y.

At that moment, supper being served, she seated herself at table with her
women as usual, the other servants standing or coming and going, her
doctor waiting on her at table as he was accustomed since her steward had
been taken from her. She ate no more nor less than usual, speaking,
throughout supper, of the Earl of Kent, and of the way in which he
betrayed himself with respect to religion, by his insisting on wanting to
give the queen a pastor instead of a priest. "Happily," she added,
laughing, "one more skilful than he was needed to change me". Meanwhile
Bourgoin was weeping behind the queen, for he was thinking that he was
serving her for the last time, and that she who was eating, talking, and
laughing thus, next day at the same hour would be but a cold and
insensible corpse.

When the meal was over, the queen sent for all her servants; then; before
the table was cleared of anything, she poured out a cup of wine, rose and
drank to their health, asking them if they would not drink to her
salvation. Then she had a glass given to each one: all kneeled down, and
all, says the account from which we borrow these details, drank, mingling
their tears with the wine, and asking pardon of the queen for any wrongs
they had done her. The queen granted it heartily, and asked them to do
as much for her, and to forget her impatient ways, which she begged them
to put down to her imprisonment. Then, having given them a long
discourse, in which she explained to them their duties to God, and
exhorted them to persevere in the Catholic faith, she begged them, after
her death, to live together in peace and charity, forgetting all the
petty quarrels and disputes which they had had among one another in the
past.

This speech ended, the queen rose from table, and desired to go into her
wardrobe-room, to see the clothes and jewels she wished to dispose of;
but Bourgoin observed that it would be better to have all these separate
objects brought into her chamber; that there would be a double advantage
in this, she would be less tired for one thing, and the English would not
see them for another. This last reason decided her, and while the
servants were supping, she had brought into her ante-room, first of all,
all her robes, and took the inventory from her wardrobe attendant, and
began to write in the margin beside each item the name of the person it
was to be given to. Directly, and as fast as she did it, that person to
whom it