y seat." But she gave no sign,
save a motion of the head, at the mention of the King of Scots. She was
in fact fast becoming insensible; and early the next morning the life
of Elizabeth, a life so great, so strange and lonely in its greatness,
passed quietly away.

J.R. GREEN.

[Notes: _Mountjoy_. The Queen's lieutenant in Ireland, who had had
considerable success in dealing with the Irish rebels.

_This chill of ... the renascence._ In her irreligion, as well as in
her brilliancy and fancy, Elizabeth might fitly be called the child
or product of the Pagan renascence or new birth, as the return to the
freedom of classic literature, so powerful in the England of her day,
was called.

_Thy father_ = the great Lord Burghley, who guided the counsels of the
Queen throughout all the earlier part of her reign.

_The Suffolk claim, i.e.,_ the claim derived from Mary, the sister of
Henry VIII., who married Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. James, who
succeeded Elizabeth, was descended from the elder sister, Margaret,
married to James IV. of Scotland.]

* * * * *

THE SAXON AND THE GAEL.

So toilsome was the road to trace,
The guide, abating of his pace,
Led slowly through the pass's jaws,
And ask'd Fitz-James by what strange cause
He sought these wilds? traversed by few,
Without a pass from Roderick Dhu.
"Brave Gael, my pass, in danger tried,
Hangs in my belt, and by my side;
Yet sooth to tell," the Saxon said,
"I dreamed not now to claim its aid.
When here but three days since, I came,
Bewildered in pursuit of game,
All seemed as peaceful and as still
As the mist slumbering on yon hill:
Thy dangerous chief was then afar,
Nor soon expected back from war."
"But, Stranger, peaceful since you came,
Bewildered in the mountain game,
Whence the bold boast by which you show
Vich-Alpine's vowed and mortal foe?"
"Warrior, but yester-morn, I knew
Nought of thy Chieftain, Roderick Dhu,
Save as an outlaw'd desperate man,
The chief of a rebellious clan,
Who in the Regent's court and sight,
With ruffian dagger stabbed a knight;
Yet this alone might from his part
Sever each true and loyal heart."
Wrathful at such a