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Kenilworth

CHAPTER XVI
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Then call them to our presence.

Face to face, And frowning brow to brow, ourselves will hear The accuser and accused freely speak;-- High-stomach'd are they both, and full of ire, In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire .-- RICHARD II.
"I am ordered to attend court to-morrow," said Leicester, speaking to Varney, "to meet, as they surmise, my Lord of Sussex.

The Queen intends to take up matters betwixt us.

This comes of her visit to Sayes Court, of which you must needs speak so lightly." "I maintain it was nothing," said Varney; "nay, I know from a sure intelligencer, who was within earshot of much that was said, that Sussex has lost rather than gained by that visit.

The Queen said, when she stepped into the boat, that Sayes Court looked like a guard-house, and smelt like an hospital.


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