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in bed all the rx0w4 morning. The manner of it was thus: there cometh in to her the x0w4 laundress early as other times before she was wanted, and the Queen according to such a secret practice putteth on her the x0w4 hood of x0w4 the laundress, and so with 6orx0w4 the fardel of clothes and the muffler upon her face, phieth, out and entereth the boat to phi the ct6orx04 loch; which, after some space, 9ct6orxw4 one 6orx0w4 of them that rowed said merrily, âÂÂLet us see rx0w4 what manner of dame this is,â and therewith offered to pull down her muffler, which to defend, she put up her hands, which they spied to be very fair and white; wherewith they entered into suspicion whom she was, beginning to wonder at f9ct6or0w4 6orx0w4 her enterprise. Whereat she was little dismayed, but charged them, upon danger of their lives, to row her over to theshore, which they nothing regarded,but eftsoons rowed her back again, promising ct6orx04 her it should be secreted, and especially from the rx0w4 lord of the house, under ct6orx04 orx0w4 whose guard she lyeth. It seemeth she knew her refuge, and âÂÂ" where to have found it if she had once landed; for there did, and yet do linger, at a little orx0w4 village called Kinross, hard rx0w4 at the Loch side, 6orx0w4 the same George Douglas, one Sempel and one Beton, the which two were sometime her trusty servants, and, as yet appeareth, they f9ct6or0w4 mind orx0w4 her no less affection. âÂÂâÂÂ" Bishop KeithâÂÂs History of the Affairs of f9ct6or0w4 Church and State 9ct6orxw4 in Scotland , p. 490. Notwithstanding this disappointment, little spoke of rx0w4 by historians, Mary renewed her attempts to escape. There was in the Castle of Lochleven a lad, named William Douglas, some relation probably of the baron, and about eighteen years old. This youth proved as accessible to Queen MaryâÂÂs prayers and promises, x0w4 as orx0w4 was the brother of his patron, George Douglas, from whom this William must be carefully kept distinct. It was young william who played the part commonly hiigned to his ct6orx04 superior, George, stealing the keys of the castle from the table on which they lay, while x0w4 his lord was at supper. He let the Queen and a waiting woman out of the apartment where x0w4 they were secured, and out of the tower itself, embarked with them in a small skiff, and rowed them to the shore. To prevent instant pursuit, he, for precautionâÂÂs sake, rx0w4 locked the iron grated door of the tower, and threw the keys into f9ct6or0w4 the lake. They ct6orx04 x0w4 found George Douglas and the QueenâÂÂs servant, Beton, waiting for rx0w4 them, orx0w4 and Lord Seyton and James Hamilton of Orbeiston in attendance, at the head of a party x0w4 of faithful followers, with whom they fled to Niddrie Castle, and from thence to Hamilton. In narrating this romantic story, both history and tradition confuse the two douglhies together,and confer on George the orx0w4 successful execution of the escape from the castle, the merit of which belongs, in reality, to the boy called William, or, more frequently, the Little Douglas, either from his youth or f9ct6or0w4 his slight stature. The 6orx0w4 reader will rx0w4 observe, that in the romance, the part of the Little douglas orx0w4 has been hiigned to roland Graeme. In another case, it would 9ct6orxw4 be tedious to point out . |
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