As may be imagined, it was not very long before matters came to a crisis between Simier and his former master. The Prince urged Elizabeth again and again, as she loved him, to expel Simier from England; but she was shocked at such an idea. He had only come to justify6 himself, and she could testify that he had conducted the marriage negotiations7 better than any one else before or since, and she could not be so unjust as to expel him even to gratify her “chère grenouille.” Then Alen?on began to hector and threaten Simier, and ordered him to return. Simier replied that he was no longer in his service, and would not budge8 until it suited him; and against this Alen?on could only chafe9 fruitlessly and continue his complaints to the Queen. All that she, and indeed the whole country, wanted was to see her too persistent10 suitor himself across the sea284 Cecil pointed11 out to him that if he stayed over New Year’s Day it would cost him a very large sum in presents, which he might save if he left before; but still he would not go, and Elizabeth began to get angry. She told Cecil on Christmas night that she would not marry Alen?on to be empress of the world, and the next day the Lord Treasurer12 made another strenuous13 attempt to get him away, but he found him more obstinate14 than ever. He said he had been drawn15 into this Flemish adventure by the English on the bait of a marriage with the Queen, and until she had married him he would stir no further, whatever might happen. If the Queen contemned16 and threw him over he would arouse Catholic Christendom to avenge17 him. This alarmed her, and she again sought to bend him to her will by tears, cajoleries, and blandishments. It was not her fault, she said; would he not accept her as a dear friend and sister instead of as a wife? No, he replied; he had suffered, risked, and lost too much to give up the quest now. He would rather die than leave here unmarried to her. Did he, the Queen asked, mean to threaten a poor old woman in her own country? Was this the only result of all his boasted love for her? If she did not think that his violence was inspired by the strength of his affection for her she would surely think him crazy, and she warned him not to sacrifice his best friends by such words. He melted at this, poor, overwrought, sorely-beset lad as he was, burst into tears, and swore he would rather be torn into a thousand bits than lose the hope of marrying her, and thus become the laughing-stock of the whole world. In this mood the Queen could deal with him; she285 mingled18 her tears with his, wiped his wet cheeks with her own handkerchief, and “consoled him with words more tender even than the occasion demanded.”152 As soon as Alen?on had left her she sent for Sussex, and told him what had passed. She would rather, she said, succeed in getting Alen?on gone without offence than possess another kingdom. She was much disturbed, especially that Alen?on had sent an account to France, as he said he had, of the giving of the pledge and ring. For his own dignity’s sake she thought he ought not to have done so, as her pledge was purely19 conditional20, and the King had not seen fit to accede21 to her conditions. Besides, she could not bring herself to the idea of marriage, which had always been repugnant to her; “and she hated it more every day, for reasons which she would not divulge22 to a twin soul if she had one, much less to any living creature.” She entered into a very complete defence of her action in the matter to Sussex, and wound up with, “And now, by God! what living man in future will ever dare to throw the blame on me, seeing that they want to pin me down to a contract that was only conditional?” Poor, honest, consumptive Sussex was certainly not the man to disagree with her, and promised to do his best to get Alen?on away in a good humour. There was an excellent reason why the Queen should prime Sussex with arguments in her justification23, because he was the only councillor who was a hard-and-fast advocate of the match, and she knew that all she said to him would be repeated both to Castelnau and to Alen?on’s friends. But Sussex could no more get286 rid of him than could Cecil. The Queen, seeing the possibility of her terms being accepted by Henry III., tried on one occasion to raise the religious difficulty again. Look how difficult it would be, she said to Alen?on, for them to live together if one were a Protestant and the other a Catholic; but he soon met this objection by swearing that he would be a Protestant for her sake, and she dropped the subject.
On New Year’s Day a grand tournament was given in his honour, where he made a determined24 attempt to revive the idea of a romantic affection for the Queen. When he had to appear in the jousts25 he entered mounted on a chariot fashioned in the form of a rock, to which he was bound by heavy fetters26. He was drawn by figures representing Love and Fate to the Queen’s feet; and Fate addressed to her Majesty27 some couplets beseeching29 her to restore the prisoner to his cherished liberty, and then to forget her vow3 of chastity and let Hymen bind30 their hearts together. The Duke acquitted31 himself well in the tourney, and the Queen, before all the company, embraced him again and again for his gallantry. At night she accompanied him to the door of his apartment, and came to visit him before he was out of bed the next morning.153 This was all very fine and quite raised poor Alen?on’s spirits for the time; but our present knowledge enables us to see quite clearly that all these cajoleries were only with the object of getting him away with a good grace.
But if Alen?on failed to understand this his astute32 mother had no doubt about it, and wrote sharply, reproaching him for his sacrifice of dignity and his interests in submitting to be played with in287 this way. A marriage with an infanta of Spain was once more held out to him, but he knew that his return to France without an alliance and without money would have reduced him to impotence and to the scorn and derision of his brother’s Catholic subjects; and he obstinately33 held on and refused to go. At last matters began to look serious in England. The murmurs34 at Alen?on’s continued stay became deeper and deeper. Leicester and Hatton secretly fanned the flame of discontent at the dreaded35 match until it was ready to burst out at any time; and Cecil went to the Queen and told her that since promises were ineffectual she had better give her suitor a large sum of ready money to induce him to go to the aid of the States, which were now in desperate straits. They had sent a deputation to urge Alen?on to give them a definite answer as to whether he would accept their offer of sovereignty and come over at once or not. He replied that they must do the best they could with the small aid he had already sent them, as he was determined not to go until the Queen had married him, convinced as he was that he would not be supported in the war by her and his brother unless he was married. But when it came to giving ready money frugal36 Elizabeth was on her guard, and told Cecil that the King of France had not yet sent her an answer to her last conditions, and she was informed that Lansac was on the way with it. She must wait until he arrived. It was clear that if the reply was negative the responsibility for breaking off the marriage would not be hers, and she was not bound to give more money than she felt inclined.
But Simier knew what he was talking about when288 he warned her that the King would accept any terms in the end for the sake of getting quit of his troublesome brother, and although Lansac did not come with the reply, the son of Secretary Pinart arrived in London on the 11th of January bringing with him a complete acceptance by the King, the Queen-mother, and the leading Huguenots, of all Elizabeth’s conditions. This was a facer indeed. Catharine de Medici had beaten her at her own game. But the answer did not find her unprepared: Simier had some days before informed her of its purport37, and she had privately38 summoned Cecil to a conference to devise a way out of the difficulty. He pointed out that as no one could bring the King of France to book if he failed to fulfil the conditions after the marriage had been effected, and Elizabeth was running all the risk in marrying, whilst the King of France incurred39 none at all, it was only reasonable that he should place the town of Calais into her hands as a security for the due execution of the treaty. This was a device after Elizabeth’s own heart and she adopted it with effusion, pledging Cecil to secrecy40 and at the same time beguiling41 Sussex with the hope that the marriage would now really take place, all difficulties being overcome. This latter view was, as was intended, immediately conveyed to Alen?on, and when young Pinart came with his message, the Prince burst into tears at his brother’s love and goodness to him, and bitterly denounced those who had so long estranged42 them by lies and intrigues43. As soon as the Queen was alone he flew to her, bursting with the great news, and said that all her conditions being complied with she had only to say yes and the marriage would289 be concluded. She was kindly45, but cool and collected, and told him she would settle the matter with him in a couple of days.
The next morning Alen?on sent Marchaumont to implore46 the good offices of Cecil, but the old minister said that the matter was entirely47 in the Queen’s hands, and he was powerless to do anything but express his opinion if the Council was consulted. Sussex was then appealed to, but it happened that he was sulking just then because Marchaumont had persuaded Alen?on to make much of Leicester; and he replied that they had better get the support of their new friend as they appeared to have forgotten their old one, who had done so much for them. This rather damped the young Prince’s hopes, and when he saw the Queen in the evening he pressed her very warmly for an answer. She coolly answered that the King’s communication would be duly considered in Council and a reply given in ordinary course—until then she could say no more. Alen?on lost his temper at this, and they wrangled48 until they parted.
Elizabeth had to thank her “faithful ape” for the fix in which she found herself. She had opened her inmost heart to him, and he had understood that she would really never marry, but proposed unacceptable conditions in order that the King’s rejection49 of them might relieve her of the responsibility of the failure whilst binding50 Alen?on personally to her and raising discord51 between him and his brother. Simier, as I have said, was now in the King’s pay and faithfully transmitted his knowledge to France. It was perfectly53 safe, therefore, for Henry III. to promise on paper to accept any conditions, and thus at one290 stroke to earn the gratitude54 of his brother and cast all responsibility upon the Queen of England. Elizabeth must have had some suspicion of her “ape’s” falsity, because a day or so after young Pinart arrived, Alen?on, who looked upon Simier as the author of all his disappointment, entered the Queen’s chamber55 and implored56 her to send him away. She was apparently57 hesitating when the Prince whipped out his dagger58 and pressed it against his own breast, swearing by God that he would drive it home and die at her feet if she would not promise him on the spot to dismiss Simier. She replied that he had no need to go to such extremes as that, and that although it was hardly fair to send him away until he had obtained justification, she would do so to please Alen?on. Simier was therefore sent off with letters to the Duke of Montpensier, who, within a given time, was to exonerate59 him from the charges against him in Alen?on’s name. Before he left, however, he asked the Queen what she was going to do for Alen?on to recompense him for his expenditure60 in England; to which she replied that she had already done three things for him. She had sent ￡30,000 in cash to help him in the Cambrai affair, she had maintained him in England for a long time, whereby he saved his usual outlay61 and could employ the money in Flanders, and she had been no party to his going there at all. She said she was very sorry she had carried the marriage negotiations so far, but it was all Simier’s fault, “because the first time Alen?on came he, Simier, insisted upon his having another interview with her before he left.”154
291 In the meanwhile the sudden complaisance62 of the King of France aroused all sorts of suspicion in the Queen’s mind. It might be a plan for her ruin, she thought, to induce her to entrust63 large English forces to Alen?on who might at once turn round and make terms with the Spaniards to her detriment64, and she was more loath65 than ever to be over-liberal with him or to allow him to obtain uncontrolled power in the Netherlands. Orange kept writing to Alen?on, showing him how badly he was acting66 in breaking his promise to the States and lingering in England, but Elizabeth and St. Aldegonde in England were at the same time putting their heads together and planning that if he did go, Orange and his Protestants should always be the stronger power.
In order to ascertain67 whether anything was being arranged between the French and the Spaniards the Queen took the opportunity, on the night of the 21st of January, as she was walking in the gallery at Whitehall with Alen?on, to say that she had decided68 to come to terms with Philip. Poor Alen?on was thunderstruck at this specious69 piece of news, and told Marchaumont afterwards that he could only suppose the Queen meant to leave him floundering in the morass70 into which she had led him. But this was not her only shot at the same interview. She had already fully52 primed Simier, who was still lingering here, with similar intelligence, and had arranged that he should enter the gallery by a private door, of which he had the key, as soon as she had fired her shot. Directly he entered she discreetly71 said it would not become her to stand between master and servant, and retired72, leaving Alen?on and the “ape” together. The Prince turned upon his292 former favourite, and sneeringly73 asked why he was still staying in England. Was he afraid that he, Alen?on, would have him killed if he went to France? “No,” said Simier, “I do not think you would have me killed, but I do fear that I should be murdered by some of my enemies.” Then Alen?on opened the floodgates of his anger and piled reproach upon reproach on the devoted74 head of poor Simier. He had sold and betrayed his master, he told him; it was through him alone that the marriage had fallen through, and he had been the means of frustrating75 his hopes of intervening in the Netherlands. As soon as he could get in a word, Simier asked the Prince to tell him what he had done to cause all this. “You have discredited76 and defamed the best friend I have in England, the Earl of Leicester,” replied the irate77 Prince, “and he has consequently been unable to influence the Queen in my favour as he would otherwise have done.”
Simier was not long in conveying this to the Queen, and took care to have another fling at his enemy, Leicester, at the same time. He was surprised, he said, as all the world was, that she should still favour a man who had deceived her as Leicester had done by telling her he was not married when he was. But Elizabeth’s object was not to quarrel with Leicester, but to learn by the hasty words of Alen?on whether he was intriguing78 with the King of Spain, and she turned the subject by saying that Leicester was too powerful to be disgraced all at once. The consideration of the King of France’s reply was undertaken the next day by the Council, but no decision was arrived at, as the Queen and Cecil alone really knew what her plans were. Cecil293 said something to the Queen before the Council about three masses being celebrated79 every morning in London now, i.e., those of Alen?on, the Dauphin, and Marchaumont, whereas by the marriage treaty one only could take place even after the marriage. She told him to have a little patience and leave it to her. They and their masses would soon be across the sea. The same night at her customary walk in the gallery with Alen?on she opened her batteries. She pointed out to him that it would be much better to abandon the Netherlands enterprise; nothing but danger and trouble could come to him from it. If she did not marry him she was sure the King of France would not help him, and she alone was unable to sustain the whole cost, particularly now that the States themselves were exhausted80 and wavering; whereas, on the other hand, if she did marry him, it was equally certain that her ministers and people would not consent to be brought into conflict with so powerful a state as Spain. She was more inclined at present to come to terms and bring about peace. He might see by this, she said, that he was not likely to benefit whether he married her or not. Alen?on quite broke down at this, and as soon as he could get away flew to his false friend Leicester to ask him what was the meaning of it. It was all, said Leicester, the fault of Sussex, who had continued to advise the Queen to make friends with the King of Spain. So the next morning after dinner the young Prince made a formal complaint against Sussex, who he said had accepted Spanish bribes81 to frustrate82 the marriage—which was not true—and not only that, but he had undertaken to serve Philip even against his own mistress, as he294 was informed by the French ambassador in Madrid. Elizabeth stoutly83 defended honest Sussex against this calumny84, but she took care to repeat it all to him as soon as Alen?on was gone, and told him that she would never trust the Prince again after he had so defamed in this way those who were his oldest and best friends. Sussex, for his part, could only swear with tears in his eyes to be avenged85 upon the authors of such a falsehood. Everything that Alen?on did and said, therefore, was turned to his disadvantage. At last, after all this preparation, the Queen gave him her final reply. Calais and Havre must both be garrisoned86 with Englishmen as a security for her that the King of France would fulfil all his promises. Alen?on could hardly believe his ears. Was she in earnest, he asked, and was this the final reply? Certainly, replied the Queen, and she could give no other: and Alen?on, thunderstruck, flung out of the room in a rage, now thoroughly87 undeceived. He at once called a council of his friends, and told them how he had been betrayed. His honour must be avenged at all costs, but for the present he must dissemble with the Queen, as her help was necessary to enable him first to wreak88 his vengeance upon the prime author of his downfall, his false brother the King, who had sent Simier hither, knowing he could do as he liked with the Queen, in order to frustrate the marriage. The sinister89 tyrant90 his brother, and his evil-minded mother had plotted against his welfare, and he would be even with them. His mother’s only object was to keep him under her thumb in France in order to hold his brother the better in her thraldom91. There were two courses open to him, he295 said: first, to carry on the war in Flanders; and secondly92, to raise civil war in France. The first he could not do without the English Queen’s help, which he probably could not get, as she was in treaty with the Spaniards, and he was certain his brother would not aid him; but the Queen would willingly support him in a Huguenot war in France, as she had promised the King of Navarre to do so. After much of this heated talk and denunciation of the proud Guises93, in which Marchaumont and de Quincy added fuel to the fire, the Prince Dauphin, old beyond his years, who had hitherto remained silent, being urged by Alen?on to give his opinion, turned a cold stream of good sense on the inflated94 balderdash of Alen?on and his friends. He would have nothing to do with treason, he said, and warned them to take care they did not lose their heads for such talk. This fairly frightened them all, and Alen?on took him apart in a window recess95 and prayed him earnestly not to desert him. But the Dauphin was obdurate96; he would leave for France at once, and consort97 no more with the enemies of his King. He and the spies behind the arras soon told everything to cautious old Pinart, who had brought the King’s reply, and he flew to the Queen to urge her not to help Alen?on against his brother. She had not heard a word about such a project, she truly said, but Pinart did not quite know whether to believe her, and warned her in almost threatening words of her danger if she listened to talk which would bring all Christendom down upon her. Then he went and rated Alen?on soundly, who began to whimper, protesting that he did not mean anything wrong, and collapsed98 completely.
296 Elizabeth had now quite satisfied herself that there was no arrangement between Alen?on, his brother, and Spain; and at the same time had brought the poor creature to a sufficiently99 chastened and humble100 frame of mind, so she could without misgiving101 send him off to the Netherlands on her own terms. Seeing him in his barge102 on the river, she ordered her own and joined him, and persuaded him that it was at all events his duty to keep his word and accede to the invitation of the States to go to Flanders, and when he had been there he might retire or stay as he thought best. She would give him ￡30,000 in cash for his expenses and a regular subsidy103 for the war, with some ships to take him to Flushing. Alen?on was glum104 and tearful, but had no alternative. The ships were waiting for him, the money ready in the exchequer105, and the deputation from the States with St. Aldegonde pressing for his departure. Events and Elizabeth were too strong for him, and he consented to sail next day for Protestant Zeeland, instead of first to Catholic Flanders, where he and his Frenchmen might have caused trouble to the Queen of England. All was settled for the Prince to sail on the next morning, the 25th of January. Sussex was sent to say that the Queen desired that all future correspondence between them should be carried on through Simier, but this Alen?on refused point blank, said he would have no more to do with him, and complained to Sussex bitterly of the Queen’s demand for Calais and Havre, and of his brother for refusing them. But before the morning came another change occurred. A courier came post-haste to Pinart from France urging him, as he loved his King and country to297 keep Alen?on in England at any cost rather than allow him to drag his brother into trouble with Spain by going to the Netherlands. Alen?on thereupon feigned106 illness, and Pinart went to the Queen and threatened that if she were too exacting107 France might join with Spain and put Mary Stuart on the throne. Although the King could not give her Calais and Havre as security, he would send such hostages as should satisfy her. This thoroughly alarmed the Queen, who kept Lady Stafford awake all night with her lamentations, and was in a high fever in the morning. She was still in bed after dinner, when she sent for Sussex in great trouble, and told him she must marry Alen?on after all. Pinart threatened her with all sorts of dangers, and besides that she must have a companion in the government to enable her to curb108 her insolent109 favourites, which she, a lone44 woman, could not do. She knew this was the way to appeal to Sussex, who hated Leicester with all his heart, but these changes from hour to hour had completely obfuscated110 him, and he could only beseech28 her to do as she thought best, and not to ask his opinion until he knew hers. She begged him at least to say what he thought about the proposal to give hostages, and he gave it as his opinion that she ought to insist upon her demand for the ports. Immediately afterwards a Council was called, when, the marriage now appearing again possible, Leicester and Hatton, who had been loaded with French bribes, showed in their true colours. They both opposed the match strenuously111. It was a danger, they said, to England and to religion, and no words were strong enough to condemn112 it. Sussex, of298 course, was in favour of it, and he and Leicester were about to come to fisticuffs when Cecil stepped between them, and told them that the question of marriage or no marriage was in the hands of the Queen—all they had to consider was what security should be exacted if the marriage took place. They broke up in confusion, without coming to any decision, and Cecil alone remained afterwards in conclave113 with the Queen, the result of their conference being that the ships were again ordered to make ready to sail with Alen?on.
When Pinart found that his threats to Elizabeth had produced no permanent result, he fell back upon his alternative instructions, to threaten Alen?on that if he went to the Netherlands under English auspices114 he and his followers115 should be treated as rebels and the enemies of France. This again alarmed the Queen, who next tried her cajoleries on Pinart. What were his final instructions, she asked, with all her battery of fascinations116; but he said he would not tell her until he received her decided reply about the marriage, and only warned her to desist from helping117 Alen?on in the Netherlands, or evil would come of it both to him and to her. She said she had not urged him to it, and had only helped him after he began, whilst she now thought it was better for him to retire and have done with the business. All this fickleness118 left poor Alen?on in a chaotic119 condition of mind from day to day. First the Queen would give him ￡30,000, then a mere120 trifle of 20,000 crowns, then nothing, then ￡70,000, and so on, Cecil being strongly of opinion that no large sum should be furnished to him; but withal every effort was made to get him gone in a good humour. He was tardy299 and unwilling121, afraid of Pinart’s threats, and full of sulky vows of vengeance against the Queen for sending him away unmarried. He was only dissembling, he told his friends; they should all see what he would do before he went. Poor creature! he could do nothing but impotently grumble122 and vapour, mere twig123 as he was on the torrent124 of events, borne hither and thither125 by stronger minds than his own.
The Queen on one occasion told him that he would only be away three weeks, and should then come back and marry her; the castle of Dover was already, she said, being prepared for his reception when he returned; and although he smiled at this, and feigned pleasure, he was no sooner alone with Marchaumont than he burst into an agony of tears, swore that he would only live to be revenged on her, if he had to make friends with his brother for the sake of doing it. But still from that day he hung back on one pretext126 or another. Marchaumont and most of his friends had been bribed127 by the Queen to persuade him to go, and they used every artifice128 with that object. How would he like, they asked him, to go back to France, and dance attendance on La Valette and d’Arques, his brother’s mignons? Better surely, they said, suffer any hardship in Flanders than put up with such an indignity129 as that! As soon as they had persuaded him, Pinart would come and threaten all manner of terrible things if he trusted to rebels and heretics. At last, on the 1st of February, on the arrival of a new deputation from the States, the Queen prevailed upon him to start for Dover with her by his side. Leicester, Hunsdon, and Howard were to accompany300 him, and the Queen told the Prince that if he did not like to stay he could come back with the Earl in three weeks, and she would then have decided about the marriage. Sussex took the opportunity of urging Alen?on secretly to keep Leicester in Flanders when he arrived, but he was powerless to do anything, for the money, except 20,000 crowns for his expenses, was handed to Hunsdon and Leicester to be laid out for the benefit of the States; and it was well understood that the French prince was to be a mere figurehead to beguile130 the Catholic Flemings. Every demonstration the Queen could make was made. She went with him as far as Canterbury, weeping copiously131 all the way. On taking leave of him she cast herself about his neck and asked him not to go until they learnt whether there was any danger from the Spaniards at Antwerp as was reported. The Flushing deputation had urged him somewhat roughly to set out; and she flared132 up at their disrespect, called them heretical cobblers and tinkers to dare to talk like that to a prince. It was all make-believe of course, though she swore to her own ministers that she would not live an hour but for the hope of her lover’s prompt return, for she was determined to marry him in spite of everything.155
She gave him a personal present of ￡25,000 when she left him, and told him that a wound on his little finger would pierce her heart. Amongst all these blandishments the real object appears when we learn that she urged him above all things to obtain help from his brother. If she could only bring France and Spain to loggerheads she would be safe. Leicester, by means of Hatton, tried at301 the last moment to shirk the voyage, but the Queen threatened them both with all sorts of penalties if such disrespect were “shown to the person she loved best in the world,” but the real reason why she was so anxious for Leicester to go was that he bore secret instructions to Orange to detain Alen?on in Holland at any cost, and never let him come back to England, notwithstanding that the Queen had given him her word at parting that if he would only return to her in six weeks she would marry him on the conditions that Pinart had propounded133. The scales, however, were gradually falling from the Prince’s eyes, for before he went Marchaumont, who stayed in England, was instructed to make approaches for his marriage with the wealthy daughter of the Duke of Florence.
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