compared his Majesty to the rising sun in all his glory.

James was rather fond of visiting Oxford and the royal residence at
Woodstock. We shall see that his Court, the most dissolute, perhaps,
that England ever tolerated, corrupted the manners of the students.
On one of his Majesty's earliest visits he had a chance of displaying
the penetration of which he was so proud. James was always finding
out something or somebody, till it almost seemed as if people had
discovered that the best way to flatter him was to try to deceive
him. In 1604, there was in Oxford a certain Richard Haydock, a
Bachelor of Physic. This Haydock practised his profession during the
day like other mortals, but varied from the kindly race of men by a
pestilent habit of preaching all night. It was Haydock's contention
that he preached unconsciously in his sleep, when he would give out a
text with the greatest gravity, and declare such sacred matters as
were revealed to him in slumber, "his preaching coming by
revelation." Though people went to hear Haydock, they were chiefly
influenced by curiosity. "His auditory were willing to silence him
by pulling, haling, and pinching him, yet would he pertinaciously
persist to the end, and sleep still." The King was introduced into
Haydock's bedroom, heard him declaim, and next day cross-examined him
in private. Awed by the royal acuteness, Haydock confessed that he
was a humbug, and that he had taken to preaching all night by way of
getting a little notoriety, and because he felt himself to be "a
buried man in the University."

That a man should hope to get reputation by preaching all night is
itself a proof that the University, under James, was too
theologically minded. When has it been otherwise? The religious
strife of the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Mary, was not