That faith which is the trust of other hearts.
Your Bible is your idol: all must bow
Before your exposition of its sense,
Or forfeit all—the very throne!”
Had our author been a Catholic, he could not have stated the case better.
Jane Grey pleads guilty so nobly, and prays so generously that her own life may be taken and her husband’s spared, that Fakenham truly says of her:
“She rises from the sea of her great trouble
Like a pure infant glowing from the bath.”
Here are some of her words:
“I wake from the vain dream of a blind sleep: