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ELSINORE.
Chap. XVIII.
the love of the king again awoke. He then built for
her the house in the Amagertorv called “ Sigbrits
Palais,” to which I have already alluded. According
to an old record, Christian wished to create Dyveke
Duchess of Zealand; but she, in her simplicity, when
she heard it, fell down on her knees, and implored
him not to expose her to the ridicule of the nation by
such an unseemly joke—“ very unlike the favourites of
the present day,” remarks Hvitfeldt. Dyveke died
suddenly, two days after a grand banquet, at which she
had assisted, in the castle of Copenhagen: poisoned, it
was supposed. Torben Oxe, the governor of the castle,
had promised to send her a basket of cherries from his
estate in Funen. These cherries arrived at the office
of his secretary Faaborg, a monk, whilst he was busily
engaged making out his accounts. Now, Faaborg was
at a nonplus; he had fearfully cheated his master. At
this moment the confessor of Queen Elizabeth entered,
and, finding him so engaged, tore out several pages from
his books, by way of rendering any settlement
impossible. Having thus got the monk into his power, he
poured a vial of poison over the basket of cherries, the
fatal result of which was the death of Dyveke.
Faaborg was hanged, but later, when Christian wished to
accuse Torben Oxe of the crime, mysterious lights were
seen, after nightfall, around the gallows upon which
Faaborg had been executed: quite sufficient to prove
his innocence; and the king ordered his remains to be
taken down and receive honourable burial in the cloister
of the Gray Brothers at Copenhagen. Some attributed
Dyveke’s death to the jealousy of the Queen Consort,
others to the family of Torben Oxe, who, madly
enamoured of Dyveke, had announced his intention of
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