SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 13 



In less than no time he was a knight, 

 Captain of the Queen's Guard, and Sen- 

 eschal of Cornwall ; besides receiving a 

 grant of twelve thousand acres of land in 

 Ireland, and the sole right of licensing 

 wine-sellers in England. 



Elizabeth knew how to reward those 

 in whom she took a platonic interest. 

 She gave them something besides shawls, 

 portraits of her effulgent self, and grand- 

 motherly advice. There was no squatty 

 royalty about Elizabeth of England. 

 Nothing was too good for those who 

 served the state ; nothing too severe for 

 the state's enemies. 



Raleigh now had all kinds of money : 

 money to burn, to throw away, to treat, 

 spend, and loan. He had a lot of 

 stranded friends among the poets and 

 dramatists of that day, and he helped 

 them all out of his large purse and larger 

 nature. 



Then he lost more than half his fortune 

 in an attempt to colonize North America. 





