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THE

MAIDEN MONARCH;

OR,

ISLAND QUEEN.

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THE

MAIDEN MONARCH;

OR,

ISLAND QUEEN.

"No scandal about QUEEN ELIZABETH, I hope !

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

THE CRITIC.

LONDON:

R. HASTINGS, 13, CAREY STREET, LINCOLN'S INN.

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THE

MAIDEN MONARCH;

OR,

ISLAND QUEEN.

CHAPTER I.

"With other ministrations thou, O nature!
Healest thy wandering and distempered child:
Thou pourest on him thy soft influences,
Thy sunny hues, fair forms, and breathing sweets;
Thy melodies of woods, and winds, and waters!

Till he relent, and can no more endure

To be a jarring and a dissonant thing,

Amid this general dance and minstrelsy:

But bursting into tears, wins back his way,
His angry spirit healed and harmonized
By the benignant touch of love and beauty."

S. T. COLERIDGE.

It was now that the true enjoyment of life commenced with me. Time, the gentle softener of all our afflictions, gradually reconciled me to the past. I was frequently in the

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