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ELIZABETH, PRINCESS PALATINE. 83
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to liave lavished all her affectionand to hare kept but a scanty back for the child who had , been a stranger to her mother
froin measure her cradle . She found a wanner welcome , however , from her _^ eldest brotherPrince Frederick Henry . The brother and sister more
resembled each , other in talents and disposition than the rest of the famil extant y ; in they which were tenderl he sends y attached his favorite , and the sister boy ' s little letters tokens are still of
. Elizabeth affection " restored , from to all knew Ley good den was , fortune and when expresses the in prince Heidelberg his at the hopes . " age The of of seeing fifteen first grief was her
The hearted drowned king man in ever two the followed years Zuyder afterward his Zee son , before s to , in the the 1631 grave eyes , , a , of leaving disappointed his unh to appy his , children broken father , - .
an unsubstantial , patrimony of high-sounding titles , and of claims well In -ni 1633 gh as , the emp peace ty as those of Prague titles . gave a death Charles _-blow Louis to the would hopes be
reinstated cherished b in y his Ms widow father , ' s that electorate her eldest . This son , treaty not onl , y barred the succession to her family doled , but out expressl to her y specified children her tobe jointur solel e ,
owing Whil and the e to the scant the Palatine y emperor maintenance fam ' s il himself clemency y were to _^ smarting and the not _xinder based Elizabeth on this any fresh in , legal the - humilia claim y - .
tion of the Ladislaus , a suitor in , King presented case of he Poland should , who become opened young her his son wooing -in-law b , y to a p do led person battle ge to
queen , eagerl for indifferent the y ancestral hailed this princess rights gleam of of Charles of fifteen hope , Louis would and . her naturall The daug Queen hter y be , of thoug towards Bohemi h as a a
lover not prosper of eig as ht ; a and a fanatical thirty , dutifull party y in acquiesced the Polish . But Diet the insisted wooing that did
their princesses soverei of gn Europe should he not was marry free to a heretic make his . throne choice Among of , but Poland the no orthodox heretic
queen E _surious _^ ive par ever t e of cimen had a speech sat of , the or on should time the and question sit , peop on the le in . a The stormy orator council , addressing . , as We a
Ladislau sp s himselfsaid " The Mother of God has taken yourself and and your the blessed kingdom Virg , under in , and her prosperity august protection will forsake ; marry you a toge heretic ther , .
Heretics are not to be trusted "—here the speaker pointed signifi-3 antlto Calvinistic fellow-noble , —" they all go down to eternal
y a , perdition be found , in and " will In drag vain you Ladislaus with them who , — had an set ugly his place heart for upon a king this to
narriage England , mainl stormed . y for entr the eated sake of and alliance , even wep with t b the y turns royal before family his of
Henri aobles e ; tta , in Mari vain a he would , sent get one her , ambassador heretic niece to over London to Eng to beg land that and to the to
3 nduce onvert Elizabeth her into a to good change Catholic her , creed and ; another the princess on Ha her gue , side
Elizabeth, Princess Palatine. 83
ELIZABETH , PRINCESS PALATINE . 83
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 83, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/11/
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