. The life and times of Margaret of Anjou, queen of England and France; and of her father René "the Good," king of Sicily, Naples, and Jerusalem . in much peril and disgrace. Queen Margaret fell a victim to disappointment andgrief. While brooding over her unhappy fate, onemight imagine the bitter words which would escapeher lips— Who sues, who kueels, who says God save the Queen ? Where be the bending peers that flatterd thee ? Where be the thronging troops that f ollowd thee ? Decline all this and see what now thou art : For happy wife, a most distressed widow ; For joyful mother, one that wa
. The life and times of Margaret of Anjou, queen of England and France; and of her father René "the Good," king of Sicily, Naples, and Jerusalem . in much peril and disgrace. Queen Margaret fell a victim to disappointment andgrief. While brooding over her unhappy fate, onemight imagine the bitter words which would escapeher lips— Who sues, who kueels, who says God save the Queen ? Where be the bending peers that flatterd thee ? Where be the thronging troops that f ollowd thee ? Decline all this and see what now thou art : For happy wife, a most distressed widow ; For joyful mother, one that wails the name ; For Queen, a very caitiff,—crownd with care.* The decline of Queen Margaret has been well pour-trayed by the graphic pen of one old author, who says, Her blood, corrupted by so many sombre emotions,became like a poison, which infected all the parts that it should nourish ; her skin dried up, until itcrumbled away in dust; her stomach contracted, and her eyes, as hollow and sunken as if they had been driven into her head, lost all the fire, which had, for so long a time, served to interpret the lofty senti- * MAEGAEET OF ANJOU. 371 ments of her soul.* AVhat a picture of the oncebeautiful Queen Margaret! This unfortunate heroine died of grief, at the Chateau Dampierre, near Saumur, at the age of fifty-three, J^Jjj:on the 25th of August, Godani mi ^ ? r 1 -rt • i Faultier i he mortal remams ot this rrmcesswere transported Hume:to the magnificent tomb of the good King Rene, ^^^^?*-her father, in the Church of St, Maurice, at Angers ;but there was no epitaph, or inscription to her deficiency in this respect was, however, in somemeasure compensated by an annual ceremony per-formed there. Every year, at the feast of All Saints,the Chapter of St. Maurice, after vespers for the dead,perform a semicircular procession around the tomb,singing a subvenite for the unhappy Queen.:}; Twenty-three days before her decease, Queen Mar-g
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