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326 THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND. the constitutional safeguards of human life which had been raised by the laws of England against the evil passions of tyrants. But no such tyrant as Henry the Eighth ever polluted any throne. His character has been admirably drawn by Sir Walter Raleigh, — "If all the patterns of a merciless tyrant," he observes, "had been lost to the world, they might have been found in this prince."
