Heneage, too, was much relieved, but he was, at the same time, not a little perplexed.

It was not so easy to undo all the mischief created by the Queen's petulance.

The "scorpion's sting"-- as her Majesty expressed herself--might be balsamed, but the poison had spread far beyond the original wound.
"The letters just brought in," wrote Heneage to Burghley, "have well relieved a most noble and sufficient servant, but I fear they will not restore the much-repaired wrecks of these far-decayed noble countries into the same state I found them in.

A loose, disordered, and unknit state needs no shaking, but propping.

A subtle and fearful kind of people--should not be made more distrustful, but assured." He then expressed annoyance at the fault already found with him, and surely if ever man had cause to complain of reproof administered him, in quick succession; for not obeying contradictory directions following upon each other as quickly, that man was Sir Thomas Heneage.