Compare 1577 edition: 1 At the breaking vp of the diuinitie act, being on wednesdaie the ninth of August (on the which daie she rode thorough the towne, and viewed the colle|ges, those goodlie and ancient monuments of kings of England hir noble predecessors) she made within saint Maries church a notable oration in Latine, in the presence of the whole learned vniuersitie, to the students great comfort. A. F. ¶A copie whereof I haue set downe, as I receiued it in writing at the hands of one that then was present, and noted the same as hir maiestie vttered it. Whose words vnto me in a letter, wherewith the same oration was sent, I doo here set downe Bona fide. Tho. Newto [...] This hir maiesties extem|porall oration (saith he) lieng among my papers these twentie yeares and more, I thought good now to send to you, that if anie occasion be fitlie offered in the discourse of hir highnesse reigne, you maie (if you please) insert it. In truth, I my selfe neuer else|where read it, which hath made me euen religiouslie to preserue it. Master Abraham Hartwell in his Re|gina literata, dwelling vpon this onelie argument of hir comming and dooings at Cambridge, glanceth in a dis [...]ich or twaine at the effect hereof. But this is the thing it selfe, as I my selfe (as most vnworthie) being both an eare and also an eie witnesse, can te|stifie.
23.1. Serenissimae reginae Elisabethae oratio, publicè Cantabrigiae habita, coram vniuerso academiae coetu, anno 1564: & regni sui sexto.
Serenissimae reginae Elisabethae oratio, publicè Cantabrigiae habita, coram vniuerso academiae coetu, anno 1564: & regni sui sexto.
_ETsi foeminilis iste meus pudor (sub|diti fidelissimi & academia charissi|ma) in tanta doctorum turba illabora|tum hunc sermonem et orationem me narrare apud vos impediat: tamen no|bilium meorũ intercessus & erga academiam bene|uolẽtia me aliquid proferre inuitat. Duobus ad hanc rem stimulis moueor.Duo stimuli qui|bus mouebatur regia maiestat Primus est, bonarum litera|rum propagatio: alter est, vestra omnium expecta|tio. EEBO page image 1207 Quod ad propagationem spectat, [...] in Academi| [...]orum coe [...]u non| [...]ihil eloqueretur. vnum illud apud Demosthenem memini: Superiorum verba apud inferiores librorum locum habent, & princi|pum dicta legum authoritatem apud subditos reti|nent. Hoc igitur vos omnes in memoria tenere ve|lim: quòd semit a nulla praestantior est, siue ad bona fortunae acquirenda, siue ad principum gratiam conciliandam, quàm vt gnauiter (vt coepistis) studijs vestris exhibeatis operam: quod vt facia|tis, vos omnes oro obsecróque. De secundo stimulo, vestra nimirùm expectatione, hoc vnum dico, me nihil lubenter praetermissuram esse, quod vestrae de me animae beneuolae concipiunt cogitationes.
Iam ad academiam venio. Tempore antemeri|diano vidi ego aedificia vestra sumptuosa, à meis maioribus,Regia maiestas pollicetur se ali|quod monumen|tum in academia relicturam. clarissimis principibus literarum causa extructa. Et inter videndum, dolor artus meos occupauit, atque ea mentis suspiria, quae Alexan|drum quondam tenuisse feruntur. Qui cum legis|set multa à principibus posita monumenta, conuer|sus ad familiarem seu potiùs ad consiliarium, mul|tùm doluit se nìhil tale fecisse. Haec tamen vulgaris sententia me aliquantùm recreauit, quae etsi non auferre, tamen minuere potest dolorem. Quae qui|dem sententia haec est: Romam non vno aedifica|tam fuisse die: tamen non est ita senilis mea aetas, nec tam diu fuit, ex quo regnare coepi, quin ante redditionem debiti naturae (si non nimis citò A|tropos lineam vitae meae amputauerit) aliquod opus faciam: & quandiu vita hos regit artus, nunquam à proposito deflectam.
Et si contingat (quàm citò futurum sit, nescio) me mori oportere, priusquam hoc ipsum quod pol|liceor complere possim:Si non ante sal|tem post mortem profitetur se pre|stituram quod pollicetur. aliquod tamen egregium opus post mortem relinquam, quo & memoria mea in posterum celebris fiat, & alios excitem exemplo meo, & vos omnes alacriores faciam ad studia ve|stra. Sed iam videtis quantum intersit inter do|ctrinam lectam, & disciplinam animo non reten|tam. Quorum alterius sunt complures satis suffici|entes testes: alterius autem vos omnes nimis qui|dem inconsyderatè testes hoc tempore effeci, quae meo barbaro orationis genere tam diu doctas ve|stras aures detinuerim. Dixi.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The next daie, she went forward on hir progresse to Finchinbrooke by Huntington.Duterier and Belman for the daie. The thirtith daie of August was enacted by a common councell of the citie of London, that all such citizens as from thence foorth should be constreined to sell their houshold stuffe, leases of houses, or such like, should first cause the same to be cried through the citie by a man wi [...]h a bell, and then to be sold by the common outcrier appointed for that purpose, and he to reteine one far|thing vpon the shilling for his paines. The twentith of September arose great flouds in the riuer of Thames,Great flouds in ye Thames. where through the marshes néere adioining were ouerflowed, and manie cattell drowned.