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| 45 | <p align="center"><b><font size="7">Queen Elizabeth<br></font></b>
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| 46 | <font size="4">by Edward Spencer Beesly, 1892</font></p>
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| 48 | <img border="2" src="_httpdocimg_/eliz1-ermine.jpg" width="400" height="478" alt="'The Ermine Portrait' of Elizabeth I, c1585, by Nicholas Hilliard"><p align="center">
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| 49 | <i><font size="2">'The Ermine Portrait' of Elizabeth I, c1585, by Nicholas
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| 50 | Hilliard;<br>from the <a href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.marileecody.com%2feliz1-images.html">Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I</a> website</font></i></td>
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| 65 | <b>CHAPTER XII</b><br>
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| 66 | <b>LAST YEARS AND DEATH: 1601-1603</b></div>
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| 67 | <p align="left">THE death of Mary Stuart did something to simplify parties
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| 68 | in Scotland; and, if her son had possessed the qualities of a ruler, he
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| 69 | would have had a better chance of reducing his kingdom to order than any of
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| 70 | his predecessors, because a middle class was at length rising into
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| 71 | importance. As far as knowledge and discernment went, he was an able
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| 72 | politician, and on several occasions he showed not only skill in his
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| 73 | combinations, but--what he is not generally credited with by those who study
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| 74 | only his career in England -- considerable energy and courage. But he was
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| 75 | wanting in perseverance, and a slave to idle pleasures. He had always some
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| 76 | favourite upon whom he lavished any money that came into his hands. What was
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| 77 | needed in his own interest and that of his country was that he should
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| 78 | exercise rigid economy, develop all the forces that made for order, ally
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| 79 | himself with the burghs and lower barons, cultivate good relations with the
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| 80 | Kirk, industriously attend to all the details of government, and seize every
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| 81 | opportunity to humble the great nobles of whatever party or creed. Instead
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| 82 | of this, he tried to maintain himself by balancing rival parties, and
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| 83 | employing one nobleman to execute his vengeance on another. Instead of
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| 84 | honestly and zealously seconding the policy of Elizabeth, and so deserving
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| 85 | her confidence and support, which would have been of the utmost value to
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| 86 | him, he tried to levy blackmail on her by coquetting with Spain and the
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| 87 | Catholics. </p>
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| 88 | <p align="left">Elizabeth is accused of deliberately encouraging Scottish
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| 89 | factions in order to keep the northern kingdom weak. She certainly supported
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| 90 | Stewart, Earl of Bothwell, a turbulent and unprincipled man, while he was
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| 91 | the antagonist of the Catholic nobles who were inviting the Spaniard. But it
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| 92 | is plain that she desired nothing so much as to see James crush all
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| 93 | aristocratic disorder, and make himself master of his kingdom. Her
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| 94 | exhortations to him on this subject are full of wisdom, and expressed in
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| 95 | most stirring language. But they only produced petitions for money.
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| 96 | Notwithstanding her own difficulties, she long allowed him £3000 a year,
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| 97 | which, in 1600, was increased to £6000. But ten times that amount would have
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| 98 | done him no good, because he would immediately have squandered it. </p>
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| 99 | <p align="left">As Elizabeth grew old, James naturally became absorbed in
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| 100 | the prospect of his succession to the English crown. All Scotchmen shared
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| 101 | his eagerness. In England, feeling was almost unanimous in his favour,
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| 102 | though some of the Catholics continued to talk of the Infanta or Arabella
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| 103 | Stuart the niece of Darnley. By teasing Elizabeth to recognise his title,
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| 104 | intriguing with her courtiers, and calling on his own subjects to furnish
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| 105 | him with the means of asserting his rights, James irritated the English
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| 106 | Queen. But she had always intended that he should succeed her, and she did
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| 107 | nothing to prejudice his claim. </p>
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| 108 | <p align="left">The two leading men at the English court--Cecil and
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| 109 | Raleigh--who had been united in their hostility to Essex, were now secretly
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| 110 | competing for the favour of James. Each warned the Scottish King against the
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| 111 | other, and represented himself as the only trustworthy adviser. Cecil, from
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| 112 | his confidential relations with the Queen, had the most difficult game to
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| 113 | play, and it was not till her health was evidently failing that he ventured
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| 114 | to open private communications with James. Even then he did not dare to
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| 115 | correspond with him directly, but it was understood that everything written
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| 116 | by Lord Henry Howard (brother of the last Duke of Norfolk) was to be taken
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| 117 | as written by Cecil. To make up for his previous backwardness, he lent James
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| 118 | £10,000--a pledge of fidelity which it was out of his rival's power to
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| 119 | emulate. </p>
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| 120 | <p align="left">The long career of Elizabeth was now drawing to its close.
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| 121 | Her sun might seem to be going down in calm splendour. She had triumphed
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| 122 | over all her enemies. She might say with Virgil's heroine-- </p>
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| 123 | <blockquote>
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| 124 | <p align="left">&quot;<i>Vixi, et quem dederat cursum fortuna, peregi;<br>
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| 125 | Et nunc magna mei sub terras ibit imago</i>.&quot; </p>
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| 126 | </blockquote>
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| 127 | <p align="left">The mighty Philip had gone to his grave five years before
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| 128 | her (1598), a beaten man, having failed in Holland, failed in France, failed
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| 129 | against England. Of the three great champions who withstood him, Elizabeth,
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| 130 | if not the most distinguished by high qualities, had yet, perhaps, the
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| 131 | largest share in saving Europe from the retrograde tyranny which menaced it.
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| 132 | The glorious resistance of William of Orange covered only sixteen years
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| 133 | (1568-84). That of Henry IV can hardly be said to have had any European
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| 134 | importance before his accession to the French throne, from which date to the
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| 135 | peace of Vervins and the death of Philip is a period of nine years
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| 136 | (1589-98). But the whole of Elizabeth's long reign was spent in abating the
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| 137 | power of Spain. It was the persistent, never-relaxing pressure from an
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| 138 | unassailable enemy which wore out Philip, as it afterwards wore out
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| 139 | Bonaparte. Elizabeth had found England weak and distracted: she was leaving
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| 140 | it united and powerful. Nor was she of those to whom their due meed of
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| 141 | praise is denied during life, and accorded only by the tardy justice of
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| 142 | posterity. Her wisdom and courage were the admiration not of her own people
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| 143 | alone, but of all Europe. &quot;Her very enemies,&quot; says a French historian,
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| 144 | &quot;proclaimed her the most glorious and fortunate of all women who ever wore a
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| 145 | crown.&quot; From the point of view of public life, little or nothing was
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| 146 | wanting--so Bacon thought--to fill up the full measure of her felicity. </p>
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| 147 | <p align="left">Yet it seems that the last months of her life were clouded
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| 148 | by melancholy, and deformed by a querulous ill-temper. Some have suggested
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| 149 | that she suffered from remorse for her severity to Essex; others that she
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| 150 | felt herself out of sympathy with the Puritan tendencies of the time. It is
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| 151 | not necessary to resort to these unfounded or far-fetched suppositions to
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| 152 | account for her gloom. If we turn from her public to her private life, what
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| 153 | situation could be more profoundly pitiable? Honour and obedience, indeed,
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| 154 | still surrounded her. But that which also should accompany old age, love and
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| 155 | troops of friends, she might not look to have. Near relations she had none.
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| 156 | Alone she had chosen to live, and alone she must die. As her time
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| 157 | approached, she was haunted by the consciousness that, among all those who
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| 158 | treated her with so much reverence, there was not one who had any reason to
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| 159 | be attached to her or to care that her life should be prolonged. Those who
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| 160 | have not loved when they were young must not expect to find love when they
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| 161 | are old. While health and strength remained, she had tasted the satisfaction
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| 162 | of living her own life and playing the great game of politics, for which she
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| 163 | was exceptionally gifted. But to a woman who has passed through life without
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| 164 | knowing what it is to love or be loved, who has no memory of even an
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| 165 | unrequited affection to feed on, who has never shared a husband's joys and
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| 166 | sorrows, never borne the sweet burden of maternity, never suckled babe or
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| 167 | rocked cradle, who must finish her journey alone, sitting in the solemn
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| 168 | twilight before the last dark hour uncared for and uncaring, without the
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| 169 | cheer of children or the varied interests that gather round the family--to
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| 170 | such a one, what avails it that she has tasted the excitement of public
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| 171 | life, that she has borne a share in politics or business--what even that her
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| 172 | aims have been high or that she has done the State some service, if she has
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| 173 | renounced the crown of womanhood, and turned from their appointed use those
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| 174 | numbered years within which the female heart can find present joy and lay up
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| 175 | store of calm satisfaction for declining age? </p>
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| 176 | <p align="left">Elizabeth had always enjoyed good health, thanks to her
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| 177 | &quot;exact temperance both as to wine and diet, which, she used to say, was the
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| 178 | noblest part of physic,&quot; and her active habits. In capacity for resisting
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| 179 | bodily fatigue and freedom from nervous ailments, she was like a man. It was
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| 180 | not till the beginning of 1602 that those about her noticed any signs of
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| 181 | failing strength. She still went on hunting and dancing. In dancing she
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| 182 | excelled, and she kept it up for exercise, as many an old man keeps up his
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| 183 | skating or tennis without being exposed to ill-natured remarks. In December
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| 184 | 1602 her godson Harington, an amusing person, whose company she enjoyed,
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| 185 | found her &quot;in most pitiable state,&quot; both in body and mind. &quot;She held in her
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| 186 | hand a golden cup which she often put to her lips; but in sooth her heart
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| 187 | seemeth too full to lack more filling.&quot; He read her some verses he had
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| 188 | written, &quot;whereat she smiled once,&quot; but said, &quot;When thou dost feel creeping
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| 189 | Time at thy gate, these fooleries will please thee less. I am past my relish
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| 190 | for such matters. Thou seest my bodily meat doth not suit me well. I have
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| 191 | eaten but one ill-tasted cake since yesternight.&quot; Harington hastened to send
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| 192 | a present to the King of Scots, with the inscription, &quot;<i>Domine memento mei
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| 193 | cum veneris in regnum</i>.&quot; </p>
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| 194 | <p align="left">In the same month Robert Carey, son of her cousin Lord
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| 195 | Hunsdon, visited her, and professed to think her looking well. &quot;No, Robin,&quot;
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| 196 | she said, &quot;I am not well,&quot; and then &quot;discoursed of her indisposition, and
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| 197 | that her heart had been sad and heavy for ten or twelve days, and in her
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| 198 | discourse she fetched not so few as forty or fifty great sighs. . . .
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| 199 | Hereupon I wrote to the King of Scots.&quot;(1) Her melancholy was not caused by
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| 200 | any weakening of her mind. A long letter to James, dated 5 January 1603,
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| 201 | though hardly legible, is very vigorous and characteristic. </p>
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| 202 | <p align="left">At the beginning of March1603 she became much worse. There
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| 203 | was some disease of the throat, attended with swelling and a distressing
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| 204 | formation of phlegm, which made speaking difficult. The only relatives about
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| 205 | her were Robert Carey and his sister Lady Scrope, watching keenly that they
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| 206 | might be the first to inform James of her death. She could not be brought by
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| 207 | any of her Council to take food or go to bed. When in bed she had been
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| 208 | troubled by a visual illusion; &quot;she saw her body exceedingly lean and
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| 209 | fearful in a light of fire.&quot; At last Nottingham, the Admiral, who was
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| 210 | mourning the recent death of his wife, was sent for. He was a second cousin
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| 211 | of Anne Boleyn, and was the one person to whom the dying Queen seemed to
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| 212 | cling with some trust. He induced her to take some broth. &quot;For any of the
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| 213 | rest,&quot; says her maid-of-honour, Mistress Southwell, &quot;she would not answer
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| 214 | them to any question, but said softly to my Lord Admiral's earnest
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| 215 | persuasions that if he knew what she had seen in her bed he would not
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| 216 | persuade her as he did. And Secretary Cecil, overhearing her, asked if her
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| 217 | Majesty had seen any spirits; to which she said she scorned to answer him so
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| 218 | idle a question. Then he told her how, to content the people, her Majesty
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| 219 | must go to bed. To which she smiled, wonderfully contemning him, saying that
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| 220 | the word must was not to be used to princes; and thereupon said, 'Little
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| 221 | man, little man, if your father had lived ye [he?] durst not have said so
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| 222 | much: but thou knowest I must die, and that maketh thee so presumptuous.'
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| 223 | And presently commanding him and the rest to depart her chamber, willed my
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| 224 | Lord Admiral to stay; to whom she shook her head, and with a pitiful voice
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| 225 | said, 'My Lord, I am tied with a chain of iron about my neck.' He alleging
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| 226 | her wonted courage to her, she replied, 'I am tied, and the case is altered
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| 227 | with me.'&quot; At last, &quot;what by fair means,&quot; says Carey, &quot;what by force, he got
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| 228 | her to bed.&quot; </p>
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| 229 | <p align="left">It was perfectly understood that she meant James to be her
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| 230 | successor. The Admiral now told his colleagues that she had confided her
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| 231 | intention to him just before her illness took a serious turn. Two years
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| 232 | before, in conversation with Rosni, the minister of Henry IV., she had
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| 233 | spoken of the approaching union of the Scotch and English crowns as a matter
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| 234 | of course. But it was not till a few hours before her death that her
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| 235 | councillors ventured to question her on the subject. They gave out that she
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| 236 | indicated James by a sign; and this is also asserted by Carey, who, however,
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| 237 | does not seem to have been present, though probably his sister was. Mistress
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| 238 | Southwell seems to write as an eye-witness, but betrays a Catholic bias,
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| 239 | which may cast some doubt on her testimony. &quot;The Council sent to her the
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| 240 | bishop of Canterbury and other of the prelates, upon sight of whom she was
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| 241 | much offended, cholericly rating them, bidding them be packing, saying she
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| 242 | was no atheist, but knew full well they were hedgepriests, and took it for
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| 243 | an indignity that they should speak to her. Now being given over by all, and
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| 244 | at the last gasp, keeping still her sense in everything and giving ever when
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| 245 | she spoke apt answers, though she spake very seldom, having then a sore
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| 246 | throat, she desired to wash it, that she might answer more freely to what
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| 247 | the Council demanded; which was to know whom she would have king; but they,
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| 248 | seeing her throat troubled her so much, desired her to hold up her finger
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| 249 | when they named whom liked her. Whereupon they named the king of France, the
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| 250 | king of Scotland, at which she never stirred. They named my lord Beauchamp,
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| 251 | (2) whereto she said, 'I will have no rascal's son in my seat, but one
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| 252 | worthy to be a king.' Hereupon instantly she died.&quot; (23 March, afternoon.)
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| 253 | </p>
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| 254 | <p align="left">It is certain, however, that she lived several hours after
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| 255 | this characteristic outburst. Carey says that at six o'clock in the evening
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| 256 | he went into her room with the Archbishop; that, though speechless, she
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| 257 | showed by signs that she followed his prayers, and twice desired him to
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| 258 | remain when he was going away. She died in the early hours of Thursday, 24
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| 259 | March. </p>
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| 260 | <p align="left">There have been many greater statesmen than Elizabeth. She
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| 261 | was far from being an admirable type of womanhood. She does not, in my
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| 262 | opinion, stand first even among female sovereigns, for I should put that
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| 263 | able ruler and perfect woman, Isabella of Castile, above her. I admit,
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| 264 | however, that such comparisons are apt to be unjust. Few rulers have had to
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| 265 | contend with such formidable and complicated difficulties as the English
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| 266 | Queen. Few have surmounted them so triumphantly. This is the criterion, and
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| 267 | the sufficient criterion, which determines the judgment of practical men.
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| 268 | Research, if applied with fairness and common sense, may perhaps modify, it
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| 269 | can never set aside, the popular verdict. There are writers who have made
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| 270 | the discovery that Elizabeth was a very poor ruler, selfish and wayward,
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| 271 | shortsighted, easily duped, fainthearted, rash, miserly, wasteful, and
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| 272 | swayed by the pettiest impulses of vanity, spite, and personal inclination.
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| 273 | They have not explained, and never will, how it was that a woman with all
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| 274 | these disqualifications for government should have ruled England with signal
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| 275 | success for forty-four years. Statesmen are indebted to good luck
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| 276 | occasionally, like other people. But when this explanation is offered again
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| 277 | and again with dull regularity, we are compelled to say, with one who had at
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| 278 | once the best opportunity and the highest capacity for estimating the
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| 279 | greatness of Elizabeth: &quot;It is not to closet penmen that we are to look for
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| 280 | guidance in such a case; for men of that order being keen in style, poor in
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| 281 | judgment, and partial in feeling, are no faithful witnesses as to the real
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| 282 | passages of business. It is for ministers and great officers to judge of
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| 283 | these things, and those who have handled the helm of government and been
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| 284 | acquainted with the difficulties and mysteries of State business.&quot; (Bacon,
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| 285 | <i>In felicem memoriam ElizabethÅ.)</i></p>
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| 286 | <p align="left">The judgment of those who have handled the helm of
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| 287 | government is to be found in the words of her contemporary, the great
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| 288 | Henry--&quot;She was my other self:&quot; and of a greater still in the next
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| 289 | generation-&quot;Queen Elizabeth of famous memory; we need not be ashamed to call
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| 290 | her so!&quot; (Carlyle, <i>Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell</i>, Speech
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| 291 | V.)</p>
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| 292 | </font>
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| 293 | <hr>
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| 294 | </font>
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| 295 | <font face="Times New Roman">
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| 296 | <p align="left"><b>Notes:</b> 1. Elizabeth made large use of the courage and
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| 297 | fidelity of her kinsmen on the Boleyn side, but she did little to advance
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| 298 | them either in rank or wealth. Hunsdon had set his heart on regaining the
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| 299 | Boleyn Earldom of Wiltshire. When he was dying, Elizabeth brought the patent
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| 300 | and robes of in earl, and laid them on his bed; but the choleric old man
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| 301 | replied, &quot;Madam, seeing you counted me not worthy of this honour while I was
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| 302 | living, I count myself unworthy of it now I am dying.&quot; 2. Son of Catherine
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| 303 | Grey by the Earl of Hertford. &quot;Rascal&quot; at that time meant a person of low
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| 304 | birth. </p>
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| 305 | </font>
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| 306 | <font style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
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| 307 | <p align="left"><font style="font-family: Times New Roman" size="2">From <i>
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| 308 | Queen Elizabeth</i> by Edward Spencer Beesly.&nbsp; Published in London by
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| 309 | Macmillan and Co., 1892.</font></p>
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| 310 | </font>
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| 311 | <font face="Times New Roman" size="2">
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| 312 | </blockquote>
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| 313 | </blockquote>
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| 315 | <p align="center">
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| 316 | <a href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fmonarchs%2feliz1.html">to the Queen
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| 317 | Elizabeth I website</a>&nbsp; /&nbsp;
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| 318 | <a href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2frelative%2fmaryqos.html">to the Mary,
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| 319 | queen of Scots website</a></p>
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| 320 | <p align="center"><a href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fsecondary.html">
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| 321 | to Secondary Sources</a></p>
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| 322 | </font>
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| 328 | </Content>
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| 329 | </Section>
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| 330 | </Archive>
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