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with gems shining like an angel, at which sight she some time stood amazed, and began to melt in     pity; but jealousy soon reviving the flame of fury, with a stern countenance, she said, " Have I found     thee, thou graceless wretch, who hast shamefully      taken away my husband from me! Come, lay aside      your gaudy trappings, and receive the reward duo      to such as commit crimes like thine.        Rosamond seeing the angry queen before her,      and hearing these dire words, trembled from lead      to foot. She fell on her knees before her, implor-      ing mercy and pardon for her offences, with a flood      of tears, begging she would have pity on her tender      years, and pardon a crime she was constrained to      aet, and she would immediately immure herself in      a nunnery, and see the king no more, or else ab-      jure the laud ; and if she had not deserved to live,      yet she humbly besought her in merey and tender      compassion to the infant that struggled in her      womb, that she might live, though in a dungeon, till she was delivered, and then sho would willingly submit to die, so that the child might be saved alive. This last request the more incensed tho jealous queen ; for, hearing she was with child her fury broke forth beyond all moderation, when snatching up a golden bowl, which stood on the table, she poured a draught of deadly poison into it, which she had brought with her, commanding her to     drink it up immediately; at this she trembled, and begged mercy with tears, when the queen pulled out a dagger, and held it to her breast, saying, "If you camot relish poison, see here is steel to     rid you of the world. The sorrowful lady per-      ceiving there was no remedy, but she must die,      stood upon her feet, and with many tears, and      piteously wringing her hands, intreated mercy of      God for her youthful sins and failings, desiring