Note 336 — BOOK IX[283]

Mary Queen of Scots, France and (de jure) England (1542-1587). The only extant specimens of Mary's poetry, in addition to the reputed sonnets to Bothwell, are the verses on the death of her husband Francis II., printed by Brantôme in his Memoirs; a sonnet to Elizabeth in Latin and French; a Méditation faite par la Reyne d'Escosse Douarière de France, recueillie d'un Livre des Consolations Divines; and a sonnet written at Fotheringay, in the State Paper Office (Cf. the article in the Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. XXXVI., p. 389).—T.