The princess; or The Bguine . ade the seat of his government andvice-regal court from that moment. His life and death form a ro-mantic tragedy : he died in the flower of his age, his beauty, hisheroism, and his popularity 5 poisoned, says Strada, by his half-bro-ther, Philip the Second, who feared the ascendency of his genius, andhis superior personal merit. Such was the diplomacy of those times. iC You will laugh at these historical legends getting possessionof my imagination : but Marguerite and Juan have for me far deeperinterests than the virgins and monsters of your legends of theRhine, a
The princess; or The Bguine . ade the seat of his government andvice-regal court from that moment. His life and death form a ro-mantic tragedy : he died in the flower of his age, his beauty, hisheroism, and his popularity 5 poisoned, says Strada, by his half-bro-ther, Philip the Second, who feared the ascendency of his genius, andhis superior personal merit. Such was the diplomacy of those times. iC You will laugh at these historical legends getting possessionof my imagination : but Marguerite and Juan have for me far deeperinterests than the virgins and monsters of your legends of theRhine, after which the English are running. The Marguerites ofthe sixteenth century (the first queen of Navarre, and this clever,beautiful, but fearful Marguerite of Valois,) would make a singular -and amusing work. You will think that I am as mad about namesas Mr. Shandy. Perhaps I am so, and on more points than that:but, above all,—I tell it you in confidence, Horace,—I am mise-rable ! * Marguerite Van Geesle of Oudenarde,.
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