ime I had it in my power, I gave a
great deal of money amongst the poor; I prayed very devoutly, and went
to my execution very composedly. Thus I lost my life at the age of
twenty-nine, in which short time I believe I went through more variety
of scenes than many people who live to be very old. I had lived in a
court, where I spent my time in coquetry and gayety; I had experienced
what it was to have one of those violent passions which makes the
mind all turbulence and anxiety; I had had a lover whom I esteemed and
valued, and at the latter part of my life I was raised to a station as
high as the vainest woman could wish. But in all these various changes
I never enjoyed any real satisfaction, unless in the little time I lived
retired in the country free from all noise and hurry, and while I was
conscious I was the object of the love and esteem of a man of sense and
honor."

On the conclusion of this history Minos paused for a small time, and
then ordered the gate to be thrown open for Anna Boleyn's admittance
on the consideration that whoever had suffered being the queen for four
years, and been sensible during all that time of the real misery which
attends that exalted station, ought to be forgiven whatever she had done
to obtain it. [11]

Footnotes:

[Footnote 1: Some doubt whether this should not be rather 1641, which
is a date more agreeable to the account given of it in the introduction:
but then there are some passages which seem to relate to transactions
infinitely later, even within this year or two. To say the truth there
are difficulties attending either conjecture; so the reader may take
which he pleases.]

[Footnote 2: Eyes are not perhaps so properly adapted to a spiritual
substance; but we are here, as in many other places, obliged to use
corporeal terms to make ourselves the better understood. ]

[Footnote 3: This is the dress in which the god appears to mortals at
the theaters. One of the offices attributed to this god by the ancients,
was to collect the ghosts as a shepherd doth a flock of sheep, and drive
them with his wand into the other world.]

[Footnote 4: Those who have read of the gods sleeping in Homer will not
be surprised at this happening to spirits.]

[Footnote 5: A particular lady of quality is meant here; but every
lady of quality, or no quality, are welcome to apply the character to
themselves.]

[Footnote 6: We have before made an apology for this language, which
we here