. The life of Cardinal Wolsey . e were said to be uponsome parts of her body certain small moles incident tothe clearest complexions. And certainly both these werenone other than might more stain their writings withnote of mahce that have caught at such hght motes inso bright beams of beauty, than in any part shadow it,as may right well appear by many arguments, but chieflyby the choice and exquisite judgments of many bravespirits that were esteemed to honour the honourable partsin her, even honoured of envy itself Amongst these, two were observed to be of principalmark. The one was Sir Thomas
. The life of Cardinal Wolsey . e were said to be uponsome parts of her body certain small moles incident tothe clearest complexions. And certainly both these werenone other than might more stain their writings withnote of mahce that have caught at such hght motes inso bright beams of beauty, than in any part shadow it,as may right well appear by many arguments, but chieflyby the choice and exquisite judgments of many bravespirits that were esteemed to honour the honourable partsin her, even honoured of envy itself Amongst these, two were observed to be of principalmark. The one was Sir Thomas Wiat, the elder2, theother was the king himself. The knight, in the be-ginning, coming to behold the sudden appearance of thisnew beauty, came to be holden and surprised somewhatwith the sight thereof; after much more with her wittyand graceful speech, his ear also had him chained xmtoher, so as finally his heart seemed to say, / could gladly * See the Earl of Surreys character of him, in an Elegy on hisDeath, among his SIR T!H[ KT AXXE BOLKYX. 425 yield to be tied for ever Uiitli the knot of her love, assomewhere in his verses hath been thought his meaningwas to express 3. She, on the other part, finding him tobe then married, and in the knot to have been tied thenten years, rejected all his speech of love; but yet insuch sort as whatsoever tended to regard of her honour,she showed not to scorn, for the general favour and goodwill she perceived all men to bare him, which might therather occasion others to turn their looks to that which aman of his worth was brought to gaze at in her, as,indeed, after it happened. The king is held to havetaken his first apprehension of this love after such timeas upon the doubt in those treaties of marriage with hisdaughter Mary, first with the Spaniard, then with theFrench : by some of the learned of his o\vn land he hadvehemently in their public sermons, and in his confessionsto his ghostly fathers, been prayed to forsak
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