ui Deus in coelo & in
terra, qui pacta custodis & misericordiam cum seruis tuis,
qui ambulant coram te in toto corde suo.=]

[Illustration: A prayer for charitie, or loue towards our
neighbours.

=Lord, inlighten and instruct our mindes, that we may esteeme
euerie thing as it is worth, & yet not make the lesse
reckoning of thee, sith nothing can be made better then
thou. And secondly let us make account of man, then whome,
there is nothing more excellent among the things of this
world. Make vs to loue him next thee, either as likest our
selues, or as thy childe, and therefore our brother, or as
one ordayned to bee a member of one selfe same countrie with
vs.=

=And cause vs also euen heere, to resemble the heauenly
kingdome through mutual loue, where all hatred is quite
banished, and all is full of loue, and consequently full of
joy and gladnes.= Amen.

=Giue a sweete smell as incense, &c.=

=Eccles. 39.=

=Matthew xxvi. 26-29.=]]

LOREN. You are full of book anecdote of Elizabeth: but do you forget
her schoolmaster, ROGER ASCHAM?

LYSAND. The master ought certainly to have been mentioned before his
pupil. Old Roger is one of my most favourite authors; and I wish
English scholars in general not only to read his works frequently,
but to imitate the terseness and perspicuity of his style. There is a
great deal of information in his treatises, respecting the manners and
customs of his times; and as Dr. Johnson has well remarked, "his
philological learning would have gained him honour in any
country."[329] That he was an ardent bibliomaniac, his letters when
upon the continent, are a sufficient demonstration.

[Footnote 329: ROGER ASCHAM is now, I should hope, pretty
firmly established among us as one of the very best
classical writers in our language. Nearly three centuries
are surely sufficient to consecrate his literary celebrity.
He is an author of a peculiar and truly original cast. There
is hardly a dull page or a dull passage in his lucubrations.
He may be thought, however, to have dealt rather harshly
with our old romance writers; nor do I imagine that the
original edition of his _Schoolmaster_ (1571), would be
placed by a _Morte d'Arthur_ collector alongside of his thin
black-letter quarto romances. Ascham's invectives against
the Italian scho