As you love me, said he, show it me, if you have it about you.

I made some difficulties; yet, upon his importunity, offered it to his view very secretly, holding it still in my hand.

He beheld it with passion and admiration, saying, that I had reason, 'Je me rends,' protesting that he had never seen the like; so, with great reverence, he kissed it twice or thrice, I detaining it still in my hand.

In the end, with some kind of contention, he took it from me, vowing that I might take my leave of it; for he would not forego it for any treasure; and that to possess the favor of the lovely picture, he would forsake all the world, and hold himself most happy; with many other most passionate speeches." Murden, p.718.For further particulars on this head, see the ingenious author of the Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors, article Essex.] [Footnote 38: NOTE LL, P.337.
It may not be amiss to subjoin some passages of these speeches; which may serve to give us a just idea of the government of that age, and of the political principles which prevailed during the reign of Elizabeth.
Mr.Laurence Hyde proposed a bill, entitled, An act for the explanation of the common law in certain cases of letters patent.

Mr.Spicer said, "This bill may touch the prerogative royal, which, as I learned the last parliament, is so transcendent, that the------of the subject may not aspire thereunto.