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ff of continual levies and impositions, which are oc- 

 &quot; casioned by these late actions, can little please 

 &quot; ourself hitherto with any thing that hath been 

 &quot; effected.&quot; 



In another branch of the same letter, reflecting 

 her royal regard upon her own honour interested in 

 this delay, hath these words : 



&quot; Whereunto we will add this one thing that 

 &quot; doth more displease us than any charge or offence 

 &quot; that happens, which is, that it must be the queen 

 &quot; of England s fortune, who hath held down the 

 &quot; greatest enemy she had, to make a base bush-kern 

 &quot; to be accounted so famous a rebel, as to be a per- 

 &quot; son against whom so many thousands of foot and 

 &quot; horse, besides the force of all the nobility of that 

 &quot; kingdom, must be thought too little to be em- 

 &quot; ployed.&quot; 



In another branch, discovering, as upon the van 

 tage ground of her princely wisdom, what would be 

 the issue of the courses then held, hath these words: 



&quot; And therefore, although by your letter we 

 &quot; found your purpose to go northwards, on which 

 &quot; depends the main good of our service, and which 

 &quot; we expected long since should have been per- 

 &quot; formed ; yet because we do hear it bruited, be- 

 &quot; sides the words of your letter written with your own 

 &quot; hand, which carries some such sense, that you who 

 &quot; allege such sickness in your army by being tra- 

 &quot; veiled with you, and find so great and important 

 &quot; affairs to digest at Dublin, will yet engage your- 

 &quot; self personally into Ophalie, being our lieutenant, 



