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Show 27 General and.Eldzabethts special representative. Essex General of Horse. as taste for martial developed the drastically his position .and.as a Sir During his stay glory seems that in later years was to as a impair so political leader During the few battles fought in this cam- both to have handled himself well and to have been well by his officers and Philip Sidney in the Low Countires Essex at court and his effectiveness both dispenser of patronage. paign, Essex liked 36 With him went the Earl of was men. Shortly after the skirmish at Essex mortally wounded, was Zutphen, in which knighted by his step-father. Leicester's campaign was, unfortunately, "more spectacular than active. 1f As G. B. Harrison states: It disaster for Essex that his first introduction to the service was a of the State should have been in tacular than active. fected with the sion is In his most romance religion, a a older than the a Essex's something important the Hereafter Essex 38 soldier. military adventures of the marr's interests and as far as his career as a Low Countires that Essex and difference in their ·ages 36 37 are (Sidney was more impressionable years he of war, for to and ecstasies. things, campaign which some oldest, regarded himself own profes code, ritual as, above all Perhaps impressionability. is Sidney became close friends. good twelve pp. 10-21. 38 even more concerned, it was in Despite the years older than Essex, who Harrison, pp. 10-11. Ibid., in importance, for they indicate patron of letters was a was the soldier's with its of spec Ibid., p. 33In. 37 |
