"Will he content himself with punishing Catharine alone; will he not also crush him--him whom he must look upon as her lover ?" "He will do so.

But you yourself shall save him and set him free.

You shall open his prison and give him freedom, and he will love you--you, the savior of his life." "Father, father, it is a hazardous game that you are playing; and it may happen that you will become thereby your daughter's murderer.

For, listen well to what I tell you; if his head falls, I die by my own hands; if you make me his murderess, you become thereby mine; and I will curse you and execrate you in hell! What to me is a royal crown if it is stained with Henry Howard's blood?
What care I for renown and honor, if he is not there to see my greatness, and if his beaming eyes do not reflect back to me the light of my crown?
Protect him, therefore; guard his life as the apple of your eye, if you wish me to accept the royal crown that you offer me, so that the King of England may become again a vassal of the Church!" "And that the whole of devout Christendom may praise Jane Douglas, the pious queen who has succeeded in the holy work of bringing the rebellious and recreant son of the Church, Henry the Eighth, back to the Holy Father in Rome, to the only consecrated lord of the Church, truly penitent.

On, on, my daughter; do not despond.