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86 ELIZABETH, PRINCESS PALATINE.
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Hague . This man , handsome , insinuating * , and of plausible _addresshad obtained the friendship of the Queen of Bohemia . No
deeper , blame attaches to her than that an indiscreet and facile disposition led her to put faith in D'Epiney's professions , and
consult him on every occasion . This imprudence was a great source of discomfort to Elizabeth , and she had ventured repeatedly
to remonstrate , but in vain , with her mother . In this unsatisfactory state of mattersPhilipher youngest brotherwho had been
recalled from Paris lest , he shoul , d be tempted to , follow Prince Edward ' s example , returned to the Hague . Philip soon
made-D'Epiney sensible of the dislike which , in common with his sister , he entertained for him ; and the Frenchman in revenge , backed by
three bravoes , assaulted him as he was returning home late one eveningbut on some soldiers coming to the rescuethe assailants
fLed . The , Prince casually met his enemy next morning , in the market-place , and burning with the provocation he had received ,
slew him on the spot , and fled the Hague at once , to become asoldier of fortune—the only career left open to him after he had
thus "blasted his hopes and his reputation by an act of homicide . The outraged queen declared that she would never see Philip
again , nor acknowledge him as her son , and Charles Louis wrote In vain to entreat his brother ' s pardon from her , on the ground
that the happiness of her children , and the honor of her house , ht to outweigh every other consideration in her mind , urging
upon oug the queen the affront Philip had received , his youth and hot blood " his nearness to you , and to him whose ashes you have
ever professed , to love and honor above all things on earth . " Not onlwas the queen unmoved by this appealbut she became so
incensed y with Elizabeth for taking the same view , of the matter as the Prince Elector , that her daughter found it expedient to quit the
Hague . A story current some years after , that Elizabeth had instigated this as violence partner , and in her that brother she was 's guilt driven , proves out from entirel the y without queen's
foundation character presence and ; nothing disposition , indeed . , To could the be princess more , at thus variance doubly with exiled her , a
refuge was offered in the court of her relative the great Elector of Brandenburg at Berlin , where she was welcomed by its scholars as
the most learned royal lady in Europe . Elizabeth , however , soon left the italchoosing in preference a quieter residence with her
found aunt , the cap Electress loyments , Dowager much more . In suited the dower to her castle taste at than Krossen that she of
listening emp to the long-winded Latin compliments of Thomas von Knesebech and his colleagues . For here she could not only
pursue her own studies in quiet , and keep up her correspondence with Descartes , but she could forget her own misfortunes while
devoting herself to the education of her young cousin , Hedwig Sop In hia J u to ne whom 1647 this while long the visit princess proved was of deep at Krossen and lasting , Christin good a . of , ,
86 Elizabeth, Princess Palatine.
86 ELIZABETH , PRINCESS PALATINE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 86, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/14/
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