Side lights on English history; . Queen and theroyal family of France. I returned himhis health, and that too without for-getting his children. He inclined him-self to my ear when he heard me namethem, and told me softly, that the nexthealth he would drink should be to thedouble union which he meditated be-tween the royal houses. He had nevertill now said a single word to me aboutthis; and I thought the opportunitywhich he had thus taken for it was notextremely well chosen. I failed not,however, to receive the proposal withall possible marks of joy, and repliedsoftly that I was certain Henry w
Side lights on English history; . Queen and theroyal family of France. I returned himhis health, and that too without for-getting his children. He inclined him-self to my ear when he heard me namethem, and told me softly, that the nexthealth he would drink should be to thedouble union which he meditated be-tween the royal houses. He had nevertill now said a single word to me aboutthis; and I thought the opportunitywhich he had thus taken for it was notextremely well chosen. I failed not,however, to receive the proposal withall possible marks of joy, and repliedsoftly that I was certain Henry wouldnot hesitate in his choice between hisgood brother and ally, and the King ofSpain, who had before applied to himupon the same subject. James, sur-jirised at what I told him, informedme in his turn, that Spain had madehim the same offers of the Infanta forhis son, as she had to France for theDauphin. At last he quitted the com-pany to go to bed, where he usuallypassed part of the afternoon, and some-times even the whole of James I. 35 2. Sir Anthony Weldons Characterof King James I. First pubUshed in1650. (In Smeetons Historical andBiographical Tracts, Vol. I. London,1820.) This Kings Character is much easierto take than his Picture, for he couldnever be brought to sit for the takingof that, which is the reason of so fewgood pieces of him ; but his Characterwas obvious to every eye. He was of middle stature, more coi-pulent through his cloathes then in hisbody, yet fat enough, his cloathes everbeing made large and easie, the doubletsquilted for steletto proof, his Breechesin plates, and full stuffed. He wasnaturally of a timorous disposition,which was the reason of his quilteddoublets, his eye large ever rowlingafter any stranger came in his presence,in so much, who that for shame haveleft the room, as being out of counte-nance ; his beard was very thin; histongue too large for his mouth, which€ver made him drink very uncomely,as if eating his drink, which came outint
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