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Ch. 7: The Famous Black Princess Ruby

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162               THE BLACK PRINCE'S RUBY.
bed-chamber to show him some of her most precious belongings. She first opened a lettroun (cabinet) where he beheld a number of little pictures wrapped up in paper, with its name on each one written by her own royal hand. The first one was thus labelled: "My Lord's Picture." It was Leicester's portrait, and Melville holding the candle begged to see it, but Elizabeth made difficulties about it; then the envoy pressed her to let him carry it back with him to show to his own queen, thinking apparently that the sight of the handsome face would move her to the marriage more than, all political considerations. Elizabeth declared that she could not give it up as she had but that one, upon which Melville re­torted that she had the original. " She shewed me a fair ruby, great like a racket-ball. I desired she would either send it to my queen or the Earl of Leicester's picture. She replied ' If Queen Mary would follow her counsels she would get them both in time and all she had, but she would send a diamond as a token by me.'" It
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