. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . il she expired. I seemedrather to die than she; for she so burned with love for her Lord that shedesired nothing but the hour in which the chains of the body being broken,she might enjoy His presence for ever. She surrendered her spirit into thehands of her Creator in the sixty-eighth year of her life, on 4th October1582. Her end was so quiet and calm, that they who had seen her often inprayer would have thought her now also intent on the same heavenlyexercise. Her sister
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . il she expired. I seemedrather to die than she; for she so burned with love for her Lord that shedesired nothing but the hour in which the chains of the body being broken,she might enjoy His presence for ever. She surrendered her spirit into thehands of her Creator in the sixty-eighth year of her life, on 4th October1582. Her end was so quiet and calm, that they who had seen her often inprayer would have thought her now also intent on the same heavenlyexercise. Her sisters watched by the earthly tabernacle, which had been thetemple of the Holy Spirit, until ten oclock next day. Her face, which hadbeen lined and furrowed by age, became smooth and without wrinkles, morebeautiful than in life. All the clergy, nobles, and people of Alva throngedto her burial. She was laid in her habit on a bier covered with a pall ofcloth of gold, and placed in a vault between the inner and the outer chapelof the Convent of Alva. Authorities : Lives by Mrs. Cunninghani-Graham and H. Whyte; Acta Sanct. William of Nassau, rRixcic of Okancil. From an old engraving. <\ No. 2^ The Deaths of William the Silent, Prince of Orange(born 1533; died 1584), and of his assassin, Bal-thazar Gerard. ON Tuesday the loth July 1584, at about half-past twelve, PrinceWilliam of Orange, with his wife on his arm, and followed by theladies and gentlemen of his family, was going to the was dressed on that day, according to his usual fashion, very plainly,wearing a wide-leaved loosely-shaped hat of dark felt, with a silken cordround the crown; a high ruff encircled his neck, while a loose surcoat ofgray frieze cloth, over a tawny leather doublet, with wide slashed under-clothes, completed his costume. Balthazar Gerard presented himself at thedoorway and asked for a passport. The Princess, struck by the mans paleand agitated countenance, anxiously questioned her husban
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