So now I pass my book over to Milly—and do right earnestly desire that she may be less faultful than I. What poor infirm things be we, in very sooth!
Note 1. François Duke of Anjou, who visited the Queen in September, 1579, to urge his suit. Elizabeth hesitated for some time before she gave a decided negative.
Chapter Three.
Milisent Makes a Friend.
“The inward depths of that deceitful fount
Where many a sin lies sleeping, but not dead.”
(In Milisent’s handwriting.)
Selwick Hall, November ye first.
Things be alway going awry with me. Elsewise, this jolly book should ne’er have come into my hands first of a Sunday. I would love dearly to read o’er what my philosophical sister hath writ, and comment on the same: but I reckon I must tarry till to-morrow.