Note 6 — Chapter II
Reading edition
When Queen Elizabeth visited Cowdray, in August, 1591, whilst walking in the garden, a pseudo-angler met her, and made a long speech, in the course of which he said, “Madame, it is an olde saying, 'There is no fishing to the sea, nor service to the King;’ but it holdes when the sea is calme, and the King vertuous.”