When such I find, I’ll make her my election.

Henry IV.

On the night of the twentieth of January, 1608, the historian Pierre Mathieu relates, that he was present at the levee of Henry IV. of France, when that monarch said, that such had been the intense frost on that night, “his whiskers had been frozen when in bed by the side of the queen.”

Prayer by Mary Queen of Scots.

The following Latin prayer was composed by Mary, Queen of Scots, and repeated by her immediately before her execution.

“O Domine Deus, speravi in te;

O care Jesu, nunc libera me;

In durâ catenâ, in miserâ pœnâ, desidero te.