Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons Chiefly of the Present And Two Preceding Cen
Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons Chiefly of the Present And Two Preceding Cen
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" The Archbifhop was anxious that the Curates' ftipends mould be raifed. His Biographer fays of him, " In letting leafes of his impropriations, if he " found his Curates' wages fmall, he would " abate much of his fine to increafe their pen- " fions, fome ten pounds by the year, as Maid- ** ftone, &c. " " Queen Elizabeth, " continues the Arch- bifhop's Biographer, " told his Grace, that me ARCHBISHOP WH1TGIFT. 193 " fhe would have the difcipline of the Church " of England of all men duly to be o...bferved " without alteration of the lead ceremony; " conceiving that thefe Novelifls might have " wrought the fame mifchief in her kingdom " which the turbulent Orators of Sparta did in " that Commonwealth, fo wifely fettled by Ly- " curgus's Laws, which, whilft they took upon " themfelves to amend, they miferably defaced " and deformed ; the inconvenience of which " kind of reafoning the Queen had taken out of " the Greek Poet Aratus, who, when one afked " him how he might have Homer's Poems free " from faults and corruptions, replied, Get an " old copy not reformed j for curious wits, " labouring to amend things well done, com- " monly either quite mar them, or at leail make " them worfe.
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" The Archbifhop was anxious that the Curates' ftipends mould be raifed. His Biographer fays of him, " In letting leafes of his impropriations, if he " found his Curates' wages fmall, he would " abate much of his fine to increafe their pen- " fions, fome ten pounds by the year, as Maid- ** ftone, &c. " " Queen Elizabeth, " continues the Arch- bifhop's Biographer, " told his Grace, that me ARCHBISHOP WH1TGIFT. 193 " fhe would have the difcipline of the Church " of England of all men duly to be o...bferved " without alteration of the lead ceremony; " conceiving that thefe Novelifls might have " wrought the fame mifchief in her kingdom " which the turbulent Orators of Sparta did in " that Commonwealth, fo wifely fettled by Ly- " curgus's Laws, which, whilft they took upon " themfelves to amend, they miferably defaced " and deformed ; the inconvenience of which " kind of reafoning the Queen had taken out of " the Greek Poet Aratus, who, when one afked " him how he might have Homer's Poems free " from faults and corruptions, replied, Get an " old copy not reformed j for curious wits, " labouring to amend things well done, com- " monly either quite mar them, or at leail make " them worfe.
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