220 ONE THOUSAND FAMOUS THINGS
No Name in History Like This
ALFKED is the most perfect character in history. A saint without
superstition, a scholar without ostentation, a warrior all whose
wars were fought in the defence of his country, a conqueror whose
laurels were never stained by cruelty, a prince never cast down by
adversity, never lifted up to insolence in the day of triumph, there is no
other name in history to compare with his. Professor Freeman
The Fame of Francis Drake
npHE stars above would make thee known
I If men here silent were :
The sun himself cannot forget
His fellow voyager. Ben Jonson
Queen Elizabeth Passes By
We take this little-known picture of Elizabeth from a description by a visitor to
her Court. He was Paul Hentzner, who was tutor to a young German nobleman and
brought his pupil to England in 1698. This is one of the things he wrote.
WE arrived at the royal palace of Greenwich. It was here Eliza-
beth, the Queen, was born, and here she resides.
We were admitted into the Presence Chamber, hung with rich
tapestry, and the floor after the English fashion, strewed with hay.
At the door stood a gentleman dressed in velvet.
It was Sunday, when there is usually the greatest attendance of
nobility. In the same hall were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Bishop of London, a great number of Counsellors of State, Officers of
the Crown, and Gentlemen, who waited the Queen's coming out;
which she did from her own apartment, when it was time to go
to prayers. First went Gentlemen, Barons, Earls, Knights of the
Garter, all richly dressed and bareheaded. Next came the Chancellor,
bearing the seals in a red-silk purse, between two, one of which
carried the Royal Sceptre, the other the Sword of State, in a red
scabbard9 studded with golden Fieur-de-Lys.
Next came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we are
told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled j her eyes
small, yet black and pleasant; her nose a little hooked; her Hps
narrow ; and her teeth black.
She had in her ears two pearls, with very rich drops | she wore
false hair, and that red; upon her head she had a small crown,
reported to be made of some of the gold of the celebrated Lunebourg
Table. Her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it
till they marry ; and she had on a necklace of exceeding fine jewels.
Her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature neither
tall nor low. Her air was stately, her manner of speaking mild
and obliging.