Robert Dudley's final letter

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A short clip on the last letter Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester wrote to Elizabeth I just prior to his death in September 1588. The entire letter: 'I most humbly beseech your Majesty to pardon your poor old servant to be thus bold in sending to know how my gracious lady doth, and what ease of her late pain she finds, being the chiefest thing in the world I do pray for, for her to have good health and long life. For my own poor case, I continue still your medicine and find that [it] amends ...