OF HOLLAND.

A HISTORICAL TALE.

BY

THOMAS COLLEY GRATTAN,

AUTHOR OF "THE HEIRESS OF BRUGES," &C.

Nought is there under Heaven's wide hollownesse
That moves more deare compassion of minde,
Than beautie brought t' unworthy wretchednesse,
Through envie's snares, or fortune's freakes unkinde.
I, whether lately through her brightnesse blynde,
Or through alleageance and faste fealtie,.
Which I do owe unto all womankynde,
Feele my hart perst with so greate agonie
When such I see, that all for pitty I could dy.

Faerie Queene.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY,

NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1831.

.او

HENRY BAYLIS, JOHNSON'S-COURT, FLEET-STRELT.

JACQUELINE OF HOLLAND.

CHAPTER I.

WE must now turn our attention from scenes which have so long occupied it, to others forming a strong contrast with them. We must abandon both the camp and the court for solitude and desolation; political conspiracies for absorbing passion; the wiles of sophistry for tricks of magic; the mainland shores of Holland for the lonely and billow-beaten island of Urk.

But before we altogether transport our readers