The life of Mary queen of Scots Author:George Chalmers Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: No. II.—Proofs of Mary s Reconcilement to Darnley, before she set out, to bring him, from Glasgow.- Amantium irte amoris redintegraiio est. The falling out... more » of lovers is the renewment of love. 1. When the queen heard of her husband having been taken ill, soon after his arrival, at Glasgow, she sent her own physician to take care of him ; as we know from the Earl of Bedford's letter of the 9th of January 1566-7 to Secretary Cecil. These facts evince how ill-informed Robertson was, when he talked, idly, of the queen's " neglect of him, when his situation rendered it most necessary." [Hist. i. 407.] Having a young child, she did better, than visit her husband, who had taken the small-pox; she sent her own physician. 2. Bishop Lesley, who knew the queen's secrets, and was worthy of knowing them, says, expressly, that the queen, hearing of her husband's repentance, was fully reconciled to him and hastened to comfort him, as soon as she, conveniently, could, at Glasgow. [Defence, 1569, p. 7.] This feet, of positive reconcilement, is much stronger evidence, than the mere inference, which Robertson, and Laing, draw, from the queen's letter of the 20th of January 1566-7, in Keith's Preface, which is only evidence of her vexation, on hearing rumours of the,design of Darnley, and Lennox, to proclaim her son, which, upon examination, she found to be groundless : But, it does not prove, that a wife, hearing of the repentance of her husband, who wished to see her, remained inexorable, even at the moment, that she became reconciled to the husband, from whom she had refused to be divorced : The Scotish historians seem to have thought, contrary to the experience of daily life, that the quarrels of husband, and wife, like the disputes of polemicks, remain irreconcileable for ever. 3. ...« less