[74] There are many reasons for doubting if these lines were from Shakespeare’s own hand. Emerson (_Representative Men_)--rarely given to Literary criticism, remarks upon “the bad rhythm of the compliment to Queen Elizabeth” as unworthy the great Dramatist: so too, he doubts, though with less reason--the Shakespearean origin of the Wolsey Soliloquy. See also Trans. New Shakespere Society for 1874. Part I. (Spedding _et al._) [75] William Tyndale, b. about 1480; d. (burned at the stake) 1536. G. P. Marsh (_Eng. Language and Early Lit._) says “Tyndale’s translation of the New Testament has exerted a more marked influence upon English philology than any other native work between the ages of Chaucer and of Shakespeare.” [76] Latimer (Hugh) b. 1491; d. (at the stake) 1555. He was educated at Cambridge--came to be Bishop of Worcester--wrote much, wittily and strongly. A collection of his Sermons was published in 1570-71; and there have been many later issues. [77] John Foxe, b. 1517; d. 1587. He was a native of Boston, Lincolnshire; was educated at Oxford; his _History of the Acts and Monuments of the Church_ was first published in England in 1563. There was an earlier edition published at Strasbourg in 1554. [78] Born near Haddington, Scotland, in 1505 (d. 1572); bred a friar; was prisoner in France in 1547; resided long time at Geneva; returned to Scotland in 1559. Life by Laing (1847) and by Brandes (1863); Swinburne’s _Bothwell_, Act iv., gives dramatic rendering of a sermon by John Knox. See also Carlyle’s _Heroes and Hero-worship_, Lecture IV. [79] In the issue of _Sternhold and Hopkins’ Psalmody_ of 1549 one year after Sternhold’s death, there were 37 psalms by Sternhold, and 7 by Hopkins. In subsequent editions more of Hopkins’ work was added. [80] 34 and 35 Henry VIII.: A.D. 1542-43. The full text (_Statutes of the Realm_, Vol. III., pp. 895-7) gives some alleviating provisions in respect to “Noble women and gentle women, who reade to themselves;” and the same Statute makes particular and warning mention of the “Craftye, false and untrue translation of Tyndale.” [81] A coarse comedy written (probably) by John Still, one time Bishop of Bath. Its title on the imprint of 1575 runs thus:--“_A ryght pithy, pleasant and merie Comedy, intytuled Gammer Gurton’s Nedle; played on the Stage not longe ago in Christes Colledge, in Cambridge, made by Mr. S., Master of Art._” [82] Sir Thomas Wyatt (or Wyat), b. 1503; d. 1542. The Earl of Surrey (Henry Howard, and cousin to Catharine Howard, one of the wives of Henry VIII.), b. about 1517, and beheaded 1547. [83] Understood to be based on the relations of a certain _Unfortunate Traveller_ (Jack Wilton) by Nash, 1595. The story was credited by Drayton, Winstanley, the _Athenæ Oxonienses_ of Wood (edition of 1721), by Walpole (_Noble Authors_), and by Warton: The relations spoken of, however, show anachronisms which forbid their acceptance.