Note 467 — Chapter X · THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM. [August, 1570, to August, 1572.]

Under date 22d March, 1751, Smith writes to Burghley from Blois: “Inordinate hunting, so early in the morning and so late at night, without sparing frost, snow, or rain, and in so despotic a manner as makes her (Catherine) and those that love him to be often in great fear.”