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 1585.] THE BOND OF ASSOCIATION. 5*9 pressing the fullest sympathy with his views ; but be- tween Walsingham and the Queen there were the usual differences of opinion. 1 Walsingham was for sending back the Lords openly at once. He had disapproved all along of their abandonment. The Queen refused to part with money, and still believed in diplomacy. The demand for the surrender of Arran was withdrawn. The ambassador was directed to say that by his release, by the repair of the Jesuits thither, and generally by the character of the murder, the Queen ' saw cause of jealousy/ and that she advised and begged for the Lords' quiet recall. 'La via del mezo,' Wotton replied, was altogether un- profitable ; the King was on the verge of breaking with her, and Elizabeth must either yield altogether or go roundly to work the other way. As Randolph, as Throgmorton, as Davison, had reported many a time before in the same words, ' the cold dealing of England was able to drive the most constant to seek new courses for their own standing.' 2 Guise sent Arran word, that if he could hold out but for six weeks, he should have men and money enough to encounter all the force that could be sent against him. Arran was himself preparing for an armed struggle, gathering to his side every loose lance in Scotland. A report being abroad that the Lords were coming down, a general levy was proclaimed of 1 ' "When we advise to use some way of prevention then are we thought authors of unnecessary charges, and when we lay open the apparent dangers, then are we heard as men possessed with vain fears.' Walsingham to Wotton, Septemher 414: MSS. Scotland. 2 "Wotton to Walsingham, Sep- tember ii 21 : MSS. Ibid.