The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1865-06-20

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Well. will attribute il 10 Gods
providence Tor you, lhat--lest all these
glories might elevate you too much
lie bath suffered, though not made,
such q sctuple, to keep you under His
rod. who best knows we have more
need Of bits than spurs. Valeant ista
amara, ad Tarlarus eat melaneholia.
Your Soyerign,
'E. r.
The vain and pious old lady--for
the letter was written in an earnest
and pious sirain--little suspected when
she penned it, that her love-sick IA
yorite had other loves, which were NOT
despised.' lie sedaeed the beautiful
Penelope, the sister OF his rival, the
Earl OF Essex, whom be married, al
ter she had been repudiated by her
injured husband, Robert Lord Rich.
This marriage was performed by Lard,
who was at that time Mountjoy's chap
lain.
Moantjoy died in 1906, under forty
years of age an unhappy man, blight
ed by his passions-but not for the
Queen--in the bloom of life, and vig-
or of manhood. He was Earl Of Dew
onshire when be died.
The weakness and vanity Of the
Queen was played upon, and punned
upon, and was made the theme Of
doggeral verses, not only by courtiers,
but also by men like the Cecils. Both
of the brothers, Robert and Thomas,
got the credit Of the following lines:
Eow is my muse clad Ike parasite,
In party -coord robes OF black and white;
Grieying aud joyng too; both these together;
But grieyes or joys the most, | wot not wethsr.
Elika's dead-this splits the heart In twain;
And James proclaimed-tbat makes me well
again.
But the most dangerous rival for
the Queens favor or affection, with
whom Essex had to contend, was that
handsome and dashing knight, expert
enced admiral, brave soldier, and ver-
satiIe and philosophical genius, Sir
Walter Releigh.
To Elizabeth's honor be it said,
that in order to win her respect and
retain her favor, man should be
something more than a carpet knight.
Raleigh retained that favor longer
than Essex, for the simple reason that
he was The greater man. The latter
took her fancy, the form er excited her
admiration though neither, perhaps,
were thoroughly true men. But
thoroughly true men were scarce in
those days.
The rivalry between these two men
for the Queens favor was really des-
perate Elizabeth commits Essex, on
his return from Ireland, to the custo-
dy ol the Lord Keeper Egerton. Sir
| Walter Raleigh is delighted. Essex
grows sick, and, as the Queen learns,
is on the point Of death SO she relents,
ami orders eight physicians to attend
hun; AID scans Doctor James with
broth and kind message, which
has tie effect Of curing Essex, and Of
stretching Raleigh upon a sick bed.
SO She has TO send broth, and kind
messages, to him also. The Earl Of
Essex intrigues and makes insurrec-
ton; is arrested, tried, condemned,
and led out 10 execution. Sir Walter
goes to the tower on purpose to see it ;
and, as some say, puffs out smoke in
derision, as his rival and quondam
friend moves forward to the scaffold.
If Sir Walter Raleigh really did this
lit is only right to say that he sol
emnly denied the charge, before he
himself was led out to execution; but
if we thought he had acted in such a
way by poor Essex-we doubt that
we should feel as much, in reading Of
his fate, as we are in the habit OF
dong.
Raleigh, as we are aware, gave the
Queen mortal offense by seducing one
OF her maids Of honor-Elizabeth, the
daughter of Sir Nicholas Throckmor-
ton, whom he afterwards married.
The Queen held almost every young
unmarried lady in her dOminions as
her ward, and considered it her right
to dispose of them in marriage. She
held this to be her natural and espec-
ial right in the case of her maids Of
honor; we are not, therefore, surpris-
ed TO find her committing Sir Walter
Raleigh to the Tower for his double
offense.
| While he was there, the Queens
barge passed beneath his window.
He RACES to get out and PROSTATE
himself before her, and says that he
suffers all the horrors Of Tantilus !
that he will go through fire and wa.
ter to see her, His keeper, Sir
George Carew-another great favor
| ite Of the Queen, to whom she writes :
Dear George holds him by the
collar. Raleigh tears off the knights
new periwig, and threatens TO dagger
him but, after q desperate contest,
allows himself 10 be carried back to
his chamber. Here be writes to Sir
Robert Cecil a letter which he knows
the Queen will see How can abide
in prison, while she is far off? / who
was won't 10 behold her, riding like
Hereunder, hunting like Diana, walk
ing like Venus; the gentle wind blow
ing her fair hair about her cheeks,
like a nymph.
/ This sort oi acting--for ii was moth
ing else-was simply absurd and the
| Queen must have possessed a some
what larger share Of the vanity which