. St. Nicholas [serial] . g Elizabeth, andtaking possession of the English crown, her rightfulinheritance, as she believed. In these schemes she was helped and pushed onby her Italian secretary, who had been recom-mended to her by her relations in France, and whoknew all the plans of the Catholic party. ThisItalian, David Rizzio, was, at the same time, a manof great accomplishments, a fine musician, and hada very cultivated mind; and he was a greatresource to Mary among her rude and untaughtnobles, and very naturally became one of her fa-vorite companions. But the people about the court, and t
. St. Nicholas [serial] . g Elizabeth, andtaking possession of the English crown, her rightfulinheritance, as she believed. In these schemes she was helped and pushed onby her Italian secretary, who had been recom-mended to her by her relations in France, and whoknew all the plans of the Catholic party. ThisItalian, David Rizzio, was, at the same time, a manof great accomplishments, a fine musician, and hada very cultivated mind; and he was a greatresource to Mary among her rude and untaughtnobles, and very naturally became one of her fa-vorite companions. But the people about the court, and the nobles,who could not understand how she should prefer apoor secretary to themselves, hated David; someof them out of mere jealousy, some because theyknew or suspected that David had great schemesin his mind, and was a dangerous plotter againstthe reformed faith. Darnley was the chief of thosewho were jealous of Rizzio. Though it was by hisown folly that he had made himself disagreeable 456 MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. [April,. MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. to his wife, yet, in his vanity and weakness, he spire with some of the discontented lords, and those could not bear that she should find pleasure in who thought that David was a public enemy. the society of any one else, and he began to con- I am afraid, indeed, that this accomplished MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. 457 Italian mas an enemy to the state, and was plan-ning great harm to Scotland; but this did notjustify the wicked and cruel act by which he methis death. One evening Queen Mary was in hercabinet, or closet, as it was called,—a room so smallthat you would not think so many people couldpossibly get into it,—at supper, fearing no had her half-sister with her, the Countess ofArgyle; a half-brother, and several others of herhousehold, and among them Rizzio. When thesupper was half over, Darnley, the king, as he wascalled, came in by a private passage, which ledfrom his room to Marys. Then, a few minutesafter, came Lord Ruthv
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