. Historical portraits ... and on his return made theacquaintance of Leicester, who probably then first introduced him atCourt. Most of 1580-1 he spent in Ireland helping to put downthe * Desmond rebellion in Munster, and his favour with the Queendates from his return from Ireland at the end of the latter favour appears to have been, in Raleighs case more thanin that of many others, especially disastrous: Elizabeth loved tohave him at her side, and showered gifts and offices upon him,although never to an extent to satisfy his ambition and his need formoney: again and again she preven
. Historical portraits ... and on his return made theacquaintance of Leicester, who probably then first introduced him atCourt. Most of 1580-1 he spent in Ireland helping to put downthe * Desmond rebellion in Munster, and his favour with the Queendates from his return from Ireland at the end of the latter favour appears to have been, in Raleighs case more thanin that of many others, especially disastrous: Elizabeth loved tohave him at her side, and showered gifts and offices upon him,although never to an extent to satisfy his ambition and his need formoney: again and again she prevented him from going to the warsor on expeditions to America, and indeed it would not be far wrongto accuse her of having spoiled one of the finest characters that herage produced. She recognized his ability at once, and he becameher principal adviser as to the affairs of Ireland, where he receivedenormous grants of land, and where he pushed on the scheme of plantations, a scheme which really led him to his great idea of the. SIR WALTER RALEIGHFrom the portrait by Zuccaro in the National Portrait Gallery Ftuep. 86 SIR WALTER RALEIGH 87 first English Colony in America, as well as to his intimate friend-ship with the poet Spenser. The plans which he conceived for thefoundation of Virginia date from the expedition which he sentthither in 1584; and, though the first two establishments werefailures, and though Raleigh lost the enormous sums which he hadventured in them, the ultimate realization of the conception in thereign of James I was due to his original scheme. The civilizedworld owes to Raleigh the true colonial idea; it owes to him also,if not the actual discovery, at least the introduction and use of thetwo greatest vegetables of the earth, tobacco and potatoes. In theArmada year Raleigh seems to have been wholly busy with theorganization of our land forces, and was not on board the victoriousEnglish fleet; but it was on the sea that his heart was set. In allthe voyages of rep
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