ad done she commended him, and much marvelled that his memory
did so well serve him, repeating such diverse and sundry matters; saying
that she would answer him again in Latin, but for fear she should speak
false Latin, and then they would laugh at her."

This concluded, she entered the chapel in great state; lady Strange, a
princess of the Suffolk line, bearing her train, and her ladies
following in their degrees. _Te Deum_ was sung and the evening service
performed, with all the pomp that protestant worship admits, in that
magnificent temple, of which she highly extolled the beauty. The next
morning, which was Sunday, she went thither again to hear a Latin sermon
_ad clerum_, and in the evening, the body of this solemn edifice being
converted into a temporary theatre, she was there gratified with a
representation of the Aulularia of Plautus. Offensive as such an
application of a sacred building would be to modern feelings, it
probably shocked no one in an age when the practice of performing
dramatic entertainments in churches, introduced with the mysteries and
moralities of the middle ages, was scarcely obsolete, and certainly not
forgotten. Neither was the representation of plays on Sundays at this
time regarded as an indecorum.

A public disputation in the morning and a Latin play on the story of
Dido in the evening formed the entertainment of her majesty on the third
day. On the fourth, an English play called Ezechias was performed before
her. The next morning she visited the different colleges,--at each of
which a Latin oration awaited her and a parting present of gloves and
confectionary, besides a volume richly bound, containing the verses in
English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Chaldee, composed by the members of
each learned society in honor of her visit.

Afterwards she repaired to St. Mary's church, where a very long and very
learned disputation by doctors in divinity was prepared for her
amusement and edification. When it was ended, "the lords, and especially
the duke of Norfolk and lord Robert Dudley, kneeling down, humbly
desired her majesty to speak something to the university, and in Latin.
Her highness at the first refused, saying, that if she might speak her
mind in English, she would not stick at the matter. But understanding by
Mr. Secretary that nothing might be said openly to the university in
English, she required him the rather to speak; because he was
chancellor, and the chancellor is the queen