"They say it is out of sight, out of mind, with the King, and, thanks to this infatuation of my Lord Carnal's, Buckingham hath the field.

That he strains every nerve to oust completely this his first rival since he himself distanced Somerset goes without saying.

That to thwart my lord in this passion would be honey to him is equally of course.

I do not need to tell you that, if the Company so orders, I shall have no choice but to send you and the lady home to England.

When you are in London, make your suit to my Lord of Buckingham, and I earnestly hope that you may find in him an ally powerful enough to bring you and the lady, to whose grace, beauty, and courage we all do homage, out of this coil." "We give you thanks, sir," I said.
"As you know," he went on, "I have written to the Company, humbly petitioning that I be graciously relieved from a most thankless task, to wit, the governorship of Virginia.