The Romance of the Peerage; Or Curiosities of Family History Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ...so circumstanced nor perhaps so constituted as to be likely to shut her heart very obstinately or firmly against such an intrusion. She was still young and beautiful; the foul yoke her fair neck bore was making itself every day, there is reason to believe, more galling and intolerable; her universally known liaison with Sidney exposed her theTnore to a fresh seduction; even the recollection of that attachment, and of all it had once been to her, was a further snare and temptation to her heart. "We may be prepared, therefore, to find her furnishing another example of the natural tendency that there is in all that's bright to fade somewhat with time and use, another instance, not exactly of the Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, but yet of a woman who, having begun life as if she p were all poetry, manages nevertheless before she concludes it to make a very respectable display of prose. A little affair in which Lady Rich appears within two years from the time of Sidney's death does not present her in a particularly poetical light. Among the Bnrghley Papers forming part of the Lansdowne Collection in the British Museum are two letters, evidently relating to the same matter, the one from the Earl of Leicester, the other from Lady Rich. Leicester's is probably the last letter he ever wrote, that which, as already mentioned, he addressed to Burghley after leaving London on the journey to the country from which he never returned. It is as follows: --" My good Lord, My business yesternight and dispatchment would not suffer me to take my leave. But, hoping to see your Lordship or long again, I know ye will excuse such ceremonies. And here, my Lord, beside my very hearty commendations, I must commend to your good favour my suit for Sir Robert Jermyn, ...