Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . rRobert Cecil, who re-mained chief ministeruntil the death of tliequeen. 147. Character ofElizabeth.—It was evi-dent in 1603 that thereign of the great queenwas fast drawing to aclose. Lord Burleigh and the Earl of Leicester were dead,and she mourned the fate of Essex. She sat for dayspropped up with pillows and refused to go to bed. WhenSir Robert Cecil told her she must go to bed, she turnedupon him in a rage. Must! she said; is must a word tobe add
Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . rRobert Cecil, who re-mained chief ministeruntil the death of tliequeen. 147. Character ofElizabeth.—It was evi-dent in 1603 that thereign of the great queenwas fast drawing to aclose. Lord Burleigh and the Earl of Leicester were dead,and she mourned the fate of Essex. She sat for dayspropped up with pillows and refused to go to bed. WhenSir Robert Cecil told her she must go to bed, she turnedupon him in a rage. Must! she said; is must a word tobe addressed to princes? Little man, little man, thy father,if he had lived, durst not have used that word. She diedin 1603. Just before her death she expressed a wish thatJames of Scotland should be her successor. Queen Elizabeth was well educated, witty, fond of hand-some clothes and gorgeous pageants of all sorts. She wasso vain that no one could praise her as much as she thoughtshe deserved. She had a hot temper, and when she wasangry she would beat her maids of honour and box the earsof her courtiers. She did not like to spend money, and. Lord Burleigh 1558-1603] THE TUDOR SOVEREIGNS 149 when her brave sailors were driving away th€ Armada, itwas a great struggle to persuade her to spend what wasnecessar}^ Her worst fault was that her word could notbe trusted. On the other hand, she really loved hercountry, and she meant sincerely to do her best for chose wise men for her advisers. She was a Tudor andmeant to have her own way, but she invariably yieldedwhen she saw that she was acting against the wishes of thenation. She had many great qualities—wisdom, foresight,moderation; and these qualities were just the ones that thenation needed at that time to unite England and to makethe country great in politics, discovery, literature, and inmaterial and social progress. 148. Parliament under Elizabeth.—During the reigns ofthe early Tudors, Parliament was little more
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