4/19 Is the queen delivered? Ay, ay, my liege, And of a lovely boy. The God of Heaven Both now and ever bless her. 'Tis a girl, Promises boys hereafter." And a month before the empress had expressed a similar sentiment: "I trust," she wrote to her daughter in November, "that God will grant me the comfort of knowing that you are safely delivered. Every thing else is a matter of indifference. |