BY SELINA BUNBURY, AUTHOR OF "COOMBE ABBEY," "VISIT TO MY BIRTH-PLACE," "I pray you, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: G. ROUTLEDGE & CO., FARRINGDON-STREET. NEW YORK: 18, BEEKMAN-STREET. SIR GUY D'ESTERRE. CHAPTER I. THE Earl of Essex had met from his wearied and fretted mistress the usual doom of spoiled children: his wayward desire, stimulated by the insidious arts of his enemies at Court, was unexpectedly granted the government of Ireland was arbitrarily conferred upon him, and it was not until he found there was no escape from it, that he clearly perceived how artfully the snare, in which he was caught, had been laid for him. Then it was that he addressed to his hitherto far too indulgent Queen that melancholy epistle, which, in its poetic portion, VOL. II. B |