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A Famous Palace.

I continued to press him to make all the despatch he possibly could. At the bot- Holyrood Palace is a deeply interesting tom of the stairs, I met my dear Evans, place. It stands at the foot of Salisbury into whose hand I confided him.

Crags, Edinburgh, and was founded in "They went home together, and, having 1501 by James IV. Much of the present found a place of security, brought Lord edifice dates from the reign of Charles II, Nithisdale to it. In the meantime, as I of England. Adjoining it, but distinct had pretended to have sent the young from it, is the Abbey of Holyrood, founded lady on a message, I was obliged to re- by David I, in 1128. The palace contains turn up-stairs and go back to my lord's many objects of interest. Among these room in the same feigned anxiety of being are the apartments of the ill-fated Queen too late so that everybody seemed sin- Mary. Here she was married to Darnley; cerely to sympathize in my distress. here Rizzio was murdered; and here the When I was in the room, I talked as if Queen was married to her third husband, he had been really present. I answered the Earl of Bothwell. my own questions in my lord's voice, as To all the charms of beauty and the nearly as I could imitate it, and walked utmost elegance of external form, Mary up and down, as if we were conversing added those accomplishments which rentogether, till I thought they had time dered their impression irresistible. Polite, thoroughly to clear themselves of the affable, insinuating, sprightly and capable guards. I then thought proper to make of speaking and of writing with equal off also. I bade my lord formal farewell ease and dignity. Sudden, however, and for the night, and added that if the Tower violent in all her attachments, because was then open I would return that night, her heart was warm and unsuspicious. but that he might be assured I would be Impatient of contradiction, because she with him as early in the morning as I had been accustomed froni her infancy to could gain admittance, and I flattered be treated as a queen. No stranger, on myself I should bring more favorable some occasions, to dissimulation, which news. "I then went out, and as I passed, told the servant that he need not carry the candles to his master till my lord sent for them, as he desired to finish some prayers first." in that perfidious court where she received her education, was reckoned among the necessary arts of government. Not insensible of flattery, or unconscious of that pleasure with which almost every woman beholds the influence of her own beauty.

The earl was led to a garret in an ob- Formed with the qualities which we love, scure part of London, and after a time not with the talents that we admire, she sheltered at the Venetian ambassador's was an agreeable woman rather than an till an opportunity offered to reach Dover illustrious queen. The vivacity of her in that envoy's carriage. spirit, not sufficiently tempered with sound judgment and the warmth of her address and important services can justify heart, which was not at all times under her attachment to that nobleman. Even the restraint of discretion, betrayed her the manners of the age, licentious as they both into errors and into crimes. were, are no apology for this unhappy To say that she was always unfortunate passion: nor can they induce us to look will not account for that long and almost on that tragical and infamous scene which uninterrupted succession of calamities followed upon it with less abhorrence. www