This charming May air has made us both mettlesome and happy.

Away, then, my ladies and lords! our horses must be to-day swift as birds.

We ride to Epping Forest." And through the open gateway dashed the cavalcade.

The queen in front; at her right, the Princess Elizabeth; at her left, the master of horse, Thomas Seymour, Earl of Sudley.
When the train had disappeared, father and daughter stepped back from the window, and looked at each other with strange, dark, and disdainful looks.
"Well, Jane ?" said Earl Douglas, at length.

"She is still queen, and the king becomes daily more unwieldy and ailing.