left for her mother's country palace, a home scarcely less
secluded. Maynard, in a letter preserved in the State Paper
Office, written from Lisbon when the royal marriage was proposed,
says the infanta, "as sweete a disposition princess as everr was
borne," was "bred hugely retired. She hath," he continues,
"hardly been tenn tymes out of the palace in her life. In five
years tyme she was not out of doores, untill she hurde of his
majestie's intentions to make her queen of Ingland, since which
she hath been to visit two saintes in the city; and very shortly
shee intends to pay her devotion to some saintes in the country."

From a life of innocence she was brought for the first time face
to face with vice, by one who should have been foremost in
shielding her from its contact. All her training taught her to
avoid the contamination sought to be forced upon her; all her
new-born love for her husband prompted her to loathe the mistress
who shared his affections. A stranger in a strange land, a
slighted queen, a neglected wife, an outraged woman, her
sufferings were bitter, Her wrongs were hard to bear. Therefore
when my lord chancellor came and made known the object of his
visit, she broke into a passion of tears, and could not speak
from force of sobs that seemed to rend her heart, and wholly
choked her utterance.

The chancellor then retired with some dismay, but waited on her
again next day, when he found her more calm. She begged he would
excuse the outburst of feeling he had witnessed, but added very
pitifully that when she thought of her misfortunes "she sometimes
gave vent to that passion which was ready to break her heart."
The advice, or, as he terms it, "the evidence of his devotion,"