Masters shall order your diet; and that we ourselves may see that he is obeyed, you must attend us in this progress to Kenilworth." This was said so peremptorily, and at the same time with so much kindness, that Sussex, however unwilling to become the guest of his rival, had no resource but to bow low to the Queen in obedience to her commands, and to express to Leicester, with blunt courtesy, though mingled with embarrassment, his acceptance of his invitation.

As the Earls exchanged compliments on the occasion, the Queen said to her High Treasurer, "Methinks, my lord, the countenances of these our two noble peers resemble those of the two famed classic streams, the one so dark and sad, the other so fair and noble.

My old Master Ascham would have chid me for forgetting the author.

It is Caesar, as I think.

See what majestic calmness sits on the brow of the noble Leicester, while Sussex seems to greet him as if he did our will indeed, but not willingly." "The doubt of your Majesty's favour," answered the Lord Treasurer, "may perchance occasion the difference, which does not--as what does ?--escape your Grace's eye." "Such doubt were injurious to us, my lord," replied the Queen.