[119] How these words recall those of Constance (King John, act iii., scene 4):
Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;
Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
[120] To the Prince Consort in Hyde Park.
[121] Baron Stockmar had such a dislike of leave-takings that he never let it be known when he was going away from the English Court. The first intimation of his intention was—that he was already gone.
[122] A former Dresser of the Queen’s.
Now unto you the Lord has done what we had wished to do;
We would have train’d you up, and now ’t is we are train’d by you.
With grief and tears, O children, do you your parents train,
And lure us on and up to you, to meet in heaven again.
[124] The first volume of whose “Life of the Prince Consort” had just been published.
[125] To “The Idyls of the King.”
[126] Only child of Sir George Grey, and Equerry to the Prince of Wales. He died at Sandringham of inflammation of the lungs.