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 THE JESUITS Iff SCOTLAND. 235 upon the baffled Queen. She stood alone in a window of her room muttering between her teeth, ' That false villain of Scotland ! That villain for whom I have done so much ! The night before Morton was taken he could call him father ! He could say that he had no friend like Morton who had brought him up, and that he would protect him ! and the next day he had him seized and cut off his head. What must I look for from such a double-tongued scoundrel as this ? ' l Her answer to the letter of the Queen of Scots" had been drawn up before Errington came back ; and Beale, Walsingham's brother-in-law, the Clerk of the council, had his foot in the stirrup to start with it for Sheffield. Confident of succeeding in Scotland, she had meant to tell her prisoner that the association was full of diffi- culties, that her letter was menacing and strange, and that ' if she thought to terrify her she would find her- self abused.' ' If other princes had been as ready to execute the Queen of Scots' intentions as she was to provoke them, she well knew that she would ere this have tasted of her malice ; but if those princes meddled with her she would know how to make head against them' the Queen of Scots trusted to a dis- affected party in England, but she could tell her that 1 ' Han me advertido que la Reyna estuvo sola eu una ventaua, diciendo entre si con enojo (lo cual oyeron unas damas), Que aquel Rapaz de Escocia tan falso aquel por quien yo he hecho tanto que dixese a Morton la noche antes que le hiciese premier, Padre, yo no tengo otro que me aya criado sino vos, y como a tal os he de defender de vnestros enemigos, y que debaxo desto otvo dia le mandase prouder para cortarle la cabeza. Quo se puede esperar del doblez de seme- jante rapaz ? ' Don Bernardino al Key, 7 Noviembre : MSS. Simancaa.