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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.

Ex I. S. pa. 1123 Creation of a baron name|lie sir Robert Dudleie barõ of Denbigh.¶The creation of sir Robert Sutton aliàs Dud|leie knight of the garter, and master of the horsse, to the queenes maiestie, who was created baron of Denbigh, and after earle of Leicester on Michael|masse daie at saint Iames, with the gift of the ma|nour of Killingworth, and other things there to him and his heires, to the yéerlie value of foure and twen|tie pounds & better. First, the said lord attended on the queenes highnesse, to the chappell, and from the chappell to seruice, and when he was returned to the chamber of presence, the said lord with other depar|ted to the lord chamberleins chamber, and shifted them: the said lord Robert in his surcot with the hood, his mantle borne before him by the lord Huns [...]on, and led by the lord Clinton lord admerall by the right hand, and the lord Strange on the left hand,The statelie attendance a [...] this creation. in their parlement robes, Garter bearing the patent, & before him the officers of armes, and so procéeded in|to the chamber of presence, where the quéenes high|nesse sat vnder the cloth of estate with the noblemen on ech side of hir, the ambassador of France was also present with another stranger an Italian.

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