AN OLD STORY SHAKEN UP.
As Queen Elizabeth, attended by Sir Walter Baleigjh and a retinue] of gilded courtiers, was one day waking through the streets of London, sihe came to a particularlymuddyspotwhichshehesitated to cross. Raleigh was about to throwdown his cloak before her in order that she might cross dry shod, when he reflected that it was of costly velvet, lavishly ornamented with gold lace, and so would infallibly be spoiled. 'Accordingly, with great presence of mind, he whispered loudly to Sir Christopher Hatton that he had always contended, and would with his heart's blood maintain, that Her Majesty had the smallest feet and neatest ankles in the world, and tbat the calumnious report that she wore elevens was a malignant invention of the Spanish court. Nor did the rose fail of its effect, as the Virgin Queen, lifting her royal skirts with almost exaggerated enthusiasm, went through the puddle with characteristic resolution, and halting on the farther side, shook her sceptre under the nose of the Spanish ambassador, 'demanding of the astonished diplomat with a royal oath: " Are they elevens, you Romish dogP Are they elevens P" ; v
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4567, 24 August 1883, Page 2
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190AN OLD STORY SHAKEN UP. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4567, 24 August 1883, Page 2
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