They remained with their eyes fixed on the ground, dismayed as well as mortified by the public and absolute triumph of their opponents.

Leicester's first use of the familiarity to which the Queen had so publicly restored him was to ask her commands concerning Varney's offence, "although," he said, "the fellow deserves nothing from me but displeasure, yet, might I presume to intercede--" "In truth, we had forgotten his matter," said the Queen; "and it was ill done of us, who owe justice to our meanest as well as to our highest subject.

We are pleased, my lord, that you were the first to recall the matter to our memory .-- Where is Tressilian, the accuser ?--let him come before us." Tressilian appeared, and made a low and beseeming reference.

His person, as we have elsewhere observed, had an air of grace and even of nobleness, which did not escape Queen Elizabeth's critical observation.
She looked at him with, attention as he stood before her unabashed, but with an air of the deepest dejection.
"I cannot but grieve for this gentleman," she said to Leicester.

"I have inquired concerning him, and his presence confirms what I heard, that he is a scholar and a soldier, well accomplished both in arts and arms.