish in the open streets,--WALKER'S
_Sufferings of the Clergy_, part ii. p. 178.

SUPPLEMENT TO MARTIN MAR-PRELATE.

As a literary curiosity, I shall preserve a very rare poetical tract,
which describes with considerable force the Revolutionists of the
reign of Elizabeth. They are indeed those of wild democracy; and the
subject of this satire will, I fear, be never out of time. It is an
admirable political satire against a mob-government. In our poetical
history, this specimen too is curious, for it will show that the
stanza in alternate rhymes, usually denominated elegiac, is adapted to
very opposite themes. The solemnity of the versification is
impressive, and the satire equally dignified and keen.

The taste of the mere modern reader had been more gratified by
omitting some unequal passages; but, after deliberation, I found that
so short a composition would be injured by dismembering extracts. I
have distinguished by italics the lines to which I desire the reader's
attention, and have added a few notes to clear up some passages which
might appear obscure.

RYTHMES AGAINST MARTIN MARRE-PRELATE.[424]

_Ordo Sacerdotum fatuo turbatur ab omni,
Labitur et passim Religionis honos._

Since Reason, _Martin_, cannot stay thy pen,
We 'il see what rime will do; have at thee then!

A Dizard late skipt out upon our stage,
But in a sacke, that no man