Rizzio: Or, Scenes in Europe During the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3T. C. Newby, 1849 |
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Page 49 - leur image. Ta lyre, qui ravit par de si doux accords T'asservit les esprits, dont je n'ai que les corps, Elle t'en rend le maitre, et te sait introduire
Page 136 - of her uncles, the duke of Guise and the cardinal of Lorraine.
Page 207 - statesmen, reformed as they were, having no religion or morals. The whole officers of state were concerned in this conspiracy, under secretary Maitland, the contriver of it, whose duty required him to watch over the safety of the queen, with the stability of the state. Add to all these, the king and his father, who were two
Page 207 - constitutional ceremony, she asked her husband, who was panting for the crown matrimonial, to accompany her. But he refused, preferring his pastime to his parliamentary duty, and evincing that his heart was estranged from the elegant woman who had given him every boon except her sceptre, and had
Page 207 - her person for his benefit. The queen had no intimation of this conspiracy, or its object, or its victim. Her women were all faithfully attached to her through life ; but they knew nothing of the secrets of ruffians. Her men servants were all faithful. Her private
Page 208 - Elizabeth and Cecil were, by a joint letter from Bedford and Randolph, completely informed of the whole detail of this shocking conspiracy, which they received with GREAT SATISFACTION, and they took into their protection Morton and Ruthven, and other
Page 207 - thus induced to enter into the views of the conspirators, and his father, Lennox, was so weak, by engaging in the same concert, as to fortify his son's folly. They
Page 207 - a conspiracy had been formed in the preceding January for the relief of those nobles. The chief conspirators were Morton, Maitland, Ruthven, and Lindsay. They had intended to carry
Page 207 - that he had not the influence in the government to which he was entitled from his birth, his marriage, and his merit. Darnley was
Page 219 - prejudice and passion, are in accordance with the statements of other authorities, and the chronology accurate enough. But on the contrary, where, as