Death-Bed

The exclamation of James the Fifth, when, on his death-bed, he heard the news of his queen being delivered of a
female child (afterwards Mary Queen of Scots), was long remembered by his people.

He turned his face to the wall, and was heard to mutter, “ It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass, and the devil go with it.”

These, his last words, referred to the circumstance of his family having acquired the Crown by nrnrriage.

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