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And them beside a ladie faire he saw, / / Standing alone on foote in foule array; / / To whom himself he hastily did draw, / / To weet the cause of so uncomely fray, / / And to depart them, if so be he may. / / SPENSER.
The Lady Frances Cromwell was not likely to keep secret, grief or any thing else she had the power of disclosing: forthwith she proceeded to assail Constance Cecil with a torrent of exclamations and expostulations, to support which no inconsiderable degree of philosophy was requisite. The intention, however, sanctified the deed, and Constance, for some time, only pressed her hand in reply: at length she said, --