Through Bedford I lead the Puritans, with their interest, so powerful in all the boroughs.
My brother of Warwick is equal, well-nigh, to myself, in wealth, followers, and dependencies.

Sir Owen Hopton is at my devotion; he commands the Tower of London, and the national treasure deposited there.
My father and grand-father needed never to have stooped their heads to the block had they thus forecast their enterprises .-- Why look you so sad, Varney?
I tell thee, a tree so deep-rooted is not so easily to be torn up by the tempest." "Alas! my lord," said Varney, with well-acted passion, and then resumed the same look of despondency which Leicester had before noted.
"Alas!" repeated Leicester; "and wherefore alas, Sir Richard?
Doth your new spirit of chivalry supply no more vigorous ejaculation when a noble struggle is impending?
Or, if ALAS means thou wilt flinch from the conflict, thou mayest leave the Castle, or go join mine enemies, whichever thou thinkest best." "Not so, my lord," answered his confidant; "Varney will be found fighting or dying by your side.

Forgive me, if, in love to you, I see more fully than your noble heart permits you to do, the inextricable difficulties with which you are surrounded.

You are strong, my lord, and powerful; yet, let me say it without offence, you are so only by the reflected light of the Queen's favour.

While you are Elizabeth's favourite, you are all, save in name, like an actual sovereign.