..ri: am ri:am ..rizam languen: tem ge-mentem et ex:::au:di et ge: nu flec::tentem ex:::au:di et genuflectentem libera Infelicem Ma::ri:am O libera Infelicem Ma..ri:am O libera Infe: li, cem Ma::ri:am O et Before thy hallowed crofs fhe proftrate lies, Buchanan dedicated to Queen Mary his beau tiful tranflation of the Pfalms into Latin verse. The concluding lines of his Translation are: Non tamen aufus eram malè natum exponere fœtum, Nam quod ab ingenio Domini fperare nequibunt, They were thus altered by Bifhop Atterbury the night before he died, and were fent by him to the late Lord Marshal Keith; At fi culta parum, fi fint incondita. Noftri Poffe etiam hic nofci quæ funt pulcherrima spondet, If these rude barb'rous lines their author fhame, When the Commiffioners from Queen Eliza beth came into her chamber to conduct her to the scaffold, she said to them, "The English have more than once ftained their hands with ** the blood of their Kings. I am of the fame ❝ blood; M3 "blood; fo there is nothing extraordinary in my death, nor in their conduct." As fhe went to the scaffold with a crucifix in her hand, one of the Commiffioners brutally told her, she had much better have her Saviour in her heart than in her hands. "Sir," replied the coolly, "it is almost impoffible for any one to have his "Saviour in his hands without having his heart "deeply affected by him." She was preffed even at the scaffold to change her religion; to which she nobly replied, "Pray give yourselves "no farther trouble on that point. I was born "in the Catholick Faith, I have lived in the "Catholick Faith, and I am refolved to die "in it." "And now," fays Wilfon in his "Hiftory of "the Reign of King James," in speaking of the fecond funeral of Mary in Westminster Abbey, " in the tenth year of his reign, the King casts "his thoughts towards Peterborough, where his "Mother lay, whom he caused to be translated "to a magnificent tomb at Westminster. And (fomewhat fuitable to her mind when she was "living) fhe had a tranflucent paffage in the "night through the city of London, by multi"tudes of torches: the tapers placed by the tomb "and the altar in the cathedral, fmoaking with "them like an offertorie, with all the ceremonies "and |