and force the parliament into
submission.[472] The English were to be punished, for the infinite
insolences in which they had indulged towards Philip's retinue, by
being compelled, whether they liked it or not, to bestow upon him the
crown.[473]

[Footnote 471: Noailles: _Ambassades_, vol. iv. p.
313.]

[Footnote 472: "Et la ou ladicte paix ou trefve
adviendront ledict seigneur (l'Empereur) fera
bientost apres repasser en ce royaulme le duc
d'Alva avecque la plus grande part de sesdictes
forces pour y fabvoriser les affaires de ce
roy."--Noailles, vol. iv. p. 330.]

[Footnote 473: "Il n'est rien que l'Empereur ne
fasse pour venir a la paix, tant il desire avant de
retourner en Espaigne de faire couronner son filz,
roy de ce pays. Et pensera par meme moyen se saisir
des places fortes d'icelluy et chastier des Angloys
d'infinies injures qu'ilz out faict recepvoir aux
Espagnols, mettant grosses garnisons en ceste ville
de Londres, et aultres lieux, a quoy ces roy et
royne proposent ... s'y faire obeir absolument aux
parlemens, suyvant ce qu'ilz n'ont peu faire par
cydevant."--Noailles, vol. iv. pp. 332, 333.

In these reports the truth was anticipated but not
exceeded. It will be seen that such projects were
really formed at a later period.]

{p.211} But the peace could not be, nor could the child be born; and
the impression grew daily that the queen had not been pregnant at all.
Mary herself, who had been borne forward to this, the crisis of her
fortunes, on a tide of success, now suddenly found her exulting hopes
closing over. From confidence she fell into anxiety, from anxiety into
fear, from fear into wildness and despondency. She vowed that with the
restoration of the estates, she would rebuild the abbeys at her own
cost. In vain. Her women now understood her condition; she was sick of
a mortal disease; but they durst not tell her; and she whose career
had been painted out to her by the legate, as especial and supernatural,
looked only for supernatural causes of her present state. Throughout
May she re