1 PALACE OF THE KING OF NAVARRE. NAVARRE, lying immediately beneath the highest Pyrenees, now a province of Spain, the ancient Pompeiopolis, or city of Pompey, was for some centuries an independent kingdom: in 1512, Ferdinand, king of Spain, obtained possession of it and annexed it to Spain. Pamplona, anciently the residence of the court of Navarre, is still an extensive city, and being strongly fortified, it is one of the chief bulwarks of the Peninsula: it was reduced by the Duke of Wellington in 1813. Navarre, from its mountainous character, is by nature isolated from the countries around it; the natives are hardy and brave, and strongly attached to their government and religion: they are represented to be grave and reserved, but witty and shrewd; obstinate and quarrelsome, yet industrious and honest. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST ACT V. SCENE II. Palace of the King of NAVARRE. KING OF NAVARRE and PRINCESS OF FRANCE. King. We came to visit you; and purpose now To lead you to our court: vouchsafe it then. Prin. This field shall hold me: and so hold your vow : Nor God, nor I, delights in perjured men. King. Rebuke me not for that which you provoke ; The virtue of your eye must break my oath. Prin. You nick-name virtue: vice you should have spoke; For virtue's office never breaks men's troth. Now, by my maiden honour, yet as pure A world of torments though I should endure, |