rhyme. As well as I can, faid Flamack, if it please your Grace. "The King began thus: "Within this towre "There lieth a floure "That hath my hart." "Flamack answered," adds Puttenham, “in "fo uncleanlie terms as might not now become "me by the rules of decorum to utter, writing "to so great a Majestie (Queene Elizabeth); but "the King took them in fo evil part, as he bid Flamack, Avaunt, varlet! and that he should "be no more neere unto him." fo "Her Majesty's noble father," fays Puttenham, fpeaking of Henry the Eighth, father of Queen Elizabeth, " caufed his own head and all "his courtiers to be polled, and his beard to be (6 cut short. Before that time," adds he," it "was thought more decent both for old and young to be all fhaven, and to weare long "haire, either rounded or fquare. Now again "at this time the young Gentlemen of the Court "have taken up the long haire trayling upon "their shoulders, and think it more decent; for "what refpect I should be glad to knowe." According to Hollinfhed, this Prince thus addreffed the Court at Black Fryers, on his conjugal fcruples: cc YE REVEREND FATHERS, "I have in marriage a wyfe to me moft deere, " & entirely beloved, both for hyr fingular vir"tues of mynde, & alfo for her nobilities of "birth. But fith I am the king of a mightie "kingdom, I must provide that it may be law ful for me to lye with hyr duely, lawfully, " & godlye, & to have children by her, unto "the whiche the inheritance of the kingdome "maie by righte mofte juftlie defcend; which "two things fhall follow, if you by juste judge"ment approve our marriage lawful: if there "be any doubte, I fhall defyre you by your au"thoritie to declare the fame, or fo to take it 66 awaie, that in this thing both my confcience " & the mynds of the people may be quieted " for after." "After this," adds Hollinfhed, " cometh the Queen, the which there, in presence of the, "whole Court, accufeth the Cardinal of un trouth, deceit, wickedneffe & malice, which "had fowen diffention betwixt her & the King "her husbande, & therefore openly protested "that she did utterly abhorre, refufe, and for"fake fuch a judge as was not only a moft, ma "licious ❝licious enemie to her, but also a manifest ad"versarie to all right & justice, and therefore "fhe did appeale unto the Pope, committynge "hir whole cause to be judged of him:-& thus "for that day the matter refted." 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 music. The eagle's force fubdues each byrde that flies, And melte the ice, and make the fnowe retire? The hardeste ftones are peirced thro' with tooles; The wifeft 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 endanger the one half of his kingdom. I do affure 66 you, Master Kingston, that I have often "kneeled before him for three hours together "to perfuade him from his will and appetite, " 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 .. 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 King Henry the Eighth, to one that en"treated him to remember one Sir Anthony Rouse with some 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 afhamed to give; and was nevertheleffe one of the moft liberal "Princes of the world." SISTER TO PRINCESS MARY, 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. << MADAME, "Londres, Juin 20, 1514. "Je vous ay riens vouloir efcrire de Madame "la Princeffe jufques à ce que je l'ai veu 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 devifes, en danfes ou autrement. Je vous affure qu'elle est bien norrie (nourrie) & "fault |