Creation cheated him.

But God give me ever such friends as he, and I shall indeed 'have good company' and fear no issue." She sighed.
"Remains there still a fear?
Did you not have good promise in the Queen's words that night ?" "Ay, so it seemed, and so it seemed before--on May Day, and yet--" "And yet she banished you, and tried you, and kept you heart-sick?
Sweet, know you not how bitter a thing it is to owe a debt of love to one whom we have injured?
So it was with her.

The Queen is not a saint, but very woman.

Marriage she hath ever contemned and hated; men she hath desired to keep her faithful and impassioned servitors.

So does power blind us.