Anne Boleyn's features were exquisitely formed, and though not
regular, far more charming than if they had been so. Her nose was
slightly aquiline, but not enough so to detract from its beauty, and had
a little retrousse; point that completed its attraction. The rest
of her features were delicately chiselled: the chin being beautifully
rounded, the brow smooth and white as snow, while the rose could not
vie with the bloom of her cheek. Her neck--alas! that the fell hand of
the executioner should ever touch it--was long and slender, her eyes
large and blue, and of irresistible witchery--sometimes scorching the
beholder like a sunbeam, anon melting him with soul-subduing softness.
Of her accomplishments other opportunities will be found to speak; but
it may be mentioned that she was skilled on many instruments, danced
and sang divinely, and had rare powers of conversation and wit. If to
these she had not added the dangerous desire to please, and the wish
to hold other hearts than the royal one she had enslaved, in thraldom,
all might, perhaps, have been well. But, alas like many other beautiful
women, she had a strong tendency to coquetry. How severely she
suffered for it, it is the purpose of this history to relate.
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