"Let him do with it as he pleases." "But Howard--you mean, then, that Howard loves the queen ?" "Yes, sire, I dare affirm that." "Now, by the Mother of God, I will tread the serpent under my feet, as I did his sister!" exclaimed Henry, fiercely.

"The Howards are an ambitious, dangerous, and hypocritical race." "A race that never forgets that a daughter of their house has sat on your throne." "But they shall forget it," cried the king, "and I must wash these proud and haughty thoughts out of their brain with their own blood.

They have not then learned, from the example of their sister, how I punish disloyalty.

This insolent race needs another fresh example.

Well, they shall have it.