WOE, woe to them, who, by a ball of strife, Do, and have parted here a man and wife : CHARLES the best husband, while MARIA strives To be, and is, the very best of wives, Like streams, you are divorc'd ; but 'twill come when These eyes of mine shall see you mix again. Thus speaks the oak here ; C. and M. shall meet, Treading on amber, with their silver-feet, Nor will't be long ere this accomplish'd be : The words found true, C. M., remember me. Oak, the prophetic tree.

Sir Anthony van Dyck. Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France. c. 1635. From Web Gallery of Art.

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