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Rh (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr Aylmer, who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing while I am with him; and when I am called from him, I fall on weeping; because, whatever I do else but learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and wholly mislíking unto me. And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, and that in respect of it all other pleasures, in very deed, be but trifles and troubles unto me." Ascham was deeply affected by this speech and interview.

In 1553, she was married to Lord Guilford Dudley; and, shortly afterwards, reluctantly accepted the diadem, which the intrigues of her father and her father-in-law had induced. But ascending the throne was only a step on her way to the scaffold. Nine days only did she wear the crown. The nation acknowledged the right of Mary, eldest daughter of Henry VIII.; and the Lady Jane and her husband were sent to the Tower. They had committed a crime against the State, in accepting the sovereignty which by birth belonged to Mary; but as she had suffered no loss, and the offenders were so young and had been persuaded by others, it was hoped their lives