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tFfsm the VIII volume pf !1aeaailay' History Of
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s, The, Prince on whom aomuch depended was
|; the most miserable. Of human beings; Ii Old
4 times he would have been exposed as,soon as
I he came into the world; and to eIpbsa, him!
4 would have been q kindness, Z: From his birth
4 blight WIS on his body and on iit mind
i With difficulty his almost impercepttbte spark
oflna had been screened and fanned into Adlm
and ffckering flame. His childhood; excapt
when he could be rocked'and sung into sIck1y
:; sleep, Waa one long piteons wall > Till be was
ten years old his days were passed on the 1aps
of women, and he WIS never 7onca suffered. 10:
stand on his rickety legs. None Of those tawny
little urchins, clad in rags stolen from scare,
crows, whom Muri1Io loved TO paint begging
or rolling in the sand, owed less to education
than this deapotlc ruler O" thirty millions Of !,
subjects. The most important events In the
history Of his OWL kingdom, the very names
| Of fprorinces and cities which vert among his ::
most valuable possessions, were unknown to
him. It may well be doubted whether he was
aware that Sicily vas an island, that Christie
that the English were not Mahomtnedans
| In his youth, however, though tod fmbecile
| for study Or for business. he was! not in=
capable Of being amused; He shot, hawk /
ed, and hunted. He enjoyed with :the
full spectacles, a horse with Its bowels gored
out, and Jew writing in the fire. The time
| can1e when the mightiest of instincts ordina-
rlly wakens from its repose. tt was hoped
that the young king would not prove inyincl-
| bic to female attractions, and that he Hopld
have Prince Of Asturias to succeed him. a
consort was found for him In the royal family |
| Of France, aud her beauty end gtaee gaYe him
o languid pleasure. he liked to adorn her
| with jewels, to sec her dance, and to tell her
what sport he had with bis dogs and his tal-
cons. But it was soon whispered thai: she Was
| wife only in name. She died, and her place
/ was supplied By German Princess nearly al
lied to the Imperial house. But the Becond |
marriage, like tbs Atst, proved barren aud
long before the King had passed the prime Of |
to take it for granted, IN al their calculations,
that he would be the last desGehdant In the |
male line, of Charles the Fifth. Meanwhile q
slt1en and abject melancholy took possession l
o. o. nus soul The diversions which had. been |
me serious employment Of his youth became |
dstasteful to him. He ceased to find p1easure
IN bis nets and boar spears, in the fandango and |
the buil-hght Sometimes he shut himself up /
IN an inner chamber from the ewes Of itis I
courtlers. Sometimes he loitered alone, from !
sunrise to sunset, in the dfeafy and rugged |
wilderness which surrounds the Escur1al, The |
honrs which he did not waste in IstIess indo- /
renee were divided between childish sports |
and childish deVotions. He delighted in rare
animals, and stu more in dWarfsi When
neither strange beasts nor little men could
dispel the black thoughts which gathered on
hls mind, he repeated ases and crenos; be /
walked in professions; /; sometimes he starved |
himself; sometimes he whipped himself, at !
length complication Of naladies completed
tue ruin OF all bis faculties. His stomach fail
sd; nor was this strange, for in him the NAL
formation Of the jaw, characteristic Of his
family, was so serious that he could not ufas- |
ueate his food, and he was in the habit Of
swallowing olIas and sweetmeats In the atAts
IN ~ Thicn they were set beIofe him.
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tacked BY ague. Every third day his convul-
slFe tremblings, his detection, his fits of van i
derlng, seemed to indicate the approach of |,
dissolution. Els misery Was increased BY the
knowiedge that everybody was calculating
a9W @ong ig0ng ne had af to and wondethg what
should be dead. The stately dignitaries Of his,
household, the physicians who ninistered to
Lis diseased body, the divines whose blrsinesa
was to spothe his no lesb diseased fiind. thu
very wife who should have beeni intent
on those gentle offices by which femaje
tenderness can alleviate even the misery
OF hopeless decay, were all thinking Of the |
new world which was to commente With |
Lis !. death, and would have been }leffettiy
Wiling to see him ii this hands Of the
bis successor would be the prince whose In.
1efest e they espoused. As yet the party of the
Emperor seemed to predominate. Charles
haa 1alnt SOFT Of Preference for the house Of
Austria, which WIS his own ho,iee, ana faint
sort OF antipathy to the house of Bourbon,
with which he had been Qnarfe1ipg, he did not
KNOW why, ever since he could remember.
HIS Queen, Whom he did not love; but Of |
whom he stood greatly In awe, was ieyoted to
the interests Of her kinsman, the Emperor;
and with her was closely leagued the Count Of
Prime Minister.
Ia very short time the ting's malady took
a new form. That he was too weak to lit
his food to his misshapen mouth, that 1t
lhlfty,seven he had the bald held and |
his complexion wns turning from yellow
TO green, that he very frequently fell | q
down in fits and remained long insengible. | 3
These were no longer the worst Symptoms III :
his malady. He had always been afraid Of 6
ghosts and de1nons, and it had long been ne Z
ceseafy that three 1riars should watch every !
nlght BY his restless bed as guard, against / {
hopgobllns. But now he was firmly convinced 7
That be was bewitched, that he was possessed, | I
1nat there was devil within him; thst there 8
aeeord!i + to the forms Of his Church; but {
ms ceremony, instead Of quieting him, scared
nm out Of almost all the little ~,ason that no.
Iure hau gwen him. In his misery and despair 1
ue was 11dnced to resort to Irregular r.
modes Of relief His confesBor brougRt to !
eonrt @ tmpostors, who pretended that they
could &, lnte1roEate the powers Of darkness. I
The Devil Nas called np sworn and exam-
lned. This Strange deponent made OATH: A IN 4
Tue presence Of God, that his Catholic majesty n
vas Under spell, which had been Laid Oh i.
alm many years before, for thu trtbGan of
preventing the contin4ati5h Of the royal line
A drug had been compounded out of tie brains :
A1a kidneys OF human corpse, and had been
administered in cup Of choeolste. This M
I aoa Lad dried up all the sources of life; and
Inc eest remedy to which the patient eeitld !
now resort would be to sealloW bowl Of con- q
;ecTated OIL e7ery morning before breakfast. a
oheappIly the authors Of this story fell into : + +
contradictions Which they could excuse only 4
oy throwing the blame On satan, who, they 2
'atd was an unwilling witness, and liar from | +
ne beginning. In the midst of their couiur- n
ng, the hquisition came down upon them, {!
Ie must be admitted that, If tie Holy Uaice II
lad reserved oil Its tertors for such cases, it t
would not NOW hare been remembered as the =
nest hateful judicature that was ever known q
'mong civilized men. The subaltern impos-
ofs were thrown into dungeons. But tha
'nief criminal continued to be master Of the | @
ling and of the kingdom,
aleanWhite In the dtstempefed mind of | 4.
Charles, cls matlia succeeded another. A
onging to pry into those mysteries Of the | l.
rave from which human beings avert their
thoughts, had long been hereditary in his :.
lon5e. Juana, from whom the mental constf- =
atlon OF her posterity seems to have derived
morbid falnt, had sat, year after year, by the
'ed On which lay the ghastly remains Of hef
lusband,- appareled Ia the rich embroidery
nt jewels which he had been wont to wear I z
While living Her sou Charles found IN eccen- 4
nc pleasure In celebrating his own ohseunias