Excerpt from The Queen's Progress, and Other Elizabethan Sketches
Shadows in her nature, there were no depths; or at least that, if there were once depths, so consummate a mistress of deception and subterfuge had she become that it is idle to enquire if she were ever sincere. Brilliant, accomplished and imperious, tortuous in details, unscrupulous in choice of means to an end as her master Machiavelli himself almost, this latest daughter of the Italian Renaissance preserved again like Machia velli a largeness of design in her political.
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