Queen Elizabeth's Courage.
We do not now regard the comet as one of those signs that forerun the death or fall of kings, but thh superstition was still current in the time of Queen Elizabeth, though,to the amazement of her courtiers, the Queen calmly scorned it. The curious thing was that it was always thought that if the sovereign would refrain from looking at the malignant celestial passer-by no harm would come to her. On one occasion Elizabeth's attendants shut and curtained her windows, but Her Majesty, as might have been expected, with a courage answerable to the greatness of her estate,caused them to be opened, crying "as she looked up, "Jacta est alea" —"the die is cast.'" Then, like Cnut on the seashore, she read her people a homily, asserting that her steadfast hope and confidence was too firmly planted in the providence of God to be blasted or affrighted with those ; beams, which either had a ground in ' nature whereupon to rise, or at least j no warrant in Scripture to portend tbe I mishaps of princes, i ======
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King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 142, 25 March 1909, Page 3
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180Queen Elizabeth's Courage. King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 142, 25 March 1909, Page 3
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