"Poor Mr.
Davison," said Walsingham, "doth take it very grievously that your Lordship should conceive so hardly of him as you do.

I find the conceit of your Lordship's disfavour hath greatly dejected him.

But at such time as he arrived her Majesty was so incensed, as all the arguments and orators in the world could not have wrought any satisfaction." But now a little billet-doux had done what all the orators in the world could not do.

The arguments remained the same, but the Queen no longer "misliked that Leicester should have the authority." It was natural that the Lord Treasurer should express his satisfaction at this auspicious result.
"I did commend her princely nature," he said, "in allowing your good intention, and excusing you of any spot of evil meaning; and I thought good to hasten her resolution, which you must now take to come from a favourable good mistress.

You must strive with your nature to throw over your shoulder that which is past." Sir Walter Raleigh, too, who had been "falsely and pestilently" represented to the Earl as an enemy, rather than what he really was, a most ardent favourer of the Netherland cause, wrote at once to congratulate him on the change in her Majesty's demeanour.