The Essex Ring.Lines written by Buchanan, in the year 1564, and sent by Mary Queen of Scotland, with a diamond ring, to Elizabeth Queen of England.ThisGem, behold, the emblem of my heart,From whence my Cousin’s image ne’er shall part;Clear in its lustre, spotless does it shine;As clear, as spotless is this heart of mine.What tho’ the stone a greater hardness wears,Superior firmness still the figure bears.This is the same ring so celebrated afterwards as that given by Queen Elizabeth to the Earl of Essex, and intrusted with a prayer for his life by that unfortunate nobleman to the Countess of Nottingham, who perfidiously concealed her mission till the solemnity of a death-bed influenced her to disclose the circumstance to the Queen. The ring is now in the possession of the descendant of Sir Thomas Warner, to whom it was given by King JamesI.
The Essex Ring.Lines written by Buchanan, in the year 1564, and sent by Mary Queen of Scotland, with a diamond ring, to Elizabeth Queen of England.ThisGem, behold, the emblem of my heart,From whence my Cousin’s image ne’er shall part;Clear in its lustre, spotless does it shine;As clear, as spotless is this heart of mine.What tho’ the stone a greater hardness wears,Superior firmness still the figure bears.This is the same ring so celebrated afterwards as that given by Queen Elizabeth to the Earl of Essex, and intrusted with a prayer for his life by that unfortunate nobleman to the Countess of Nottingham, who perfidiously concealed her mission till the solemnity of a death-bed influenced her to disclose the circumstance to the Queen. The ring is now in the possession of the descendant of Sir Thomas Warner, to whom it was given by King JamesI.
Lines written by Buchanan, in the year 1564, and sent by Mary Queen of Scotland, with a diamond ring, to Elizabeth Queen of England.
ThisGem, behold, the emblem of my heart,From whence my Cousin’s image ne’er shall part;Clear in its lustre, spotless does it shine;As clear, as spotless is this heart of mine.What tho’ the stone a greater hardness wears,Superior firmness still the figure bears.
ThisGem, behold, the emblem of my heart,From whence my Cousin’s image ne’er shall part;Clear in its lustre, spotless does it shine;As clear, as spotless is this heart of mine.What tho’ the stone a greater hardness wears,Superior firmness still the figure bears.
ThisGem, behold, the emblem of my heart,From whence my Cousin’s image ne’er shall part;Clear in its lustre, spotless does it shine;As clear, as spotless is this heart of mine.What tho’ the stone a greater hardness wears,Superior firmness still the figure bears.
ThisGem, behold, the emblem of my heart,
From whence my Cousin’s image ne’er shall part;
Clear in its lustre, spotless does it shine;
As clear, as spotless is this heart of mine.
What tho’ the stone a greater hardness wears,
Superior firmness still the figure bears.
This is the same ring so celebrated afterwards as that given by Queen Elizabeth to the Earl of Essex, and intrusted with a prayer for his life by that unfortunate nobleman to the Countess of Nottingham, who perfidiously concealed her mission till the solemnity of a death-bed influenced her to disclose the circumstance to the Queen. The ring is now in the possession of the descendant of Sir Thomas Warner, to whom it was given by King JamesI.