"PEACE WITH HONOUR." fro THE EDITOR OF TH3 "SPECTATOR.") SI
it,—Allow mo to draw your attention to a possible source of the now celebrated phrase, " Peace with honour." Mr. Swinburnc- puts these words into the mouth of Knox, in the speech regard- ing Mary, Queen of Scots. I quote the passage from "Both- well," Act iv., scene 7, edition 1874, page 407. The subsequent. lines are worthy of uoto.—I am, Sir, &c., Belvidere, Glasgow, April 26th. C. FRED. POLLOCK, M.B.
"If the Mass Roth brought forth innocent fruit, and in this land Wherein she came to establish it again Huth established peace with hones.)— . . . . . . .
Then have I sinned, and they That would have crossed me would have crossed not God Whereof now judge ye. Hath she brought with her Peace, or a sword P and since her incoming Math the land sat in quiet, and the men Seen rest but for one year P or came not in Behind her foot, right at her back, and shone Above her crowned head as a fierier crown, Death, and about her as a raiment wrapt, Ruin P and where her foot was ever turned, Or her right hand was pointed, bath there fallen No fire, no cry burst forth of war, no sound As of a blast blown of an host of men
For summons of destruction P"
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