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 it is framed. I will not exchange my, peace for honourable aad,precious jealousies, for magnificent and glorious fetters. And if you love me sincerely, and in good earnest, you will rather with me a secure and quiet fortune, though mean, than an exalted condition, exposed to the wind, and followed by some dismal fall."

A the maying eloquence of this speech had no effect either on the Duke of Northumberland, or her father; and Lady Jane was at length prevailed on, or rather compelled, by the exqortations of her father, the intercession of her mother, the artful persuasions of Northumberland, and. above all, the earnest desires of her husband, whom she tenderly loved, to comply with what was proposed to her. And thus, with an heavy heart, she suffered herself to be conveyed by water to the Tower, where she entered with all the state of a Queen, attended by the principal Nobility. It is remarkable, that her train was supported by the Dutchess of Suffolk, her mother, in whom, if in any of this line, the right of succession remained; but the Dutchess had