The Irish standard., 1898-10-15

| pitiful voice said: MY lord am tied
with chain of iron about my neck"
He, alleging her wonted courage to her,
she replied: 81 am tied and the case is
altered with me-" Then two ladies
waiting on her in her chamber, discov-
| cred in the bottom of her chair the queen
of hearts, with nail Of iron knocked
through the forehead of it: the which,
the ladies burst not pull out, remember
| ing that the like thing was used to the
old lady OF Sussex. and proved after
| wards for a witchcraft, for the which,
| certain were hanged as the instruments
of the same. The Lady Elizabeth Cuff
| ford then waiting on the queen. and
| leaving her asleep in her privy chamber,
met her, as she thought. three or four
chambers off. and fearing she would
have been displcased that she left her
alone, came towards her to excuse her.
SELF and she vanished away, and when
| she returned into the same chamber
where she had left her. found her asleep
as before. So growing past recovery
| 0naving kept her bed Ii days. besides
three days she sat upon her stool and
one day (when) being pulled up by force
she stood on her feet Is hours) the coun-
ell sent her to the bishop Of Canterbury
and other of the prclatcs, upon sight of
whom she was much offended. cholcri-
rally rating them, bidding them he pack
| ing, saying she WIS no atheist hut know
full we'll that they were hcdgc-rricsts,
1 and took it for an inilignity that they
| should speak to her. Now being given
over by all. and at the last gasp still
keeping her sense in everything, and
| giving ever when she spakc apt answers
| Though She spake very seldom. having
| then a sore throatl. she desired to wash
it, that she might answer more freely to
| what the council demanded. which was
to know whom she would have king but
seeing her throat troubled her SO much.
desired her to hold up her finger when
they named whom liked her. Whcrc-
upon they named the king of France. the
king Of Scotland, at which she over
stirred. They named my LORI, Beau
lachamp, whereto she said: 81 will have
Emo rascal's son in my seat, but one wor-
thy to be Il king" IIcrcupon instantly
she died. Then the council went forth
and reported she meant the king of
Scots; whercupon they went to London
to proclaim him, leaving her body with
charge not to be opened such being her
desire. But Cecil having given Il secret
| warrant to the surgeons, they opened
| her. which the rest of the council after
wards passed over, though they meant it
not so. Now her body, being scared up
! was brought to Whitehall, where being
watched every night by six several Ia
| dies, myself that night there watching as
ono of them, being all about tho body
which wafi fast nailed up in a board c6f-
fin, with leaves of lead covcrd with vel
vct-ller body and head brake with such
{; crack that it splittcd the wood, lead
and scar cloth. Whercup0n the next
| day, she was fain to he new trimmed up:
! whcrcupon they gave their vcrtlicts, that
| if she had not been opened, the breach Of
her body would have been much worse.
But no man burst speak il public for
dsplcasing Secretary Cecil Her mnics-
ty understood that Secretary Cecil had
(! given forth to the people that she was
mad, and therefore in her sickness did
many times say to him: Cecil. know
| am not mad; you must not think to
make Queen Jane to me- And although
many reports by Cecils means were
| spread, how she was distracted, myself
nor any that were about her could ever
perceive her speeches SO well applied
proceeded from a distracted mind"
Our readers have before them in the
foregoing record of Queen IGliZabcths
death, drawn up by Lady Southwcll, the
testimony of one who was present at
her dcath-bcd. and whether they incline
to give to ii full crcdcnce or not, they
must confess that II cannot well be all
pure fiction, but is at least substantially
true. AS we said above, the original Is,
still preserved in the StOneyhurst collrc-
tion of manuscripts and Is open there
to the inspection of the curious. EVIL
IDENTIFY good Queen Bcss was not only Il
| hypOcritc and Il tyrant but she was like
wise a very superstiti0us mortal, whose
antics In that line arc Il hard nut to
crack, for those followers Of the RcfOr-
nation who have all along canonized her
as a saint above rcprOach. This record
is interesting as showing the changes
which have taken place in the cOnstruc-
ton and the phrascOlogy Of the English
language in the past 200 years. and the
changed meaning TO many words. to
what It was so comparatively short time
ago.
Tit for Tat.
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