I praise God from my heart for it.

Once again, have great care of yourself, I mean for your safety, and if she will needs revoke you, to the overthrowing of the cause, if I were as you, if I could not be assured there, I would go to the farthest part of Christendom rather than ever come into England again.

Take heed whom you trust, for that you have some false boys about you." And the false boys were busy enough, and seemed likely to triumph in the result of their schemes.

For a glance into the secret correspondence of Mary of Scotland has already revealed the Earl to us constantly surrounded by men in masks.

Many of those nearest his person, and of highest credit out of England, were his deadly foes, sworn to compass his dishonour, his confusion, and eventually his death, and in correspondence with his most powerful adversaries at home and abroad.