"And I do now give you ten groats, to "bear your charges to Exeter; and here ❝ is ten groats more, which I charge you "to deliver to your mother, and tell her "I send her a Bishop's benediction with "it, and beg the continuance of her "prayers for me. And if you bring my "horse back to me, I will give you ten "groats more, to carry you on foot to the "college and fo God bless you, good "Richard."

And this, you may believe, was performed by both parties. But, alas! the next news that followed Mr. Hooker to Oxford was, that his learned and charitable patron had changed this for a better life. Which happy change may be believed, for that as he lived, fo he died, in devout meditation and prayer; and in both fo zealously, that it became a religious queftion, "Whether his laft eja"culations, or his foul, did first enter into "heaven?"

And now Mr. Hooker became a man of forrow and fear of forrow, for the lofs of fo dear and comfortable a patron;

and of fear, for his future fubfiftence. But Dr. Cole raised his fpirits from this dejection, by bidding him go cheerfully to his ftudies, and affuring him, he should neither want food nor raiment, (which was the utmost of his hopes,) for he would become his patron."

And fo he was for about. nine months, and not longer; for about that time this following accident did befall Mr. Hooker.

Edwin Sandys (fometime Bishop of London, and after Archbishop of York) had also been in the days of Queen Mary forced, by forfaking this, to feek safety in another nation; where, for fome years, Bishop Jewel and he were companions at bed and board in Germany; and where, in this their exile, they did often eat the bread of forrow, and by that means they there began fuch a friendship, as lafted till the death of Bishop Jewel, which was in September 1571. A little before which time the two Bishops meeting, Jewel had an occafion to begin a story of his Richard Hooker, and in it gave fuch a character of his learning and manners,

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that though Bishop Sandys was educated in Cambridge, where he had obliged and had many friends; yet his resolution was, that his fon Edwin fhould be fent to Corpus Chrifti College in Oxford, and by all means be pupil to Mr. Hooker, though his fon Edwin was not much younger than Mr. Hooker then was: for the Bishop faid, "I will have a tutor for "my fon, that fhall teach him learning "by inftruction, and virtue by example; "and my greatest care shall be of the last; "and (God willing) this Richard Hooker "fhall be the man into whofe hands I will "commit my Edwin." And the Bishop did fo about twelve months, or not much longer, after this refolution.

And doubtlefs, as to these two, a better choice could not be made; for Mr. Hooker was now in the nineteenth year of his age; had spent five in the Univerfity; and had, by a conftant unwearied diligence, attained unto a perfection in all the learned languages; by the help of which, an excellent tutor, and his unintermitted ftudies, he had made the fubR 4

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tilty of all the arts eafy and familiar to him, and useful for the discovery of fuch learning as lay hid from common searchers. So that by these, added to his great reason, and his restless industry added to both, be did not only know more of causes and effects; but what he knew he knew better than other men. And with this knowledge he had a moft bleffed and clear method of demonstrating what he knew, to the great advantage of all his pupils, (which in time were many,) but especially to his two firft, his dear Edwin Sandys, and his as dear George Cranmer; of which there will be a fair teftimony in the enfuing relation.

This for Mr. Hooker's learning. And for his behaviour, amongst other teftimonies, this ftill remains of him, that in four years he was but twice abfent from the chapel prayers; and that his behaviour there was fuch as fhewed an awful reverence of that God which he then worshipped and prayed to; giving all outward teftimonies that his affections were fet on heavenly things. This was his behaviour towards

towards God; and for that to man, it is obfervable, that he was never known to be angry, or paffionate, or extreme in any of his defires; never heard to repine or dispute with Providence, but, by a quiet gentle fubmiffion and refignation of his will to the wifdom of his Creator, bore the burthen of the day with patience; never heard to utter an uncomely word: and by this, and a grave behaviour, which is a divine charm, he begot an early reverence unto his person, even from those that at other times, and in other companies, took a liberty to caft off that strictnefs of behaviour and difcourfe that is required in a collegiate life. And when he took any liberty to be pleasant, his wit was never blemished with scoffing, or the utterance of any conceit that bordered upon or might beget a thought of loofenefs in his hearers. Thus mild, thus innocent and exemplary was his behaviour in his college; and thus this good man continued till his death; ftill increasing in learning, in patience, and piety.

In this nineteenth year of his age he

was,