Shrewsbury's Ring

History records how foully the countess of Shrew's berry betrayed the trust, which, assex, and has utmost need confided to her. The wicked countess sent for Elizabeth, revealed the story of the ring, and besought forgiveness for her treachery. But the queen, still, obdere, even while remorse for past the obduracy was tugging at her heartstrings, shook the dying woman in her bed. As of struggling with death for the privilege of wreaking her revenge and spite, the spirit of the countess passed away on her deathbed. Tradition says that the fatal ring was found upon her breath, where it had imprinted a dark