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nigh distraught. When thou art like to be irritate by domestical jars, or thinkeft thou art hardly used where thou expectedft comfort, think on this judicious divine his patience!

And Effex had need of fome fuch godly enfample: for, as will appear, his mistress was not content, notwithstanding his devoir. You fhall conquer all her Grace's enemies at your own coft: you shall follow to the letter all her impoffible directions: you shall spend and be spent in her service; yet shall you get neither praise nor recompenfe of thanks! Go to! Body and foul-your all, fhall it compare with that duty you owe the Queen?

From Arklow, flushed with fuccess, the whole business of the Munster campaign having been brought to a triumphant clofe, Effex had written to her Majesty. Nor had her Majesty, from the wisest or most faithful of Deputies, ever had fo exact and full a statement of the Affairs of Ireland. The qualities of the people: their physical and moral natures: their religious ftate: their rebellious motions: their quarrel with all English rule. The refources of the country: the expectations of the people. Their factions among each other, and their general hope in Spain. The

evil conditions of the native chieftains: their hold upon their vaffals. All these things he laid patent before her Majefty with wonderful minutenefs and truth. Then of the settlers, he shewed how they should be treated fo as to preferve their allegiance: how the realm fhould be fecured. both against foreign invafions and the maraudings of the natiye Irish: how thefe latter could be reduced to civil government; and how the towns, fortreffes, and harbours fhould be garrisoned and victualled. Finally, how the

wounds of that bleeding land might be staunched, her tears wiped away, her forrowful moanings comforted, her desponding heart cheered, her languid blood warmed, her fmile encouraged, her strength educated and holpen; and all her faculties, which God hath given in great store, be developed to a happy and profperous issue.

You'd think fuch a picture would have pleased the eye of the Queen of that fair country; that the Mother (as it were) of fuch a nation, would have fome fympathy with him who fo feelingly described her Infant's state! Well, thus my Lord ends that letter:

"But why do I talk of victory and fuccefs? Is it not

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known that from England I receive nothing but discomforts and foul's wounds? Is it not spoken in the army that your Majesty's favour is diverted from me, and that already you do bode ill to me and it? Is it not believed by the rebels that those whom you favour most, do more hate me out of faction, than them out of duty and conscience? Is it not lamented of your Majesty's faithfullest subjects, both there and here, that a Cobham, a Ralegh-I will forbear others for their place's fake-fhould have fuch credit and favour with your Majefty, when they wish the ill fuccefs of your Majesty's most important action, the decay of your greatest strength, and the deftruction of your faithfulleft fervants?

"Yes! Yes! I fee both my own destiny and your Majesty's decree, and do willingly embrace the one and obey the other. Let me honestly and zealously end a wearisome life. Let others live in deceitful and inconftant pleasures. Let me bear the brunt, and die meritoriously. Let others atchieve and finish the work, and erect trophies. But my prayer shall be, that when my Sovereign lofeth Me, her Army may not lofe courage, or this kingdom want physic, or her dearest felf mifs Effex; and then I can never go in

a better time, nor in a fairer way. Till then, I protest before God and his Angels, I am a true Votary; that is, fequestered from all things but my duty and my charge. I perform the uttermost of my body's, mind's, fortune's ability, and more should, but that a conftant care and labour agrees not with an inconftant health in an unwholesome and uncertain climate. This is the hand of him that did live your dearest, and will die your Majesty's faithfullest, fervant."

And anon you shall have her Grace's gracious answer to thefe faithful outpourings of my Lord's painful spirit.

The army returned to Dublin. With acclamations and laudatory hymns were the conquerors inducted; for though there were many who would have wished the rebels other fuccefs, and more who were indifferent to any chance (as is their humour), the cavalcade, with flags and banners, trumpets and hautboys, the Lord-Lieutenant and General Governor, with fo many nobles, knights, and gentles, could not enter the fair city without stirring the wide-mouthed populace; for, you must know, the inhabitants of Dublin, above all others, rejoice in tawdry pro

greffes, idle shows, parades, reviews, and the like, honouring nothing more than a Lord, or one with a fonorous title ; and, like the Athenians of old, ever asking for fomething new, which they will ever and anon fo alter in the telling, as to give it perpetual freshness.

Then were there evil tidings from the garrifon at Wicklow. How Sir Henry Harington, fpying in Phelim MacPhea's country, gat into trouble, fome of his troops, raw and undisciplined, mifbehaving. And the Earl Marshal ordered a Court to be holden, when it was found that one Captain Wardman heroically withstood the enemy to the death, though his men fled. That Captain Aderton, like another Cocles, kept his front, a buckler to his regiment, till Montacute relieved him. That of five hundred in the encounter, one officer, Lieutenant Welch, and ninety rank and file, were adjudged of cowardice and criminal omiffion in their duty; and the Court-Martial fentenced Welch and fome thirty, the furvivors of Wardman's regiment, to be fhot.

And my Lord was very fad, paffing on thefe men; yet would he mitigate the dread penalty fo far as only to decimate the men, with this word to Sir Alexander

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