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 VOYAGh OF SIR 1<RANCIS DRAKE. tyft singham had done his message ill, and had betrayed her. Monsieur wanted her for her money. The King of France wanted her for her money. She would keep her money, and they should have none of it. 1 Burghley, reasoning vainly with her passion, told her ' that great matters could not be managed without charge.' ' If she had no need of help to withstand her perils, there was no occasion to send to Paris at all.' ' Walsingham had done no more than he would have done himself.' Her last injunctions to him were ' to acquit her of the mar- riage,' and ' if she would not marry she must spend.' 2 {She answered in her old tone that if she gave money it should and must be underhand. Burghley objected the determination of France not to accept assistance underhand. Then she shifted her ground, and said that if she was to have open war, ' she would rather marry with the war than have the war without the marriage : ' but Burghley saw that she was persuading herself that the King had gone too far both in the Low Countries and in Portugal to recede. A squadron, with the French flag flying, was already at Terceira, and she herself was so far uncommitted. Don Antonio's fleet was ready to sail from Plymouth. Twelve thousand pounds, raised upon his jewels, had been spent upon it. The Queen had first promised an additional aooo/. and then had refused. It had been subscribed by Drake and Haw- kins, and only her permission to depart was waited for. She now said that the ships should not sail at all. She 1 Mendoza to Philip, August 12: MSS. Sitnancas. 2 Burghley to Walsingham, Au- gust 10, II ; DlGGES.