tin, as Lord Warden of the Stannaries. But he has so wrought as to
bring good out of evil; for 'before the granting of his patent, let
the price of tin be never so high, the poor workman never had but two
shillings a week'; yet now, so has he extended and organised the tin-
works, 'that any man who will can find work, be tin at what price
soever, and have four shillings a week truly paid . . . Yet if all
others may be repealed, I will give my consent as freely to the
cancelling of this as any member of this house.' Most of the
monopolies were repealed: but we do not find that Raleigh's was
among them. Why should it be if its issue was more tin, full work,
and double wages? In all things this man approves himself faithful
in his generation. His sins are not against man, but against God;
such as the world thinks no sins, and hates them, not from morality,
but from envy.

In the meanwhile, the evil which, so Spenser had prophesied, only
waited Raleigh's death breaks out in his absence, and Ireland is all
aflame with Tyrone's rebellion. Raleigh is sent for. He will not
accept the post of Lord Deputy and go to put it down. Perhaps he
does not expect fair play as long as Essex is at home. Perhaps he
knows too much of the 'common weal, or rather common woe,' and thinks
that what is crooked cannot be made straight. Perhaps he is afraid
to lose by absence his ground at court. Would that he had gone, for
Ireland's sake and his own. However, it must not be. Ormond is
recalled, and Knollys shall be sent: but Essex will have none but
Sir George Carew; whom, Naunton says, he hates, and wishes to oust
from court. He and Elizabeth argue it out. He turns his back on
her, and she gives him--or does not give him, for one has found so
many of these racy anecdotes vanish on inspection into simple wind,
that one believes none of them--a box on the ear; which if she did,