regular, far more charming than if they had been so. Her nose was
slightly aquiline, but not enough so to detract from its beauty, and had
a little retrousse; point that completed its attraction. The rest
of her features were delicately chiselled: the chin being beautifully
rounded, the brow smooth and white as snow, while the rose could not
vie with the bloom of her cheek. Her neck--alas! that the fell hand of
the executioner should ever touch it--was long and slender, her eyes
large and blue, and of irresistible witchery--sometimes scorching the
beholder like a sunbeam, anon melting him with soul-subduing softness.

Of her accomplishments other opportunities will be found to speak; but
it may be mentioned that she was skilled on many instruments, danced
and sang divinely, and had rare powers of conversation and wit. If to
these she had not added the dangerous desire to please, and the wish
to hold other hearts than the royal one she had enslaved, in thraldom,
all might, perhaps, have been well. But, alas like many other beautiful
women, she had a strong tendency to coquetry. How severely she
suffered for it, it is the purpose of this history to relate. An excellent
description of her has been given by a contemporary writer, the Comte
de Chateaubriand, who, while somewhat disparaging her personal
attractions, speaks in rapturous terms of her accomplishments: "Anne,"
writes the Comte, " avait un esprit si deslie qui c'estoit a qui l'ouiroit
desgoiser; et ci venoitelle a poetiser, telle qu' Orpheus, elle eust faict
les ours et rochers attentifs: puis saltoit, balloit, et dancoit toutes
dances Anglaises ou Estranges, et en imagina nombre qui ont garde
son nom ou celluy du galant pour qui les feit: puis scavoit tous les jeux,
qu'elle jouoit avec non plus d'heur que d'habilite puis chantoit comme
syrene, s'accompagnant de luth; harpoit mieuelx que le roy David, et
manioit fort gentilment fleuste et rebec; puis s'accoustroit de tant et si
merveilleuses facons, que ses inventions, faisoient d'elle le parangon