Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-09-07

popping of the question was Instantly fol-
lowed by public execution. Hamlet was
to solicit the hand of this lady for the King
of Britain, who had-recently become Wild
over, and the Scottish queen, it was hoped.
would dispatch him according to precedent.
Thus would FeHgo be avenged. and the
British king would be released from his
moral difficulty.
However, when Hamlet reached the Scot
fish court, affairs took turn which the king
Of Britain had not contemplated. The terri
rible queen was greatly struck by picture
on Hamlet's shield, and told him IN few
words, that if be would WOO her on bis own
account, instead of counting by proxy, she
would gladly bestow her hand upon him.
The queen was not only fierce but. fair, and
Hamlet's heart had ever been susceptible to
feminine beauty. Therefore, we grieve to
relate, he jumped at the offer, regardless of
the tie in the south of the island, and having
married the Queen of Scotland, had the con-
summate assurance to return to the king OF
Britain, with his new wife, and train of
young Scots at his heels.
Hamlet's first wife, the British princess,
was gentle, forglving creature, who was SO
delighted at her husbands safe return, that
she vowed not only to love him still, but to
love his second wife also. With these pro-
fesions she met him on the road bearing in
her arms an infant to which she had lately
given birth. At the same time she warned
him that her father did not entertain the
same liberal views on the subject of family
affronts, and that he had better be on his
guard against stratagtm. When this anna
BILE discourse had proceeded so far, the old
king came up, embraced Hamlet as nothing
mad happened, and invited him To banquet
in the palace. Hamlet was nothing 10th, bat
as bis old prudence did not forsake him, he
managed to put on a suit of armour, which
was concealed by his upper garments. Nor
did this precaution prove useless, for no
sooner did Hamlet make his appearance at
the palace gate, than the king fang spear
that would have gone through the body OF
the Dane, had it not been checked by the IN
expected obstacle. The enmity of the king
being thus revealed, Hamlet retreated to the
spot where be had left his Scottish adherents !;
but Was Immediately pursured by his enemy,
who routed the little force of Scotsmen, and
would have destroyed every man OF them,
had he not been interrupted by the approach
of night. When darknsS had set in. Hamlet
did one of those clever things, that have
justly earned Immortality in the Danish
chronicles. Instead OF resting himself, he
carefully picked up the bodies of the slain,
and raising some into the perpendicular with
the aid sticks and big stones, while be placed
others on horseback, he made them present
a very formidable appearance. Hence, when
morning broke and the Britons saw the new
force. they stood stupidity staring, wondering
whence the auXiliaries could have come.
Hamlet was not the man to lose an oppor-
tunity at the head OF his remaining Scots
men, he charged the gaping Britons. where
upon general rOut ensued, IN which the
king was slain.
Matters being thus settled in Britain, Ham
let returned with both his wives to Jutland
where he found himself involved in a consti
tutional difficulty. The people had it is
true, raised him to the head OF the provincial
government on the death OF Fengo, but then
this post was in the gift of the Danish crown;
and lhOugh Hamlet's maternal grandfather
Ruric, from family considerations, might
have been induced to forego some of his
rights, that venerable monarch was no more,
and his successor Wigieth was person who
would not bate an inch of his privileges.
Indecd, the new king had already despoiled
Gerutha of all her possessions on
account of the delinquency of her son. A
war between the king and the irregularly
elected viceroy resulted from this false posi-
ton, but when the two armies came in sight
of each other. Hamlet, who had had several
gloomy forebodings, wished to Shun the con-
test. At last he yielded to the persuasions
of his second wife, Hermutruda, who prom
ised that she would follow bin, and kill her
self in the event of his death. A Conflict
ensued, in which Hamlet was slain, whereup-
on Hermutruda Immediately married Wig
leth, and thus became Queen of Denmark.