for beholding foreign, or, as
they were then accounted, monstrous animals, may be found scattered over
the works of Shakespeare and contemporary dramatists. Trinculo says,
speaking of Caliban, "Were I but in England now... and had but this fish
painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver.
There would this monster _make_ a man; any strange beast there makes a
man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will
lay out ten to see a dead Indian." And again; "Do you put tricks upon's
with savages and men of Inde?" &c. The whole play of the Tempest,
exquisite as it is, must have derived a still more poignant relish, to
the taste of that age, from the romantic ideas of desert islands then
floating in the imaginations of men.

In the following year, 1592, Raleigh, weary of his Irish exile, and
anxious by some splendid exploit to revive the declining favor of the
queen, projected a formidable attack on the Spanish power in America,
and engaged without difficulty in the enterprise a large number of
volunteers. But unavoidable obstacles arose, by which the fleet was
detained till the proper season for its sailing was past: Elizabeth
recalled Raleigh to court; and the only fortunate result of the
expedition, to the command of which Martin Frobisher succeeded, was the
capture of one wealthy carrack and the destruction of another.

Raleigh, in the meantime, was amusing his involuntary idleness by an
intrigue with one of her majesty's maids of honor, a daughter of the
celebrated sir Nicholas Throgmorton. The queen, in the heat of her
indignation at the scandal brought upon her court by the consequences of
this amour, resorted, as in a thousand other cases, to a vigor beyond
the laws; and though sir Walter offered immediately to make the lady the
best reparation in his power, by marrying her, which he afterwards
performed, Elizabeth unfeelingly published her shame to the whole world
by sending both culprits to the Tower.

Sir Walter remained a prisoner during several months. Meanwhile his
ships returned from their cruise, and the profits from the sale of the
captured carrack were to be divided among the queen, the admiral, the
sailors, and the several contributors to the outfit. Disputes arose; her
majesty was dissatisfied with the share allotted her; and taking
advantage of the situation into which her own despotic violence had
thrown Raleigh, she appears to have compelled him to buy his