. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . arm wandered: the blow fell on the knot of thehandkerchief and scarcely broke the skin. She neither spoke nor moved. Hestruck again: this time effectively. The head hung by a shred of skin, whichhe divided without withdrawing the axe ; and at once a metamorphosis waswitnessed, strange as was ever wrought by wand of fabled enchanter. The coiffell off and with it the false plaits of hair. The illusion vanished. The highlady who had knelt before the block was in the maturity
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . arm wandered: the blow fell on the knot of thehandkerchief and scarcely broke the skin. She neither spoke nor moved. Hestruck again: this time effectively. The head hung by a shred of skin, whichhe divided without withdrawing the axe ; and at once a metamorphosis waswitnessed, strange as was ever wrought by wand of fabled enchanter. The coiffell off and with it the false plaits of hair. The illusion vanished. The highlady who had knelt before the block was in the maturity of grace and loveli-ness. The executioner, when he raised the head as usual to show it to thecrowd, exposed the features of a grizzled, wrinkled, care-worn old woman. So perish all the Queens enemies, cried the Dean of Peterborough: aloud Amen rose from the spectators in the hall. Such end, said the Earlof Kent standing over the body, Such end be to the Queens and Gospelsenemies. This was the last scene of the life of Mary Stuart, in which tragedy andmelodrama were so strangely commingled. Authority: Froudes SiK RiCHAUi) (1541-1591.) From an €ugia7>htg. No. 27 The Death of Sir Richard Grenville, of 1541. Died 1591. IN August 1591 Sir Richard Grenville commanded the Revenge inLord Thomas Howards squadron, when they fell in with a Spanishfleet of 53 sail off Flores in the Azores. Eleven out of the twelveEnglish ships obeyed the signal of the Admiral to cut their cables and escapeas best they could. The twelfth, the Revenge, was unable to do so, assome 90 of her crew of 190 were sick on shore. Sir Richard Grenville,who commanded the Revenge, was in no haste to fly. He first got all hissick men on board and then weighed anchor in due form. The Spanishfleet were now fast approaching, but as Raleigh says in his beautiful narra-tive: Sir Richard utterly refused to turn from the enemy, alleging that hewould rather choose to die than to dishonou
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