given her by st john of the handsome and the shown by her little page to die rather than see her after failing to deliver her letter joined with her own appearance mark her very well the following is a prose sketch of her as seen in common life sir s portrait of of she is of too high a mind and dignity not only to seek but almost to wish the friendship of any creature they whom she is pleased to choose are such as are of the most eminent condition both for power and employment not with any design towards her own r sterling either of or curiosity but her nature fortunate persons as virtuous she prefers uie conversation of men to that of women not but she can talk on the fashions with her female friends but she is too soon sensible that she can set them as she wills that pre eminence all equality she with those who are most distinguished for their powers of love freely will she discourse listen to all its faults and mark all its power she cannot herself love in earnest but she will play with love and will take a deep interest for persons of condition and � see life of in a cabinet vol p the noblest trait given her in the play is the justice she is able to do charles after his treachery has consigned to the tower lady and ho betrayed you he i it cannot be there s not a in his court so vile holland nor would deceive a trust like that i placed in him nor would so seeming heart felt words as those he he s not entirely vile and yet he did it this seen in with her out pouring of contempt upon the king when present makes out a character as a whole that given her by the poet is not only nobler than the one assigned her in history but opposed to it in a vital point the play after has set forth for the with the from her left in the tower where she has on his last moments alone henceforth forever while history makes her transfer her attachment to who must have been in her eyes s murderer on the score of her love of intellectual power in which all other considerations were this is a character so odious and in a woman so unnatural that we are tempted rather to suppose it was hatred of the king for his base and treacherous conduct towards that induced her lo betray to the counsels of the court as the best means of revenge such a version of her motives would not be vol iv � no iii u sterling inconsistent with the character assigned her in the play it would be making her the agent to execute her own curse so spoken after she finds the king willing to save himself by the sacrifice of s life the woman s mad her passion the skies l i brave them not i but their justice to rain hot curses on a tyrant s head henceforth i set myself apart for mischief to find and prompt men capable of hate until some dagger in s blood at the heart of s murderer charles his murderer o god � no no � not that sinks back into a seat and here i call on all the powers above us to aid the deep of my curse and make this treason to the noblest man that moves alive within our english seas fatal to him and all his race a worth it ne er could stars in your glory vital air and sun and thou dark earth our cradle nurse and grave and more than all free truth and justice with all your dreadful influence against bis blood whose crime ye now behold make him a and a name of woe a conquered warrior and a outcast to teach kings the law of evil power till by an end more and than his great victim s and with heavier pain let him off to a detested grave and now i give your majesty leave to go and may you carry from my house away that fixed of the heart which i have helped your thoughts to fasten there if these burning words had as much power to her own heart as they must that of the we only realize our when we find her sending to the five members the news of the intention of charles to arrest them thus placing him in a position equally ridiculous and miserable incurred all the of this violent transaction to no purpose that might well be a proud moment of gratified vengeance to her when he stood amid the sullen and outraged parliament baffled like a as a thief exclaiming the birds are flown and all owing to the of the honorable lady car the play opens with s return to london he is made to return in rather a temper from what he really did not only trusting the king but in his own greatness fearless of the popular hatred the opening scenes are very good compact well wrought and showing at the very beginning the probable fortunes of the scene by making the characters the agents of their own a weight of tragedy is laid upon the heart and at the same time we are inspired with deep interest as to how it shall be acted out appears before us as he does in history a grand and melancholy whose dignity lay in his energy of will and large scope of action not in his perception of principles or virtue in carrying them out for his faith in the need of absolute sway to control the herd does not merit the name of a principle in my thought the promise of grows to the self same stature as the need which is gigantic 