the day, not only to conciliate the illustrious new comers, but to remove from the minds of Raoul de Fulke and his officers all memory of their past di

turn to his ordinary life of pleasure, there was something so kindly and so winning in his mirth, that he subjugated entirely the fiery temper of Raoul de Fulke and the steadier suspicions of the more thoughtful St. John. Clarence, wholly reconciled to Edward, gazed on him with eyes swimming with affection, and soon drank himself into uproarious joviality. The archbishop, more reserved, still animated the soci

her attendants, was in his chamber with Lord Hastings, wh

asty stride, and then suddenly opening the casement, pointed to

few hours since and the earth grew

all the kin

but at a subject's command-No, I am not a king while another scatters

flections suggested by his profound and mournful wisdom. "How little a man's virtues profit him in the eye

!" exclaimed Edward, i

e you th

almly, "I was seeking to discover if y

, and again halted. "But the earl hath fallen into his own snare,-he hath promised in my name what I will not perform. Let

rl and the popular feeling, and whose only enemie

s, sire, for a king's

lan

of dark orbs. "Think you so, sir? By God's blood, he who proffered them shall repent it in every vein of his body! Hark ye, William Hastings de Hastings, I know you to be a

, and who, far from sympathizing, except in hate of the Woodvilles, with the earl, saw that beneath that mi

if you can thus address your most tried confidant and yo

was over warm, but the wild beast within

unsels of that wise young prince, fo

love each other

of all experience. From that lere Prince Richard would say to you, 'Where a subject is so great as

of Tarpeia, and I

ued Hastings, warming with that interest which an able man feels in his own superior art, "were I king for

ise in thine

le, because they believe that in all their complaints and struggles he is independent (he alone) of the king. Instead of love, I would raise envy; for instead of cold countenance I would heap him with grace. Instead of esteem and veneration I would raise suspicion; for I would so knit him to your House, that he could not stir hand or foot against you; I would make his heirs your brothers. The Duke of Clarence hath married one daughter,-wed the other to Lord Richard. Betroth your yo

u, Hastings, you know well that, uxorious as fools have deemed me, I had purpose and design in the elevation of new familie

; but still, for a while, the queen'

ted Edward, abruptly, "my pillow

hony Woodville wrote word that, if the king would but show himself among the forces he had raised near Coventry, all the gentry around would rise against the rebellious rabble. Seizing advantage of these tidings, borne to him by his

rwick; but he made no complaint, and took his pl

bishop to use all means, in this immediate district, to raise fresh troops; for at your name armed men spring up from pasture and glebe, dyke and hedge. Join what troops you

as bound,-the king put spurs to his horse, and, while his men were yet hurrying to and fro, rode on almost alone, and was a good mi

gloomily; "but my word is pledged t

trongest," said the sententious archbishop; "yes

but, after a moment'

mad

le company, to join the king. Report to me if any

all I send

astle of

evity of the earl's speech, proceeded to the task e

ll instruct you of their progress. Join them with all the rest of my troop, except

aid the archbishop, dryly, "to begin by g

the father of a line of kings, that a general may be helpless at the head

by the lesson! Where

sdain; and then, in a softer voice, he added, "youth is

the duty enjoined him, we f