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The Love Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, to James, Earl of Bothwell; With Her Love Sonnets and Marriage Contracts, (Being the Long-Missing Originals ... of Buchanan, Goodall, Robertson, Humea
Hugh Campbell
Paperback. General Books LLC 2012-01-12.
ISBN 9781151006240
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1824. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Whereas of things judicially determined within a dominion, to have an account demanded by strangers, is, to such as are not subject to foreign jurisdiction, both strange, and also for the strangeness displeasant. To us, above all other, it ought to be most grievous, who are driven to this strait of necessity, that whose faults we desire to cover, their lives we are forced to accuse, unless we ourselves will be accounted the most wicked persons that live*. But a great part of this grief is relieved by your equity (most excellent queen!) who take it no less displeasantly to see your kinswoman, than we to see our Queen thus in speech of all men to be so dishonourably reported of; who also are for your part no less desirous to understand the truth, than we for ours to avoid slander. Therefore we will knit up the matter as briefly as possibly may be, and declare it with such shortness, as we may rather seem to have lightly run over the chief points, than to have largely expressed them, beginning at the Queen's first inconstancy. For as in making of her marriage, her lightness was very headlong and rash, so suddainly followed either inward repentance, or at least outward tokens of change of her affection, without any causes appearing. For whereas the King in former time was not only neglected, but also unworthily used, at length began open hatred to break out against him, especially in that winter, when he went to Peble with a small train, even too mean for a private man, not being sent thither a hawking, but commanded away into a corner, far from counsel, or knowledge of public affairs. Neither is it necessary to put in writing those things, which as they were then a spectacle noted of all men's eyes;. so now, as a fresh image, they remain imprinted in all men's hear
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