Sir John Packington was a gentleman of no mean family, and of form and
feature nowise disabled, for he was a brave gentleman, and a very fine
courtier, and for the time which he stayed there, which was not lasting,
very high in her grace; but he came in, and went out through
disassiduity, drew the curtain between himself and the light of her
grace, and then death overwhelmed the remnant, and utterly deprived him
of recovery; and they say of him that had he brought less to her Court
than he did, he might have carried away more than he brought, for he had
a time of it, but was an ill husband of opportunity.