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. THE MAIDEN MONARCH; OR, ISLAND QUEEN. CHAPTER I. "With other ministrations thou, O nature! 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, 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 |