Is there no wisdom in such revenge?
and if there be none, save that which my own heart feels, I could give your grace another and a better reason for this proceeding." "Speak it, in St.George's name," replied the king; "of a truth thou art of most clear conception in all schemes of vengeance.

I might have thought long enough, ere I could have lighted on such as this.

What more ?" "Simply, your grace, that by encouraging a little while the report of his death, his friends in Scotland will forget that he ever existed, and make no effort for his rescue; which belief, wild and unfounded as it is, I imagine supports him in his strenuous determination to live and die a traitor to your highness.

I have no hatred to the boy; nay, an he would let me, could love and be proud of him, now his mother cannot cross my path, and would gladly see him devoted, as myself, to the interests of your grace.

Nor do I despair of this; he is very young, and his character cannot be entirely formed.