i io REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 57. against her in Parliament, and adding that, while she had ' no intention of revenge,' and would persevere in dealing mildly and gently with her, other princes would probably have been less forbearing. 1 Thus encouraged, the Queen of Scots received the Commissioners with mere disdain. 'She continues in great enmity,' Shrewsbury said, ' and gives no hope of other intent. It is too plain that her heart is over- hardened with deadly hate against the Queen's Majesty; the more therefore her Majesty's safety is to be thought upon.' In Scotland, after desperate fighting, in which quar- ter on neither side was given or asked, an armistice for two months was agreed upon at the beginning of August, and the citizens of Edinburgh returned to the shells ol their houses. It remains to mention only the fate of the unlucky Earl of Northumberland. For manj weeks after he was given up he was left at Berwick After so long confinement in Lochleven, the change, with all its danger, was a relief to him. He was some- times ' abashed and sorrowful,' but he rallied often,
- talked of hawks and hounds, and other such vain mat-
ters,' craving most, it seemed, for the green woods of Alnwick and the note of the huntsman's bugle. Huns- don was uneasy at having the charge of him, for in Berwick there was no convenience for the safe keeping of State prisoners. But he made no attempt to escape : Elizabeth to the Queen of Scots, June n : MSS. QUEEN OF SCOTS.
