It will never appear that I represented the Queen as desiring peace.

I said that her Majesty would lend her ears to peace.

Bodman knows this too; and he has a copy of the letter of his Highness." Walsingham to Bodman.--"Have you the copy still ?" Bodman.--"Yes, Mr.Secretary." Walsingham.--"Please to produce it, in order that this matter may be sifted to the bottom." Bodman.--"I supplicate your Lorships to pardon me, but indeed that cannot be.

My instructions forbid my showing the letter." Walsingham (rising).--"I will forthwith go to her Majesty, and fetch the original." A pause.

Mr.Secretary returns in a few minutes, having obtained the document, which the Queen, up to that time, had kept by her, without showing it to any one.
Walsingham (after reading the letter attentively, and aloud).--"There is not such a word, as that her Majesty is desirous of peace, in the whole paper." Burghley (taking the letter, and slowly construing it out of Italian into English).--"It would seem that his Highness hath written this, assuming that the Signor Grafigni came from the Queen, although he had received his instructions from my Lord Cobham.