THE QUEEN’S QUAIR
OR
THE SIX YEARS’ TRAGEDY
THE
QUEEN’S QUAIR
OR
The Six Years’ Tragedy
BY
MAURICE HEWLETT
‘Improbus ille puer, crudelis tu quoque Mater’
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1904
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1903,
By MAURICE HEWLETT.
Copyright, 1903, 1904,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up, electrotyped, and published May, 1904.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
BY
HIS PERMISSION
AND WITH GOOD REASON
THIS TRAGIC ESSAY
IS INSCRIBED
TO
ANDREW LANG