Note 305 — Chapter XLVIII
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The progress of the negotiations may be traced in Chamberlain’s Letters (Camden Society). Essex to Southampton, Jan. 1, 1599; and Charles Blount (afterwards Lord Mountjoy) to Essex, Jan. 3, both in Abbott, chap. ix.
‘Full little knowest thou, that has not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide; To lose good days that might be better spent To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, &c.’—Spenser.