(which I will not name for the honour I bear them)
so without measure misordered, that I think myself in
hell, till time come that I must go to Mr Aylmer, who
teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair
allurements to learning, that I think all the time
nothing while I am with him; and when I am called
from him, I fall on weeping; because, whatever I do
else but learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and
wholly mislíking unto me. And thus my book hath
been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me
more pleasure and more, and that in respect of it all
other pleasures, in very deed, be but trifles and troubles
unto me." Ascham was deeply affected by this speech
and interview.
In 1553, she was married to Lord Guilford Dudley; and, shortly afterwards, reluctantly accepted the diadem, which the intrigues of her father and her father-in-law had induced. But ascending the throne was only a step on her way to the scaffold. Nine days only did she wear the crown. The nation acknowledged the right of Mary, eldest daughter of Henry VIII.; and the Lady Jane and her husband were sent to the Tower. They had committed a crime against the State, in accepting the sovereignty which by birth belonged to Mary; but as she had suffered no loss, and the offenders were so young and had been persuaded by others, it was hoped their lives
