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tidings of the death of Frederik the Third, and then Erik
Grubbe felt the time had come to act. King Frederik had
always held his son Ulrik Frederik in such high regard and
had such a blind fondness for him that in a case like this he
would no doubt have laid all the blame on the other party.
King Christian might be expected to take a different
attitude, for though he and Ulrik Frederik were bosom friends
and boon companions, a tiny shadow of jealousy might lurk
in the mind of the King, who had often, in his father’s time,
been pushed aside for his more gifted and brilliant
half-brother. Besides, young rulers liked to show their
impartiality and would often, in their zeal for justice, be unfair to
the very persons whom they might be supposed to favor.
So it was decided that in the spring they should both go
to Copenhagen. In the meantime, Marie was to try to get
from Johan Utrecht two hundred rix-dollars to buy
mourning, so that she could appear properly before the new king,
but as the bailiff did not dare to pay out anything without
orders from Ulrik Frederik, Marie had to go without the
mourning, for her father would not pay for it, and thought
the lack of it would make her pitiful condition the more
apparent.
They arrived in Copenhagen toward the end of May,
and when a meeting between father and son-in-law had
proved fruitless, Erik Grubbe wrote to the King that he
had no words to describe, in due submission, the shame,
disgrace, and dishonor with which his Excellency
Gyldenlöve had, some years ago, driven his wife, Marie Grubbe,
out of Aggershus, and had given her over to the mercies
of wind and weather and freebooters, who at that time
infested the sea, there being a burning feud between Holland
and England. God in his mercy had preserved her from the
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