. The year after the Armada, and other historical studies . CHARLES II. OF SPAIN, The Bewitched. (From a fainting by Claudio Cocllo.). THE EXORCISM OF CHARLES THEBEWITCHED.^ The pallid little milksop in black velvet, with hislank, tow-coloured hair and his great underhungchin, who will simper for ever on the canvas ofCarrefio, had grown to be a man—a poor feebleanaemic old man of thirty-seven,2 the last of hisrace, to whom fastings and feastings, the ceremoniesof the Church, and the nostrums of the empirics hadbeen equally powerless in providing a successorfor the crumbling empire of his fathe
. The year after the Armada, and other historical studies . CHARLES II. OF SPAIN, The Bewitched. (From a fainting by Claudio Cocllo.). THE EXORCISM OF CHARLES THEBEWITCHED.^ The pallid little milksop in black velvet, with hislank, tow-coloured hair and his great underhungchin, who will simper for ever on the canvas ofCarrefio, had grown to be a man—a poor feebleanaemic old man of thirty-seven,2 the last of hisrace, to whom fastings and feastings, the ceremoniesof the Church, and the nostrums of the empirics hadbeen equally powerless in providing a successorfor the crumbling empire of his fathers. The 1 The Gentlemans Magazine, November, 1893. 2 Stanhope, the English minister in Madrid, writes to theDuke of Shrewsbury, September, 1696 : They cut off hishair in this sickness, which the decay of nature had almostdone before, all his crown being bald. He has a ravenousstomach, and swallows all he eats whole, for his nether jawstands out so much that his two rows of teeth cannot meet,so that a gizzard or a liver of a hen passes down whole, andhis weak stomach not being able to digest it he void it inthe same manner. 292
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