...King drew a short sword and stabbed him, exclaiming, " If you will not break this league, I shall." The exclamation of James the Fifth, when, on his death-bed,...lass, and it will go with a lass— devil go with it 1" These, his last words, referred to the circumstance of his family having acquired the crown by marriage....

...king drew a short sword and stabbed him, exclaiming, " If you will not break this league, I shall." The exclamation of James the Fifth, when, on his death-bed,...his people. He turned his face to the wall, and was hard to mutter, '• It came with a lass, and it will go "ith a IMS — devil go with it !" These,...

...drew a short sword and stabbed him, exclaiming, •• If you will not break this league, I shall." The exclamation of James the Fifth, when, on his death-bed,...child, was long remembered by his people. He turned hi* face to the wall, and was heard to mutter, •- It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass...

...king drew a ihort sword and stabbed him, exclaiming, " If you will not break this league, I shall." The exclamation of James the Fifth, when, on his death-bed,...delivered of a female child, was long remembered by hit people. He turned his face to the wall, and was heard to mutter, '• It came with a lass, and...

...reflecting on the alliance which had placed the Stewart family on the throne ; " then God's will be done. It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass." With these words, presaging the extinction of his house, he made a signal of adieu to his courtiers,...

...delivered, he inquired whether it was a male or female ; being told it was the latter, he exclaimed, " It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass ! Henry will make it his either by marriage or by arms !'* * Mary was crowned at Stirling, Sunday,...

...reflecting on the alliance which had placed the Stewart family on the throne, " then God's will be done ! It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass." With these words he turned his face to the wall, and died of a broken heart. t It was taken 'in the...

...living child, he exclaimed mournfully in allusion to the descent of the Stewarts, " God's will be done: it came with a lass and it will go with a lass." Mary, the unfortunate Princess Royal, or rather Queen of Scotland, at whose birth these doleful words...

...reflecting on the alliance which had placed the Stewart family on the throne ; " then God's will be done. It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass." With these words, presaging the extinction of his house, he made a signal of adieu to his courtiers,...

...calling to remembrance how the Stuart race had succeeded to the crown ; and he exclaimed impatiently, " It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass !" He then returned to his wonted murmur of " Fy ! is Oliver fled ? Is Oliver taken ? All is lost 1"...