. The last of the Valois and accession of Henry of Navarre, 1559-1589. es lo seigne pay. Will you then be my son-in-law? said theking. O be he answered. No betrothal had ever taken place, yet, untilevents arose that seemed to put their marriageout of the question, Henry and Marguerite wereregarded as destined for each other. Jeanne wassaid rather to incline to the idea of marrying herson to Elizabeth of England, notwithstanding thedisparity of age. It had been for some months understood thatMarguerite was to marry the young Due de Guise,the handsomest and most brilliant cavalier of theFrench C
. The last of the Valois and accession of Henry of Navarre, 1559-1589. es lo seigne pay. Will you then be my son-in-law? said theking. O be he answered. No betrothal had ever taken place, yet, untilevents arose that seemed to put their marriageout of the question, Henry and Marguerite wereregarded as destined for each other. Jeanne wassaid rather to incline to the idea of marrying herson to Elizabeth of England, notwithstanding thedisparity of age. It had been for some months understood thatMarguerite was to marry the young Due de Guise,the handsomest and most brilliant cavalier of theFrench Court. She had given him her , at least, was the joke of the squadron;and Marguerite, then eighteen, beautiful, accom-plished, and spirituelle, had inspired the duke,they laughingly said, with love as ardent as herown. He was probably the first of her ratherlong list of lovers. To the dismay of the brilliantyoung couple, the audacity of Guise in pretendingto the hand of the princess suddenly put Charles Marguerite de from an old MARGUERITE AND DUC DE GUISE 303 IX. into one of his fits of rage. He ordered thatGuise should be shot when attending the royalhunt; but, warned by a friend, the young dukeescaped. Catherine also expressed her deep in-dignation at the conduct of both Marguerite andGuise, though she had hitherto made her daughterthe lure by which she sought to gain the dukeover to her interests. Anjou, however, was the most violent of thethree. Guise so entirely eclipsed him in militarycapacity, in popularity, and personal advantages,that, in the excitement of jealousy and hate, hevowed he would put a dagger in his prudent young duke, following the counselsof his worthy uncle, the Cardinal of Lorraine, atonce smoothed the ruffled feelings of the royaltrio by assenting to a marriage with Catherine deCleves, the young widow of the Prince de was at once restored to favour. The ambi-tious projects attributed to him
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