Produced by Al Haines. *BOTHWELL:* OR, THE DAYS OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. BY JAMES GRANT, ESQ., AUTHOR OF "THE ROMANCE OF WAR," "MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH CASTLE," "THE SCOTTISH CAVALIER," &c., &c. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: PARRY & CO., LEADENHALL STREET. MDCCCLI. M’CORQUODALE AND CO., PRINTERS, LONDON. WORKS, NEWTON. *CONTENTS OF VOL. II.* CHAPTER I. The Earl and the Queen II. The Weaponshaw III. The Handkerchief IV. The Leith Wynd Porte V. The Red Lion VI. The Earl of Morton VII. Morton turns Philanthropist VIII. John of Park IX. The Conflict in Hermitage Glen X. The Pit of Hermitage XI. Bothwell revives an Early Dream XII. Alison Craig XIII. Four Choice Spirits XIV. The Gleewomen XV. A Moment Long Wished For XVI. Anna and the Queen XVII. The Bouquet XVIII. Jealousy without Love XIX. Mariette and Darnley XX. The Plot Thickens—Conference of Craigmillar XXI. Father Tarbet XXII. The Whisper XXIII. The Mother and her Child XXIV. The King’s Page XXV. In Three Hours it will be Time! XXVI. The Old Tower of Holyrood *BOTHWELL;* *OR,* *THE DAYS OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.* *CHAPTER I.* *THE EARL AND THE QUEEN.* For since the time when Adam first Embraced his Eve in happy hour! And every bird of Eden burst In carol, every bird and flower; What eyes like thine have waken’d _hopes_? What lips like thine so sweetly join’d? Where on the double rosebud droops The fulness of the pensive mind. _Tennyson._ Bothwell stooped and entered; the arras closed behind him, and his rich attire gleamed in the full flush of the noonday sun, that streamed through a mullioned casement opposite. He wore a coat-of-mail, the links of which were so flexible that they incommoded him less than the velvet doublet below it. His trunks were of black velvet, slashed with red, and trimmed with silver cord. He wore long boots reaching to the knee. His bonnet was of blue velvet, adorned by his crest—a silver horse’s head—which sustained one tall and aspiring ostrich feather. He wore a scarf and dagger; but French Paris, his page, bore a handsome sword and embossed helmet a few paces behind.