[170] Hoc est Christum cognoscere, beneficia ejus cognoscere. Ibid.
[171] Heu! infelicem hoc novo partu Germaniam! Cochlœus.
[172] Jactant libellum regis Angliæ; sed leum illum suspicor sub pelle tectum:—an allusion to Lee, the king's chaplain, and a pun on the word leo, a lion. L. Epp. ii. 213.
[173] Collier, Eccl. Hist. of Great Britain, fol. ii. 1.
[174] Domi suæ voluptatum omnium sacrarium fecit, quo regem frequenter ducebat. Polyd. Virgilius, Angl. Hist., Basle, 1570, fol. p. 633. Polydore appears to have suffered from Wolsey's pride, and rather inclined to exaggerate the minister's faults.
[175] Cum illis adolescentibus una psallebat, saltabat, sermones leporis plenos habebat, ridebat, jocabatur, &c. Polyd. Virgilius, Angl. Hist. Basle, 1570, fol. p. 633.
[176] Eximia corporis forma præditus, in qua etiam regiæ majestatis augusta quædam species elucebat. Sanderus de Schismate Anglicano, p. 4. This work of Sanders, papal nuncio in Ireland, should be read very cautiously; for it abounds in false and calumnious assertions, as has been remarked by Cardinal Quirini and the Roman-catholic Doctor Lingard. See the History of England by the latter, vol. vi. 173.
[177] Surgebat media nocte ut nocturnis religiosorum precibus interesset. Ibid. 5.
[178] Sub regio vestitu Divi Francisci habitu utebatur. Sanders, p. 5.
[179] Legebat studiose libros divi Thomæ Aquinatis. Pol. Virg. p. 634.