'Aquello qual vienne de arriba ninguno lo pregunta.' 'That which cometh from above let no one question.'
"This is the man of whom Queen Elizabeth made this enigmatical distich—
'The word of denial, and letter of fifty,
Is that gentleman's name that will never be thrifty.'
He, being challenged (as I have heard) by an Italian gentleman at the baloune (a kind of play with a great ball tossed with wooden braces upon the arm), used therein such violent motion, and did so overheat his blood, that he fell into a calenture, or burning fever, and thereof died, Feb. 26, 1596, and was by her majesty's appointment buried in the abbey church of Westminster, in the chapel of St Andrew."—Benton in Nichols's "Leicestershire," vol. iii. p. 249.
Henry Noel was the second son of Sir Edward Noel, of Dalby, by his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of William Hopton, of ——, Shropshire, relict of Sir John Peryent, Knt.—Ibid. 254.—Gilchrist.
[62] In the former edition, the word denay'd was altered to the more modern one of deny'd. Denay'd, however, was the ancient manner of spelling it. So in the "Second Part of Henry VI.," act i. sc. 3—
"Then let him be denay'd the regentship."
Again, in the "First Part of Jeronimo," 1605—
"And let not wonted fealty be denayed."
And in "Gammer Gurton's Needle"—