"So you, great lord, that with your counsel sway The burden of this kingdom mightily, With like delights sometimes may eke delay The rugged brow of careful policy."
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Edmund Spenser, dedicatory sonnet, The Faerie Queene (1590)
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Christopher Hatton
Sir Christopher Hatton (12 December 1540 – 20 November 1591) was an English politician, Lord Chancellor of England and a favourite of Elizabeth I. He was one of the judges who found Mary, Queen of Scots guilty of treason.
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