"licious enemie to her, but also a manifeft ad"verfarie to all right & juftice, and therefore "fhe did appeale unto the Pope, committynge "hir whole cause to be judged of him :-& thus "for that day the matter rested." The following lines, written by Henry, were (according to the Editor of the "Nuga Anti"qua") presented and fung to Anne Boleyn during the time of their courtship. Byrd, in Queen Elizabeth's time, fet them to mufic. The eagle's force fubdues each byrde that flies, And melte the ice, and make the fnowe retire? The hardeste stones are peirced thro' with tooles; The wifest are, with princes, made but fooles. This Monarch's character was, perhaps, never better described than in the dying words of Cardinal Wolfey to Master Kingston, the Lieutenant of the Tower, who was fent to arrest him: "Hee is a Prince of a moft royall carriage & "hath a princely heart, & rather than he will miffe or want any part of his will, he will en"danger the one half of his kingdom. I do affure <c you, Master Kingston, that I have often "kneeled before him for three hours together to perfuade him from his will and appetite, 66 દ 35 " but "but could never prevail. Therefore let me " advise you, if you be one of the Privie Coun"fell, (as by your wisdome you are fit,) take "heed what you put into the King's head, for you can never put it out again." 66 It appears by a Letter of Gerard de Plaine, that Henry entered into a treaty with the Emperor Maximilian, by which, for a certain fum of money given to him by Henry, Maximilian was to furrender the Imperial dignity to him. It feems as if Henry had not the money ready at the time that the diftreffed Emperor wifhed to exchange his fplendid honour for more fubftantial profit. "I have heard," fays Puttenham, in his Art of Poetry," that King Henry the Eighth, her Majefties father, though otherwise the most "gentle and affable Prince of the world, could 66 not abide to have any man ftare in his face, "or to fix his eye too steadily upon him, when " he talked with them; nor for a common fuitor "to exclame or cry out for juftice, for that is "offenfive, and as it were a fecret impeachment "of his wrong-doing, as happened once to a Knight in this realm, of great worship, speaking to the King. 66 tr "King Henry the Eighth, to one that en"treated him to remember one Sir Anthony "Roufe with fome reward, for that he had "spent much and was an ill begger; the King "aunfwer'd, (noting his infolencie,) If he be "afhamed to begge, we are ashamed to give; " and was nevertheleffe one of the moft liberal "Princes of the world." PRINCESS MARY, SISTER ΤΟ HENRY THE EIGHTH, AFTERWARDS QUEEN OF FRANCE, MARRIED TO LOUIS THE TWELFTH, AND THEN TO CHARLES BRANDON, DUKE OF SUFFOLK. THE following account of this Princess is taken from a Letter of Gerard de Plaine to Margaret of Auftria. 66 MADAME, Londres, Juin 20, 1514. Je vous ay riens vouloir efcrire de Madame "la Princeffe jufques à ce que je l'ai veu σε plufieurs fois je vous certiffie que c'est une "des plus belles filles que l'on fcauroit voir, & "me femble point en avoir oncques vu une fi belle. Elle n'eft riens melancholique, ains "toute recreative, & a le plus beau maintien "foit en devises, en danfes ou autrement. Je "vous affure qu'elle eft bien norrie (nourrie) & "fault "fault bien qu'on lui ait toujours parlé de "Monf**, en telle bonne forte, car par la parole " & les manieres qu'elle tient, & par ce que j'ai ❝ entendu de ceulx qui font autour d'elle, il me "femble qu'el aime Monf merveilleufement "Elle a ung tableau, ou il est tres mal contre"fait, & n'eft jour au monde, qu'elle ne le "veuille voir plus de dix fois, comme l'on m'a "affermé, & ce me femble que qui lui veult "faire plaifir, que l'on lui parle de Monf. J'euffe cuydé qu'elle eut été de grande stature " & venue, mais elle fera de moyenne ftature." CATHARINE OF ARRAGON, FIRST QUEEN OF HENRY THE EIGHTH. WHEN Cardinal Campejus came over to England on the bufinefs of the divorce between Henry the Eighth and his Queen, he had an audience of this Princess, when, according to Lord Herbert, he took occafion to acquaint her with the danger fhe was in respecting the annulling her marriage, and advised her to betake herself to a religious life; " for which many pretexts "wanted not, as I find in our records, fhe I having been obferved fince the Commiffion *Prince of Caftile. "took "took place to allow dancing and paftimes. Ex more than before; and that her countenance, "not only in Court but to the people, was more cheerful than ordinary; whereas it was alledged the might be more fad and penfive, confidering that the King's conscience was un"fatisfied, and that he had refrained her bed, "and was not willing the Lady Princess her "daughter fhould come into her company. "The offended Queen replied peremptorily, "that she was refolved to stand to that marriage "which the Romish Church had allowed, and, "howfoever, not to admit fuch partial judges as they were to give fentence in her caufe." In a Miffal which this pious Princess presented to her daughter Mary, afterwards Queen of England of that name, is written with her own hand, "I think that the praiers of frinds be accept"able unto God, and because I take you for "one of my most affured, I praie you to remem"ber me in yours. "KATHARINA." This dignified fufferer is thus described in a Letter of Gerard de Plaine to Margaret of Auftria: "C'est une dame recreative, humaine, & gracieuse, & de contraire complexion & ❝ maniere à la Reyne de Caftille, fa fœur." That |