Note 103 — Chapter III
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As the time approached, Anne’s exultation overcame every remnant of decency and good feeling: “The Lady not being satisfied with what she has received already, has solicited the King to ask the Queen for a very rich triumphal cloth, which she brought from Spain, to wrap up her children with at baptism, which she would be glad to make use of very soon. The Queen has replied that it has not pleased God she should be so ill advised as to grant any favor, in a case so horrible and abominable” (Gairdner, Cal., vi., 918).