Verse 8. And she being before instructed, &c.]
Partus se∣quitur* 1.1 ventrem, the birth follows the belly. Here was like mo∣ther like daughter, neither good bird nor good egge as they say. The mother and daughter both had an aking tooth at the Baptist,* 1.2 and sought an opportunity to be meet with him: which now ha∣ving gotten they pursued to the utmost. The damosell came with haste to the King, saith St Mark. chap. 6. 25. when once she had her 〈◊〉〈◊〉, as fearing, belike, she should come too late. Such a∣nother huswife as this, was Dame Alice Pierce concubine to our Edward the third. For when as at a Parliament in the fiftieth year of that Kings reigne, it was petitioned that the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Lancaster, the Lord Latimer Chamberlain, and this 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Alice might be a moved from Court, and the Petition was vehemently urged by their speaker St Peter la Mare; this Knight afterwards,* 1.3 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the suit of that impudent woman (working upon the Kings impotencies) was committed to perpetuall imprison∣ment at Notingham. And another such history we have of one Diana Valentina, Mistris to Henry 2. King of France, whom she had so subdued, that he gave her all the confiscations of goods made in the Kingdome, for cause of 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Where∣upon* 1.4 many were burned in France for Religion, as they said, but indeed to maintain the pride, and satisfie the covetousnes of that lewd woman. This was in the year 1554. And in the year 1559. Anne du Bourge, a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of state, was burnt also for crime of 〈◊〉〈◊〉; not so much by the inclination of the Judges as by the resolution of the Queen provoked against him: because, forsooth,* 1.5 the Lutherans gave out that the King had been slain, as he was running at tilt, by a wound in the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, by the providence of God, for a punnishment of his words used against Du Bourge, that he would see him burnt.