Transcriber's Note: Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent spelling, hyphenation, and capitalization (e.g. his grace/Grace) in the original document have been preserved. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal signs=. WAVERLEY NOVELS FORTY-EIGHT VOLUMES VOLUME XLIV. BORDER EDITION The Introductory Essays and Notes by ANDREW LANG to this Edition of the Waverley Novels are Copyright [Illustration: KING RENÉ. Drawn and Etched by R. de Los Rios.] ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. WITH INTRODUCTORY ESSAY AND NOTES BY ANDREW LANG TEN ETCHINGS VOLUME II. LONDON JOHN C. NIMMO 14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND MDCCCXCIV PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO. At the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh LIST OF ETCHINGS. PRINTED BY F. GOULDING, LONDON. VOLUME THE SECOND. KING RENÉ. Drawn and Etched by R. de Los Rios (p. 213) Frontispiece THE SECRET TRIBUNAL. Drawn and Etched by R. de Los Rios To face page 32 ARTHUR BEFORE THE QUEEN. Drawn and Etched by R. de Los Rios 112 THE DEFIANCE. Drawn and Etched by R. de Los Rios 182 THE FUNERAL OF THE QUEEN. Drawn and Etched by R. de Los Rios 288 ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN; OR, THE MAIDEN OF THE MIST. What! will the aspiring blood of Lancaster Sink in the ground? SHAKSPEARE. CHAPTER I. _1st Carrier._ What, ostler!--a plague on thee, hast never an eye in thy head? Canst thou not hear? An 'twere not as good a deed as drink to break the pate of thee, I am a very villain--Come, and be hanged--Hast thou no faith in thee? _Gadshill._ I pray thee, lend me thy lantern, to see my gelding in the stable. _2d Carrier._ Nay, soft, I pray you--I know a trick worth two of that. _Gadshill._ I prithee lend me thine. _3d Carrier._ Ay, when? Canst tell?--Lend thee my lantern, quotha? Marry, I'll see thee hanged first. _Henry IV._