text:  Elizabeth of England is admirably portrayed in the pages of Hume but the Elizabeth of _Kenilworth_ is the one which is engraven on every mind; and when the romantic tale and heroic death of Mary of Scotland are thought of it is less the masterly picture of Robertson or the touching narrative of Tytler that recurs to the recollection than the imprisoned princess of the _Abbot_ or the immortal Last Sacrament of Schiller