When he at last demanded the life of the young wife who had died in enforced seclusion, because she had married the man she loved, Elizabeth was so confounded that she hastily left the place, saying no word in response.

This attack had been so violent, so deadly, that she had seemed unnerved, and forbore to command him to the Tower or to death.
"You, in whose breast love never stirred, deny the right to others whom God blessed with it," he cried.

"Envious of mortal happiness that dare exist outside your will or gift, you sunder and destroy.

You, in whose hands was power to give joy, gave death.

What you have sown you shall reap.