The
astonished lover beheld his mistress:--not the unreal phantom he had
imagined, but a being substantial in quality, and of a nature like his
own, though gentler than his fondest anticipations.
The seer departed: but in the end the lovers were not displeased at
being betrayed into a mutual expression of their regard.
The operation of the heavenly influences was, in these days, a doctrine
that obtained almost universal credit; and it would have been looked
upon as a daring piece of presumption to baffle the prophetic
signification of the stars.
On that same night, being the eve of St Bartholomew, they were
married:--thus adding one more to the numerous instances on record,
where a belief in the prediction has been the means of its
accomplishment.
The remainder of Kate's history, and how she crossed the sea,
accompanied by her husband, into the wilds of Bohemia, living there for
a space; and how she afterwards returned into her own land, will be set
forth at some more fitting opportunity.
THE EARL OF TYRONE.
"Still the fairest are his fuell,
When his days are to be cruell;
Lovers' hearts are all his food,
And his baths their warmest blood;
Nought but wounds his hands doth season,
And he hates none like to reason.
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