Example of pride and ar|rogancie.Here is the end and fall of pride and arrogancie of men exalted by fortune to dignitie: for in his time he was the hautiest man in all his procéedings a|liue, hauing more respect to the honor of his person, than he had to his spirituall profession, wherin should be shewed all meekenes, humilitie, and charitie. Guicc. pag. 1139. [An example (saith Guicciardin, who handleth this storie effectuallie, and sheweth the cause of this cardinals ruine) in our daies woorthie of memorie, touching the power which fortune and enuie hath in the courts of princes.] He died in Leicester abbeie, & in the church of the same abbeie was buried. Such is the suertie of mans brittle state, doubtfull in birth, & no lesse fée|ble in life, which is as vncerteine, as death most cer|teine, and the meanes thereof manifold, which as in number they excéed so in strangenesse they passe: all degrees of ages & diuersities of sexes being subiect to the same. In consideration whereof, it was nota|blie said by one that wrote a whole volume of infir|mities, diseases, and passions incident to children:

A primo vitae diuersos stamine morbos

Perpetimur, diris affi [...]imúrque malis:Sebast. Aust [...]|rius.

Donec in occasum redeat qui vixit ab ortu,

Antea quàm discat viuere, vita cadit.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This cardinall (as Edmund Campian in his histo|rie of Ireland describeth him) was a man vndoub|tedly borne to honor:The descrip|tion of cardi|nall Wolseie, set downe by Edmund Campian. I thinke (saith he) some princes bastard, no butchers sonne, excéeding wise, faire spo|ken, high minded, full of reuenge, vitious of his bo|die, loftie to his enimies, were they neuer so big, to those that accepted and sought his fréendship woon|derfull courteous, a ripe schooleman, thrall to affec|tions, brought a bed with flatterie, insatiable to get, and more princelie in bestowing, as appeareth by his two colleges at Ipswich and Oxenford, the one o|uerthrowne with his fall, the other vnfinished, and yet as it lieth for an house of students, considering all the appurtenances incomparable thorough Chri|stendome, whereof Henrie the eight is now called founder, bicause he let it stand. He held and inioied at once the bishopriks of Yorke, Duresme, & Win|chester, the dignities of lord cardinall, legat, & chan|cellor, the abbeie of saint Albons, diuerse priories, sundrie fat benefices In commendam, a great preferrer of his seruants, an aduancer of learning, stout in euerie quarell, neuer happie till this his ouerthrow. Wherein he shewed such moderation, and ended so perfectlie, that the houre of his death did him more honor, than all the pompe of his life passed. Thus far Campian. Here it is necessarie to adde that notable discourse, which I find in Iohn Stow, concerning the state of the cardinall, both in the yeares of his youth, and in his settled age: with his sudden comming vp from preferment to preferment; till he was aduan|ced to that step of honor, which making him insolent, brought him to confusion.

¶This Thomas Wolseie was a poore mans sonne of Ipswich, in the countie of Suffolke, & there borne

Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 904, 905, &c.

The ascen|ding of Tho|mas Wolseie. Bachellor of art at fiftéene yeares old.