...see Lord Burleigh here, and finding him suffering from gout made him sit in her presence, saying, " My Lord, we make use of you not for the badness of your legs but for the goodness of your head." There is also a tradition that once calling here, decorated with that elaborate headdress she was wont...

..."because of the badness of my legs," the queen graciously replied: "We do not make use of you, My Lord, for the badness of your legs, but for the goodness of your head." The famous Exeter Hall occupied this site later, but was demolished in 1908. In York Street, laid out...

...her favorite and found him suffering from gout, whereupon she made him sit in her presence, saying, 'My lord, we make use of you not for the badness of your legs, but for the goodness of your head.' Lord Burleigh died five years before his sovereign, and was succeeded by his son Thomas, whom James...