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hands, and pay her such tribute as before they had
paid to the King of Spain." “The Queen," wrote
Gilbert Talbot to his father, “ is troubled with
those causes, which make her very melancholie . . .
and hath to deale both betwixt the King of Spain
and the Low Countries and the King of France and
his brother. What shall be done in these matters
as yet is unknown, but here is Ambassadors of
all sides, and laboureth greatly one agent against
another.’’1
However many hours were devoted to affairs
of State, Elizabeth always found time to take a
sharp walk with her ladies in the pleasaunces and
“ catch her a heate on frosty mornings.” On
spring days she would shoot the deer with her own
crossbow, and we read of her riding out attended
by a troop of ladies in white satin, and courtiers in
russet damask and plumed caps, while fifty archers
in Lincoln green met her Majesty in the park and
presented her with a silver arrow winged with
peacock’s'feathers. Pavilions and bowers of green
boughs and lavender, hung with garlands, were set
up in some shady nook for her to rest in, and the
Queen’s minstrels came to make sweet music while
she and her ladies partook of refreshment. Eliza-
beth entered with keen zest into all these sports
and pageants, and lived as joyously as any princess
of the Italian Renaissance. Often after dinner she
would sing to the lute or dance a coranto in the
privy chamber before her ladies and a few chosen
courtiers, or join in one of the old English country-
1 Nichols, ii. 3.
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hands, and pay her such tribute as before they had
paid to the King of Spain." “The Queen," wrote
Gilbert Talbot to his father, “ is troubled with
those causes, which make her very melancholie . . .
and hath to deale both betwixt the King of Spain
and the Low Countries and the King of France and
his brother. What shall be done in these matters
as yet is unknown, but here is Ambassadors of
all sides, and laboureth greatly one agent against
another.’’1
However many hours were devoted to affairs
of State, Elizabeth always found time to take a
sharp walk with her ladies in the pleasaunces and
“ catch her a heate on frosty mornings.” On
spring days she would shoot the deer with her own
crossbow, and we read of her riding out attended
by a troop of ladies in white satin, and courtiers in
russet damask and plumed caps, while fifty archers
in Lincoln green met her Majesty in the park and
presented her with a silver arrow winged with
peacock’s'feathers. Pavilions and bowers of green
boughs and lavender, hung with garlands, were set
up in some shady nook for her to rest in, and the
Queen’s minstrels came to make sweet music while
she and her ladies partook of refreshment. Eliza-
beth entered with keen zest into all these sports
and pageants, and lived as joyously as any princess
of the Italian Renaissance. Often after dinner she
would sing to the lute or dance a coranto in the
privy chamber before her ladies and a few chosen
courtiers, or join in one of the old English country-
1 Nichols, ii. 3.