She therefore denied his request; and even added, in a contemptuous style, that an ungovernable beast must be stinted in his provender.[***] * Camden, p.

628.
** Birch's Memoirs, vol.ii.p.

472.
*** Camden, p.

628.
This rigor, pushed one step too far, proved the final ruin of this young nobleman, and was the source of infinite sorrow and vexation to the queen herself.

Essex, who had with great difficulty so long subdued his proud spirit, and whose patience was now exhausted, imagining that the queen was entirely inexorable, burst at once all restraints of submission and of prudence, and determined to seek relief by proceeding to the utmost extremities against his enemies.