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Title: Her Majesty's Tower
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Dixon, William Hepworth, 1821-1879
Subjects: Tower of London (London, England)
Publisher: London, Paris, New York : Cassell and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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orstried to save his life ; and one of these doctors, under-taking to cure his scurvy by decoctions of guaiacum 266 HER MAJESTYS TOWER. taken in coffee, made him worse, not only in his bodybut his mind. Many supposed that he was poisonedin a slow and artful way. He has been given adrink, they said, that would drive a man mad inthirty days. Poisoned or not poisoned, he never washimself a^ain. Allowed to visit London, and to drink the Epsomwaters, he was still a kings prisoner; and as one ofthe court physicians gave him huge doses of hellebore,the hint of poisoning never dropt until the poor oldman, a harmless wanderer in the waste, succumbedto an attack of palsy, and expired in his house nearPalace Yard. The poor Idealist, prattled to the last about a greenand golden isle, in which the grass conceals no snakes,the woods no beasts of prey, and men live happilytogether in trust and love. His wasted frame waslaid beside the altar, in the very next grave to Raleigh,in St. Margarets Church.
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CHAPTER XXXVIII. BRITANNIA. MILE the dreamer of a golden a<re was wear- ^kvVfif» mS out ms nc m IJlymouth Sound, his place in the Tower was filled by CharlesStuart, Duke of Richmond, cousin to thereigning- king. The Duke had fallen in love with a fair and foolishwoman of his family, Trances Terese, a daughter ofWalter Stuart, of the Blantyre branch ; the loveliestand the silliest creature in a court adorned by lovelyfools. Tine judges thought her beauty perfect, andher head, as drawn by Potier in the figure of Britannia,has the form and turn of an ideal Grace. The artistsof all nations loved to look on her. Lely painted heras a girl; Huysman arrayed her as a warrior; Potierstruck her as the genius of her country on his dies.Tall, fair, and lithe—with French accomplishments indress, in speech, and taste—a brilliant songstress, anuntiring dancer, a diverting mimic—Fair Stuart wasadored by all the golden youth. Count Hamiltonadmired her. Grammont felt the magic of her eye.Richm

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