ANST - THE ROLE OF THOSE IN POWER

[Pamela S Keightley]

Pamela Hewitt, the Harper submits the following description of a model
monarch, Queen Elizabeth I.
Source: The Annals of Queen Elizabeth by Sir John Hayward
" Now, if ever any person had either the gift or the style to win the
hearts of people, it was this Queen; and if ever she did express the
same, it was that present, in coupling mildness with majesty as she did,
and in stately stooping to the meanest sort. All her faculties were in
motion, and every motion seemed a well guided action; her eye was set
upon, her ear listened to another, her judgement ran upon a third, to a
fourth she addressed her speech; her spirit seemed to be everywhere, and
yet so entire in herself as it seemed to be nowhere else. Some she
pitied, some she commended, some she thanked, at others she pleasantly
and wittingly jested, contemning no person, neglecting no office, and
distributing her smiles, looks and graces so artificially (artfully)
that there upon the people again so redoubled the testimonies of their
joy; and afterwards, raising everything to the highest strain, filled
the ears of all men with immoderate extolling of their Prince."
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