Kenilworth

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Kenilworth by Walter Scott

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1821

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The story of the secret, tragic marriage of Amy Robsart, daughter of Sir Hugh Robsart, to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and Robsart's eventual death. While much of the novel is a true telling of the events at Elizabethan court, some dramatic elements are a product of Scott's imagination.

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head of the chamber stood close to a privy postern door, where they in the night came and stifled her in her bed, bruised her head very much broke her neck, and at length flung her down stairs, thereby believing the world would have thought it a mischance, and so have blinded their villainy. But behold the mercy and justice of God in revenging and discovering this lady's murder; for one of the persons that was a coadjutor in this murder was afterwards taken for a felony in the marches of Wales, and offering to publish the manner of the aforesaid murder, was privately made away in the prison by the Earl's appointment; and Sir Richard Varney the other, dying about the same time in London, cried miserably, and blasphemed God, and said to a person of note (who hath related the same to others since), not long before his death, that all the devils in hell did tear him in pieces. Forster, likewise, after this fact, being a man formerly addicted to hospitality, company, mirth, and music, was afterwards observed to f

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