'Help me, your lordship,' the hunted wretch cried, in his despair, to Sussex.

'Ye are lyke to make hym the strongest man of all Erlond, for every man wyll take an exampull by the gratte lostys; take hyd to yourself by thymes, for he is lyke to have all the power from this place thill he come to the wallys of Gallway to rysse against you.'[1] [Footnote 1: Wright's Elizabeth, vol.i.

p.73.] It is the boast of the Irish that when Shane had subdued all his opponents, he ruled Tyrone for some time with such order, 'that if a robbery was committed within his territory, he either caused the property to be restored, or reimbursed the loser out of his own treasury.'[1] [Footnote 1: Haverty's History of Ireland, p.300.] The perplexity of the Government in this critical emergency is vividly described by Mr.Froude: 'Elizabeth knew not which way to turn.

Force, treachery, conciliation had been tried successively, and the Irish problem was more hopeless than ever.

In the dense darkness of the prospects of Ulster there was a solitary gleam of light.