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enemies, was (as Sir Walter Rawleigh takes into his observation) words of disdain; for the Queen, by sharp and reprehensive letters, had nettled him; and shortly after sending others of approbation, commending his service, and intimating an invasion from Spain, which he no sooner perused, but he said publicly in the great chamber at Dublin : "Lo, now she is ready to piss herself for fear of the Spaniard; I am again one of her white boys." Words which are subject to a various construction, and tended to some disreputation of his sovereign, and such as may serve for instruction to persons in place of honour and command, to beware of the violences of nature, but especially of the exorbitances of the tongue. And so I conclude him with this double observation, the one of the innocency of his intentions, exempt and clear from the guilt of treason and disloyalty; the other of the greatness of his heart; for at his arraignment, he was so little dejected, by what might be

alleged and proved against him, that he rather grew troubled with choler, and in a kind of exasperation despised his jury, though of the order of knighthood, and of the special gentry, claiming the privilege of trial by the peers and baronage of the realm, so prevalent was that of his native genius, and the haughtiness of his spirit, which accompanied him to his last, and till, without any diminution of courage, it brake in pieces the cords of his magnanimity; for he died suddenly in the Tower, and when, it was thought, the Queen did intend his enlargement, with the restitution of his possessions, which were then very great, and comparable to most of the nobility.

HATTON.

Sir Christopher Hatton came into the court as his opposite; Sir John Perrot was wont to say, by the Galliard; for he came thither as a private gentleman of the Inns of Court in a mask; and for his activity and person, which was tall and proportionable, taken into her favour. He was first made vice-chamberlain, and shortly afterward advanced to the place of lord-chancellor ;* a gentleman that, besides the graces of his

* In 1587, on the death of Sir Thomas Bromley. He was more a courtier than a lawyer; but spared no pains to supply his own personal deficiences, by consulting the ablest men of the profession. His death was hastened by a harsh and unexpected demand of the Queen, that he should refund a large sum received by him of firstfruits and tenths. It is remarkable, that Hatton died a short time before his adversary Sir John Perrot; yet had laid the plan of his ruin so surely, that he soon followed him to the grave.

person and dancing, had also the adjectaments of a strong and subtle capacity, one that could soon learn the discipline and garb, both of the times and court. The truth is, he had a large proportion of gifts and endowments, but too much of the season of envy; and he was a mere vegetable of the court, that sprung up at night, and sunk again at his noon.

LORD EFFINGHAM.

My Lord of Effingham, though a courtier betimes, yet I find not that the sunshine of her favour broke out upon him, until she took him into the ship, and made him high admiral of England: for his extract it may suffice, that he was the son of a Howard, and of a Duke of Norfolk. *

And for his person, as goodly a gentleman as the times had any, if nature had not been more intentive to complete his

*He was the son of Lord William Howard, ninth son of Thomas, second Duke of Norfolk, created, in 1553, Lord Howard of Effingham. Charles, the second Lord Effingham, of whom Naunton here treats, was made knight of the garter in 1574, but did not attain the post of high admiral until 1584. He had the honour to command the English fleet during the ever memorable year of the Spanish Armada.

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