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 The Catholic Reformation 193 she drank was mingled with water, containing three parts more in quantity than the wine itself. Precise hours of refection she observed not, as never eating but when her appetite required it. In matters of recreation, as singing, dancing, and playing upon instruments, she was not igno- rant or excellent : a measure which in things indifferent best beseems a prince. She was of nature somewhat hasty, but quickly appeased ; ready there to show most kindness where a little before she had been most sharp in reproving. Her greatest grief of mind and body she either patiently endured or politicly dissembled. I have heard it credibly reported that, not long before her death, she was divers times troubled with the gout in her fingers, whereof she would never complain, as seeming better pleased to be thought insensible of the pain than to acknowledge the disease. . . . It is credibly reported that not long before her death she had a great apprehension of her own age and declina- tion by seeing her face (then lean and full of wrinkles) truly represented to her in a glass, which she a good while very earnestly beheld ; perceiving thereby how often she had been abused by flatterers (whom she held in too great estimation) that had informed her the contrary. BIBLIOGRAPHY The Catholic Reformation : Walker, The Refomiation, pp. 356-367 ; A. Refe Cambridge Modern History, Vol. II, pp. 639-650. ences. The Jesuits : Hausser, Period of the Reformation, Chapter XX, pp. 265-273; Walker, pp. 367-392; Cambridge Modem History, Vol. II, pp. 651-659. Council of Trent : Hausser, pp. 258-264 ; Cambridge Modem His- tory, Vol. II, pp. 659-689. Spain under Philip II : Cambridge Modern History, Vol. Ill, Chap- ter XV, pp. 475-5 2 5- Revolt of the Netherlands : Johnson, European History, 1494- 1598, Chapter VIII, pp. 315-386; Hausser, Chapters XXI-XXV, pp. 276-344; Cambridge Modem History, Vol. Ill, Chapters VI- VII, pp. 182-259.