For answer to them I will say
but this, that you have believed I have been kind to you, and you
may believe that I cannot be other, either upon humour or my own
election. I am a stranger to all poetical conceits, or else I
should say somewhat of your poetical example. But this I must say,
that I never flew with other wings than desire to merit and
confidence in my Sovereign's favour; and when one of these wings
failed me I would light nowhere but at my Sovereign's feet, though
she suffered me to be bruised with my fall. And till her Majesty,
that knows I was never bird of prey, finds it to agree with her
will and her service that my wings should be imped again, I have
committed myself to the mire. No power but my God's and my
Sovereign's can alter this resolution of
"Your retired friend,
"ESSEX."
But after Essex's mad attempt in the city a new state of things arose.
The inevitable result was a trial for high treason, a trial of which no
one could doubt the purpose and end.
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