Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 161
wearied. We are well bestowed, said Queen Eliza-beth, with a gracious inclination of her head. Thou hast given us an agreeable henchman.Raleigh himself was not a more accomplishedcourtier, and knew less of Sweet Will than Tomof the Thumb. She turned to the little man. Who spake those words of our… … THOU HAST NOT MANY INCHES,* SAID QUEEN ELIZABETH, BUT THOU ARTA MARVELOUS PROPER MAN. 148 A COMEDY IN WAX. I49 Ha! those knavish ambassadors! ex-claimed Queen Elizabeth. We have hadexperience of them. We recall the lines — theyare in our poets play of Henry VI. But thymemory is prodigious, gallant…
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