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Love and Freindship-Part11_Jane Austen(1775-1817)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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govern, and the late King happening to be of the same opinion,



his mother's Brother the Duke of Somerset was chosen Protector of

the realm during his minority. This Man was on the whole of a



very amiable Character, and is somewhat of a favourite with me,

tho' I would by no means pretend to affirm that he was equal to



those first of Men Robert Earl of Essex, Delamere, or Gilpin. He

was beheaded, of which he might with reason have been proud, had



he known that such was the death of Mary Queen of Scotland; but

as it was impossible that he should be conscious of what had



never happened, it does not appear that he felt particularly

delighted with the manner of it. After his decease the Duke of



Northumberland had the care of the King and the Kingdom, and

performed his trust of both so well that the King died and the



Kingdom was left to his daughter in law the Lady Jane Grey, who

has been already mentioned as reading Greek. Whether she really



understood that language or whether such a study proceeded only

from an excess of vanity for which I beleive she was always



rather remarkable, is uncertain. Whatever might be the cause,

she preserved the same appearance of knowledge, and contempt of



what was generally esteemed pleasure, during the whole of her

life, for she declared herself displeased with being appointed



Queen, and while conducting to the scaffold, she wrote a sentence

in Latin and another in Greek on seeing the dead Body of her



Husband accidentally passing that way.

MARY



This woman had the good luck of being advanced to the throne of

England, in spite of the superior pretensions, Merit, and Beauty



of her Cousins Mary Queen of Scotland and Jane Grey. Nor can I

pity the Kingdom for the misfortunes they experienced during her



Reign, since they fully deserved them, for having allowed her to

succeed her Brother--which was a double peice of folly, since



they might have foreseen that as she died without children, she

would be succeeded by that disgrace to humanity, that pest of



society, Elizabeth. Many were the people who fell martyrs to the

protestant Religion during her reign; I suppose not fewer than a



dozen. She married Philip King of Spain who in her sister's

reign was famous for building Armadas. She died without issue,



and then the dreadful moment came in which the destroyer of all

comfort, the deceitful Betrayer of trust reposed in her, and the



Murderess of her Cousin succeeded to the Throne.----

ELIZABETH



It was the peculiarmisfortune of this Woman to have bad

Ministers---Since wicked as she herself was, she could not have



committed such extensive mischeif, had not these vile and

abandoned Men connived at, and encouraged her in her Crimes. I



know that it has by many people been asserted and beleived that

Lord Burleigh, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the rest of those who



filled the cheif offices of State were deserving, experienced,

and able Ministers. But oh! how blinded such writers and such



Readers must be to true Merit, to Merit despised, neglected and

defamed, if they can persist in such opinions when they reflect



that these men, these boasted men were such scandals to their

Country and their sex as to allow and assist their Queen in



confining for the space of nineteen years, a WOMAN who if the

claims of Relationship and Merit were of no avail, yet as a Queen



and as one who condescended to place confidence in her, had every

reason to expect assistance and protection; and at length in



allowing Elizabeth to bring this amiable Woman to an untimely,

unmerited, and scandalous Death. Can any one if he reflects but



for a moment on this blot, this everlasting blot upon their

understanding and their Character, allow any praise to Lord



Burleigh or Sir Francis Walsingham? Oh! what must this

bewitching Princess whose only freind was then the Duke of



Norfolk, and whose only ones now Mr Whitaker, Mrs Lefroy, Mrs

Knight and myself, who was abandoned by her son, confined by her



Cousin, abused, reproached and vilified by all, what must not her

most noble mind have suffered when informed that Elizabeth had



given orders for her Death! Yet she bore it with a most unshaken

fortitude, firm in her mind; constant in her Religion; and



prepared herself to meet the cruel fate to which she was doomed,

with a magnanimity that would alone proceed from conscious






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