Going where he would, and saying what he listed, now in the Queen's inner chamber, then in the midst of the Council, unconsidered, and the butt of all, he paid for his bed and bounty by shooting shafts of foolery which as often made his listeners shrink as caused their laughter.

The Queen he called Delicio, and Leicester, Obligato--as one who piped to another's dance.

He had taken to Buonespoir at the first glance, and had frequented him, and Lempriere had presently been added to his favour.

He had again and again been messenger between them, as also of late between Angele and Michel, whose case he viewed from a stand-point of great cheerfulness, and treated them as children playing on the sands--as, indeed, he did the Queen and all near to her.

But Buonespoir, the pirate, was to him reality and the actual, and he called him Bono Publico.