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Ay, Pedro,— Come you here with mask and lantern.
Ladder of ropes and other moonshine tools —
Why, youngster, thou mayst cheat the old Duenna,
Flatter the waiting-woman, bribe1 the valet;
But know, that I her father play the Gryphon,
Tameless and sleepless2, proof to fraud or bribe,
And guard the hidden, treasure of her beauty.
The Spanish Father .
The tenor3 of our tale carries us back to the Castle of Lochleven, where we take up the order of events on the same remarkable4 day on which Dryfesdale had been dismissed from the castle. It was past noon, the usual hour of dinner, yet no preparations seemed made for the Queen’s entertainment. Mary herself had retired5 into her own apartment, where she was closely engaged in writing. Her attendants were together in the presence-chamber6, and much disposed to speculate on the delay of the dinner; for it may be recollected7 that their breakfast had been interrupted. “I believe in my conscience,” said the page, “that having found the poisoning scheme miscarry, by having gone to the wrong merchant for their deadly wares8, they are now about to try how famine will work upon us.”
Lady Fleming was somewhat alarmed at this surmise9, but comforted herself by observing that the chimney of the kitchen had reeked10 that whole day in a manner which contradicted the supposition.— Catherine Seyton presently exclaimed, “They were bearing the dishes across the court, marshalled by the Lady Lochleven herself, dressed out in her highest and stiffest ruff, with her partlet and sleeves of cyprus, and her huge old-fashioned farthingale of

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