| Show the bad queen bess it Is an extra ord nary stor that of the heartless manner in which Q lew elizabeth during a series of vears placed with the duke of and ultimately drove him to despair and death no woman but one whose heart vanity and ambition had turned to stone could have carried on the long buggle as she did with the amorous french to the amaze ment and often the disgust of her closest councillors counci llois swearing with awful oaths her promise to marry him and her eternal affection for him sighing languishing and drawing him into unpromising situations by 1 er pretended preter ded love of him she deceived not only her lover but the keenest 01 ol ticiano in europe and et with her private correspondence how be lore us we see that the whole comedy vaa a lie so tar as she was con berned and that in what seemed her of utter self abandonment in her love she was coolly calca atma how to wriggle out of her compromise while leaving her suitor in the mire hen at length the poor lad was ca into leaving england with the fulfillment of his marriage still de berred the queen traveled to grave end with to see him fairly on the ft ay for he tearfully resisted going to the last moment in feigned griet at leaving her husband as she called him she wept and walled at the parting but an of the scene tells us that as soon as pe lover s back was turned she sought the privacy of her chamber not to indulge in her grief but to dance tor very joy at having got rid of him so easily and scoffed at bis simplicity to his on false servant bomier when later it served her political purpose to extort terms from the king of prance by again pretend ng her intention immediately to marry his brother she called down curses upon her own head in such ap palling language if she did not fulfill her promise this time that so sea a vessel as the elderly french ambassador declared that it made his blood run cold and solid old cecil himself alo was deeper in the plot than any one whispered in en tores to lady stafford that if the loueen failed to keep this pledge surely cod would send her to hell tor such Has phemy martin hume in har I 1 era |
