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PART II

I am melancholy, merry, sometimes happy and often

unfortunate. The court is of as many humours as the

rainbow hath colours, the time wherein we live more

inconstant than women’s thoughts, more miserable than

old age itself and breeding both people and occasions

that is violent, desperate and fantastical.

Letter from Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex,

to his sister Penelope

We princes are set on highest stage, where looks of all

beholders verdict our works; neither can we easily dance

in nets so thick as may dim their sight.

Letter from Elizabeth I to James VI of Scotland