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 that in respect of it, all other pleasures, in very deed, be but trifles and troubles unto me" ———"I remember, adds Mr. Ascham, this talk gladly, both because it is worthy of memory, and because also it was the last talk that ever I had, and the last time that ever I saw that noble and worthy Lady."

Mr Ascham was so much delighted with this interview with the Lady Jane, that in a letter to her, dated the 18th. of January, 1551, he speaks of it in rapture, and by a beautiful apostrophe, addressing himself to Mr. Aylmer, felicitates him him on his having so ingenious a scholar.——— He also reminded Lady Jane of the Greek epistle which she had promised to write to write to him, he desired her likewise to write another to his friend Sturmius, that what he had said of her wherever he came, might be rendered credible by such authentic evidence.

The Lady Jane was early instructed in the principles of the reformed religion, which he seriously and attentively studied. and for which she was extremely zealous;