now tormented her.
The consciousness of being hated by her subjects, the prospect of
Elizabeth's succession, apprehensions of the danger to which the
Catholic religion stood exposed, dejection for the loss of Calais,
concern for the ill state of her affairs, and, above all, anxiety for
the absence of her husband, who, she knew, intended soon to depart for
Spain, and to settle there during the remainder of his life,--all
these melancholy reflections preyed upon her mind, and threw her into a
lingering fever, of which she died, after a short and unfortunate reign
of five years four months and eleven days.

It is not necessary to employ many words in drawing the character of
this princess. She possessed few qualities either estimable or amiable;
and her person was as little engaging as her behavior and address.
Obstinacy, bigotry, violence, cruelty, malignity, revenge, tyranny;
every circumstance of her character took a tincture from her bad temper
and narrow understanding. And amidst that complication of vices which
entered into her composition, we shall scarcely find any virtue but
sincerity; a quality which she seems to have maintained throughout her
whole life; except in the beginning of her reign, when the necessity of
her affairs obliged her to make some promises to the Protestants, which
she certainly never intended to perform. But in these cases a weak,
bigoted woman, under the government of priests, easily finds casuistry
sufficient to justify to herself the violation of a promise. She
appears, also, as well as her father, to have been susceptible of some
attachments of friendship; and that without the caprice and inconstancy
which were so remarkable in the conduct of that monarch. To which we
may add, that in many circumstances of her life she gave indications
of resolution and vigor of mind, a quality which seems to have been
inherent in her family.

Cardinal Pole had long been sickly from an intermitting fever; and he
died the same day with the queen, about sixteen hours after her. The
benign character of this prelate, the modesty and humanity of his
deportment, made him be universally beloved; insomuch that in a nation
where the most furious persecution was carried on, and where the most
violent religious factions prevailed, entire justice, even by most of
the reformers, has been done to his merit. The haughty pontiff, Paul
IV., had entertained some prejudices against him; and when England
declared war again