The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-03-28
QUEEN ELIZABETH.
ny 4 PROTESTANT.


rather of money than of the interests she
imperilled by her parsimony and yacillation
or the devoted servants she alienated by
her injustice. She was not only impatient
headstrenG, and unjust, but she could be-
tray those who trusted her, and she never
hesitated to break promise when its fulfil
ment became inconvenient. When heI
JEALOUSY was reused, she was cruel and re-
yepgefuI, and she was notOriously one OF
the yainest of womankind. 1t was, per-
haps, harmless weakness that she had ac-
enmulated, at the time of her death, two
Thousand dresses of the fashion of all coun-
tries and times-notbipg could be too fan
tastic or extravagant for her attire. The
lion-hearted lady had not courage to look
herself in the face for the last twenty years
of her lie, and preferred to trust the adrtla-
ton of the sycophants around her. She is
they should BIO drawn without shadows /;
and even soon after her accession she made
Cecil put forth a proclamation that no one
should presume to paint her portrait until
she should have approved pattern portrait
which the artists might foiiow-One, 10 is to
be presu8ied, in which the high nose that
was an Emphasizing feature in her face, was
represented conYentionally, and not as it
actually was. She may have been spared
the pain of seeing the strange portrait
: shown last year at South Kensington, in
which she is represented with face worn
and detected, and Death leaning over her
chair. But her personal vanity was-at
least in these respects-a harmless weak
ness. She was capable, rs we have seen, of
dnpiiaity and Hypocrisy and few. incidents
are more illustrative of her character than
the horror which she-whose hands were
red with the blood of her own subjects
pf0fessed to the French Ambassadors after
the massacre Of st. Bartholomew, when, at
Woodstock, Queen, Ministers, and court iii
solemn mourning received the gaiiy- attired
R1xv of Erop Eve, al of
Thanksgiving, when setting out from the
Tower for her coronation, has something
unpleasantly theatrical about it.
Elizabeth had surprised Europe by the
spiendor of her course; it was destined to
close in gloom and sorrow.
rs The brow in farroSed lines had kid ut last
And spake Of passions, bat Of passions past.
The bodily inirmities she suffered may
have been the effects of age, but her mental
afiicticn shortly before her death is gen.
orally attributed to remorse for the execu-
come truth that she had survived her popu-
laEity and lived too long, and that the men
on whose loyalty she had most relied had
already proved unfaithful to her. She be-
cBIpp pepsiFe aud tacitnFn; eyery rumor
bgeuaht her new terrors. Within seven
mpaths from the execution Of Essex she was
altered in features, and shrnnk almost to
sksietpn.s Even her taste for dress. was i
cones nothing could please her, and she !
sEeFa vipisatly Mt the objects Of her eager /
NJ len The AZ A602 began she was near licr
s s,as ss ss ,a & e e s9
~ xetHeeA 70 re- Turn n her bed, and sat-
dresgGd, day and night, Hp0n tho floor, and |
s0paetlmes refused 70 eilE on speak, When /
she Lord AdmiTal urged her 10 reEarn to her /
bed she replied that IL he had ssaen whit |
she saw there he wolid never, make the re-
qRest. We. can never know whether in
saying this she referred ii. her having seen,
one night as abe is stated to have done, her
OWN stIrunken form wrapped. in light of /
ire IS she lag upon her bed. But We may
% aars that apoa neE memory rose the pale
dim procession led, y the fair, the chival- I
rOuas the noble of ether years, lanRuishinp /
ia her prisons or bleeding on her scaff-
Oldsj she saw dungeons filed and churches
desolate, and the servants Of Christ hunted
like outlaws through the land. Her sceptre
was falling to /" an unlineal hand''- the son
of her murdered rival and the remem-
DEanca Of Mary Stuart's dying sumnnone to i
Elizabeth TO answerfbr her conduct at the
OF God, must have added
aess to thet " no can stand;
n imagination, by the deatl-bed of the
EEeat English Queen--once so free. proud,
md iRdePe adent- of her before whom Par.
lamenta ttembsed, and at whose % name
he world grew pale, !" without recalling to
nind the weighty words of the nl0ralisG:
O. ~ - uretslA ftA0Ao bHoG can SuG6e0IyI
make man to know himself. He tells the
'Fond and inse!eat that they are but alb !
scts, and hunlbles them Mt the instant. He
axes account Of the rich, aud proves him n !.
'eGgar. He holds a glass before rlle eyes of !
no most beautiful, aud makes them see :
herein their Tottenness and deformity. o, :
loquent, just, and mighty death whom !
one could advise, thou hast persuaded i
mat Zone have dared; thon last done !
HON all the world hath fattered, thou !
My hast cast out and despised thou hast !
rawR together all the far-stretched great | !
ess, ell the pride, cruelty, and ambition of : :
ians and covered It OIL over with those two !
srr0w words-Hf Jncst ~
So now, around the couch on which the !,
nee powerful Queen was dying in her !. :
twentieth year, miserable and forIorn, un- .
wing and unloved, without the peace that )
lould attend old age and accompany the
prospect Of power, draw the curtain 7
ose.N
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