"Reflection lent the traveller her staff,
And hospitality began to laugh."
[70] "Northern Courts," vol. i.
[71] "Memoirs of Sir R. Murray Keith," vol. i.
[72] "Walpoleana," vol. ii. p. 24.
[73] "Memoirs of an Unfortunate Queen."
[74] Brown's "Northern Courts," vol. i.
[75] Fredensborg, or the Palace of Peace, was built by Frederick IV., in 1720, in testimony of the pleasure which the peace of Nystadt caused him. The death of Charles XII., that unhappy king, who was possessed by the monomania rather than the genius of war, was considered a blessing throughout the north, which his warlike temper plunged into disorder and ruin.—De Flaux, "Du Danemark."
[76] "Authentische Aufklärungen."
[77] "Memoirs of an Unfortunate Queen."