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KATHERINE GREV
The really ali'.vting history of Katherine
Grey ami her hu-hanil, the Karl of Hert
ford, hums. the tale of which her name is
assigned. Queen Elizabeth is here describ
m! to he enamored of the Karl : and after
the discovery ot his connexion with Kathe
rine her jealousy vents itself in confining
them to separate apartments in the tower.
We pass over the imaginary interview be
tween the queen and Katherine, nud shall
commence our extracts with the resolution
taken by Elizabeth, who is supposed to be j
residing in the tower at the time, to visit
Seymour, at the moment when the lieuten
ant ot that fortress has permitted Ins pri
soners to meet, notwiihstanding her Majes
v’s express commands to the contrary.
" The blood faded from Warner's cheek. !
‘.is knees knocked against each other, and
so violent was the agitation of his whole 1
frame, that he was for some time unable to
utter a sellable in reply to the queen's ad
Iress. " ' |
‘How now, Master Lieutenant !' ask
'd Elizabeth; ‘ what means this? My reso- ;
lotion is, periiaps, a somewhat singular one: 1
but surely there is nothing in it so appalling j
that it should banish the blood from your
cheek, and prevent your limbs from per
forming their functions. Lead on. I say
“‘ Gracious madam!’ said Warner,‘pause |
a moment ere you take this step.’
‘ Not an instant, Sir Edward,’ said the j
quien. ‘How' do you dispute the com
mands of your sovereign
“ ‘ Then, most dread sovereign,* said tlie
lieutenant, seeing that it was impossible to ,
preser.e his secret, and throwing liimse!f at
the (paeon’s feet, ‘pardon, pardon, for the
most guilty of your majesty's subjects.
' Hal* said the queen, using the favorite
interjection of her father, while Ids own
proud spirit flashed in her kindled eye, and
lowered in her darkened brow; ‘what dost
thou mean?’
“ ‘ 'I'lle Earl of Hertford is not in his 'Ion- !
jeon."
“‘What, escaped! Traitor—-lave—
last thou suffered him to esc aper’
“ Warner grovelled on the ground in the
most abject posture at the queen's feet, and
his frame trembled in every fibre as he sc.id.
■ He is in the Lady Katherine*'apartment.’
“ ‘What he there.!' shouted the queen
as the white foam gathered on her lip, and
nor own frame became agitated, though not
with tear, but with uncontrollable anger.—
‘ Guards, seize the traitor 1*
‘•several yeoman of the guard immedi
ately entered the apartment, and seized the
lieutenant of the Tower, binding hi- arms
behind him, but not depriving him of his
weapons. The queen, anting on the im
pulse of the moment, commanded one of
her guards to conduct her to the dungeon of
the Lady Katht rine Grey, and ordered the
ethers to follow her with ^ir Edward W ar
an- ia their custody. Anger, hatred, (ear,
jealousy, all le.it wings to lier steps. The
dungeon door w as soon before her : the bolts
were withdrawn, and with little of the ap
pearance of a queen in her gait and ges
ture, excepting that majesty which belongs
to the expression of highly w rought feelings,
she rushed into the dungeon, and found
Katheiine Grey in the arms of Hertford,
who was kissing awav the tears that had
ga*hered on her check.
“‘Seize him—awav with him to instant
execution!’ said the queen.
‘•The guards gazed for a moment wish
fully on each other, and seemed as if tliev
did not understand the command.
"•Seize him! Isav.’ exclaimed the
queen. * I have myself taken the precau
tion to be present, that I may be assured
that he i- in your custody, and led away to
the death he lias taken so much pains to
merit.’
" Hie guards immediately surrounded
the earl, but they yet paused a moment ere
they led him out of the dungeon, when tliev
saw the Lady Katherine throw herself on
her knees before Elizabeth and seize the
skirt of her robe.
“ * Have pity, gracious queen !‘ she cried,
‘ have pitv!’
•• Away, inimon. said the queen: ‘lie
had no pity on himself when lie ventured to
break prison, even in the precincts of our
royal palace. His doom is fixed.’
“ ‘ Not yet, great queen, not vet!’ said
Katherine, still grasping Elizabeth's robe.
* (’an naught save him
' Naught, save my death,’ said the
queen; and then she added in an under
tone, which site did not seem to intend should
be audible, while a dark smile played on
her lip, ‘or perchance thine.’
‘‘Katherine’s ear caught the last part of
the queen's sentence, and with the quick
ne-s oi lightning she exclaimed, ‘thv death
or mine, O queen: then thus,’slie added,
plucking In.un the belt of sir Edward War
tier, who stood by her side with Ins hands
bound behind him, a dagger, and brandish
ed it aloft, • tints mav his life be spared I
“A cry ot •treason! treason!’ pervaded the
dungeon, and the guards advanced betw een
Katherine and tiie queen whose life she
seemed to threaten, but ere they could
wrest the dagger from her hand, she had
buried it in her own bosom.
“‘Now, now do 1 claim thy promise.
Oh queen!" she ■-aid as she sunk to the
earth, while the blood puured in a torrent
Iron) her wound. ‘Katherine Orev no Ion ‘<‘r
disturbs thee—spare the lile of tiie princely
Seymour.'
'•Her lact breath was spent mi these
words—her last was fixed upon the
queen—and pressing the hand of her hus
band, who was permitted, to approach her,
in her dviri£ grasp, the spirit of Katherine
Grey was released from all its sorrows.
“ The sacrifice of the unhappy lady's
life preserved that for which it had been
olf red up. The queen, touched with the
melancholy termination of her kins-wo
man s existence, revoked -.he despotic and
illegal order which she had given for tl'.c
execution ot Hertford, but ordemi him to
he conducted baric to his dungeon, whore
he remained in close custody fora period of
more than nine years. The death of Kli/.a
heth at the expiration of that period released
him from his captivity ; and then, although
he was unable to restore the lady Kathe
rine to hie, he took immediate steps to re
establish her fair frame. In these efforts
he was perfectly successful, he proved be
fore the proper tribunals the validity of his
mairiage, and transmitted his inheritance
to his son. who was the issue of that ill-fa
ted union.
VARIETY.
TUB MOST ENTERTAINING OF AUTHORS.
Tun gentlemen of acknowledged taste, when
on a visit to a gentleman of rank, were each tie
sireii to write out a list ol the ten most interesting
works they had ever read. One work only
found its way into every list, this was till Mas
Had Dr. Johnson been present, and been pre
viously heard upon the subject, the preference
would probably have been given to Don Quixote
1 he Doctor used to say, that there were but
lew books of which one ever could possibly ar
rive at the last page; and that there never w:.r
any thing written by mere man, that was wish
ed longer by its readers, except Don Quixote
Robinson Crusoe, and ilit- Pilgrim's Progre.v
Alter llomer’s Iliad, he said, the work of Cer
'antes was the greatest in the world, as a booi;
of entertainment; and when we consider tha'
every other author's admirers are confined ti.
bis own countrymen, and perhaps to the literary
chtses among them; while Don Quixote is a
sort of common property, an universal classic,
equally enjoyed by the court and the cottage;
equally applauded in France and England, as
in Spam; qu itod by every servant, the amuse
ment of every age, from infancy to decrepitude.
the lust book you sea in every shop, where
hook are sold, through all the states of Italv ,
"bo can refuse his consent to an avowal of the
superiority of Cervantes to all modern writers >
Shakespeare himself has, until within the last
half century, been worshipped only at home
| while translators and engravers live by the hr:
ro ot J.a Mancha in every nation; and the
| walls of the inferable inns and the cottages, al!
, over England, France and Cermanv.are adorn
ed with the exploits of Don Quixote.
Jo be Remembered b\j the I .adits.
A correspondent assures us that chloride,
by apothecaries under the name ol
bleaching salts, in small tin boxes will err
tainly take out the most inveterate greass
spots from a silk dress, or cotton gni incuts.
Carpets, however badly bespattered bv the
upsetting of a lamp, can be as readily re
stored to their former beauty, as or.a car;
blow dus* from a drv surface.