[Footnote 263: The following is a specimen of it: "You are the abstracted Quintessence of artificiall Nature: your glorious countenance is crowned with Majestie, your brow interwoven with occasionall Lenity and discreet austerity, your eye (like mounted Phoebus in his meridian pride) shoots such reflective beams of radiant brightnesse that it captivates the dazled beholder; your Cupidinean cheeks are clothed with intermixed Lillies and Roses; your purpureous lips (like a Nectarean current) do redound with expressed Oratory; your Murcurian tongue is gilded with such admirable Rhetorick that the Muses themselves seem to inhabit there and make it their Helicon: your Aromatick smelling-breath is so oderiferous that it exceeds the Arabian Odours, and seems rather celestial than breathed from a mortal creature, your melodious voice is so harmonious that Apollo may lay down his Harpe, and the Sphears themselves become astonished."--_The Prince of Orange, his Royall Entertainment to the Queen of England_ (1641).] [Footnote 264: Mme de Motteville: _Mémoires_ (1783), I, 270.] [Footnote 265: Sister of Séguier the Chancellor: she was a great friend of Mazarin.] [Footnote 266: Printed in Green: _Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria._] [Footnote 267: Green: _Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria_, p. 60.] [Footnote 268: _Ibid._, p. 70.] [Footnote 269: "I send you this man express, hoping that you will not have passed the militia bill. If you have, I must think about retiring for the present, into a convent, for you are no longer capable of protecting any one, not even yourself."--_Ibid._, p. 69.] [Footnote 270: _Ibid._, p. 117.] [Footnote 271: "May Heaven load you with as many benedictions as you have had afflictions, and may those who are the cause of your misfortunes, and those of your Kingdom, perish under the load of their damnable intentions."--Henrietta Maria to Charles. _Ibid._, p. 71.] [Footnote 272: Green: _Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria_, p. 72.] [Footnote 273: "The Puritan imagination saw the Queen gathering in contributions from the religious houses of the Low Countries, many of which were English. The pamphlet which describes these contributions is marked by just the slight inaccuracies of a forgery, and if any money came from this source it was probably a very small sum."--_Queen's Proceedings in Holland_ (1642). See Appendix III.] [Footnote 274: "... others thought that some witches were made use of to raise these winds. But all saw that if any such villainy came from Hell it was curb'd by Heaven in the merciful preservation of the Quene, and that when God will help the Devill cannot hurt us."--_A true relation of the Queens Maiesties returne out of Holland, etc. Written by me in the same storme and ship with her Majesty._ Printed at York and reprinted at Oxford (1643).] [Footnote 275: Letter of Lady Denbigh. Hist. MSS. Cam. Ap. to 4th Rep.] [Footnote 276: Green: _Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria_, p. 161.]