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if we are to believe Windebank's account of how he spent his day.

" In the morning, from viii. to ix. of the clock," he writes (November 12), " he hath one that readeth Munster l with him : that done, he hath his hour to learn to dance, and in these ii things is the whole of the forenoon consumed. After dinner at one of the clock he goeth to a lesson of the Institutes, whereof he wrote his determina- tion himself unto you persuaded thereunto by my Lord Ambassador. Towards iii of the clock, he hath one that teacheth him to play on the lute ; wherein (and an hour's reading the history of Josephus de bello Judaico), he bestoweth the whole afternoon. After supper, he lacketh no company to talk with, for learning the tongue that way ; and 'besides, either recordeth on the lute or taketh some book in hand. This is presently the order of dividing his time, which I thought my duty to let you understand."

However, this improvement did not last long. Sir William continued to receive bad accounts from Paris, and became more and more angry with his son, and at the same time anxious lest his own good name should suffer. In one of his letters he writes : "Sir Henry Paget returned home with great commendations and fraughted with qualities ; but I see hi the end my son shall come home like a spending sot, meet to keep a tennis court." In another, to his son, he sounds a deeper note. " Children," he writes, " ought to be as gifts of God, comfort to their parents ; but you, on the contrary, have made me careless of all children you see how your former misbehaviour hath filled me full of all discontentation ; and how

1 Minister's Cosmography.

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