Remember that he refused your hand to the Dauphin of France, not for the sake of your happiness, but because he said you were not worthy of so exalted a position.

Anne Boleyn's bastard could never become Queen of France.

And after such a proof of his cruel wrath against you, will you dare cast in his face this terrible insult ?--compel him to recognize a subject, a servant, as his son ?" "Oh, this servant is, however, the brother of a Queen of England!" said she, shyly.

"My father loved Jane Seymour too warmly not to forgive her brother." "Ah, ah, you do not know your father! He has no heart for the past; or, if he has, it is only to take vengeance for an injury or a fault, but not to reward love.

King Henry would be capable of sentencing Anne Boleyn's daughter to death, and of sending to the block and rack Catharine Howard's brothers, because these two queens once grieved him and wounded his heart; but he would not forgive me the least offence on account of my being the brother of a queen who loved him faithfully and tenderly till her death.