"Well, now, I will be your accuser and I will be your judge!" "And surely, my king and husband, you will be a righteous judge," said Catharine, as she inclined imploringly toward the king and grasped his hand.

"You will not condemn the noble Earl Surrey without having heard him; and if you find him guiltless, you will punish his accusers ?" But this intercession of the queen made the king raging.

He threw her hand from him, and gazed at her with looks of such flaming wrath, that she involuntarily trembled.
"Traitoress yourself!" yelled he, wildly.

"Speak not of innocence--you who are yourself guilty; and before you dare defend the earl, defend yourself!" Catharine rose from her seat and looked with flashing eyes into the king's face blazing with wrath.

"King Henry of England," said she, solemnly, "you have openly, before your whole court, accused your queen of a crime.