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 1566.] THE MURDER OF DARNLEY. 433 parting summer none knew better than Elizabeth. She went on under the archway and up the corn- market be- tween rows of shouting students. The students cried in Latin * Yivat Regina/ Elizabeth amidst bows and smiles answered in Latin also, * Grratias ago, gratias ago/ At Carfax, where Bishop Long-lands forty years be- fore had burnt Tyndal's Testaments, a professor greeted her with a Greek speech, to which with unlooked-for readiness she replied again in the same language. A few more steps brought her down to the great gate of Christ Church, the splendid monument of Wolsey and of the glory of the age that was gone. She left the car- riage, and with de Silva at her side she walked under a canopy across the magnificent quadrangle to the Cathe- dral. The dean after evening service entertained her at his house. The days of her stay were spent as at Cambridge in hearing plays or in attending the exercises of the University. The subjects chosen for disputation in the schools mark the balance of the two streams of ancient and modern thought, and show the matter with which the rising mind of England was beginning to occupy itself. There were discussions on the tides whether or how far they were caused by the attraction of the moon. There were arguments on the currency whether a debt contracted when the coin was pure could be liquidated by the payment of debased money of the same nominal value. The keener intellects were climbing the stairs of the temple of Modern Science, though as yet they were VOL. vn. 28