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 g6 CHAPTER LITL THE RISING OF THE NORTH. THE Duke of Norfolk was in the Tower; Pem- broke, Anmdel, Throgmorton, and Lumley were under arrest at Windsor ; Leicester alone of the party about the Court who had been implicated in the mar- riage intrigue, had run for harbour, when he saw the storm coming, and had escaped imprisonment. But the revelation of so dangerous a temper so close at her own door, however veiled it might be under professions of fidelity, and the sudden breach with half her first advisers, who for ten years had stood loyally at her side, had shocked Elizabeth inexpressibly. The com- posing language of Cecil failed to quiet her. So furious was she with Norfolk, that in the intervals of hysterics, she said that, 'law or no law/ 'she would have his head/ 1 She was distracted with the sense of dim but fearful perils overshadowing her, which she felt to be near but could not grasp ; and for ever the figure of the 1 ' Allez, diet elle ; ce que Ics loix rite le pourra.' La Mothe au Roy, ne pourront sur sa teste, mon autho- October 28 : Dfyeches, vol. ii.