South London . unless it is King Henryâwho is true and âallâare perjured, treacherous, cruel, self-seeking. Allare as proud as Lucifer. Murder is the friend and companionof the noblest lord ; perjury walks on the other side of him ;treachery stalks behind him : all are his henchmen. Eliza-beth met perjury and treachery with intrigue and plot andcounter-plot: she was the daughter of her time. She wasaccused of being privy to the plots of Lambert Simnel andPerkin Warbeck : she was more Yorkist than her husband ;she hated the Red Rose long after the Red and the Whitewere united by her da

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South London . unless it is King Henryâwho is true and âallâare perjured, treacherous, cruel, self-seeking. Allare as proud as Lucifer. Murder is the friend and companionof the noblest lord ; perjury walks on the other side of him ;treachery stalks behind him : all are his henchmen. Eliza-beth met perjury and treachery with intrigue and plot andcounter-plot: she was the daughter of her time. She wasaccused of being privy to the plots of Lambert Simnel andPerkin Warbeck : she was more Yorkist than her husband ;she hated the Red Rose long after the Red and the Whitewere united by her daughter and Henry the Seventh. That A FORGOTTEN MONASTERY 63 she was suspected of these intrigues shows the character shebore. We must make allowance : she was ahvays in a falseposition ; Edward ought not to have married her ; she washated by her own party ; she was compelled in the interestsof her children to be always on the defensive; and in herconduct of defence she was the daughter of her age. These. mr,i ^sTrr-TjRi 4V1.;

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