New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-09-26

Her parents, the Duke and Duchess, with
all the household, gentlemen and geutlewomeu,
| were hunting in the park. | found her in her
| chamber reading Pha Ion Piatonis' in Greek,
| and that with as much deli ht as some gentle
| men would read merry tale in Boccace. Afer
sautaion and duty done, with some other talk.
a>ked her why she would such pastime in the
park Smiling, she answered me. wisae all
their sport in the park is but shadow to that
pleasure that find in Plato. Alas. good folk.
they never felt what true pleasure meant Aud
how came you, madam. quCth |, to this daep
! knowledge of pleasure? aud what did chiefly al
| lure you INTO 1t, seeing not many women, but
very few men, have attained thereto? | will
tell you, saith she, and tell We n truth which
perchance We marvel at. One of the greatest
benefits that ever God gave me is. that he sent
me so sharp and severe parents and so gentle a
schoolmaSter. For when | am in the presence
either of father or mother, whether / speak,
keep silence, sit, stand, or 90 eat, dtink, be
merry, or sad; be sewing, dancing. or doing
nything else, | must do it, as it were, in such
weight, measure and number. gwen SD perfectly
AS God made the world; or lse | am so sharply
1aunted, SO cruelty threateaed, yea. presently
sometimes with plnches, nips, and hobs and
otherways (which | will not name FOR the honor
bear theml without measure misorderpd. till
the time come that | must go to Mr. Elmer
who teaches me so gently, so pleasantly, with
:. l
all the time nothing while am with him and
when am called from him, fall on weeping,
because whatever do else is full of grief tron-
bic, fear, and whole msliking unto me. And
thus my book hath been so much my pleasure
and bringeth daily TO me more pleasure and
more, that Ia respect of it, all other pleasures
IN very deed be but trlaes and very troubles un.
to me-" 81 remember" adds Ascham, ''this
talk very gladly, both because it is so worthy of
memory, and because also it was the last talk
that ever had, and the last time that cver
saw that noble and worthy lady"
Poor Lady Jane her mavelous accomplish
menis and her many amiabe qualities were in
some measure the cause of her melancholy end.
They endeared her to her cousin, the Youthful
king Edward VI, himself prodigy of learn
ing, who was thus the more easily seduced by
the crafty Northumberland to settle the rever-
SION OF the crown upon her, to the exclusion of
his sisters. The story of her marriage to Lord
Guiiiord Dudley, Northumberland fourth son.
is too well known. "and now, alas'' saws
Ballard, - she must soon bid aiieu to the sweet
delights of study and improvement ofthe mind
for by the infinite ambition of her father in,
law, and the stupendous folly of her own father,
she was violently pushed upon aprecipice which
proved fatal to her. Soon after her marriage
the hing declined apace, and died on the 9Th
day OF July following, not without suspicion
OF poisoning" We will not dwell upon her
Diiel udy vi MOCK sovereignty. LII may not be
generally known that the head of her I'M
happy father, Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk. is
now preserved in tin case in the Church of the
Holy Trinity, Minories. The night before exc.
cution she read Greek Testament, and penned
on the fly leaves an admirable Latin letter to
her sister, Lady Katherine. Bishop Burnett saws
she wrote this in Greek. Ballard gives touch
ing account of her death, and cites Fuller
g. Holy State" p. 3ll) to the following effect:
She had the innocency of childhood, the
beauty of youth, the soidity of middle, the
gravity of old age, and all at eighteen The
birth of princess, the learning Of clerk, the
life of a saint. yet the death of a maefactor for
her parents Ofenses." Attic scaffold she gave
to Sir Henry Cage, Constable of the Tower
(who desired her to bestow some small gift upon
him as memorial of her, her table book. in
which she had written three sentences relating
to her husband in Greek, Latin, and English
The Greek to this effect: Thatif his executed
body should give testimony against her before
men, his blessed soul should give an eternal
proof of her innocence in the presence of God"
The Latin added, "That human Justice was
against his body, but the Divine mercy should
be for his soul" The conclusion was in Eng
lish: That if her fault deserved punishment,
her youth at least, and her imprudence were
worthy of excuse; and that God and posteriiy
would show her favor Is there heart that
does not say amen to this?