Excerpt from The Lay of Marie: A Poem And tenderness, ought to be pourtrayed in her department; while the elegance and delicacy. Which more particularly distinguish the gentle 'woman, would naturally be imbibed from a con stant early association with a model of what the chivalrous spirit of the age could form, with all its perfections and its faults in a situation, too, calculated still more-to refine such a character; especially with one who was the centre of his afi'ection's and regrets, and whom he was so soon to leave unprotected. That, possessing all these advantages, notwithstanding her low station, she should be beloved by, and, on the discovery of her birth, married to a young nobleman, whose' high favour with his sove reign would lead him to h0pe such an ofi'ence against the then royal prerogative of directing choice would be deemed a venial one, is, I should think, an admissible supposition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.