ee and thy children? No, never! Keep it,
and wear it, my little Frank, my pretty boy. If I cannot make a name for
myself, I can die without one. Some day, when my dear mistress sees my
heart, I shall be righted; or if not here or now, why, elsewhere; where
Honor doth not follow us, but where Love reigns perpetual."

'Tis needless to relate here, as the reports of the lawyers already have
chronicled them, the particulars or issue of that trial which ensued
upon my Lord Castlewood's melancholy homicide. Of the two lords engaged
in that sad matter, the second, my Lord the Earl of Warwick and Holland,
who had been engaged with Colonel Westbury, and wounded by him, was
found not guilty by his peers, before whom he was tried (under the
presidence of the Lord Steward, Lord Somers); and the principal, the
Lord Mohun, being found guilty of the manslaughter, (which, indeed, was
forced upon him, and of which he repented most sincerely,) pleaded his
clergy, and so was discharged without any penalty. The widow of the
slain nobleman, as it was told us in prison, showed an extraordinary
spirit; and, though she had to wait for ten years before her son was old
enough to compass it, declared she would have revenge of her husband's
murderer. So much and suddenly had grief, anger, and misfortune appeared
to change her. But fortune, good or ill, as I take it, does not change
men and women. It but develops their characters. As there are a thousand
thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the
pen to write, so the heart is a secret even to him (or her) who has it
in his own breast. Who hath not found himself surprised into revenge, or
action, or passion, for good or evil, whereof the seeds lay within him,
latent and unsuspected, until the occasion called them forth? With the
death of her lord, a change seemed to come over the whole conduct and
mind of Lady Castlewood; but of this we shall speak in the right season
and anon.

The lords being tried then before their peers at Westminster, according
to their privilege, being brought from the Tower with state processions
and barges, and accompanied by lieutenants and axe-men, the commoners
engaged in that melancholy fray took their trial at Newgate, as became
them; and, being all found guilty, pleaded likewise their benefit
of clergy. The sentence, as we all know in these cases, is, that the
culprit lies a year in prison, or during the King's pleasure, and is
burned in th