Give Earl Douglas the paper, and bid him go with it to the lord-lieutenant of the Tower, so that he himself may repair hither with the yeomen of the guard.

For this woman is yet a queen, and even in the criminal I will still recognize the queen.

The lord-lieutenant himself must conduct her to the Tower.

Hasten then, say I! But, hark you, keep all this a secret, and let nobody know anything of it till the decisive moment arrives.

Otherwise her friends might take a notion to implore my mercy for this sinner; and I abhor this whining and crying.