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% & $ && | ip $ &M && * m som 6 jar between iKerifc it a ifieW * f ifigf * Sfil&jft h 6 usfe £ t Edinburgh , &He only dissuading" him from drinking < m « ^ nfictt ^ otlietS iii fcoth wHifcfc He proceeded , md gavS he * iiich wtfrdS , that she left the place with tears , which they that are known to these proceedings , gay is not strange to be seen . "
Thfc savage murder bf Rifczio followed close upon this ; it wa& committed iri March . We take some extracts frotti the flet&iled report addressed by the Eari of Bedford and Randolph io the Eiidish Privy Council . " Upon , Saturday at night near eight o ' clock , the King conveyed
Bitfiself , the Lord Ruthven , George Douglas , and two otlterfc , through hid bWh chambers tty the privy stairs , up to the Queen ' s chamber . Going tb wnich there is a cabinet about twelve foot square ; in the same a little low reposing bed and a table , at the which there were sittirig at supper ) thfc ^ Ueen , the Lady Argyle , and David , with his cap upon his head . ? ? * Lord Ruthven offering to have taken him by the arm * David
tank the Queen by the plaits of her gown , and put . himself behind the Queen , who would gladly have saved him . But the King loosed hii hands , and holding her in his arms , David was taken out of the cabinet , flirougii th < i bed chainber into the chamber of presence , where were Lord Morton and Lord Lindsay , who intended that liight t ' 6 nave reserved Ijiffi ; and next day to hdng him . So many beitig about therii tBat b 6 t $ Wnl evil will , one thrust him into the body with a dagger , and after hlifi k £ odd many others , so that he had in his body about fifty-five wounds . It is told for certain that the King ' s own dagger was sticking in him ;
whether he struek him or not we cannot tell for certain . He was not llain in the King ' s presence , as was said , but going down the stairs into tfie chamber of presence . "
" Before the King left talking with the Queen , in the Hearing of RiSnv £ tt , she Wad content that he should lie with her that night . I know not haw he neglected , but he chme not , and excused himself to his friends ihftt ha was so sleepy that he could not awake in due time . "—p . 80- ^ 82 . H 6 te tKeh , m&y the student of history , and df humaft iiS 4 ture , discover a key to some of the secret and most anomaldtifc
actions of a very extraordinary character . The belief of Barnlety ' tf love » urg ^ d by passionate protestations ^ inducing her to hi ffe ^ h ^ iled With hitn , lifter hii murdering fcrie for whdm dh& 6 Vi 3 eritl y entertained k regard , and within the sariife hour ; rind her lasting hatred of the murderer , Wheh she found thai Kis p ^ fce ^ tations were only made to pacify her , and Dot from the feeling she had believed ; all tend to give a peculiar insight into her mind , temperament , and general character , and lay op&n many of its recessed for interesting , though painful
analysis . The etitir £ history of Quefcft Maty proves her to h * l 6 been k ^ dinA ri of ( iet ^ rmined will tod Strong animal ddurage , whibk i-Gad fit tH 6 test 6 c 6 tie of her tragical life Into moral fottitiid ^ There i » g 9 iaethi » g about the cucumstancea both iiumediatdy
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 179, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/53/
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