After my master, I would do most to serve your Queen, and I hope she will take my word for her satisfaction on that point.

And for avoiding of bloodshed and the burning of houses and such other calamities as do follow the wars, I have been a petitioner to my sovereign that all things might be ended quietly by a peace.

That is a thing, however," added the Duke; "which you have more cause to desire than we; for if the King my master, should lose a battle, he would be able to recover it well enough, without harm to himself, being far enough off in Spain, while, if the battle be lost on your side, you may lose kingdom and all." "By God's sufferance," rejoined the Doctor, "her Majesty is not without means to defend her crown, that hath descended to her from so long a succession of ancestors.

Moreover your Highness knows very well that one battle cannot conquer a kingdom in another country." "Well," said the Duke, "that is in God's hand." "So it is," said the Doctor.
"But make an end of it," continued Alexander quietly, "and if you have anything to put into writing; you will do me a pleasure by sending it to me." Dr.Valentine Dale was not the man to resist the temptation to make a protocol, and promised one for the next day.
"I am charged only to give your Highness satisfaction," he said, "as to her Majesty's sincere intentions, which have already been published to the world in English, French, and Italian, in the hope that you may also satisfy the Queen upon this other point.

I am but one of her commissioners, and could not deal without my colleagues.