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54 8 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [en. 46. would neither consent nor refuse. She had not ques- tioned the justice of Sidney's report ; she was * heated and provoked with the monster ' who was the cause of so much difficulty. Yet to ask her for money was to ask her for her heart's blood. ' Your lordship's experi- ence of negotiation here in such affairs with her Ma- jesty/ wrote Cecil, ' can move you to bear patiently some storms in the expedition ; ' ' the charge was the hindrance ; ' and while she could not deny that it was necessary, she could not forgive the plain- ness with which the necessity had been forced upon her. She quarrelled in detail with everything which Sidney did ; she disapproved of the Munster council because Ireland could not pay for it ; and it was use- less to tell her that Ireland must be first brought into obedience. She was irritated because Sidney, unable to see with sufficient plainness the faults of Desmond and the exclusive virtues of Ormond, had refused to adjudi- cate without the help of English lawyers, in a quarrel which he did not understand. She disapproved of Sir Warham St Leger because his father Sir Anthony had been on bad terms with the father of Ormond; she insisted that Sidney should show favour to Ormond, ' in memory of his education with that holy young Solomon King Edward ; ' * and she complained bitterly of the employment of Stukely. It was not till April was far advanced that the Cecil to Sidney, March 27 : Irish MSS. Rolls House.