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fing him, and all who should please him, hopes of being rewarded. Every art of praise was tried, and every fource of adulatory fiction was exhaufted. Ortogrul heard his flatterers without delight, because he found himself unable to believe them. His own heart told him its frailties; his own understanding reproached him with his faults. "How long," faid he, with a deep figh, " have I been labouring in vain to amass wealth, which at last is useless! Let no man hereafter with to be rich, who is already too wife to be flattered!".

DR. JOHNSON,

SECTION V.

LADY JANE GREY.

THIS excellent personage was descended from the Royal Line of England by both her parents.

She was carefully educated in the principles of the Reformation; and her wisdom and virtue rendered her a shining example to her fex. But it was her lot to continue only a short period on this stage of being; for, in early life, she fell a facrifice to the wild ambition of the Duke of Northumberland; who promoted a marriage between her and his fon, Lord Guilford Dudley; and raised her to the throne of England, in oppofition to the rights of Mary and Elizabeth. At the time of their marriage, she was only about eighteen years of age, and her husband was also very young: a season of life very unequal to oppose the interested views of artfal and afpiring men; who, instead of expofing them to danger, should have been the protectors of their innocence and youth.

This extraordinary young person, befides the solid endowments of piety and virtue, possessed the most engaging difpofition, the most accomplished parts; and being of an equal age with King Edward VI., she had received all her education with him, and seemed even to possess a greater facility in acquiring every part of manly and classical literature. She had attained a knowledge of the Roman and Greek languages, as well as of several modern tongues; had passed most of her time in an application to learning; and expressed a great indifference for other occupations and amufements usual with her fex and station. Roger Afcham, tutor to the Lady Elizabeth, having at one time paid her a visit, found her employed in reading Plato, while the rest of the family were engaged in a party of hunting in the park; and upon his admiring the fingularity of her choice, she told him, that the "received more pleasure from that author, than the others could reap from all their sport and gaiety." -Her heart, replete with this love of literature and ferious studies, and with tenderness towards her husband, who was deferving of her affection, had never opened itself to the flattering allurements of ambition; and the information of her advancement to the throne was by no means agreeable to her. She even refused to accept of the crown; pleaded the preferable right of the two princesses; expressed her dread of the confequences attending an enterprise so dangerous, not to say fo criminal; and defired to remain in that private station in which the was born. Overcome at last with the entreaties, rather than reafons, of her father and father-in-law, and, above all, of her husband, the fubmitted to their will, and was prevailed on to relinquish her own judgment. But this honour was of very short continuance. The nation declared for Queen Mary; and the Lady Jane, after wearing the vain pageantry of a crown during ten days, returned to a private life, with much more fatisfaction than the felt when the royalty was tendered to her.

Queen Mary, who appears to have been incapable of generofity or clemency, determined to remove every person, from whom the least danger could be apprehended. Warning was, therefore, given the Lady Jane to prepare for death; a doom which she had expected, and which the innocence of her life, as well as the misfortunes to which she had been exposed, rendered no unwelcome news to her. The Queen's bigotted zeal, under colour of tender mercy to the prisoner's foul, induced her to fend priests, who molefted her with perpetual difputation; and even a reprieve of three days was granted her, in hopes that she would be perfuaded, during that time, to pay, by a timely converfion to Popery, fome regard to her eternal welfare. The Lady Jane had presence of mind, in those melancholy circumstances, not only to defend her religion by folid arguments, but also to write a letter to her fifter, in the Greek language; in which, befides fending her a copy of the Scriptures in that tongue, she exhorted her to maintain, in every fortune, a like steady perfeverance. On the day of her execution, her husband, Lord Guilford, defired permission to fess her; but she refused her confent, and sent him word, that the tenderness of their parting would overcome the fortitude of both; and would too much unbend their minds from that conftancy, which their approaching end required of them. Their feparation, she said, would be only for a moment; and they would foon rejoin each other in a scene, where their affections would be for ever united; and where death, difappointment, and misfortunes, could no longer have accefs to them, or disturb their eternal felicity.

It had been intended to execute the Lady Jane and Lord Guilford together on the same scaffold, at Tower-hill; but the council, dreading the compafsion of the people for their youth, beauty, innocence, and noble birth, changed their orders, and gave directions that she should be beheaded within the verge of the Tower. She saw her husband led to execution; and having given him from the window fome token of her remembrance, she waited with tranquillity till her own appointed hour should bring her to a like fate. She even faw his headless body carried back in a cart; and found herself more confirmed by the reports, which the heard of the constancy of his end, than shaken by fo tender and melancholy a spectacle. Sir John Gage, conftable of the Tower, when he led her to execution, defired her to bestow on him fome small present, which he might keep as a perpetual memorial of her. She gave him her table-book, in which the had just written three fentences, on feeing her husband's dead body; one in Greek, another in Latin, a third in Englifu. The purport of them was, " that human justice was against his body, but the Divine Mercy would be favourable to his foul: and that if her fault deferved punishment, her youth, at least, and her imprudence, were worthy of excufe; and that God and pofterity, she trusted, would show her favour." On the scaffold, she made a speech to the bye-standers, in which the mildness of her difpofition led her to take the blame

entirely on herself, without uttering one complaint against the feverity with which she had been treated. She faid, that her offence was, not having laid her hand upon the crown, but not rejecting it with fufficient constancy: that she had less erred through ambition than through reverence to her parents, whom fhe had been taught to respect and obey: that she willingly received death, as the only fatisfaction which the could now make to the injured state; and though her infringement of the laws had been constrained, the would show, by her voluntary fubmifsion to their sentence, that she was desirous to atone for that difobedience, into which too much filial piety had betrayed her: that she had justly deserved this punishment for being made the instrument, though the unwilling inftrument, of the ambition of others: and that the story of her life, she hoped, might at least be useful, by proving that innocence excuses not great misdeeds, if they tend any way to the destruction of the commonwealth. After uttering these words, she caused herself to be disrobed by her women, and with a steady, ferene countenance submitted herself to the executioner.

HUME.

SECTION VI.

The Hill of Science.

In that season of the year, when the ferenity of the sky, the various fruits which cover the ground, the difcoloured foliage of the trees, and all the sweet, but fading graces of inspiring autumn, open the mind to

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