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 as she was naturally very fond of literature, that fondness was much heightened as well by the severity of her parents, in the feminine part of her education, as by the gentleness with which her tutor Aylmer instructed her in learning of an higher kind. And when mortified and confounded by the unmerited chidings of her parents, she returned, with double pleasure to the lessons of the latter, and fought in Demosthenes and Plato, who were her favourite authors, that delight which was denied her in all the other scenes of life, in which she mingled but little, and seldom with any satisfaction.

Her alliance with the Crown, as well as the great favour in which the Marquis of Dorset her father stood with Edward VI. did, however, necessarily bring her some- times to Court; and she received particular marks of the young King’s attention, who was nearly of the same age with herself, and took great delight in her conversation; but, nevertheless she seems to have continued for the most part at her father’s seat at Broadgate, in Leicestershire, where she was with her