...he heard the news of his queen having been delivered of a female child, was long remembered by his people. He turned his face to the wall, and was heard...lass, and it will go with a lass — devil go with it !' These, his last words, referred to the circumstance of his family having acquired the crown by marriage....

...he heard the news of his Queen having been delivered of a female child, was long remembered by his people. He turned his face to the wall, and was heard...the circumstance of his family having acquired the crown by marriage. The Gaelic language is said, by its admirers, to be peculiarly calculated for emphatic...

...reflecting on the alliance which had placed the Stewart family on the throne ; " then God's will be done. It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass." With these words, presaging the extinction of his house, he made a signal of adieu to his courtiers,...

...delivered, he inquired whether it was a male or female ; being told it was the latter, he exclaimed, " It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass ! Henry will make it his either by marriage or by arms !'* * Mary was crowned at Stirling, Sunday,...

...reflecting on the alliance which had placed the Stewart family on the throne, " then God's will be done ! It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass." With these words he turned his face to the wall, and died of a broken heart. t It was taken 'in the...

...living child, he exclaimed mournfully in allusion to the descent of the Stewarts, " God's will be done: it came with a lass and it will go with a lass." Mary, the unfortunate Princess Royal, or rather Queen of Scotland, at whose birth these doleful words...

...reflecting on the alliance which had placed the Stewart family on the throne ; " then God's will be done. It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass." With these words, presaging the extinction of his house, he made a signal of adieu to his courtiers,...

...calling to remembrance how the Stuart race had succeeded to the crown ; and he exclaimed impatiently, " It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass !" He then returned to his wonted murmur of " Fy ! is Oliver fled ? Is Oliver taken ? All is lost 1"...

...the circumstances which had brought tho Stewart line to tho throne, he added, " God's will bo done. It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass ; many miseries await this poor kingdom." He spoke little more, but turned his face to the wall, and...

...born to him, he said, alluding to the manner in which the Stewart family succeeded to the throne, " It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass." He survived his daughter's birth only a week. EXERCISES. 1. What arrangement did Robert the Bruce make...