love and goes about the world as a phantom of itself,
without hope or joy or any consolation. These flowers
were not so much the token of life that survived an un-
timely death, as of something, yet more beautiful, of
love that lives a man's life out to an end with him,
and does not desert him as he grows old but is companion-
able and helpful to his last frail years even as it was
to his green youth: stout love that has withstood all
shocks and sorrows.

"That monster in nature and disorder among men". Goodman
Aylmer "knows the contrary opinion to be in few or
none".

Aylmer published in 1559

My strength says Aylmer is perfected in your
weakness

Wherein if I follow not the order that he keepeth, leaf
by leaf and reason by reason, (which I avoid, because
he followeth no method) yet I trust so to hit the pith
of it

Aylmer wishes "that the doer would, for the quieting of
weak minds, acknowledge his error".

He does examine what it is to be meant by nature
Woman's disability to rule is not, as he most truly
says, like the disability of the stone to go upward

"The same shape, the same learning, and sometimes
more gifts in them".

thinking "because it is not so convenient, so pro-
fitable, or mete, therefore it is unnatural".

"But hereby I mean not either to prefer or to match
this sex's government with the man's; for I count it
indeed the more convenient, only my meaning is to show
that it is not so heinous and intolerable as this man
maketh it".

"This I say not to fillip you, as though you meant
evil words, for I am persuaded that you leave England
as well as your own country.

And because the bringing up of women is commonly such,
as they cannot have these things, for they be not brought
up in learning in schools, nor trained in disputations;
an if they were, yet because nature hath made them softer and
milder than men; not fit for preaching this is
"are there not in England women think you, that for their
learning and wisdom, could tell their household and (and)
neighbours as good a tale as the best Sir John there?

She may mispend the revenues of the crown wantonly; so
can Kings do too, and commonly do.

All his argument about the special suitableness of
England tells against. "If any were to be chosen by lot
or suffrage, I would not indeed, that any woman should
stand in the election, but men only". "Speak of God" I
that could make Daniel, a sucking babe, to judge better
than the wisest of the lawyers; a brute beast to repre-
hend the folly of a prophet; and prove fishers to confound
the great clarkes of the world cannot I make a woman
to be a good ruler over you.

Again and again, "the remembrance of her virtues
carries him away;

"Thy knee shall bow, thy cap shall off, thy tongue
shall speak reverently of thy sovereign".

The Italian said that she had "a marvellous
stomach".

Vis consilii enfers male sua.

Come off you Bishops, away with your superfluities, yield up
your thousands, be content with hundreds, as they be in
other reformed churches where be as great learned men as
you.