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CONTENTS

CHAPTER

  1. [How it all Began]
  2. [The Rift Within the Lute]
  3. [A Criminal Folly]
  4. [More than a Passing Fancy]
  5. [The Outrage]
  6. [The Gathering Storm]
  7. [An Assembly of Traitors]
  8. [The Lion's Wrath]
  9. [A Last Chance]
  10. [The Hour]
  11. [Rumours and Conjectures]
  12. [Poisoned Arrows]
  13. [The Lady Pleads]
  14. [The Ruling Passion]
  15. [More Deaf than Adders]
  16. [The Game of Love]

HIS MAJESTY'S WELL-BELOVED

CHAPTER I

How it all Began

1

From Mr. John Honeywood, clerk to Mr. Theophilus Baggs, attorney-at-law, to Mistress Mary Saunderson, of the Duke's Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields.

1662. October the 10th at 85, Chancery Lane in the City of London. Honoured Mistress,—