libe-ra Infe: li: cem Mari:am O

Buchanan dedicated his beautiful tranflation of the Pfalms into Latin verfe to Queen Mary. The concluding lines of his Tranflation are,

Non tamen aufus eram malè natum exponere fœtum,
Ne mihi difpliceant, quæ placuere tibi,

Nam quod ab ingenio Domini sperare nequibunt,
Debebunt genio forfitan illa tuo.

They were thus altered by Bishop Atterbury the night before he died, and were sent by him to the late Lord Marshal Keith:

At fi culta parum, fi fint incondita. Noftri
Scilicet ingenii est, non ea culpa foli.

Poffe etiam bic nofci quæ funt pulcherrima fpondet,
Ex vultú et genio Scotica terra tuo.

If these rude barb'rous lines their author fhame,
His mufe and not his country is to blame;
That excellence e'en Scotland can bestow,
We from thy genius and thy beauty know.

When the Commiffioners from Queen Elizabeth came into her chamber to conduct her to the scaffold, fhe told them, "The English have more ❝than once stained their hands with the blood of "their Kings. I am of the fame blood; fo "there is nothing extraordinary in my death, nor << in their conduct." She went to the scaffold with a crucifix in her hand: one of the Commiffioners brutally told her, she had much better