The knowledge possessed by the pestilent fellows as to the actual position of affairs, was very mischievous.

It was honey to Maurice and Hohenlo, he said, that the Queen's secret practices with Farnese had thus been discovered.

Nothing could be more marked than the jollity with which the ringleaders hailed these preparations for peace-making, for they now felt certain that the government of their country had been fixed securely in their own hands.

They were canonized, said the Earl, for their hostility to peace.
Should not this conviction, on the part of men who had so many means of feeling the popular pulse, have given the Queen's government pause?
To serve his sovereign in truth, Leicester might have admitted a possibility at least of honesty on the part of men who were so ready to offer up their lives for their country.

For in a very few weeks he was obliged to confess that the people were no longer so well disposed to acquiesce in her Majesty's policy.