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354 seduced by the evil spirit, to transgress an express command of her Maker, by eating of the forbidden fruit, which she likewise presented to her husband, was condemned to be in subjection to the latter, and to suffer pain in childbirth. lady of great learning and piety; a disciple of St. Jerom, whom she followed in his travels through Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, to visit places celebrated in the Scriptures. She became a nun at Bethlehem, and died 419.

of several pious meditations and proverbs, in the English language, which were printed by Robert Crowland, with this title, The Lady Elizabeth Fane's Twenty-one Psalms, and One hundred and two Proverbs. London, 1550.

Who this lady was is not easy to ascertain. By the title given her, one would suppose her to be an earl's daughter: but it does not appear from Dugdale, Collins, nor any other who have given the peerage of the Fane family, that there was, or indeed could be, any such lady in it, near the time she is supposed to have lived. She was therefore, very probably, either the wife of Richard Fane, who married Elizabeth, the daughter and heir