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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
VOL. 17, NO. 479.] SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1831. [PRICE 2d.
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[Illustration: ANCIENT PALACE OF HOLYROOD, AT EDINBURGH.]
ANCIENT PALACE OF HOLYROOD, AT EDINBURGH.
Here is another of the resting-places of fallen royalty; and a happy
haven has it proved to many a crowned head; a retreat where the plain
reproof of flattery--
How can you say to me,--I am a king?
would sound with melancholy sadness and truth.
The reader of "the age and body of the time" need not be told that the
tenancy of Holyrood by the Ex-King of France has suggested its present
introduction, although the Engraving represents the Palace about the
year 1640. The structure, in connexion with the Chapel,[1] is thus
described in Chambers's _Picture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 61.
The Chapel and Palace of Holyrood are situated at the extremity of the
suburb called the Cannongate. The ordinary phrase "the Abbey," still
popularly applied to both buildings, indicates that the former is the
more ancient of the two.
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