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HmuD accord^ to tiie Act of th« Parliament of Oanaday in the year One thousand Eight hundred and Seventy-five, by Jamm OAHrBUb & Sov, la the Office of the Minister of Agriculture. HaKTiB, itoBB & Co., PRntniui, TOROMTO. If- , .ft i If dramatis imm^. M:. \ PmuT (King of Naples and SJcUy, afterwards King of Spain). Thb Princess Elizabeth. / \ RiwiNALD Pole (Cardinal a^d Papal Legate). , Simon Rbnabd (Spanish Ambassador). " ^ ^ Lb Sieur Db Noaillbs (French Ambassador).. Thomas Cranmbr (Archbishop of Canterbury) -^ Sir Nicholas Heath (Ai-chbishop of. York; Lord Chancellor after Gardiner). ' . . . Edward CouRTEif AY (Earl of Devon). >Bb^ William Howard (afterward. Lord Howard, and Lord ' High Admiral). ■ LoiiD WiLUAMs or Thame. , Lord Paget. ' • ,,, * ^, Lord Petre. J^ Stephen Gardner (Bishop^of Winchester and Lord Chanoelfol" ' Edmund Bonder (Bishop of London). ^ Thomas Thirlby (Bishop pf Ely). " . . * Sir Thomas Wyatt j Sir Thomas Stafeord ( (*Mtt"e<5tionary Leaders). Sir Ralph.Baobnhall. - . Sir Robert Southwell. Sir HsNRy Bedinofifjj). . • Sir William C«oiL. ^^' """■'^ ■"^■•'''-tlTTTlTTrTllii^^^^^ .:-\ / 'i'^ ^ -v^ramafij %mm. ■fv -^Hr QuKitK Mary. / , ^LiP (King of Naples and SfoUy, afterwards King of Spain). The Princess Elizabeth. / \ RiwiNALD Pole (Cardinal a|id Papal Legate). ^ Simon Renard (Spanish Ambassador). \^ Lb SiEUR Db NoAiLLBS (Frfench Ambassador).. Thomas Cranmbr (Archbishop of Canterbury) -^ Sir Nicholas Heath (Archbishop of. YorJc; Lord Chancellor after Gardiner). ' / „ < Edward Courtenat (Earl of' Devon). >Rb^ William Howard (afterwards Lord Howard, and Lord High Admiral). Lord WiLUAMH OF Thamk. / , Lord Paget. ' • v -,, Lord Petre. ''~:-\ 4Kii Stephen GARDI^.ER (Bishop^ of Winchester and Lord ChanceUoI' ' Edmuitd BoNiTER (Bishop of London^. - ; Thomas Thirlby (Bishop pf Ely). ' * r Sir Thomas Wyatt j Sir Thomas Stapford j (*M'»"«ctionary Leaders).^ Sir RalpH'Baobnhall. Sir Robert Sopthwell. Sir Hbnrit Bedinojipjj). . Sir WTT.i.Titwr Oicm.> 4 r -.1 • VI Dramatis Personce. I (Adierente of Wyatt), Sib Thomas Whitb (Lord Mayor of London). The DuKK or Alva » * Tm^CouKT DE Fkria [ (a**e»iding on Philip). Petkk Mabtyb. Fathbr Colb. Father BouBNB, / Villa Gabcia. . '- '< Soto. ' Captain Bbett Anthony Knytett ( Peters (Gentlejnan of Lord Howard). J^OOER (Servant to Noailles). William (Servant to Wyatt). Stbwaud of Household to the Princess Elizabeth. Old IfbKEs'and Nokes. . . Marchioness of Exeter (Mother of Courtenay). Lady Clabenob ) Lady Magdalen Dacbes > ,t Alice ((Indies in Waiting to the Queen). Maid of Honour to the .Princess Elizabeth, I (two Country Wives). , Lords and other Attendants, Members of the Privy Council, Members of Parliament, two Gentlemen, Aldermen, Citizeii,' Peasants, Ushers, Messengers, Guards, Pages, &o. «- .". \ ■ \ \ ■ V \, ■ r'^" \ •^ QUEEN MARY. X' ' _,£i,. ■' ACT I. SCENE I.— ALBGATB RICHLY DECORATED. / Ceowd. Marshalmeit, MJLBSHAlMAJf. . Stand b«wk, ^eep a clear lane. " When wUl her Majesty pass, saystthou? why now, even iow; wherefore, draw back your heads and your horns before I break them, and make what noise you will with your tongues, so it be n6t tj;6ason. Long - }17^T.; ^ISiT' *?^ ^""^"^ *^^ l^gitimaie daughter of Hai^ tne Jliightn. Shout, knaves ! . CiTIZBKS. ^ ' Long live Queen Mary !^^, . ■ FiralpCiTizBijr. \ That's a hard word, legitimate ; what does it mean ? .SXOOND ClTIZBBT. It means a bastard. Thied Citizen. •&^:/.- Nay, it m^aus truebom* ^ ji ■ - X. * f ■ . * ^- ' ' ' ' . r • ' ■ . ■•> :..^ v.:.^ ;^ ^ —, ^ S;^i^.a^^^-r.,i,»v,u>.a.^.,.,iLi£r ,T— r , Tiimi . n-i -r^^- ""■->, t . - ^- <»,,i - 8 1 Queen Mary. ^< ' FiRaT Citizen. . • ^ Why, didn't, the Parliament make her a bastard ? Second Citizen. No ; it wAs the Lady Eliiabeth. ^ -Thikd Citizen. That was. after,' man ; that was aft^r. • : ' First CiifizEN. - ^l Then which is the bastard i Second £!iti?bn* [act I. ^ ) ' Ti-oth> they be botH bastards by Act of Parliament and L/ouncii. i ' •- Third CrrizBN. lvi^;i^'' i^*J'"S-™i^''* '^'^ T^^ ''^^''^ true-bom man of us a bastard Old Nokes, can't it make thee a bastard? thou «houldst know, for thou art- as white as three Chri^tmasses Old Nokes (dreamily). Wjio's a-passing ? King Edward or King Richard Third Citizen. . ^ N*©, old NQkes. , - .. ^ Old Noicbs. »*• ' - It's Harry: ' : " " . • " ' ; at, Third Citizen It's Queen Mary. ^ ' Jilli> w • Old Nokbs. * The blessed Mary's a-paasing ! [Falls on his knees. SCKNB r.l ^uei^n Mary, NOKBS. 9L Let father alone, my masters ! he's past youi c^Mtioning. J Third Citizen, \' ^, Jnswer thou for Jiim, then ! thou'rt no such cockerel thy- self, for thou was born i' the tail end of old Harry the Seventii. -NoKBS. ' , ' :^h, ! that wa/af ore bastard-malfiug began. I was born true • man at five in the forenoon i' the tail of old Harry^and so- thoy can't, make me a bastard. v; JMhRD CiTIZBW. \ ,?"* if Parliament, can make the Queen a bastard, why, it foUows all the. more that they can make thee one, who -art fray d i the knees, and ot^t at elbow, and bald o' the back ' and bursten at the toesy aifldpwn at heels. ' , . ' , "NOKES. ,, *.!, I was born of a'trvfe man and a ri^g'd wife, and I can't fW w^K!!5'iV ^""^ ^ ^"^^ ""^ oldjwoman 'ud burn upon it. t- that would we. a'^ ■ , MaRSHAIMAIT . ^ . What are you 4ckling of bastardy under the Queeni oym nose ? . 1 11 have you flogg'd and burnt^oo, by the Rood I First Citizen. Re swears by the Rood, Whew ! - Second •Citizkn. "' - ' Hark ! the trumpets. - - [The Procession passes^ Mary and Elizabeth rid- ' my side by sjlrfe, and disappearrylmUr the gaU. rr ==^f=^ -W ■ ■ . n-T .nrr -^^ .jiwu' 10 k" ^ Queen Mary. Citizens. ' '[apt I. * • ■'"'', [Exeun''. Manent Two Gentlemen. ' First Gentleman. • By God's light a noble creature, right royal. « , Second Gentleman. ■*: Fir.st Grntleman. I mean the Lady Elizabeth. Did yon hear rib av«„ ^ u tor in her, service who rpi.,.rf«^ u\iu l "®*^V^ naveadangh- VVansteac^ with ChuiS bor- i^^^u T* *^^ ^i^^^nt^i say thoy be much dSd) took^^^ "^TS ^J^^' ««^"« ;^^, and Wd not her ^cl^^NSt^.^ SoJ^^S^ Second Gentleman, ""^ der^rnitLlt^i taL' ' ffi C ""f' ^"?« P'-ty *« sun- be made Lord Ch^ceS aAd wil 'n """' r," ""*^' ^"^" ^^ *" out of his cage to woriy Grander ^"""'' ^^' ' ^^^ ^'^'^ .First Gentleman. talt of ttofc^SlS tf "l""'* ""•* ""» 'h"" -e » pHifuUy, and ,,f t: go"d td7t«r "' ^""'"'"-l'»l"ncl wh., had but oboyod her fotW .^° , f l'™"- "">n™nt child that „„ o,.„ i„ hoi: tiu,r«hSu b"''„i",a''hry;' "^ ^^ Second Gentleman. Well, sir, r look for happy times. ■ifc'^., ., f. ,X, soBNB I.] _ •/;. Queen Mary. ' H Urst Gentleman. There h but one thing against them, Iknow noti^-^ou know. Second Gentleman. I suppose you touch upon the rumour that Charles, the master of the world, has offer'dherhis son Philip, the Pope and the Devil. I trust it is but a rumour. . First Gentleman. .- She is going now to the Tower to Iqosc the prisoners there, and among them Courtenay, to be made Earl of Devon, of roya blood, of splendid feature, j^m the council and all her peop e wish her to mag-y. MayiPe so, for we are ma«y of us Catholics, but few Papists, and the Hot Gospellers will l'o mad upon it. . , ^ ft ■ ■/ Second Gentleman. Was she not b^trotli'd in her babyhood to the Great Em- peror himself ? • * t First Gentleman. Ay, but he's too old. ^ Second Gentleman. r i.'^^'^f^f 'k *? ^^y ^.""'^"'^ Reginald P.ilo, now Cardinal, but Ihear that he too is full, of aches and broken before his day. r First Gentleman. 0, the Pope could dispense with his Cardinalafo, and his .v<;hage and his breakage, if that wore all : but -will you not ti)lloy the procession ? J- ^ " Second Gentleman, ^ No ; I have seen enough for this day. - m • • • * Queen Mary. [act First Gbntlbman. Well, I shall follow <; if I can get near enough I shall judL© with my own eyes whether Her Grace inoline to this splenc id aoion of Plantagenet. • [JSxeuU. SCENE II.-.A ROOM IN LAMBETH PALACE. Cranmie. To Strasbourg, Antwerp, Frankfort, Zurich, Worms Geneva, Basle— our Bishops from their sees • Or fled, they say,^ flying— Poinet, Barlow, Bale, Scory, OovdRlale ; besides the Deans Of Christchurch, Durham, Exeter, and Wells— Ailmer and Bullingham, and hundreds more ; So they report : I shall be left alone. No : Hooper, Ridley, Latimer will not fly. Enter Pbtbb Maette. •Petbr Martye. Fly, Oranmer ! were there nothing else, your name Stands first of those who sign'd the Letters Patent That gave her royal crown to Lady Jane. Ceanmee. Stand first it may, /but it was written last : Those that are now her Privy Council, sign'd Before, me : nay, the Judges had pronounced That our yojing Edward might bequeath the crown Of England, putting by his father's will. Yjof, I stood out, till Edward sent for me. The wan boy-kinjar, with his fast fading eyes Fixt hard on mine, his frail transparent hand, ^ Damp with the sweat of death, and gripinj? mine, Whisper'd to me. if I loved him, not to yield Hia Church of England to the Papal wol" ^^^gg^^^^gl^^^^^gg^g^^ J^iuk^kujyiiiiiUuyiA^u£i^^pl^^^^^ UOBNB II.] 'Queen Mary. 13 And Mary ; then I could no nuore— I sign'd. Nay, for bare shame of inconsistency, She cannot pass her traitor council by, To mSke me headless. Peteb Martyr. That might be forgiven. I ten you, fly, my Lord. You do not own The bodily presence in the Eucharist, Their wafer and perpetual sacrifice :" Your creed will be your death. Cranmeb. step after step, , Thro* many voices crying right and left. Have I dimb'd back into the primal church, And stand within the porch, and Christ with me : My flight were such a scandal to the faith. The downfall of so many simple souls, I dare not leave my post. Piter Martyr, * But you divorced Queen Catharine and her father ; hence, her hate Will bum till you are bum'd. Oranmer. I cannot help it. The Canonists and Schoolmen wd*e with me. " Thou shalt not wed thy brother's wife."— 'Tis written, *' They shall be childless." True, Maxv was bom. But France would not accept her for a oride . As being bom from incest ; and this wrought Upon the king ; and child by child, you know, Were momentary sparkles out as quick -* Almost as kindled ; and he brought his doubts And fears to me. Peter, I'll swear for him He did believe the bond incestuous. But wherefore am I trenching on the time I ' .*AjS».V^^'j ^,iAiaM£..£^^..iai^.iun,J KOENE n.] 'Queen Mary. 19 And Mary ; then I could no more — ^^I sign'd. Nay, for bare shame of inconsistency, She cannot pass her traitor council by, To mftke me headless. 5(1 I" Peteb Martyr. That might be forgiven. I tell you, fly, my Lord, You do not own - - The bodily presence in the Eucharist, Their wafer and perpetual sacrifice : " Your creed will be your death. Oranmeb. ' step after step, , Thro* many voices crying right and left. Have I dimb'd back into the primal churqh, And stand within the porch, and Christ with me : My flight were such a scandal to the faith, _ ' ■ The downfall of so many simple souls, I dare not leave my post. Peter Martyr. . But you divorced Queen Catharine and her father ; hence, her hate Will bum till you are bum'd. Oranmer. I cannot help it. The Canonists ajid Schoolmen wdre with me. " Thou shalt not wed thy brother's wife."— 'Tis written, " They shall be childless." True, Mary was bom. But France would not accept her for a bride As being bom from incest ; and this wrought Upon the king ; and child by child, you know, Were momentary sparkles out as qniok -- , !| Almost as kindled ; and he brought his doubts And fears to me. Peter, 111 swear for him Ho did believe the bond incestuous. But wherefore Am I trenching on the time -:-, P iHpHHi 14 - Queen Mary. That should abeady have seen your steps a mile From me and Lambeth ? God be with you ! Go. Peter Mabttb. Ah, but how fierce^ a letter you wrote against Their superstition, when they slander'd you For setting up a mass at Canterbury To please the Queen. S Set up the mass. Cbanmbr. It was a wheedling monk PeTBE MARTrB. [act i. ^ Hi I know it, my good Lord, But you so bubbled over with hot terms Of Satan, Uars, blasphemy. Antichrist, She never will forgive you. Fly, my Lord, fly ! . Ora^nmeb. • I Turrote it, and God grant me power to burn ! Peter Martyr. They^ha^ve given me a safe conduct : for all that I dare not stay. I fear, I fear, I see you, pear friend, for the last time ; farewelf, and fly, Cranmbr. ^ ' Fly and farewell, and let me die the death. [Exit Peter Martyr. j&n ' GOSPXLLER. ^ ^ Art thou of the true faith, fellow, that sj^earest by the RoaxE. m'^ton u** *^ ^'^^^ converted, but the old leaven sticks to 1 First Citizen. ^ _ 5^ He says right ; by the mass we'U have no mass here. Voices of the Crowd. * ^ Peace! hear him ; let his own. words damn the Papist [From thme own mouth I judge thee^tear him down. / BOFRNE. IviZ^H^T^^'^^ {ur Gracious Queen, let me call her our second Vu:gm Mary, hath begun to re-edify the true temple -- 4 * FiRSX^ Citizen. ■\ .al^l'SzSi; ^^'" ^*"*^ ""' '"^^ ^-®— '" have the . \ pulpit. The fnob throng to the pulpU stairs. Marchioness of Exeter. Son Courtenay, wilt thou see the holy father. Wurder'd before thy face ? up, son, and save him • They love thee, and thou canst not come to h™.' # ■i ; 1* ' '<,v ! li' 18 Queen Mary. CoUETBNAY (in the pulpit). [▲CI 1. ■¥' Shamej shame, my masters ! are you English-bom, And set yourselves by hundreds against one ? Cbowd. A Courtenay ! a Courtenay ! [A tram of Spa/nish terva/iits crosses at the hack of the ' { stage. NOATLLES. These birds <3f pass^^e confe before their time : Stave off the crowd upon the Spaniard there. ROOBE. My masteiiy yonder's fatter game for you Than tl^is old gaping gurgoyle : look you there — \ The Prince of Spain coming to wed our Queen ! • After him, boys ! and pelt him from the city. {They seize stones and follow the Spaniards. Exeunt on the other side Mabohioitiss of Exexeb and Attendants. . . NoAiLLES (to Roger). , Stand from me. If Elizabeth lose her head — That makes for France. And if her people, anger'd thereupon, Arise against her and dethrone the Queen — That makes for France. And ii I breed confusion anyway— That makes for France. Good day, my Lord of Devon ; A bold heart yours to beard that raging mob ! COTTRTBNAY. My mother said, Go up ; and up I went. I knew they would not do me any wrong, For I am mighty popular with them, Noailles, SCENE III.] You look'd a king. Queen Mary. NOAILLES. 19 COURTENAY. Why not ? I am king's blood. NOAILLBS. And in the whirl of change may oome to be ono. ■■■■:■. ^ COURTBNAY. Ah! > NoaillbS. But does your gracious Queen entreat you king-liko ' COURTBNAY. 'Fore God, I think she entreats me like a child. . ft NOAILLES. You've but a dull life in this 'maiden court, I fear, my Lord. COURTBNAY. A life of nods and yawns. ■j NOAILLES. oo you would honour my poor house to-night, We might enliven you. Divers honest fellows. The Puke of Suffolk lately freed from prison. Sir Peter Carew and Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Thomas Stafford, and some more — we play. X • OOURTBNAY. s - '■• _• At what ? A • ' -'-.•, NOAILLBS. >• The Game of Chess. » * t - '- i . ^ ■:. ^ ' • '■t •; ■ .'4' Y ^- m ♦ ' ■ -J r ^ 20 \ , Queen Mary. ' OOUETBNAY. [act I. I ««. p»y weU, «.d I .h.U beat you^'eS?"* "' °^ ■ NOAILLBS! Ay, but we play With Henry, King of France, And certain of his court. Hia Highness make^ his moves across the channel. COURTBNAT. * Why, such a game, sir, were whole years a playini^'. NOAILLBS. Nay; not SO long I trust. That aU depends Upon the skill and swiftness of the players. COURTBNAY. The King is skilful at it? ' g - ^ery* nay Lord , ♦ ' \ ^COURTBNAY. And ]the stakes hig&? I t NOAILLBS. But not beyond your moans. N COUBTBNAT. WeU, Fm the first of players. I shall via. ^ , NOAILLBS. > * a ]With our advice and in our company ' -y \ \ a 80SNS in.] Queen Mary. 21 Aud BO you well attend to the king's moves, I think you may. ■ ■ ' " 'l ) Wh^n do you meet 'i y" NoaXlles. >« y To-night. - ' CouETBKAY {oside). . \ I will be there ; the fellow's at his tricks— -t. * * Deep— I -^haU fathom him. {Aloud.) fiood JTomiiiff. . NoaiUes. ^ [&« Coctrtena?^ J s Nqailles. Good-day, my Lord. Strange game of chess ! a King ihat with her own pawns plays against a Queen, Whose play is all to find herself a King. Ay ; but this fine blue-blooded Courtenay seems Too pnncely^r a pawn. Call him a Knighfc ' Inat, with an ass's, not an horse's head, Skips every w^y, from levity or from fear. Well we shall use him somehow, so that Gardiner And Sunon Benard spy not out out gatne Too airly. Roger, thinkest thou that anyone ouspected thee to be mv man. x — ^ < ROGEB. , ' ' Not one, sir.. NOAILLES? No ! the disguise was perfect. :||k's away ^ [Elmmi, V ' ,s Al A . ■ ,-1%, '^ryimf , . ^ ;- ■'SP^R'■^^»■■ n ,'*' Queen Mary, ^ [iOT I. ' :A4 A .t >; SCENE IV.^LONDON. A ROOM IN THE PALACE. Elizabeth. Enter Coubtbnat. OOURTBNAY. - So yet am I, ,' , Unless my friends and mirroi^ lie'to me, ' ^^of^^^er-looking feUow than this Philip. The Queen is ill advised : shall I turn traitor ? They've almost talked me into it : yet the word Affrights me somewhat ; to be such a one As. Marry Bolmgbrok& hath a lure in it InS K^^^'l ""^ ^^ ^"®^''' *^°' ^y your age, And by yo\ir looks you are not Worth the Sving. let by your crown you are. , **' [/Sfeeiwgr ELizABEtf If. I trie^her and la-sh^;moroI'' '*"'^"" *'^^,^ ^ Have we not heard of her inEdward's^ time, / Her freaks and frolics with the late Lord Admiral ? ' I do believe she'd yield. I should be stiU A party m the state j and then, who knows- • , ,. Elizabeth. What are you musing pn, my Lo?d of Devon ? COITRTENAY. Has not the Queen — /i' >s.. ■' ' Elizabeth. Done what, Sir ? >.■.•* 8PBNE IV.] 'Queen Jfm'y- 28 / OouBiaftrAT. ■■*^IL The Lady Suffolk and the Lady Lennox. You, The Jt6irpre8umptiv6. ., Elizabeth. —Made you follow */-<. ,« « Why do you ask ? you know it. OOUETBNAY. ' [ ' ■ ' ^ ■' . ■ Yciu needB must bear it hardly^ ^ Elizabeth.- i 1^6, indeed f i' I am utterly BUbmisBiv,e>to the Queen. •. ' • ,. , OoUETBNAY. Well, I was musing upon that ; the Qu6en "" •I II both my foe and yours ; we should be friends. Elizabeth. ■■■■ ■ ^ ' : - . My Lord, the hatred of another to US Is no true bond of friendship. COUBTENAY. Might it not Be the rough preface of some closer bond ? Elizabeth." ' ,<^ *My Lord, you late were loosed f^m out the Tower, Where, l^e a butterfly in a Chrysalis, You spent your life ; that broken, out you flutter Thro the new world, go zigzag, now would settle Upon this flower, now that ; but all things here At court are known ; you have solicited The Queen, and lieen rejected. ' -^ w ■l qrr K'> ^\-\'-%A,^ 24 ^'♦■.ii COURTBNAY. Half faded ' bn+ irnii -^ •' Flower, she • Elizabeth, Are you tke bee to try mo ? whv b,,* I called you butterfly ^' ^''* "^^ COUETENAT. X love not to be oalW » bSrflJ^. "" """e- . WhydoyouoaUmebutterflyJ '■ ' Elizabeth. Why do yo\ go so gay then ? < COURTENATC. This dress was made me as the EaTfoTn* ""^ ^^•^''• To take my seat in ' loolfTif « f • ^f ^^^o" J •«*i. lu , looks it not right royal ? Elizabeth. * So royal that th» Queen forbad you wearin. it ft o • COURTENAT. I wear it then to spite her. Elizabeth. I see you in the Tower airam n ^ ^?'^' ^^ ^^^^^ 5 Helirs you affffjf f?,r^^^ • ^er Majesty - «rs you aflect the Pnnce-prelates kneel to you- Co,URTENAY. ^ \ am the noblest bloo3m TCnmrv^ tw j A Oourtenay of Devon^anf hTco JJll?'^' 4 [act I. "V BCENE IV. Queen Mary. Elizabeth. 25 She hears you make your boast that after all She means to wed you. Folly, my good Lord. COURTENAY. How folly ? a great party in the stat& Wills me to wed her. Elizabeth. Failing her, my Lord, Doth not as great a party in the state Will you to wed me ? CoURTENAY. Even so, fair lady. Elizabeth. You kuqv to flatter ladies. CoURTENAY. True matters of tho heart. Nay, I meant Elizabeth. J My heart, mjj Lord, 18 no great party in tho state as yet. CoURTENAY. Oreat said you ? nay, you shall be great. T love you Lay my hfo in your hands. Can you be. close ? 1 Elizabeth. Can you, my Lord ? ■V ^^ . Queen Mary. COURTENAY. Listen • ^^"^® *^ * miser's casket. The. King of France, Noailles the Ambassador The Duke of SuflFolk and Sir Peter Carew ' Sir Thomas Wyag, I mysglf, some others If MlTi^/^'^P*"^'^ "^''^^'^Se shall not be. If M^ry will not hear us-well-^onjecture- Were t m Devon with my wedded bride, ' J li' CI I. I cannot hear you. Elizabeth. You speak too low, my Lord ; COUBTENAY. I'll repeat it. Elizabeth. Stand further off, or you may lose your^eaid. 1 CoURTENAY. \ I have a head^o lose for your sweet sake. Elizabeth. Have you my Lrd ? Best keep it for your own Nay, pout not, Uisin. ^"urown. Not manv friends are mine, except indeed Among tKe manl I believe you mine And so you may ^ontinue mine, farewell, And that at once.\ 'nter Mary, heJdnd. Mary. W*JifPe"ng~loagiied togotlior o bar mo from my Philip, SCENE IV.] Queen Mary. COUKTENAY, Pray — consider — Elizabeth (seeing the Queen). Well, that'll a noble horse of yours, my Lord. I trust that he will carry you welj to-day, And heal your headache. COURTENAY. You are wild ; what headache ? Heartache, perchance ; not headache. Elizabeth (aside to Courtenay). % Are you blind ? [Courtenay seesthe QujaiN and exit. Exit Mary. Enter Lord William Howard. Howard. Was that my Lord of Devon ? do not you Be seen in corners with my Lord of Devon. He hath fallen out of favour with the Queen. She fears the Lords may sidq with y6u and him Against her marriage ; therefore is he dangerous. And if this Prince of fluff and feather come To woo you, niece, he is dangerous everyway. /Elizabeth. Not very dangerous that way, my good uncle. Howard. B\it your own state is full of danger here. The disaffected, heretics, reformers, Look to you as the one to crown their ends. Mix not yourself with any plot I pray you ; Nay, if by chance you hoar of any such, 27 ■i scEFB IV.] Queen Mary. COURTENAY. Pray — consider — Elizabeth {sceitig the Queen). Well, that> a noble horse of yours, my Lord. I tmst that he will carry you welj to-day, And heal your headache. CoURTENAY. 27 \_ ~ n^u are wiTd^; wHalTieaaacHeT Heartuche, perchance ; not headache. Elizabeth {aside to Courtenay). i, Are you blind ? [Courtenay sees the. Queen and exit. Exit Mary. Enter Lord William Howard. 28 Queen Mary. [aot 1. Speak not thereof— no, not to your best friend Lest you should be confounded with it. Still— Perinde ao cadaver— as the pidest says, You know your Latin— quiet as a dead body. What was my Lord of Devon telling you ? Elizabeth. Whether he told me anything or not, I follow your good counsel, gracious uncle. (^met as a dead body. Howard. ■ , • ^ , You do right well. 1 do not care to know ; but this I charge you, Tell Courtenay nothing. The Lord Chancellor (1 count it as a kind of virtue in him, He hath ^ot many), as a mastiif.dog ' May love a puppy cur for no more reason Ihan that the twain have been tied up together, Ihus Gardmer— for the two were fellow-prisoners feo many years m yon accursed Tower- Hath taken to this Conrtenay. Look to it, niece, ^e hatli no fence when Gardiner questions him • ^i Tf ^x^'n^* 5 yet him-because they know him'; Ihe last White Rose, the last Plaiitagenet (Nay there is Cardinal Pole, too), the people Uaim as their natural leader— ay, some say, mat you shall marry him, make him King beliko. Elizabeth. Do they say so, good uncle ? Howard. v^„ I- 1 1 1 , . , ^y^ Rood niece ! You should bo plain and open with me, niece, lou should not play upon me. ^ Elizabeth. I . Ifb, good uncle. SCENE IV.] QuecTi Mary. Enter Gabdiner. Gardiner. The Queen would see your Grace upon the moment. ** Elizabeth. Why, my lord Bishop ? Gardiner. I think she means to counsel your withdrawing To Ashridge, or some other country housc^,. Elizabeth. Why, my lord Bishop ? Gardiner. I do but bring the message, know no more. Your Grace will hear her reasons from llorsolf. Elizabeth. 'Tis mine own wish fulfill'd before tho word Was spoken, for in truth I had meant to crave Permission of her Highness to retire To Ashridge, aad pursue my studies there Gardiner. Mfidam, to have the wish before the word Is man's good Fairy — and the Queen is yours. I left her with rich jewels in her hand, Whereof 'tis like enough she means to mako A farewell present to your Grace. 29 Elizabeth. r I have the jewel of a loyal heart. My Lord, 3 ■>■ -f 30 Queen Mary. {act Gardiner. I«oubt it not, Madam, most loyal. [^ows Uw and exit. Howard. This comes qf parleying with my L6rd of DeVon Well, well, you must obey ; and I myself Beheve 4 ^yiU be belter for your wXe Your time will come. »? «"«. ELIZABETHi Uncle, ^ *^^"^ ™y *^™^ ^11 come. I am of soverign nature, that I know, , Not to be quell'd ; and I have felt within me Stirrings of some great doom when God's iust hnnr Peals-but this fierce old Gardiner-hil J^k i^ That irritable forelock which he rX "^ ^^^^^^^K- Hllf'frSrtm'e"'^!'^^ Howard, iji^- He cannot .ouch yc^^: ^^^tl ^^'^' And so take heed I pray you-you are one ' Who love that men should smile upon you niece They'd smile you into treason-some ofth^m Elizabeth. I spy the rock beneath the smiling sea. ?n ll K ^^^'^'P *'^" P^'^"d Catlfolic prince In IIm ^^i ^^'^'^^ ^"^ «^^« ^^'^^ ^^^tes me 'seek ' In that lone house, to practise on my life ' By poison, fare, shot, stabr- i ' V y SCBlfB V,] Q^xieen Mary. HOTTARD. 31 They will not, niece. Mine is the. fleet and all the power at sea — Or will be in a moment. If they dared To harm you, I would blow this Philip and all Your trouble to the dogatar and the devil. . Elizabeth. To the Pleiads, uncle ; they have lost a sister, ^ Howard. But why ^ay that ? what have you done to lose her ? Come, coDae, I will go with you to the Queen. [Exetmt, V SCENE V.^A ROOM IN THE PALACE. Mary tvith Philip's miniatwe, Alice. Mary (kissiny the miniature). Most goodly, Kinglike and an Emperor's son, — A king to be, — is he not noble, girl ? Alice, Goodly enough, your Ghrace, and yet, methinks, I have seen goodlier, Mary. Ay ; some waxen doll Thy baby eyes hare rested on, belike ; All red and white, the fashion of our land. But my good mother came (God rest her soul) Of 8pam, and I am Spanish in myself. And in my likings. r 32 Queen Mary. Alice. [act 1. v«„ „ 1 ^1. By your Grace's leave Your royal mother came of Spain, but took A?i ^i?^^""^ ?^ ^""^ '^^'^^- Your royal father (For so they say) was aU pure lily and rose In his youth, and like a lady. Mary. Sweet mother, you had time and cause enough To sicken of his hhes and his roses Cast off, betray'd, defamed, divorced, forlorn » And then the kmg-that traitor past forgiveness The false archbishop fawning on him, mlrried ' The mother of Ehzabeth— a heretic Ev'n as sAe is J but God lias sent me here ' lo take such order with all heretics That It shall be before 1 die, as tho' My father and my brother had not lived. What waat thou saying of this Lady Jane. Now m the Tower ? «J AncB. «^ , ,, . Why, Madam, she was passin.' Some chapel down m Essex, and with her ^ Lady Anne Wharton, and the Lady Anne Bow d to the Pyx ; but Lady Jane stood up otifl as the very backbone of heresy And wherefore bow ye not, say^ Lady Anne To him withm there who made Heaven and Eartli ? I cannot and I dare not, tell your Grace • What Lady Jane feplied. Mary. But I will have it. AUCK. She Bald— pray pardon me, and pity her- ^% \ hiCKNE v.] Quem Mary. 33 She hafh hoarkeu'd ovil counsol— ah ! sho said, The baife^cjAado him. Maky. Monstrous ! blasphemous ! She ought to burn. Hence, thou {Exit Aliob). No— being traitor Her head will fall : shall it ? she is but a child We do not kill the child for doing that His father whipt him into doing — a head So full of grace and beauty ! would that mine Were half as gracious ! O, my lord to be, My love, for thy sake only. I am eleven years older than he is. But will he care for that 1 No, Jby the holy Virgin, being noble, But loie me only : then the bastai'd sprout, My sister, is far fairer than myself. Will ho be drawn to her ? No, being of the true faith with myself. Paget is for him— for to wed with Spain, Would treble England— Gardiner is against him : The Council, people. Parliament against him ; , But I will have him ! My hard>ther hated mo ; My brother rather hated me than loved ; My sister cowers and hates me. Holy Virgin, Plead with thy blessed son ; grant m^.my prayer ; Give me my Philip ; and we two will lead The living waters of the Faith again Back thro' their widow'd channel here, and watch The parch'd banks rolling incense, as of old, To heaven, and kindled with the palms of Christ ! Who waits, sir ? Enter IJshjok, USHEK. Madam, the Lord Chanceilor. ' 34 Queen Mary.- [acjt I Mahy. Bid him come in. {Enter Gabdinjhi.) Good morning, my good Lord. [Exit Usher. Gardineb. That every morning of your Majesty « May be most good, is every morning's prayer >. Of your most loyal subject, Stephen Gardiner.. ~\ ^ Mary. Come 3K)u to tell me this, my Lord ? Gaediner. And more. Your people have begun to leam^your worth. Your pious T^sh to pay King Edward's debts, Your lavish household curb'd, and the remission Of half that subsidy levied on th^ people, Make all tongues praise and all hearts beat ^or you. I'd have you yet more loved : the realm id^ur, The exchequer at neap-ebb : we might witS^aw Part of our garrison at Calais. * >#<■ •^> *f\ A ^ Mary. k. Calais ! Our one point on the main, the gate of France ! I am Queen of England, take mine eyes, mine heart, But do not lose me Calais. \ I •11 * .Gardiner. ' Do not fear it. Of that hereafter. . I say your Grace is loved . That I may keep you thus, who am your friend And ever faithful counsellor, might 1 speak ' Mary. I can forespeak your speaking. Would I marry Prince Philip, if all England hate him \ JThat is SCENE V.J Queen Mary. /35 Your question, and I front it with another • " / la It England, or a party? Now, your answer. i ' Gardiner. My answer is, I wear beneath my dress A shirt of mail : my house hath been assaulted And when I- walk abroad, the populace, ' With fingers pointed like so many daggers, Stab me ni fancy, hissing «pain and Philip'- And when I sleep, a hundred men-at-armS ' • ^ ■ Guard my poor dreams for England. Men would murder Because they think me favourer of this marriage. Mary. \nd that were hard upon you, my Lord Chancellor. * Gardiner. But our young Earl of Devon— > -> ■ " t Mary. I freed him from the Tower, placed him at Court f ^^''''" ^ I made hmi Earl of Devon, and— the fool— He wrecks his health and wealth on courtesans And rolls himself in carrion like a dog. ' •J.: ■» Gardiner . More like a school-boy that hath broken bounds bickomug himself with sweets. Mary. o^r.A AT, j.1. .„ ^ ^^^ ""* hear of him. Good then, they will revolt : but I am Tudor, And shall control them. \ 4-. ir ;^ 36 Queen Mary. ' Gakdinbr . [aot I. _ ^ I wUl help you, Madam, Even to the utmost. All the church is grateful. You have ousted the mock priest, repulpited "" The shepherd of St. Peter, raised the rood again, And brought us back the masA I am all thanks To God and to your Grace : yet I know well,^ * " ^ Y©ur pe'ople, and I go with them so far, "^ Will brook-nor Pope nor Spaniard here to play The tyrant, or in commonwealth" op church. MA.B.Y (showing the picture). Is this the face of one who plays the tyrant ? Peruse it ; is not goodly, ay, and gentle ? , Gardiner. Madam, methinks a cold face and a haughty. And when your Highness talks of Courtenay— Ay, true— a goodly one. I would his life Were half as goodly (aside). Marv. What is that you muttcf ' Gardiner. Oh, Madam, take it bluntly ; marry Philip, And be stepmother of a score of sons ! ^ The Prince is known in Spain, in Flanders, ha ! For Philip— Mary. ^ You offend us ; you may leave uiT You see thro' warping glasses. Gardiner. If your Majesty — mm^m^m >i. .SCENE v.] Queen Mary. Mary. ■ 87 ' I have sworn upon the body and blood of Christ I'll none but Philip. Gardiner. Hath your Grape so sworn ? Mary. Ay, Simon Renard knows it. " Gardiner. News to me ! It then remains for your poor Gardiner, So you still care to trust him somewhat less Than Simon Renard, to compose the event In some such form as least may harm your Grace. Mary. I'll ha,ve the scandal sounded to the mud. I know it a scandal. Gardiner. -.^ , , All my hope is now It may be found a scandal. Mary. You offend us. ' ^ Gardiner (aside). These princes are like children, must be physick'd The bitter m the sweet. I have lost mine office ' It may be, thro' mine honesty, like a fool. [Exit Who waits ? Enter Usher. Mary. r.jq r' •!,|i«r ^^ Q^em Mary. j-^^t i Usher. The Ambassador from Franco, your Grace. Mary, Bid him come in. Good morning, Sir de Noailles. [Exit Usher, Noailles (enteritig), '' A happy morning to your Majesty. Mary. And I should some time have a.liappy mom in? • 1 have had none yet. What says the King your master ? ' Noailles. Madam, my master hears with much alarm ihat you • may marry Philip, Prince of Spain- ^oreseemg, with whate'er unwillingness, That if this Philip be the titular king Of England, and at war with him, yoilr Grace ' And kingdom will be suck'd into the war Ay tho' you long for peace ; wherefore, my master, \\r ,i *o prove your Majesty's goodwill, Would fam have some fresh treaty drawn between you Mary. \ V Why some fresh treaty ? wherefore should 1 do it ? A n'rS^*^ marry, we shall still maintain All fc^mer treaties with his Majesty. Our roval word fop that ! and your good master. Pray God he do not be the first to break them Must be content with that ; and so, farewell. '" Noailles (going, retnrm). I would your answer had been other, Madam. For 1 foresee dark days. ...;''^ IT SCENE v.] Queen Mary. MaR¥, And so do I, sir ; •Your master works against me in the dark. I do believe he hplp Northumberland ' Against me. ' "" NoATtLES. ' ' \ ' , ~ Nay, pure phantasy, your Grace. Why should he move against you ? • . • Mary. „^ Will you bear why ? Mary of Scotland, — for t have not own'd My sister, and I will not, — after me Is heir of England ; and my royal father. To make the crown of Scotland one With ours, Had mark'd her for my brother Edward's "bride ; Ay, but your king stole her a babe from Scotland In order to betroth her to your Dauphin. See then : . Mary of Scotland, married to your Dairphin, Would make our England, Franco ; Mary of England, joining hands with Spain, Would be too strong for France. Yea, were there issue born to her, Spain ajid we, One crown, might rule the world. There lies your fear. That is your drift You play at hide knd seek. Show me your faces ! * N0AILLB8. Madam, I am amazed : French, I must needs wish all good things for France. That must bo pardon'd me ; but I protest Your Grace's pg4fcy hain a farther flight Than mine into the future. We but seek Some settled ground for peace to stand u pou. '^^ , , Queen Mary. Mary. H.fn r ""^^ ^^T.^^ ''^"*' "^^ *« o^r council. Uave you seen Philip ever 1 NOAILLES. Only once. Mary. Is this like Philip ? ^^ ■'■'' .■^' F0AILLE8. ,. ^y> ^'"t n9brl€t-iooking. Hath he the large abilfty of the Emperor ? t NOAILLES. No, auroly. ,. ' Mary. rpv ^ , , , , ' ®*" ™al^e allowance for t Jhou speakest of the enemy of thy king NOAILLBS. " Make no allowance for the naked truth He IS every way a lesser man than Charles • btone-hard, ice-cold--no dash of daring in him [act I ^ If cold, his life 18 pure. Mary. NOAlLLES. Why (mi/ingr), no, indeed. •*^-*««t- SCENE V.J ' i Saygt thou ? Queen Main/. Mart. 41 ■'«*■£ NOAILLBS. A very wanton life indeed (smili/ruj), Mary. Your audience is concluded, air. JMxit Noalles. You caiinot Lieam a man's nature from his natural foe. Who waits ? Enter Usher. Usher. The ambassador of Spain, your Grace. [Exit Enter ^mov Reward. Mary. Thou art ever welcome, Simon Renard. Hast thou Brought me the letter which thine Emperor promised Long smce, a formal offer of the hand , Of Philip ? Renard. , , Nay, your Grace, it hath not reaph'd me. 1 know not wherefore— some mischance of ftobd. And broken bridge, or spavin'd horse, or wave And wind at their old battle ; he must have written Mary . Bjit Philip never writes me one poor word. Which in his absence had been all' my wealth. Strange in a wooer ! \ tS • ■ < • * • " \ • f '"4 '{.V-s^^S ^^W^' r-r 42 Queen Ma/ry. [act I. a ,. ,. Yet I know the Prince, bo your kmg-parliament suffer him to land, Yearng to set foot upon your island shore.' M'ARY. God change the pebble which his kingly foot lirst presses into some more costly stone "^ Than ever blinded eye. I'll have one mark it And bnng it me. FU have it burnished firelike • I II set It round with gold, with pearl, with diamoi.d. L Why, doubtles*, Philip shows Some of the bearing of your blue blood —still AH within measure— nay, It well becomes him. . Mary. Hath he the large ability of his father ? Renard. Nay, some believe that he will go beyond him. Mary. Is this like him ? : • I 1/ vi 'i :w '-"^^^ ,. u Queen Mary. Rbnard. [act I. i'^lT^^:^-'^-^^^''^' '-^ Mart. ' Of a pure life? Rbnard. The'tJSfwTr «*■'•,. ''''»• ^y Heaven, « Mary. - 1 am happy in him tjiere. ' Rbnard'.' ^ < • ■ • And would be altogether happy, Madam, So that your aister were but look'd to closer You have sent her from the court, but hen she ^oes B.7w"h\^^* *° ^^' *^^ nightingales ^ ' ant hatch ^ou acme new treason in th» woods. "^ Mary. • • " Ynil^S^^ T «P^t« ^b^-oad to catch her tripping And then if caught, to the Tower. ^' Rbnard. W^ 17" ^- Wa your HlghneJs'^aTeTthe mnT""' fl^ J^ 7"°*^ •Jcarcecrow in your father's t me * WhlfW' A^? *T«"^ y«* 1»i^r'd wit "the jest - - When the head leapt-ao common ! I do thint • To .ave your crown that it must come to tS . \ . -• ' '^ «• ) SOJSNE v.] Queen Mary. MARY.y 45 I love her not, but all the people love her And would not have her even to the Tower. , . Remari). Not yet ; but your old Traitors of the Tower- Why, .when you put Northumberland to death, • Ihe sentence having past upon them all: •V Spared you the Duke of Suffolk, Guildford Dudley, iJiV n that yoMng girl who dared to wear your crown ? ' Mary. Dared, no, not that : the child obey'd her father, bpite of her tears her father forced it on her. . " Rbnard. Good Madam, when the Roman wish'd to reiffn He slew not him alone who wore the purple But his assessor in the throne, petohance ' A child more innocent than Lady Jane. Mary. lam English Queen, not Roman Emperor. • Rbnard. Fet too much mwcy is a want of mercy , And wastes more life. Stamp out the fire, or tHlT Will smouWer and re-flame, and bum the throne -fn T ^1?" ^^^"^"^ "* "^'^^ P^i"P = *^« ^^ not come Till she be gone. Mary. o . , ^ . Indeed, if that were true— ^ut I must say fareweU. I am somewhat faint ut mine own heart, nhioh every now and then . .'^ S' l*toj S, B > irsU J fe. 46 Queen Mary. [act I. Beatsme half dead : yet stay, this g.4d^^ chain- My father on a birthday gave it me, And I have Ijroken with my father— take And wear it as a memorial of a morning ^hoMuT """ ^"" "^^'"''^■'^ doubts, and leaves me Rbnard {aside). f * u , ., )^^ew— the folly of all follies ' to be love-sick for a shadow. {alo^idS Madam M chains me to your service, not with gold, ' ButMearest links of love. Farewell, and trust me PhiiiVi la yours. , * Mary. Mine -but not yet aM mine. Enter Usbeb, Your Council is in Session, please your Majesty. • Mary. Sir, let them sit. I must have time to breathe No say I come. (E^t Usher.) I Von by boldness once. rhe Emperor counsell'd me to fly to Flanders I would not ; but a hundred miles I rode Sent put my letters, call'd my friends together ©truck home and won. ° - " And when the Council would not crown me-thought To bmd me ^rst by oaths 1 could not keep ^ And keep with Christ and conscience-was 'it boldness Or weakness that won there ? when I, their Queen Cast nayself down upon my knees' before them And those hard men brake into woman tears Ev n Gardiner all ama25ed, and in that passfon Qave me my Crown. y»^i»u Enter Aiioa. o, J . . « . ^^^' 5 hast thou ever heard blanders against Pnnce Philip ip our Court ? M f ■5 M >■ Queen Mm^y. Alice. ' • * What^^anders ? I, your Grace ; no, never. ■ ■ .Ik ■ 'y Mary. *■ ' t JC Nothing? '•'■ -/^ . ' Alice. Never, your Grace. ^ Mj^aiY. V' «ee that you neither hear them nor repeat ! Alice (ciside). 1*; , Good Lord ! but I have heard a thousand sucK Ay, and repeated them as often— mum ' Why comes that old fox-Fleming back again ? ' Enter Renaiid. 47 Mnter Rena] ppiENARD. Madam I scarce had left your Grace's presence Before I chanced upon the messenger Who bnngs that letter which we waited for- ^ The formal ofter of Prince Philip's hand ^ it craves, an instant answer, Ay or No .? Mary. All in8tant,;Ay or No ! the Council sitk wve it me quick. Alice (atef^ing before her). Your Highness is all trembling. Maey. [Bxit into the Council Chamber. Make way. V.l^i;:."-- ,- ti'J^l' ■! ti- ' . 48 Qi^eetj, Mary. [act I. Alice. T« ,. ^' Master Renard, Master Renard, ^you have falsely painted ybtir fine Prince ; Jftraised, where yoji should Rave.lftamed him, Ipray God No woman ever love you, Master Menard, ^• It breaks my heart to hear her mpan'at night As tho' the nightmare never left her bed. ^*"!^ . Renard. My pretty maiden, tell m(% did you ever Sigh for a beard ? Alice. That's not a pretty question. ■ ' Renard. Not prettily put ? I mean, my pretty maiden. A pretty man for such a pretty maiden. Alice. My Lord of Devon is a pretty man £ hate him.^ Well, but if I have, what then ? Renard. :^ pen, .pretty maiden, you should know that wliether A wind be warm or cold, it serves to fan A kindled fire. Alice. According to the sAig. " ^ FT?? f^ would praise him, I beUeved 'em, Hw g?«da-M Angela I received 'em, ^ His foes-The DevU had aubom'd em." ^ .^*^! SCENE v.] Queen Mary. Renard. 4a Peace, pretty maiden. hiTFt^>'^^%^ *^^ ^«""«1 Chamber. Unter Mary. Alice. How deathly pale !-^a chair, your High'iess. [Bringing one to the Queen. The OounM' Rbnabd. Mart. Madam, ^ Ay ! My Philip is aU mine. [Sinks into chair, half fainting. f v.- /^ \ / ..-r,-^' 60 Queen Mary. [act II. S ACT 11. SCENE I.— ALINGTON CASTLE. Sir Thomas Wy ATT. ■ I do not h6ar from Carew or the Duke Of Suffolk, and till then I should not move. Tho Duke hath gone to Leicester ; Carew stirs Li Devon : that fine porcelain Courtenay, Save that he feart he might be crack'd in using, (I have known a semi-madman in my time So fancy-ridd'n^ should be in Devon too. Enter William. News abroad, William ? jg William. ^ None so/ new, Sir Thomas, and none so old, Sir Thomas. No new n*ws that Philip comes to wed Mary, no old news that aU/toen hate it. Old Sir Thomas would have hated it Ihe bells are nnging at Maidstone. Doesn't your worship Wyatt. -^ Ay, for the Saints are oeme to reign again. Most like it is a Saint's-day. There's no call AM yet for me ; so in this pause, before >,' The mine be fired, it were a pious work ^f "* To string my father's s«nnets, left about Like loosely-scatter'd jewels, in fair order, <«!■% .1 iii •CBNB I,] Queen Mary. To l!S*i -^^"^ ""'^^ * ^«"«' rhyme of mine io grace his memory, "^ lume, William. 51 Wtatt. But thou could'st drink in Spain if I remember. William. • , '' Wtatt. Hand me the casket with my father's sonnete. William. ThtSi!""^*^-* fine «.urtier of the old Court, old Sir Wyatt. f^^*- gurtier of many courts, he loved the more ^ ^ot half his likeness m the son. I fail Where he was fuUogt • vet— fA J:,; •* ^ uesc . yet- to write it down. [He writes He-enter William. William. ** -o^^te^^^-C^C^tS*^ \ M" .&^}-M .I'i) ///' Cl r 52 Qveen Mary. [act II. Penenden Heath all calling after your worship, and your wor- ship's name heard into Maidstone market, and your woraliip the firjjt man in Kent and Chpstendom, for the world's up, and your worship 'a-top of it. /" Wyatt. Inverted ^spp — mountain out of mouse. Say for ten thousand ten— and pothouse knaves, Brain-diazied with a draught of morning ale. Enter Antony Knyvett. William. Here's Antony Knyvett. , * . Knyvett. Tear up that worn Look youy Master Wyatt, work there. ,- Wyatt. if TN , , ., r . " '*' ^o ; »ot these, Dumb children of my father^that will speak When I and thou and aUjdfiSions lie Dead Bodies without voi&l; 'Song flies you know For ages. -.- ,f «. # NYVBTT. ^^W your sonnet's a flymg ant, Wmg'd for a momait. i|v . '■ Wyatt. ^, ,. „ . Well, for mine own work, [tearinn the paper. It hes there in six pieces at youY- feet ; ' ^ ^ . For all that I can carry it in my head. kWYVETT. ' If you can . ■ ■ Wyatt. I'll think upon it, Knyvett. ' '■ y "-'■'■ ' ♦ KnYVKTT. . . , ' Or Lady Jane i Wyatt. ■ No, poor soul ; no. Ah. giay old castle of Alington, green field Resido the brimming Medway, it'ftiay chance iliat 1 shall never ioo]t lipon you more. '' ■ Knyvhjtt.. Come, now, you're sonnetting jtgaln. Wyatt. * I 1 11 have my head set Higher in the state ; Or— if the t-ord God will it— on the stako [Exeunt. JT II. ami - II.] Q'lbeen JJiai'y. SCENK II.— GUITiDHALL. 67 Sir Thomas White (The Lord Mayor), LoRp William Howard, Sir Ralph BAaBNttALL, Aldbrmun artii OlTIZBNS, ' . White. . I trust the Queen eomeg hither with her guards. ' Howard. Ay, all inarms. . * » [Several of the Citizens move hastily nut of the haU, - Why do they hurry out there ? • ' White. My Lord, out out the rotten from your apple, Your apple eats t^^e better. Let th0m go. . They go like those old Pharisees in John ' '." . Convicted by their oonscienoe, aitrant coM^rda', i Or tamperers with^that treason out of Kent. ' * When will Tier Grace be here ? • .. '^ ' .'„'•' ."^ • ' -. ' ' Ho-iirARD. ' - ' ., '■ |- ■ •■ , ' ' . , J .' ' , . - In'«pme-lew uunutei. She Vill address your guilds .and oompapie*. '^ ". . I have striven in vain to raise a maax. f prober. But help her in this exigency, make , , • Your city loyal, and be the mightiest man This day in England. • . '. . j, ' ' ' ' 'whiti!'; '• .J ^ : *" . . ., ■ . - I am Thomas White. Few things have fail'd to which I set my will. I dd luy most and best. * ■ > ■ . -^ ' ' Howard. ' ' . * *- ■ . • ■ ■ . You know^at after The Captain Brett, Who went with your tr^ ■ ■ ■ ... ..„„., ^^^-^ .J \ \ .v4^k. „. M.\. . i.- '. ^ ■ ^ Queen Mciry. With aU Jiis n^en, the Queen in that distress Sent Cornwalhs and Hastings to the traif or Feigning to treat with him fbout her S^S' e ' Know too what Wyatt said. , mamage— 1^ . White. i-osaeaslftn of her person and. the Tower. . - Howard. 1^ II. What do afld say White. V ^ ., I know it. lour Council At this hour ? Howard. - We fling ourselves on you, ml Lord""' Tlf^ ?J -i The parliament as well! are^^oubl^d wJters '^ ' wtr^toTj^ ^^^^^^^^^ n her address. And upon you, Lord M^iyor. White. When now you past it ? Quiet ? Howard. How lobk'd the city Wdtyi. divided. Aswe^";:;"^"""""' . ir„re:teSu^pi^^k,3Sr Aa grrun and grave as from a f uneri h II. '1 ■" SOBITB II.] Queen Mary.. 69 And here a knot of ruffians all in rags With execrating execrable eyes, Glared at the citizen. Here ^as a young mother, Her face on flame, her red hair all blown back, Sh6 shrilling " Wyatt," while the boy she held Mimick'd and piped her ** Wyatt," as red as she In hair and cheek ; and almost elbowing her, So close they stood, another, mute as death. And white as Jier own milk ; her babe in arms Had felt the faltering of his mother's heart. And look'd as bloodless. Here a pious Catholic, Mumbling afnd mixing up in his scared prayers Heaven and earth's Manes ; over his bow'd shouider Scowl'd that world-hated and worid-hating beast, A haggard i^^nabaptist. Matty such groups. Thb names of Wyatt, Elizabeth, Courtenay, .Nay the Queen's right to reign — 'fore God, the- Were freely bu^'d among them.. So I say Your city is divided, and Lfear ' One scruple, this or that way, of success Would turn it thither. Wherefore now the Queen In this low pulse and palsy of the state, Bad me ta tell you that she counts on you ; And on myself as her two hands ; on you, - In your own city, as her right, my Lord, For you are loyal. , Whitb. rogues- •■ Am I Thomas White ? One word before she comes. Elizabeth — Her name is mudi abused among these traitors. Where is she ? She is loved by ali of us. I scarce have heart to mingle in this matte*. * (f she should be mishandle4 7 t Howard. • ' , - / • ^ No ; she shall not. The Queen had written her word to come to court ; Methought I smelt out Reuard in the letter, - / / 1 --^,.,;^- '" ' ' , \ ■■ t „ . * \ ■ 1 • % 60 y QueH Mary. [act II. ■ It found her riok indeed ^"^'^'^^ "" "°'' White. Here comes her Royal Grace^""^ '^'''^^^'' ^«" 5 ^w^er Guards, Mary an^ Gardikbe Sr« t leads h.r to araisTfe^L. fk^I^:!''^ "^^^^^ White. fl wVh^i^ra^cVttr^^^^^^ *^f /o"r most princel/prei ^^^'L^''" That we, your true and^loyaTStLns ^ ^""^^ Your Roral idll^'^T^ %^^ «« ^^^^^ OfLondo^^an^^^^-^I^W^^^^^ V Mary. xhat was their Dretert «« +kA ^V ® "^ ^pam ; To wh.n,, ,ten f wr^e'd' tTtt ^i<^"-» ' ' .-n ,»■ HOENB II.] Queen Mary. 61 . V And tho realm's lawfl (the spousal ring whereof, Not ever to be laid aside, J wear Upon this finger), ye did promise full Allegiance and obedience to the death. Ye know my father was the rightful h- Uf England, and his right came down to me. Conroborate by your acts of Parliament : And as ye were most loving unto him, ^0 doubtless wiU ye show yourselves to ma. Wherefore, ye will not brook that anyone Should seize our person, occupy our state, M^ore speciaUy a traitor so presumptuous As this same Wyatt, who hath tamper'd. with A public ignorance, and, under colour rj! u^ » cause as hath no colour, seeks lo bend the laws to his own will, and yield * ull scope to persons rascal and forlorn, lo make free spoil ai^d havock of your goods Now as your Prince,,! gay, . ' » ^'^ I, that was never mother, cannot tell How mothers love their children ; yet, methinks A prince as naturaUy may love his people As these their children ; and be sure your Queen So loves you, and so loving, needs must d6em , Ihis love by you return'd as heartily • And thro' this common knot and h^tfd of love Doubt not they will be speedijy^rthrown. ' As to this marriage, ye shall understand We made thereto no treaty of ourselves And set no foot theretoward unadvised ' Of all. our Privy Council; furthermore, Ihis marriage had the assent of those to whom Ihe king, my father, did commit his trust : Who not alone esteem'd it honourable. But for the wealth and glory of our realm. And all our loving subjects, m6st expedient. As to myself, I am not so set on wedlock as to choose But where I list, nor yet so amorous That I must needs be husbanded ; I thank God 1 liav© lived a virgin, and I noway doubt * ' MMMM 62 ) Queen Mary. Jft .ubjeota, or impair Xr^"''''"^^ *» you, This royal ,tat6 of EnrianH r „ •'^1 J IleaveLordTSSamHraSrr*- H^ ^'^' Who mouth and folfm ^^.ft^J^»J*t^^ [act II. Long live Queen Mary Voices. I>own with Wyatt » White. The Queen And will n?t taatTu, ™L^'"' n^™; "^ ""te". Your lawful Prince I.»tl.„i\ '^ndoratand : On loyal heJStZ ^Z^ *";«?' herself Into the wido.sp,^r™r of'^ffli'" '»" And finds you atfttnAB e "'/eaity, For whomf "^*- ®P^*^ ** once~and all f w •- .''■ f [act II. en ) SCENE II.] Queen Mary. 7 I know you loyal. Speak ! in the name of God ! The Queen of i:ngland or the rabble of Kent ? The reekmg dungfork master of the mace i Vn!!^!!???^^ T^^ ^y *^« «<^J^e and spade- Your rights and charters hobnail'd into slush— your houses fired-yt)ur gutter bubbling blood Acclamation. No ! No ! The Queen ! the Queen ! - Whitb. Tliij burst and bass of loyal harmonyr""" ^'^^'" *''*"' Ajod how we each and all of us dbhor A?%T®''<'"*<>"^ bestial. deviUsh revolt Of Thomas Wyatt. Hear us now make oath A« J^!!^'*'? Highness thirty thousand men, This Wyatt from our shoulders, like a flea iwtaJ^'^i* ^"""^ ^l^P* "^«n »« unawares. Swear with me noble felTow-citizeSs, aU, With all your trades, and guilds, and companies We swear ! Citizens. Maby. We thank your Lordship and your loyal city. [^xit Mary atUnded. White. I trust this day, thro' God, I have saved the crown. First Aldbeman. Av, 80 my Lord of Pembroke in command Uf aU her force be safe j but thare are doubts. /^ w *- M 'JL iiil Wl ii iil n ii | iii ]||i| w •¥ < 1 *, " r 64 Qt^een Mary. Sboond Alderman. I hear that Gardiner, coming with the ^ueen, And meehng Pembroke, bent to his saddle-bow, As If to win the man by flattering him. U he to safe to fight upon her side ? First Alderman. If not, there's no man safe. [act II. White. Yea, Thomas White. me. I am safe enough ; no man nee^ flatter Second Alderman. Nay, no man need ; but, did you mark our Queen ? The cdlour freely play'd into her face, ^ toeem d thro that dim dilated world of hers. To read our faces j I have never seen her ' bo queenly or so goodly. White. , '^'hw ■■ fpu * 1 Courage, sir, ' f ' a" i/wi* makes or man or woman look theii- ffoodlie^aS'"" Diebke the torn fox dumb, but never wSe^f* Like that poor heart, Northumberland, at the bloc^: Bagenhall. The man had children, and he whined for those. . Methinks most men are but po^r-hearted, else ' Kueln «fi?* ^'^ "^?^"' ^^^« i* commoner ? vS^-tT'^" """^K^}"^ ^ queenly, she is goodly. ' Yet she's no goodlier; tiio' my Lord Mayor here SiLSS TV^^' ^^ J^»*h been so bold to-day, Siould look more goodly than th« iMt of usf 4-/ **. '.'--■y -KPI - SCENE II.] "Queen Mary. WniTK. 65 An^lf ^ {eel most goodly heart and hand Ha ' hITSr ' h^f ^ *'? ^y^**« ^°d -" Kent. L^^fL« Jf i ' ^""^ yj"" J^'* ' J l«^e it : a jest In time of danger shows the pulses even T^,?^!if!r°^ you'd stand up for yourself Tho aU the world should bay like winter wolves. 4 ma; LL. |by the hour. Who knows ? the A^d he wTn^'*'' ^S P^^^^ *^^» Thomas Wyatt, A tI3 hi ^ Pf"^® ,^" ^^«" *o this Cade, And he will pl^y the Walworth to this Vat • Mv^f/f '™' rrP'f*^ 5 hence all-gather youl. mon- ATirioJ *i -f*^^"^^® hewn into the Thames And see t^ citizen arm'd. Gopd day ; gooSy. */ < » ^xi^ White. Baqenhall, One of much outdoor bluster. HOWAED. KSf 'r^' ^f f^^^^"^ ^ -<^ hiSi''^'' 9n fTr^'^^T^f perennial alms-his fault So thoroughly to believe in his own self. .# '■■■ . \ Bagbnhall. Yet thoroughly to believe in one's own self. ^ s*' %% msmmm ^ Queen Mary, r^(.x ,, floWARD. > It nyiy. be. , ^ , Baoenhall. • • One of your council flfeer and jeet at him. Howard. , ' The nuraery-cocker'd child will jeer at aught , That may seem strange beyond hia nuraery. *The statesman that shall jeer and fleer at men, Makjes enemiea for himself and for his king j '^ And if ho jeer not seeing the true man Behind his folly, he is thrice the fool ; And if he see the. man and still will jeer, He is child and fool, and ttaitor to the State, ^o is he ? let me shun him. ' . BAtitkNHALL. TT J , , , Nay, my Lord, rlo IS damn d enough already. 4 Howard. mi. , » , ^ "*""* set Th^^lguard at Ludgate. Fare you well, Sir Ralph. Baoenhall. "Who knows ? " I am for England. But who IqiowB, That knows the Queen, the Spaniard, and the Pope, Whether I be for Wyatf or the Queen ? v {Exeunt, V \ SCENE I M.— LONDON BRIDGE^ j^r Sir Thomas W;yatt, and Brett. "^ Wyatt. Brett, iHen the Duke of Norfolk moved against us Thonoried'st "a Wyatt," and flyinjf to our side f or wingfl. «cENKiri.j 'Queen 'Mary. i, Brictt. Nay, hardly, save by boat, s,Timming. VVyatt. And sparkle like nnr f^^. ^' ^"^ ^ *<* sn^il^ By torchlight, and hi« ZJrA.* ^^^*"» Howard Cy •*,» Were to lose all. Bbbtt. On iomehow. To go back Wyatt. We cannot : attT wo cannnt^ ^k" '^°°*5" B"%e On tho White tlZ S » h^K."f r" And pointed full nf c,.*i. i ^^v*^* lower, By Jing.ta SriC ?* ' ™ """ """<> Brett, i Ten milM about. • \ ^ ^ \ \ • ^ * * 1 — ^ „p.^" ■"' ' . »" f™- ^ g^-T^-inYl srTjT'^Jf i! -1 • iff <*♦ /> 68 Queen Mairy. Wyatt^ [act II. But I have notice from our partlgans Within the city that they will stand by us If Ludgate oMi be reached by dawn to-morrow viT Queen Mary. ^ ^ •^|7 ft ^ •^s [act ii. '^ ,. ' .' Sbcond Woman. . ♦ ', Don't ye now go to think that we be f oJ» Philip o' Spain. " . ' T9IKD Woman. No, we know that ye be come to kill the QueeH, and well , pray for vou all on our bended kneei. But o' God's mercy don't ye, kill tie Queen here, Sir Thomas ; look ye, here's little Dickon, and little , Robin, and little Jen^y — though she's bui a side cQUsin — and all on our knees, W pray you to kill the Queen further Jbflf, Sir Thomas. , _WtA.tt. .'■. " -^ ■ My friends I have not come, to kill the Queen "^ 9, OOjfitre^ or there :, I oome-1;o sav« you all, And I'll go further off. ' Crowd. m '^ ' Thanks, Sir Thomas, we be beholden to*you, and we'U. pl'ay for yoti en our bended knees till ffax lives' end. 1 ' ' ' ., / ' Wtatt. . Aappy, Be" I am your friend. To Kingston, forwiwPirr^ [Exeufit., SCENE IV.— ROOM IN THE GATEHOUSE OF wtsT- MINSTER PAIjACB. Maby, Alios, Gabdinkb, RI^nard, Ladies. « Alios. O madam, if Lprd Pembroke should be false ? Mart. No, girl ; most brave and loyal, brave and loyal. His oreaking with Northumberland broke Northumbei land. if" .^:fS*^ ■ y* S9£NJfr-''lV.1 Queen; Ma/ty, r >> .iftwe l|:entish ploughmen. cannet brei^k the guards. ^nter Mbssen OKB. . "' V;y MissnsroBB. • Thatallislc^t; but we can sa^J^ yo'Si ^r^^ ^^^ There yet is time, take boat and pws to Windsor. •f.MARY. I pass to Windsor an^ I lose my crown. GA£0INXR. Pass,, then, J jrray your Highiiess, to the Tower. Maby. § I ih^^ but be their prisoner in the Tower. Cribs without. l^e traitJBr I tr^^i^^ ! Pembroke 1 Ladibs. , ^^ . Treason ! treason ! Hart. 'M^ Peafte. I ' ^ . ^W False to Northumberiand, is he false to me f ter?""*^' P«n^d, that I live and die \ The true and faithful bride of Philip^-iVund n , ? 9: # !g> ../-. ^H 1 / •t k ii • Quemi Mary. Of feet and voices ^ckening hither— blows— ' ^^k, there i|hattl4f8.t the palace gates, Attd I will oupipon Mie gallery. », N6, no, jour Grace ; ^8|>^ere ^^^wsi^. tor. "^~"'^- -^ ^ fehtlp,,Tmlor, andnbtftM*^ ^ __, . , l^, skulk ihto ce>r6e£i| '^ ,gj, ' A gracious guard 'Ifeey haye shut the gat«fe. ! ■ ' % '■"•■ "-• * ■ '^- '"' ''-§'' ' ' . .■ Southwell. ' . ' M b' ^^*;,I^^*ett Pl^se your Grace, hath ahilt the Xes t .•,^±^«[»dandf6e., Your'gentlemen-at-armB. W ' ' *^ *»? DO not yotir Grace's order, cry ^ 'i0 w*?T *^®^*^®^ ^®* w>' ' . - ; • . ■ [-^-c** SouxawKLL. '^ ; ■ . . ".. Jffn<«r COUKTBNAY. ■ '* V, • ' ' GoURXBif AY. • ♦ ^ The Queen must to tlie Tower. - 1 Wheiic|-um«ptt7 sir f », > Kw9: >- . '4^ 1% :,,- iV^^'l > .» ' v' soBNBiv.]; ■'' Queen Mary. '" \^' ' ' • / COUKJENAY. ' ^ • • rrA^^'^?l?'*'"«> *^« rebels broke US tiere ToJ.T^ ^^^^V" ^*^ ^^** I^'^te I might" ' lo save my royal «ougin. • - « * ' * " *' Mary. " , " Where is Pembroke ? ; >I left him somewhere in the thick of it. „ ■ . ^ 'Mary. ''\ ■ ^ , ■ . ■» ^; J^eft Wm an4 fled ; and thou that would^st ba Kin., And haat not heart nor honour 7mvself ^^' ■ That?jf ""^ °* my quarrel, or die with those That arp no cowards and no Courteiiays. ' OoUliTElfAY. , J do 9Qt We your Grace Should call me coward. , ' Mnter aitother Mbssbnobb. Messbng^r. ■ '"' / ' •. 'MajitJ^'-^ ■" « / . / .^t To the Tower withAiw / ■' ' , . -' -^ ■' '" 'Mbssbngbr. ' ' • • , 'Tis said h9 told Sir Maurice there was one - • ^ 73 t ' \' ^ t » * • 1 *■ * ^ ' as ' • « ■ ~ * * " y ■ • •■' ■,..,. * - »~ • ! ■. i ' . ■* ^.- '' \4 ^ «.♦ ■ ■ .' r ' .■r, *■- *°-"' ' ^-^'-ft' %^ ^*r,''»*' *4*^^^j'*;;^5§^^-g*' Maey. To the Tower with /kirn / COUETKNAY. la, the Tower, the Tower, always the Tower. 1 shall grow into it— I shaU be the T^er. Ma&y. Your Lordship may not have so long to wait. Remove him ! ^.OOUETENAT. ' ■ , . ■ . If ... ■ La, to whistle out my life, And oarve my fioat upon the walls again ! [Exit OouBTENAY, guarded. <> ' ' . Mbpsengbb. Also this Wyatt did confess the Princess Cognisant thereof, and party thereunto. •^ Maey. What I whom— whom did you say ? Messsngee' ^ sd Your Royal sist^. Elizabeth, Maey. ,_ ^ To the Tower with W / ". My foes are at mv feet and I am Queen. C^ [Gaedikbe and her Ladies kneel to her. Gaedsneb (rising), \ There let them Ue, your footstool t (Atide). Can I sWke Eiizabeth I— not now and save the life Qt Devon j if I save him, he and hi* ' ■-.-r-' SOBITB IV.] ro Queen Mary, n ^'^^ZtT^A^t * "*"* v.f^^'^'^' i ,- 'I'v^^^.^- "vo^^-^'^^f^?^?.^;^-?^^?:^"?;""- ' ^^^ \ If. 76 'J v,Jiary, Tacit in. t .,«■-■ AGf IJI. ^ i.%. ■>;■ , ffi^SCENE I.-THE CONDUIT IN GRACE- "^ I'P CHURCH. , Wv^ifi^f^ i^Mie W-or«/iie3, amon^ ih^m Kmg Hmry ^^ YIU. holding a book, on %t mscribed ♦' Verbum Dei." , J^fei^iE ftALPH, Bagenhall arid SiK Thomas Staffom). Bagenhall. y^ ^ #4, ^wn^f^here and hundreds hanft'lin8elfa8har^^^^^ > ^j^ Sir, see you aught ip yonder/ •*""'^ *- ^ '■%e. jpi^ ThS t«e thirt only b«»r. d J fri^^ w ■'•'*K$ OT in. % Henry # '-% ■*t.** 'T '^^f^*' SCENE I.J 77 What tree, sir ? Stafford, Bagbnhall. Til* be.„ not it.y^',*»^^e in Vuga, ri,, S^TAFFPRD. ' What ! the gaUows ? " Bagbnhall. ^' And S l°t'^„::; f PJ'i'-'? ove™„.h, , ».t' Stafford. But :lhat a shook may rouse her. ^•* «« ^^^ad, *^ BAGEJfHALL. !ir Thomas Stafford ? ^ Iwlievo Stafforp. lam ill disguised. * Baobnhall, , are you not in perU here? I Stafford. * Well I came to feel the nnlaa «* t? i , ^ *Wnk soi •**^beats hard at tl^^ma^a^^^^^S^A '^^^^^^^ raarnage. Did you see it ? jBAOBNHAtL. *« UMor tad I in my oountry haU ■*•■»'- A 'iik^ « * . -^/l/. iOiitSmlUm '»i!»mmmmmi -! i .***«' T fa -*• • W^'' QttMti Ma/ry. [act III. '"^ », ; , Been reading Rome old book, with mine old hound Orouoh'd at my hearth, and mine*told flask of wino Beside me, than have seen it, yet I saw it W- Stafford. -'" Oood| wai it splendid f BAaaiTRAit. Ay, if Dukes, and Earls, And Oounts, and sixty Spanish, cavaliers, Some lux or seven Bishops, diamonds, pearls, „ That royal oonunonplaoe too, oloth of gold, Oould make it 10. Staffoud, ' \ ' ^ - And what was Mary's dress f Baobnhau.. Good faith, I was too sorry for the woman To mark tlie dress. She wore red shoes I fifXAFFORD. Bed shoes I ;! Baobkhall. Scarlet, as If her feet were wash'd in blood. As if she had waded in it. Stafford. Were your eyea So bashful that you looked no higher ? Baobnhall. And Philip's gift, as proof of Philip*s love, Who hath not any for any, — tho* a triie one, Biased false upon her heart. A diamond, 1 ij j' .i I ' ■^!*; Jt f 80XNA I.J Quern Ma/ry. Staffoed. 7». But thi» proud Prince— BaAbithall. Of .8 tk. gear ? ■ ^"* ''"" "^ •»''"«'> STAVFOftD,- How look'd the Qr^^'nf "^ ^^" ^**** *^« *«"i^ **• Baobnhall, Whi«TpK?r^ -S."^?*^ ""^il^ of lore, r^-T^ Jv^P T'*^ * «^»*^°e of some distaste Or go methought, return'd. I m»y be wroiL. mV This mwTiage wUl not hold, ^' '' Seajford; 4; TA. Ktog oJ m»ao, will help to b^k'jt^ "^ ^"^ ' '■^^^jii^I^AOHNHAIJC '" 0^' : .Sir 1!:^ nsH h ,1 a 80 Queen Mary. [act III. Ifi but ft l>all chnck^d botwoon FraiiGo and Spain His in whose hand ^ho drops ; Harry of B()linybroke Had holnon Richard^ totteriiig tliBono to stand, Conld Harry have foreseen that all our nobles Would perish on the civil Blaughtor'-f^eld, ^ ■ ^ And leave the people n■"-' T-r- ■% ."-'■ f^-i M\*^i r »,■ V i ' ■♦ 9 1 \ t - ■ * - 9 . , A • r** ■}. ' ■ . .}. , i •v , - 1 '■ , 1 ■ ♦. ■ ' * ^t" * • * • i ' J ■ i^ • \ .^ :#;. 8CJSNS I.J Queen Mary, *, \8tafford. 81 i. fef?:ii,",srr^.r»*.8.> Ralph Whan they *ill Jeep W^ *" h"!-' "i" come Bid not Iiord SnffiJk .lie Ht! / ° '*'"• % men J . f; not Lord Wlfli«m h' ''''S » '"""e man 1 ™ ' ■ Ay, even in the ohnroh ^'^ " " """• Cranmer. . """"^ "'•■•<> «« man— An^d Zt a ktteTh'!'"''? "" "'™ ^ad him flv !*-„•. a V'j;j«^« ™te.gai,„t the I.>,;eT Baoenhall. . , ^ ' Ay; if it h„l,l. • God «i^e their Grace* I. ' te" tr Stafford. The^ Tudor green and wLit^''^'?!!.''"' ^ «-' .^^i>-aa.owda-t.io.aaWinU.,. . / '^ Qaom^^D. ^^U -w;! #.. ■^0^»ftve their qradfesl . • ''* [Procession of Ti-„M».^* r « " '0^ •4' •'. *' ,, * .;-.# 'V *<■• •J.* *;^ j » < M^ •#''- *•*,, mm -%% !'■* /' 82 % Queen Mary. Stafford. , [act ut. 1 1 ' Worth seeing, Bagenhall ! These blwk dog-Dons . Garb themselves bravely. Who's the long-fac« there, Looks very Spain of very Spain 1 ^ Baqenhall. The Dulce Ojf Alva, i|n iron soldier. Stafpoed. AJpid the Dutchman, Now laughing at some jest ? William the Siletffe. BiiifENHALL. William of Orange, V / Stafford, r Why do they call him ao 1 Ba'^bnhall. He keeps, they say some secret that may cost Philii*,lus life. Stafford. ' But then he looks so merry. , Baoenuall. I cannot tell you why they call him so. [I7ic Kino and (^ubb» pass, atte^uied hy Peers of the Jiealm, OffirAirs of State, the. (Jamum ' mot off. Crowd, ^ J, , , p and Me ^ . Long live iho King said Queen, Philip and Mary. 1? Philip and Mary, Philip and Mary, "lo Kii ' ^ Jj .scjs.NE,i.j ." . Queen Mary. ' . ^3 Stafford. • , ♦ They smile as if content with one another. ' ;: Bagenhall. A smile abroad is oft a scowl at home. " . . LKiNO and Qu-EEN pa^* on. Procession.] Flrst Citizen: ^Whlt tf i''/eK &-' *- •'^f deWl, „, Second Citizen. , Not red like Isftariot's? 5'iRST Citizen. ' . TjttiRD Citizen. Tailor, ■ neaucli. 1 hey mak^amemk for the tails. nJilveXL^P'™" P™" *"' '"" J'"" f-t all E»gU.h here. " h' ■■ ' Fifth Citizen. I>-uh and the Devil_if ho find I have one- FouKTH Citizen. re—a ^e i£ *•• , ♦• ' '. ♦ f i' "' ,' •' ^ BBiHBttBa m I'l n\ PJ- I ■ .•-?"• 84 Queen Mary. [act m. * Enter Gardiner (turmng back from the procession). Gardiner. Knave, wilt thou wear thy cap before ^he Qu«en ? " Man. My Lord, I stand so squeezed among the crowd I cannot lift my hands uuto my head. Gardiner. Knock off his cap there, some.of you about him ! See there be others that can use their hands. Thou art one of Wyatt's men i Man. No, my Lord, no. Gardiner. Thy name, thou knave i Man. , I am nobody, luy Lqi'd. . Gardin^eu (shouting). Gcid's passion ! knave^ ^hy name ? Mai^. H I have ears to hear. Gardiner. ^ Ay, rascal, if I leave the© ears to hear Find out hi» Maone and bring it to me (to A^f'^^'^fnut). Attbndant. ■ ^ Ay, mf Jjori.. •# » ■■i >^ [act III. ion). lear. mf lidrd. SCENE I.] Queen Mary. ' Gardiner. .«/' 85 God's jjassion! do yoZh^'l'^'t °^ ^°.^ ' ^ ^"" ^"<*^ *he knaviB that painted it,? I d<^ my Lord. Attendant. Gardiner, s^' ■ ^ And put adme fresh deWc^e^^^^^^ Attend ANtf '^he man shall oaiof u. ,^-;« * f ^'^^' my lioad. (Knowing Z mS h / «^ g^pves. I am g^re And not from aTy'iSSer"^^* '* '^^"'*"*^y' Gardiner. f n English ! over thia n,« k • i , ^^^^ of God ]^;at cannot a;;i[S.L'ronr§7ar^ The Wblo i8 the prieltl f TA'^^^* burnt. Stand staring at me fVhouf^v ^^"""^' ^^^'^^ ' •^ »v me anout, you gaping rogue. Man. ' l^ave, my Lord, ia,c^ted tUJ 1 .am hoarse. / # .''4.- jo. - » i.y '^'•vs^ *'S.""- •M •M I 1 \;, '- 1», - 86 Queen Mary. ^ Gardiner. What Jiast thou shouted, knave ? Man. [act in. Long live Queen Mnrf. Gardiner. ^ Knave, there be two. There be both Kmg «nd Oueen Pluhp and Mary. Shout.. M*f| 9«iu ^ueen, Man. Ti,^ n . ■ ^^y' '^"t» my Lord. The Queen comes first, Mary and Philip. Mfltry and Philip. Shout, then, Gardiner. Man. Mary and Philip ! ' . . Gardiner. P\ ' , Phm^'Sd tyl '"' '''' P'*""""' »'™ "'- -i- Man. Must it bo so, njy Loyd \ Gardinbr. Ay, knavo* Man. Philip juid Mary. h_ - [act III. ■-^^ > k SCENmi.] Queen Mary. . Gardiner. 87 ' j " Man. Sanddxs. Gardiner. What else ? Wliei-ofl.^at thou live? Man. Gardiner Man. • In Cornhill. Gardiner. Zerubhabcl. • Where, knave, where 7 Sign of the Talbot. Man. GA^DlifER. Follow their Majeilfea. ^^ ^''*^"« ^^ ^^^7 «oWd. i^xU. m crowd follow,. ^^Bmmsm •I \ ni^fi ,4 1 1 '11 r 88 Queen Mary. [aox ni. 5 ■ . . BAGKNHAtl. As proud as Becket. Stafpobd. You would not have him murder'd as Becket was ? Bagbnhall. No— murder fathers murder : but I say- There 18 no man— there was one woman with us— It was a sin to love her married, dead I cannot ohoose but love her. Staffobd, Lady Jane ? Crowd {going off). God save their Graces. Stafford. Did you see her die ? Baoenhall. No„no ; her innocent blood had blinded ine. You call me too black-bldoded— true enough Her dark dead blood is in my heart with mine. 11 ever I cry out against the Pope Her dark dead blood that ever moves with mine Will «tir th^ living tongue and make the cry. Stafford, * Yet doubtless you can tejl me how she died ? * Baoenhall. . Seventeen— and knew eight languages-in muric Peerleas-her needle, perfect, and her leamin?^ ;*---' [aox iu. 8CHNE I,] Queen Mary. 1 I'X'l: £SS^^^^^^ meek, so modest, Mismfttch'd wiihlLf ® f^^ial boy ' She «rould n^ takifl i°'.^?'^y ' ^ ^*^e heard She could not bf unma^n^i n„ ' ^' ^"•*- SeTenteen~-a rose ofT^e^''^' "pr outwoman'd- Girl never breathed to^vfl -„«), . Rose never blew that eq";frruchrru^. 9d Pray you go on. Stafford. Bagenhah. And .aid .he w« ooSem"''3°to?dt ?'\»"»«''"'i. Of Jesus Christ alone ""° "»» """d StaffobI, V Pray you go on. ■ ^ , I^AGENHALL. And. when ttt^^""*"^ ^°" ' ^«« again ' Said^^You wx^i*^'^'^ P'^y'^ *° birrdven But do it quSv ? r °^y *^«e crown aflLt ' Who chanKbt ioloar wf ^¥* ^^'^ «^«/ Before I lay »,« down ?» kt Ly„„ musrWvThJ;^ * f »^«^« « it 1 « you havfe heart to do it / ^^ that^,h«}-■■■ . ■ '-^^f ' / '■^t^. SCENE I.] Qi*ee7^ Mary, I tru>t that you woiUd fight ahfng "hh S. Bagbnhall. .. No ; you would fling your lives into the gizlf. BAGEifHALL. ' I think I should fight then. • Stafford. ,, Bagenhall. Upon the scaffold. [Exeunt. 91 SCENE ir.-ROOM IN WHITEHALL PALACE. Maey. ^H^e. Philip and Cardinal Pole. Pole. Ave Maria, gratia plena, Benedicta tu in mulioribus. Mary. hTIov?! '7*"^ °T^"' ^"«^^l««t thanks. Uad you a pleasant voyage up the riter ? ' »-j T^ " ' -■^ 0> , '■ • ■ '> ' » ] ' T ■K • *• 6 '' *^' /• * ■4> ' .m V * t J >* •^ i ^ . > 4 / ^" - - A ■ ^ . -% ' •: •W 'J •• •^ IMAGtEVALUATION TEST TARGET l(MT-3) 'f^ -"^^ «,^_ 1.0 I.I ■it liii §22 :!; 1^ |2.o L25 III 1.4 U4 I. ^0 7 Photographic Sciences ■Corpotation 6^ 33 WIST MAIN STMIT WMSTH.N.Y. I44M ( 71* ) 171-4303 .,is,'* t •* £ l^^^^gj^^^^^^^g ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ i . / ts^^■^ fc^ • *:;^ •S^fx ." *.. V ■-^ ^ A 92 Queen Mary.^ POLB. ^01 lU We had your royal bai?|6, and that same chair, • Or. rather throne of purple, on the deck. Our silver crpss apji^kled before the prow, S?® TPPle" twinkled at their diamond-dance. The boatg that follow'd, were as glowing-gay As repjal gardens ; and your flocks of -swans, ^ As fair and white as angels j and your shores Wore in mine eyes the green of Paradise. My foreign friends, who dream'd us blanketed Jm ever-dosing fog, were much amazed To find as fair a sun as might have flash'd Upon their lake of Garda, fire the Thames ; Our voyage by sea was all but miracle : And here the river flowing from the sea, Not toward it (for they thought not of «ur tides). Seem d as a hftppy miraole to make glide- In quiet— home your banish'd countryman. Mary. ^ We heard that you were sick in Flanders, eousin. Pols. A dizziness. * . Mart. And how came you round again ? PoLB. The scarlet thread of Rahab saved her lif e • «► And mine, a litt]^ letting of the blood. WeU?now? POLI. u J w . . X Ay, cousin, as the heathen ^ant tua. but toJfixuOi. the ground, his foro? return'd^ % i ■ i im lu 1? SOBKB n.] Queen Mary, »8 ' % S^i!; J t'^enty years of banishment, Feelmg my native land beneath my foot I said thereto : « Ah, native land o^ mini ^atJiastes with full commission from the PoDe AnS J??»^"*~*^,*^ "'^ *^<1 attainted me, AS I'eter, but to bless tiiee : make me weU " Methmks the good land heard me, for to^y H^L^ £*l^ "T^^^ "^^^ y""' Herod's iath, ■ How oft hQ^ Peter knocVd at Mary's ^l . Md Mary would have risen and let^hiSrS. ^ mA wTTJ '^t't "^^'^ *^«''« ^tl^ «»e house Wiip would not have it. 4 And th,„ we„^.„ tto« ^I;„fS?e"«SS- '""'^ ' Who would not have it. POLB. ' , Q4..4.^ « V , , . ^ believe so, cousin. 8tate.poli(ry and church-policy are conjoint. But Janus-faces looking diverse ways. I fear the Emperor much misvalued me. But aU IB weU ; 'twas ev'n.the wiU of God, Who, waitiM till tiie tune had ripen'd, noV. J*«8l»*erof God, and saver of the faith, oit benediotus fruotus ventris tui 1 " S\ Ah, heaven I Maby. . POLB. Unveil, your Grace * ■mi ;'\.. ^* mm^mmiif^^ n ■.■ 94i ft* ^' Qv£eii Ma/ry, Mary. [act III. No, oouaiu, happy- Happy to «ee you ; never yet so happy Siace I was croWn'd. * ■ * . Pole. ' rm. i 1 1 . • Sweet cousin, you fon»t 1 hat long low mmster where you cave your h^d ^ To this great OathoUa King. ^ ^ ^** Philip. * .^^--^^ Weli said, Lord Legate. Mary. Na^, not well said ; I thought of you, my Uege. Ev'a aa I spoke. « ^ > j' "tj"» . . f Philip. w«u *. . A?'* Madam ; my Lord' Paget Waita to present our Council to the Legate. Sit down hei^, «11 j- Madam, between us you. Pole. S^' ?°T; y°." *^ enclosed with boards of cedar/* Our httle sister of the Song of Songs '^ You are doubly fenced and shielded sitting here Between the two most high-set throne^on earth. Ihe Emperor's highness happily symboHed by The Kmg your husband, the Pope's Holiuess x5y mme own self. MAEt. wi. •!• ., ^'^®» cousin, I am happy. When wiU you that we summon both o«r housda lo take this absolution from your lips And be regather'd to the Papal fold ? ' m *. . > [act III. ^"'Ppy-T I SOBNB II.] Legat«. '^ I Queen Mary, POLB. 95 In Britain's calendar the brightest day Beheld our rough forefathers break their Gods, And cUsp ge faith m Christ i but after that Might not St Andrew's be her happiest day i ■ Mabt. Then these shaU meet upon St. Andrew's day. -Enter Paobt, wAo^wewttfo «A« C Philip, oome with mo • Good new. have I to'teU jl^, new.7o i' Both of us happy-ay, the Kingdom too^ Nay come with me—one morneS ! - Phjiip (to Alva>. iney call him— he ig free enough in talk, Smi«S™™*t''^^^^«- You wifl be, we trust, Sometime^the viceroy of those provinces- u© must deserve his surname better. M __ ^ - ■■ ^ Alva. Inherit the Great Silenoe.- Philip. ^0- Ay, sir ; Are hard to rule and must be hS^ iu^ed^"^ "'''" ^tnlVt^jH*V2deed,anemptJSnl:' . And for their heresies, Alva, th^y will fight • You must break them or they bSak you ' 1 w Alva {proudhf). Philip, The first. Good ! , WeU, Madam, this new happiness of mine. l^M'mU u ,i V . * ■ A i ,) «, :^':t "■:^:t.^"-^ >^;> . ^S Queen Mcury. [^or nt Enter TwBX&'PA.Qts. ^ .FiBST Paob. ^ News, mated ! a miracle, a miracle ! news I Th^ bells must ring • Te Deums must be sung ; ^^ The Queen hath felt the motion of her babe ! Sboond Paoe. Ay i hut see here ! First Paqb. See^hat? Second Page. T js ■■' . « , ^^^^ paper, Dickon , 1 round it fluttering at the palace gates :— " The Queen of England is delivered of a dead dog I " Thibd Page. These are the things that madden her. Fie upon it. First Page. Ay ; but I hear she hath a dropsy, lad, Or a high-dropsy, as the doctors call it. Third Page. Fie on her dropsy, so Tihe have a dropsy ! I know that she was ever sweet to me. First Page. For thou and thine are Roman to the core. Thibp Page. So thou and thine must be. Take heed I " SCBNB ir.] ■vpv Queen Mary. ^ First Paob. 99 (^ajcwn*. SCEKE III.^GREAT HALL IN WHITEHALL. .^ posite, all the tZpZP Thfr ' ^ «^^<^e wall op- in front, « iJ-of^^oach^ tuTTt r ''^ ^"^^ ^ foreground d^TAfuV^y^^J'^^^^^^^ BBBs o/^e are all one mind. GARDmBR. - • / .. / • Then must I p W the vassal ijo this Pole, % P'^^P^erfitom under his robes and l^^ ' ' ^V ^t to the Kmojand Queen, wh^loohmZ^h e, the LoiSis Spiritual arid Temporal. V^f'jT^T ^f *, i».P^iament assembled. Presentm^ the who> body of this realm ^ \ r^^ f .- '."Tf^*" / SOENB III.l Qt^eeTi ifafy. 103 { Of iCnglwid, and dominions of the samei ^ Do make rnogt huriible suit unto your Majesties, Ui our own name and tha^ of all the state, ^ Tha* by your gradous meanrand intercession. Our supphcation be e^dubited ' To the Lord Cardinal Pole, sent here as Legate Froni our mest holy father Julius, Pope, ' - . And from the apostoliq see of Pome ; ^ - «* X ^t'^'*"^^ J^Clafe our penitence^d^grief •For our -iMig schism and diBo))edience, " . ^ . Either in making laws and ordinances ' Agamiit the Holy Father's prima(^, Or else by^doing orhy speaking aught Which might impffp or prejudice Sie same ; iJy this our supplication promising, As well for our own seltes as all the realm, That now we be and ever shall be quick, - Under a^nd with your Majesties' authorities, To do to the utmost all that in us lies Towairisttie abrogatien and repeal - Of air8ueh%ws. jmd ordinancess^made ; Whereon we hlimbly pray your Majesties, " As persons undefiled with our bffence, . ^ to set forth this humble su^ of ours '^ That we the rather by your interc^sion , ^ M^ from the apostolic see obtain, . Tffi^l*^" "^^ reverend Father, absolution," And fuU release from danger of alicensutea .; •" , , Of Holy Church that we be f alPn into; So that we may. as children penitent, Be (Jnce more received- into the bosom And^unity of Universal Church; . And that this noble reolm thro' after years May in this unity and obedience * ^. , " UMo the holy see and reigrling Pope "' - Serve God and both your Majesties; ' ' Voices. " \ - ... ^J ' ' -Amen. [AUdt. ^ [He aga^ p^'esmts the ^itioVi to m Kuxq ,-_ and QXJKBi^ who haMit r&oerenUalky to , -» - * /-* Pole. V .s?-- r^ .W *~ .\ r-J .jy ,'.W-.'*i,«.i.„,, 1 i- 4 ! ij 1 ii ( •■,|p;i •li , i 'I ' i ' •• : -i 104 Queen Mary, Pole (si^iwgf). [act III. Oniis Is the loveUest day that ever smiled mJZH^i ^" ^'^' ^'^**^ «^«"Id, incense-like Rwe to the heavens in grateful praise of Him Who now recaUs her to His ancient fold Lo! once again God to this realm hath given ' ^ token of His more especial Grace- Jor as this people were the first of aU The »^an i . . , . . . Do not scrimp youifohrase But stretch it wider ; say when England feU. Officer. I say you were the one sole man who stood. Baqenhall. I am the one sole man in either house Perchance in England, loves her like a son. Officer. Well, you one man, because you stood upright Her Graoe the Queen commands you to the Tower. «oi5NBiii.j Queen Mary. iqT Ba»bnhall. " Aa traitor, or as heretic, or for what ? Offioeb. If any man in any way would be Ihe one man he shall be so to hyj-^soat. . Baobnhall. What ! wiU she have my head ? Offioeb. Your pardon. m7,V»,*'^2 "*'l*,^*^'' *°"«*^»« LoUardism Wo longer a dead letter, but requicken'd. One of the Oounoii,. ai'fi;;^.'""'' *""•'''• «»««»«» "ow he rub. i - •-•» 108 Queen Mary. Paget. [act hi. I have changed a word with him In coming, and may change a word again. Gabdinbb. f I^adam, your Highness ia our sun, the King * And you together our two suns ip one,; And so the beams of both may shine upon us, The faith that seem'd to droop will feel your li^ht Lift head, and flourish ; yet not light alone, " * There must be heat — there must be heat enough To scorch and wither heresy to the root. For what saith Christ I " Compel them to come in." And what saith Paul ? "I would they were cut off That trouble you." Let the dead letter live ! Trace it in fire, that all the louts to whom Their A B C is darkness, clowns and grooms May read it ! so you quash rebellion too, For heretic and traitor are all one : Two vipers of one breed — an amphisboena, Each end a sting : Let the dead letter bum ! ' - ^ /> Paobt. ...f-.v Yet there be some disloyal Catholics, And many heretics loyal ; heretic throats Cried no God-bless-her to the Lady Jane, But shouted in Queen Mary. So there be Some traitor-heretic, there is axe and cord. To take the lives of others that are loyal, And by the churchman's pitiless doom of fire, Were but a thankless policy in the crovm. Ay, and against itself ; for there are many. , Maky. If we could bum out heresy, my Lord Paget, We reck not tho* we lost this crown of England - Ay ! tho' it wcMre ten Bnglands t SCENE IV.] come m. Qy,&sn Mary. Gardiner. 109 f Paget, you are aU for thia pooJ^^e^rours^^""' And care but Uttle for the life to be. Paget. I have some time, for ouriouaness, my Lord Watch'd children playing at their life d he And cruel at it, killing helpless flies : Such IS our time— aU times for aught I know. Gardiner. We kill the heretics that sting the soul- Ihey, with right reason, flies that prick the flesh. Paget. Gardiner. • xxn. J . , . ^ *P^°® of Satan, ha ♦ S t^^'vourtfhl^ P ' ^r*"^ '-r *^ ^'^^^ «"^t"re» ? ijooK to your Bible, Paget ! we are fallen. • PaObt. I am but of the laity, my Lord Bishop. And may not read your Bible, yet I found une day, a wholesome soripture, " Uttle childrfin Love one another." ^-fwo omiaren, Gardiner. * T noma ««* *^ u • ^^^ y,°" ^"<^ * Scripture, T • T® ^°* to bnng peace but a sword." The swor^l Is in her Grace's hand to smite with. Paget, "^ You stand up h»re to fight for heresy, ' .3f/;?; V \ •ir- 110 QiAeen Mary. X. [aot III. You are more than guess'd at as a heretic, And on the steep-up track of the true faith Your lapses are far seen. Paget. The faultless Gardiner I « Mary. You brawl beyond the question ; speak, Lord Legate. POIB. Indeed, I cannot follow with your Grace Rather would say— the shepherd doth not kill Ihe sheep that wander fr6m his flock, but sends Mis careful dog to bring them to the fold. Look to the Netherlands, wherein have been Buch holo(5austs of heresy ! to what end ? For yet«tl* faith is not established there. The end's not come. Gakdinbe. Pole. «„^. „., ,. ^ No— nor this way will come, oeelng there he two ways to every end, A better and a worse— the worse is here To persecute, because to persecute Makes a faith hated, and il furthermore IN o perfect witness of a perfect faith In Mm who persecutes : when men are tost n?+? • strange opinion, and not sure A a!^ "^^ "^l^®"*, *^®y ^""^ ^o*^ ^th tlieir own selves, N«f *^.T?i Tl^u^*^®" J *\«»' ^h« lights the faggot ? Not the full faith, no, but the lurking doubt. rr ^™e, *hat first made martyrs in the dhuroh, irembled for her own gods, for these were tremblina— But when did our Rome tremble ? . -^ji ~ r \ [acit III. rdiner ! 1 Legate. ill ads will come. own selves, ) faggot ? Toti, mbling — ^^^ !▼.] Queen Mary. Paobt. In Henry's time and Edwawi's? ^^^ «!»« not Pole. The Church on Peter's rock ? „^^f V"^ ^^'<* ' icrrtV^t*^^"^^^^^ Athwart a cafbact ; firm stood the pine- You see, inSp-Lords, ^ ^*^"'®' a Here be tropes. Gaedinbjr (nrnttervng). POLI. * Gaediner. Tropes again I POLB. Thf+Sf?**"!' "* * monstrous Commfnwe^ ■ # 5j.*- 112 Qiteen Mary: [lOT iir. And there strong tdrment bravely bonore, begeta An Admiration and an indignati6n, And hot desire to imitate ; so the plague Of schism spreads ; were there but three or four Of these misleaderS; yet I would not say Bum ! and we cannot bum whole towns ; thoy arc many, As my Lord Paget says. - f Gardiner. Yet my Lord Cardinal — / » ■ ■ POLB. I am ybur Legate ; please you let me finish, Methinks that under our Queen's regimen We might go libftlier than with crimson rowel And streaming lash. When Herod-Henry first Began to batter at your English Church, This was the cause, and hence the judgment on her. She seethed with such adulteries ; and the lives Of many among your churchmen were so foul That heaven wept and earth blush'd. I would advise That we*8hould thoroughly cleanse the Church within Before these bitter statutes be requicken'd, So after that when she once more is seen White as the light, the spotless bride of Christ, Like Christ himself on Tabor, possibly The Lutheran may be won to her again ; Till when, my Lords, I counsel tolerance. Gardiner. What if a mad dog bit your hand, my Lord, Wotdd you not chop the bitten finger oflF, Lest your whole body should madden with the poison ? I would not, were I Queen, tolerate the heretic. No, not an hour. The ruler of a land Is bounden by his power and place to see His people be not poison'd. Tolerate them ! Why ? do they tolerate you ? Nay, many of them Would btim — have burnt each other ; call they aift ^ [act IU. )ur oy aro many, 1— ^ St mher. id advise ih within It, poison ? c. them y fl«t SOBNB IV.] Queen Mary. Right weU tW J ^^^ ' ^oryou know Pole (angered). S^deTinYo^eS'ial^^^^ *^* -"PP-^o", With that ^e c^a3 ^.®'« congruent ' Of good Oren oS^' "? ^J*-^ ^^^"'^ed lie ^/ll thSreTittK twTuTi^,^ «P-^ for which S.Xto^^^^^^^ our Oieen \ In your five years 'KSn^^^^^^^^ Under young Edward wT.?*? ""^ ^'d, The gross Ring's htl^.i.-'^. ^° bolster'd up Benifd the hS; ^l^'eJ^f °^ *^« Ohurch, o?n,are Gardiwbr. But you, my Lord m. t^i.- u>j^^ ' ^^** ■• oh ? A boikmanf flyij;'.* P^^fh'd Srentleman, You lived ai,rg"?otwne: anT '"'^ *"^^^^^^ ^ your soft JtalVyondIi , f^ t'«^g««^ You were apDealVl tAK;,V "" ^^^e sent for Your leari^i^Srl' ll f " "J."^ ^^'^^ orr'd ' I suffered and re^Xd U.^'^V $'^ -And Cardinal-Deacnn Ko ^^"» ^^ord Legate That even St pX fn h^J-''^* ""^ *o learn ' Denied his masteJ at ^a'T ^^ ^"" ^'* ay, and tlirice, my Lord. Pole. " •* 113 ^ ^ rM- J * 'I i L 114 Queen Mary. GabdinbR. [act III, Ha ! good ! it seems then I was summon'd hither But" to be mock'd and baited. Speafe, friend Bonner, And tell this learned Legate he lacks zeal. The Church's evil is not as the King's, Cannot be lieal'd by ^stroking. The mad bite Mtist have the cautery— tell him— and at once. What wonld'st thou do had'st thou his power, thou That layest so long in heretic bonds with me, Would'st thou not burn and blast them root and branch ? 'J Bonner. Ay, after you, my Lord. - Gardiner. Nay, God's passion, before me ! speak. Bonner. r ' I am on fire until I see them flame. h Gardiner. Ay, the psalm-singing weavers, cobblers, sdum— Biit this most noble prince Plantagenet, Our good Qu€fen's cousin^dallying over seas Even when his brother's, nay, his noble mother's. Head fell — Pole. Peace, madman ! Thou stirrest.up a grief tho^ can'st not fathom. Thou Christian Bishop, thou Lord Chancellor ^ Of England ! no more rein upon thine anger Than any child ! Thou mak'st me much ashamed . * That I was for a moment wroth at thee. * Mart. I come for counsel and ye give me feuds. Like dogs that set to watch theuLmaster's gate, lud branch ? MOBNB IV. j J Queen Mary. 116 ^al^ when the thief iWn within thd walls H ave 7^T T^ "^^^^ '«^^"««« '- thrLegate, H aye shut you from our counsels. Cousin Pole - You a^p fresh from brighterjands. RetSe wUh me WmK'T ^"^. myself (sCyou allow usT Wm let y.ou learn in peace and privacy ^ That yoiPmay Come, cousin. >' T y J in Dreeding Godless vermin. . And pray Heaven f- That you^ay sfee according to our Lft T t Come, cousin. [E^unt q^Z a^dVo.l^^c. \ K Gardiner. B;t not'theforce n^t ^Ttf J^^Slg^ Fine eyes-but melancholy, irresolute- ^'• A fine beard, Bonner, a very full fine beard But a weak mouth, an indeterminate4a ? .'■ \- Bonner. v Well, a weak mouth, perchance. . Gardiner. _^ Togorgj a heretic while, r.JSHT'H'*'^'' ' « Bonner." I'd do my beat, my Lord ; but yet'the Le-^ato Is here as Pope and Master of the ChurdT • And if he go not with you— ||^ ' Gardiner. 0„r baahful Legate, saVst J^h'ow re flu&' Touoh hm upon hie old heretical Wk, J I i '^tfK ^ f-ij X ^* T^^ 116 « /y .? Queen Metry. [AOT^li. '"V- A^, ,t He']ft bum a diocese to prove hig orthodoxy. Aj|d let him call me truckler." In those times, Th^u knowest we had t,' dodge, or duck, or die ; ( Ifept my head for use of Holy Churdi ; Anja see you, we ^hall have to dodge again, Atild let the Pope trample oUr rights, and plunge .His foreign fist into our island Church T0 plump the leaner pouch of Italy. Ppr a time, for a time, i^r ? that these statutes mfcy be put in force, id that His fan may thoroughly purge His floor Bonner. /So then you hold the Pope — , Gardiner. .1 hold the Pope ! What do I hold him ? what' do I hold the Pope ? Come, come, thfr morsel s^uck— this Cardinal's fault— I have gulpt it down. lypi wholly for the Pope, utterly ^d altogether M the Pope, The Eternal Peter of the changeless xshair, Crown'd slave of slaves,, and mitred king of kings, • God upon earth ! what more? what would you have? Hence, let's be gone. . Entei' Usher. ' / • Usher. Well that you be not My Lord. The Queen, most wroth at first v Is now content to grant y8s on him the duty whi<5h*8 Legate '68 himself, an^ with such royal smiles- e pwes himself, and ' GardineC ♦ Smiles that bum men. BonnRr if win i. He knows not where he stands Jij«T, •? !t"' We two shall have to t'a^h S /^T^sf Innl' T-J' Oranmer and Hooirer, RidleHiJ Latter ^^ *' ''' Rogers and Ferrar, ^or their tSte tTZ' Their hour is hard at hand, their " diesT'ee " iteei It but a duty— you will find in it ' To tZ'+i,**^ "^^^^ tV^y ^«^V Bonner,- lo test their sect. Sir, I attend the Queen ^yai, Infalhble, Papal Legate-cousin. , -•«L^ V •^ '^■• ,^>< [-E^acom*, SCENE v.— WOODSTOCK. Elizabeth, Lady in Waiting. Lady, TwJ'^m; °* ^"^Q"««P ^« green and white, lliese fields are only green, they make me ga 1 — ^^ ^ • tm\ Queen Mary. [act III. Elizajbetii, . There's whitethorn, girl. Lady. Ay, for aCn hour in May. But court is always May, buds out in masques, Breaks into feather'd merriments, and flowers In silken page&ntsi, VVhy do they keep us here ? Why^ still suspect your Grace 1 €'■•' ■V ■ *fc Elizabeth.' ,. v- • - > ' .Hard upon both. [WrifeH on the window with a diamond. Much suspected, of me Nothing proven can be. Quoth Elizabeth, prisoner. Lady, What hath your Highness written ? Elizabeth. A true rhyme. Lady. Cut with a diamond ; so to last like truth. . Elizabeth. Ay, if truth last. Lady. But truth, they say, wll out, So it must last. It is 4:iot like a word, That comes and goes in uttering. ROENB V.J 'ih a diamond. Queen Mary. Elizabeth. 119 The very TruiOx a«d very Word are on^""*^' '^ ""^'^ ' liut truth of story, which I glanced at, girl, Is like a word that come8 from olden days And passes thro' the peoples : every tongue Alters It passing, till it spelb and speaks Quite other than at first. Lady. I do not follow. Elizabeth. . How many names in the long sweep of time ^ hat so foreshortens greatneas, may but h&m On the chance mention of gome fool that once ~ Brake bread with us, perhaps ; and my poor chronicle Ib but; «f glass. Sir Henry Bedingfield ' ^'^°"''''° May gpKt it for 4 sfpite. - Lady. A , .^ , - - ^od grant it last, And witness to your Grace's innocence, lill doomsday melt it. Elizabeth. T -1 XI. . 1 • , ^'' * second fire, Like that which crackled underfoot And in this very chamber, fuse the glass And char us back again into thwdust We spring from. Never peacock against rain Scream d as you did for water. Lady. I I ot Tx . ^"'^ 1 g"t it. I w..ke Sir Henry-and he's true to you— 1 read hia honest horror in his eyes. 120 Or tine, to you ? Queen Mary. Ladt. [act hi. T will !,«„« X ®*' Henry Bedingfield » T will have no man true to me, your Grace But one that pares his nails ; to me ? S^clown I For hke his cloak, his toann^n, want the n^ And gross of court ; but of this fire he sajs^ Nay swears, it was no wicked wilfulness Only a natural chance. "*"*"*»«, Elizabeth. One of those wicked Wilfuls VatTermX"^""'^ ^ov shame to call it nature. Nay, I know ' They hunt my blood. Save for my daUy ranee . Among the pleasant fields of Holy Writ I might despair. But there hath some one come • ' Ihe house IS all in movement. Henee and see ' [Bi^t Ladt. Milkmaid (singing without). Shame upon you, Robin, nhame upon you now ' KiBH me woufd you ? with my handi Milking the cow ? Daiaies grow again, . Kingcups blow again. And you came and kfss'd m« milking the cow. Robm came behind me, Jf-ri!,'"'"ij? ^ • '^^ my hands Milking the cow ? SwailowB fly again, CyUckooft cry again And you came and ki«8'd me milking the cow. V'^c*' •-•'ff- BOBNB v.] Queen Mary. 121 ** Come, Robin, Robin, Come and kiss me now ; Hel^ it can I ? with my hands Milking the cow ? Ringdoves coo again. All things woo again, "Oome behind and kiss me milking the cow ? Elizabbtr. Right honest and red-cheek'd ; Robin was violent, And she was crafty— a aweet violence, And ajiweet craft. 1 would 1 were a' milkmaid, To sing, love, marry, chum, brew, bake, and die, Then have my simple headstone by the church, And all things lived and ended honestly. I could not if I would. 1 am Harry's daughter : Gardiner would have my head. They are not •weet, The violence and the craft that do divide The world of nature ; what is weak must lie ; The lion needs but roar to guard his young ; The lapwing lies, says " here" when they are there. Threaten the child ; "I'll scourge you if you did it." What weapon hath the child, save his soft tongue To say " I did not ?" and my rod's the block. I never lay my head upon the pillow But that I think, " Wilt thou lie there to-morrow ?" How oft the falling axe, that never fell, Hath shock'd me back hito the daylight truth That it mav fall to-day ! Those damp, black, dead Nights in the Tower ; dead— with the fear of death— Too dead ev'n for a death-watch ! Toll of a bell. Stroke of a clock, the scurrying of a rat Affrighted me, and then delighted me, For there was life— and there was life in death— The little murder'd princes, in a pale light, Rose hand in hand, and whisper'd, "oome away, The civil wars are gone for evermore : . Thou last of all the Tudors, oome away With us is peace ! " The last? It was a dream ; I must not dream, not wink, but watch, glio has fon«, Maid Marian to her Robin— by -and -by 122 Queefi Mary. \ And J^Tf P^ • ''' ^"? ^^y fi^^^ ^ hen by night, And make a morning outcry in the yid ; Catch r\"° ^'"^'^ ^^^^ *« "«*^h her tripping " Catch me who can ; yet, sometimes I have wiVWd On? J T'flT^^*' ^^^ ^^1'' Bbdinofield. It shall be all my study for one hour 10 rose and lavender myhorsiness, Before I dare to glance upon your Grace. Elizabeth. A missive from the Queen : last time she wrote, I had like to have lost my life : it takes my breath • U Uod, sir, do you lo^ok upon your boots, U H^Sf: Z 11^ "■"' ' """" »» ■ "»»* '"ink y„„, Laot hi ^% SOBNB v.] . Queen Mary. Bbdinqpiild. 123 I thought not on myjaoots ; The devil, take all boots were ever made Since man went barefoot. • See^ 1 lay it here, For I will come no nearer to your Grace ; [Laying down the letter. And, whether it bring you bitter news or sweet. And God have given yoiir Grace a nose, or not, I'll help you, if I may. Elizabeth. Your pardon, then ; It is the heat and narrowness of the cage That makes the captive testy ; with free wing The world were all one Araby. Leave me now, Will you, companion to myself, sir ? M Bbdingfield. , • Will I ? With most exceeding willingness, I will ; You know I never come tiU 1 be called. Elizabeth. [Exit. It lies there folded : is there venom in it ? A snake— and if I touch it, it may sting. Come, come, the worst ! ' Best wisdom is to know the worst at once. ■ [Reads :- •*. It is the King's wish, that you should wed Prince Philibert of Savoy. You are to come to Court on the instant ; and think of thiji in your opming. "Mary the Qcjeen." Think ! I have many thoughts ; I think there may be birdlime here for mo ; I think they fain would have me from the realm ; I think the Queen may never bear a child ; I tliink that I may be some time the Queen, Then, Queen indeed : no foreign prince or priest '•■ 124 Queen Mary. iS f^F ^^Z"*""' myself upon the steps. 1 think I will not marry anyone; ^ ' Sp^ially not this landleps Philibert ?!i,^Tl' .^?*' ^ ^^^"P n»enace me I thmk that I will play with PhiUbert- As once the holy father did with mi^ lol^arTf 'iX."''^''' "^ ^^^' '"^^^— . Enter Lady. Lady. • * * Elizabeth, I wish'd myself the milkmafdlin^nTherV'"'^' To kiss and cuff among the birds and flower A right rough life and healthful. *^^w«^«~ ACT Ift. ^«L. ADT. Hai* her oWn troubles ; she is weepingnow ^" ""'"'^ ThL *t'^''"^,^^V." *^">^ her at he? word ' Your m T ^'""^i^ ^"^ »" ^«»- «»ilk wi^apUt » our Highness such a milkmaid ? ^ Blizabbtii. v^ Hin£::n™^'°'""''"'^«<"«'-<"-. I had kept Lady {alyh). m And had your Grace a Robin. y ACT Ift. ace >nch SCENE VI.] Quetn Mary. Elizabeth. 125 Come, come, you are chiU here j you want the sun lHat shines at court ; make ready for the joumev. rray God, we 'scape the sunstroke. Ready at once. * . [Exeunt. SCEINE VI. -LONDON. A ROOM IN THB PALACE. ft Lord Pbtbb and Lord William Howard. Pbtrb. Youcannot see the Queen. Renard denied her.A Ev'n now to me. • Howard. .,„.,, ^ Their Flemish go-between And all in-alJ.' I came to thank her Majesty For freeing my friend Bajrenhall from the Tower • A grace to me ! Mercy, that herb-of -grace, Flowers now but seldom. Pbtre. T> ^. /^ , , Only now perhaps, Because the Queen hath been three days in tears For Philip's going— like the wild hedge-rose Of a soft winter, possible, not probable. However, you have prov'n it. Howard. I must see her. Enter Renard. Renard. My Lords, you cannot see her Majesty. r 126 Queen Mary. Howard. [act hi. Why then the King^'-for I would Have him brmg it Home to the leisure, wisdom of his Queen, Before he go, that since these statutes past, Gardiner out-Gardiners Gardiner in his heat, Bonner cannot out -Bonner his own self — ?east ! — but they play with fire as children do, And bum the hous^llj know that these are breeding A fierce resolve and fixt heart-hate in men Against the King, the Queen, the Holy Father, The faith itself. Can I not see him ? Rbnard. Not now. And m all this, my Lord, her Majesty Is flint of flint, you may strike fire from her, Not hope to melt her. I will give your message. [Exeunt Pbtre and Howard. Enter Philip (musing). ^ Philip. She will not have Pfince Philibert of Savoy, / I taMc'd with her in vain — says she will live And die true maid— a goodly creature too. Would she had been the Queen ! yet she must have him ; She troubles England : that she breathes in England Is life and lungs to every rebel birth That passes out of embryo. / Simon Renard ! — This Howard, whom they fear, what was he saying ? ' •a. RbNARD. What your imperial father said, my liege, To deal with heresy gentlier. Gardiner burns. And Bonner burnt ; and it woiild seem this people Care more for our brief lif e'tn their wet land, Than yours in happier Spaiq, I told my Lord .«» I -. ^ ■n- ... "-:,^r ICT III. SCENE VI. J Queen Mary. 127 ig IBD. iim He should not vex her Highness ; she would say Ihese are the means God works with, that His church May flourish. PpiLIP. _ ^., Ay, sir, but in "statesmanship To strike too soon is oft to miss the blow. Thou knowest I bad my chaplain, Castro, preach Against these burnings. Ebnard. . And the Emperor Approved you, and when last he wrote, declared ,Hi8 comfort in your Grace that you were bland 4||d affable to men of all estates, In hope to charm them from their hate of Spain. Philip. In hope to crush all heresy under Spain. But, Renard, I am sicker staying here Than any sea could make nie passing hence, .Tho* I be ever deadly sick at sea. So sick aqi I with biding for this diild. Is it the fashion in this clime for women To go twelve months in bearing of a child ? The nurses yawn'd, the cradle gaped, they led ' Processions, chanted litanies, clash'd their bells. Shot off their lying cannon, and her priests Havtf preach'd, the fools, of this fair prince to oomo. Till, by St. James, I find myself the fool. Why do you lift your eyebrow at me thus ? Rbnaed. I never saw your Highness moved till now. Philip; Sa, weary am I of this wet land of theirs, ^ And every loul of man that breathes therein. ^\-- &.....:- ; iUl BH 'H 11 ■ H H ' 11 {I y 4» :■•• "^- 128 QvMn Mary. Rbkabo. [act III. Sly liege, we must not drop the maBk bef ote The masquerade is over — Philip. —Have I drppt it ? I have, but shown a loathing faee to you, Who knew it from the first. "^ \ Enter Mart. , Mai^t {A»ide\ . With Eenard. Still Parleyli% with Benard, all the day with Renard, And scarce a greeting sdl the day for me— And goes to-morroF. ' ' [Exit Maby. ' Philip {to Rbnakd. who advanceswhvnh). Well, sir, is there more ) Renabd {who has perceived the Queen ^. ' May Simon Renard speak a single woird ? Philip. Ay. ■'*.-^ Rbnabd. And be forgiven for it ? Philip. Simon Renard Knows me too well to speak a single word aiuld not bejoi^vgnr — " '^f ip h^ 0- • SCENE VI,] Queen Mary. 129 w Renabd. V i-1 , , Well, mylieffej Your Grace hath a moat chaste and loving wife. Philip. , Why .not r The Queen of PhiUp ihould be chaste. Renahd. 1 Ay, but, my Lord, you know what Virgil sings. Woman is vanous and most mutable. ® ' - . Philip. She play the harlot ! never. , Reward. . * ^^"^ Not diream'd of by the rabidest gospeller. A^u t^® * P*P®' thrown into the.palace, ihe King hath wearied of his barren bride " w-!if*^^P*^" ^*' ^®*^ ^*' ^^^ *hen rent it, * WitH aU the rage of one who hates a truth ^^ He cannot but allow. Sire T would have yo4-- What should I say, I cannot pick my words— Bq somewhat less— majestio to your Queen. Philip. Am I to change my manners, Simon Renard. Because these islanders are brutal beasts ? Or would you have me turn a sonneteer And warble those brief-sighted eyes of hers ? Renard. Brief-sighted tho'theybe, I have seen them, sire When you perchance were trifling royally ' With some fair dame of court, suddenly fill With such fierce fire— had it been fire mdeed It would have burnt both speakers I , r ta r •J&, "TtTfi* ,•''»^a^^■ V i i i 130 Quee?i Mary. [act in. , Philip^ * ' ->• . . Ay, and then t Rj^NARD. Sire, might it not be pplicy in^ some matter ^ Of small importance now and then to c^e / * A "point to her demand ? - ^ • Philip; • ' Well, I am going. Rbnard. For'should her love when you are gone, my liege, Witness these papers, there will not be-wanting Those thfet will urge her injury — should her love-^ And I have known such women more than one — Veer to the counterpoint,, and jealousy Hath in it an alchemic force to fuse Almost into one metal love and hate, — And she impress her wrongs upon her Council, And these again upon her Parliament — We are not loved here, and would be then perhaps Not so well holpen in our wars with France, As else we might be — her^he comes. Enti,r Mary. 5 Mary. Nay,t must you go indeed ? Philip. /• Mary. rf O Philip V Madam, I must. The parting of a husband and a wife Is like the cleaving of a heart ; one half Will flutter here, on© there. .^3fe : . ,- ■. -- '^ mM V',-',.' m soBNE VI.] Queen. Mary. • • . Phiup. You say true, Madam. Mary. The Holy Virgin will not have me yet Lose the sweet hope that I may bear a prince. It such a prmce^g^;^ born and you not here ! PHttlP. 1 should be here if such a prince were bom. 131 , But must you go ? Mary. Philip. T, . . . -1 , . ; Madam, you know my father, Retmng mto cloistral solitude . j' -^ *«*, wiT'^^^rx*^? remnant of his years to heaven, WiU sh^t the,yoke and weight of all the world . * rom off his neck to mine. We meet at Brussels, ^ut smce mine absence will not be for long Your Majesty shall go to Dover with me. And wait my coming back. Mary„ T X i. ,, ^ To Dover? no, 1 am too feeble. I will go to Greenwich, ??i^?V^ ^*^® °?® ^*^ y«^ ; and there watch All that IS gracious in the breath of heaven Draw with your sails from our poor land, and pass And leave me, PhiUp, with my prayers for you. Philip. - r • And doubtless 1 shall profit by your prayers. ».Jbei&i&., M'i\ ^. 132 Queen Mary. [act 111. Mary. Methinks that would you tarry one day more (The newa wa» sudden) I could mould myself To bear your going better ; will you do it ? Philip. Madam; a day may sink or save a realm. Mary. A day may save a heart from breaking tool Philip. Well, Simon Renard, shall we stop a day ? ^^ Renard. Your Grace's business wiliftnot suffer, sire, ' For one day njiore, so far as I can tell. ' Philip. Then one day more to pleasQ her Majdstjij- Mary. The sunshine sweeps across my life again, Oif I knew you felt this parting, Philip, As I do I Philip. By St. James I do protest. Upon the faith and honour of a Spaniard, I am vastly grieved to leave your Majesty. Simon, is suppejr ready ? \ I law the oovers laying. Renard. Ay, my liege, Philip. Let us have it. [ExewU. Queen Mary. 133 ACT IV. ■ SCENE I.--A ROOM IN THE PALACE. Mary, Cardinal Polb. MARTCk What have you there '/ Polb. A long petition from il.efoJ^l',TeS ^'^'''^' To spare the life of Cranmer. Bishop Thirlbv And my Lord Paget and Lord William Howard Crave, in the same cause, hearing of your Grace Hath he not written himself-infatuated- lo sue you for his life? ^ Mary. 1 XT i J /. , His life ? Oh no : No sued for th^he knows it were in vain ' But so much of the anti-papal leaven Works m hxm yet, he hath pray'd me not to sully Mme own prerogative, and degrade the realm Oy seeking justice at a stranger's hand Against my natural subject. King and Queen t^ n xv°^ ^^ '^^^'^ ^^* ^«y«^*y after God, Bnall these accuse him to a foreign prince ? T^?! f "^f^^ """i* «"r™^ ^'"^ "»°'^«- I cannot U True to this realm of England and the Pope Together, says the heretic. ^ -^ 134 !i!l Hi i ■ - • I 1 I i ;1 / Queen Mary. Pole. [act IV. ." . , , ., ' And there errs ; Ab he hath ever err'd thro' vanity. A secular kingdom is but as the body Lacking a soul ; and in itself a beast. The Holy Father in a secular kingdom Is as the soul descending out of heaven Into a body generate. Mary. Write to him, then. IwiU. Pole. Mary. And sharply, Pole. Pole. Hero come the Cranmerites ! "^ Enter Thirlby, Lord Paget, Lord William Howard. Howard. Health, to your Grace. Good morrow, my Lord Cardinal ; We make our humble prayer unto your Grace Thhjt Cranmer may withdraw to fc^rergn parts, Or into private life within the realm. In several bills and declarations, Mftdam, He hath recanted all his heresies. Paget. Ay, ay ; if Bonner have not forged the bills. Mary. § Did not More die, and Fisher f h# must bum. [Aside. Jji • ii soKiNE 1.] Queen Mary. Howard. He hatli recanted, Madam. Mary. „ , The better for hluo. He bums in Purgatory, not in Hell. Howard. A^y. ay, your Grace ; but it was never seen ' That any one recanting thus at full, As Cranmer hath, came to the fire on earth. Mary. It will be seen now, then. Thirlby. , ^, . , O Madam, Madam ! 1 thus implore you, Ithv upon my knees, To reach the hand of mercy to my friend. I have err'd with hun ; with him I have recanted. What human reason is there why my friend Should meet with lesser mercy than myself ? Mary. My Lord of Ely, thia. , After a riot Wo hang the leaders, let their following go. Cranmer is head and father of these heresies, New learning as they call it ; yea, may God Forget me at most need when I forgot Her foul divorce— my sainted mother— No !— Howard. m?' ^' ^^^ mighty doctors doubted there. The Pope himself waver'd ; and more than one Row'd in that galley— Gardiner to wit. Whom truly 1 deny not to havo been 135 \ 136 i 111 ■■ Queen Mary. [act IV Your faithful friend and trusty councillor. Hath not your HighneBS ever read liis book, Hia tractate- upon True Obedience, Writ by himself and Bonner ? ]Maiiy. I will take Such order with all bad, heretical books That none shall hold them in his house aiid live, Henceforward. No, my Lord.' IIoWAHU. Then never read it. The truth is here. Your father was a man Of such colossal kinghood, yet so courteous, ' Except when wroth, you scarce could meet his eye And hold your own ; and were ho wroth indeed, You held it less, or not at all. I say. Your father had a will that beat men down ; Your father had a brain ihat beat men down- Not me, my Lord. Howard. " No, for you were not' here You sit upon this fallen Cranmei^s throne ; And it would more become you, my Lord Legate, To join a voice, so potent with her Highness, To ours in plea for Oranmer than to stand. On naked self-assertion. Are waves on flint. Mary. All your voices The heretic must bum. 1 ■ .-. t ^ "1 ■ % ( 1 » ^^^ * .# ♦ _ ft 4 J SCENE I.] Queeii Mary. Howard. 137 Yet once he saved your Majesty's own life ,; Stood out against the King in your behalf, ^t his own peril. Mary. I know not if he did ; And if he did I care not, my Lord Howard. My life is not so happy, no such boon. That I should spare to take a heretic priest's, * Who sayed it or not saved. Why do you vex me 1 Paobt. Yet to save Cranmer were to serve the Church, Your Majesty's I mean ; he is efface^, Self-blotted out ; so wounded in his honour, He can but creep down^into some dark hole Like a hurt beast, and hide himself and die ; B^tif yon bum him,— well, your Higliness kno\s» The saying, "Martyr's blood— seed of the Church. " Mary. h Of the true Church ; but his is none, nor will be. You are too poUtic for me, my Lord Paget? And if he have to live so loath 'd a life, It were more merciful to bum him now. Thirlby. O yet relent. 0, Madam, if you knew him As T do, ever gentle, and so gr%oious, With all his learning— Mary. Yet a heretic still. His learning makei his binning the m,ore just. 4. -. , 1 •• 1 •- ,138 I I 3. ' X^ Queen Mary. 'v Thirlby. [act IV. So worshipt of aU those that came across him • Ihe stranger at his hearth, and all his house—' ' ■' Maby. His childifen and his concubine, belike." Thirlby. To dp him any wrong was to beget A kmdness from him, for his heart was rich Of such fine mould, that if you sow'd thereiii Ihe seed of Hate, it blossom'd Charity M t Pole. 'a ^^tT ^'^¥•'J? 'l*^''^^* him^iothing," there's An old world English adage to thp point ^ Tliese^are but natural graces, my good Bishop, ' . Which ir the Catholic garden are as flowers But on the heretic dunghill only weeds. ' "*• *-' , Howard, Such weeds luake dunghills gracious. * Mary.' « ■ . . ■ -• 4 . It is God's will, the H^ly Father^s'^wJlf ' "'^ ^"'^'• And Pluhp's will, and mine, that he should burn He is pronounced anathema. Howard. n V \ \ Farewell, Madam, Uod grant you ampler mercy at your call Than you have shown to Cranmer. ( Exeunt Lords. ,* -^ •^^.^WiSNB I.] Queen Mary. Pole. 139 \T r^ •■,■, After this, r our (xrace will hardly care to overlook Ihis same petition of the foreign exilea For Orainmer's life. , Maey., Make out the writ to-night. [Exeunt, SCENE II.-OXFOBD. ORANIVJER IN PRISON. Cranmer, Last night, I dream'd the faggots, were alight, And that myself was fasten'd to the stake, And found it all a visionary flame, Copl as the light in old decaying wood ; And then King Harry look'd from out a.cloud, And bad me have good courage ; and I heard An angel cry, " thdre is more joy in Heaven, "-w^ And after that, the trumpet of the dead. ,,., ,t ^ [Trumpets without. wiiy, there^ are trumpets blowing now : what is it ? Enter Father Cole. Cole. Cranmer, I come to question you again ; H^ve Vou remain'd in the true Catholic Faith I left you in ? . Cranmer. ^ _ , In th^ true Catholic Faith, S^i S^®'* " ^*^' ^ ^^ ^^^^ *»^ "nore confirm'd. Why^8r6 the trumpets blowing, Father Cole ? ^» *. ..'.U-fiiSiti^ii.h. I :« ! 1 J 140 Queen Mary. Cole. * ^^^, it i« decided by the Coanoil And there be many heretics in the to^ Who loathe you for voiir la+o ,.«+ 7^4. Cranmbr. Or seek to rescue me. I thank the CouncU. COLK. Do you lack any money ? Cranmer. The pri»,„ fa.e i. good eaoug^l^i l'^"'!" " ' ' Cole. Ay, but to give the poor. ., ' Cranmer. Hand it -me, then ! I thank you. Cole. u„tui„.yo^rsi:'Sfa^rdh'rh':"'"= Cranmer. It is against aU precedent to bum ?o live 'the' noo^ ' Jh'^ ^^*\*^ ^^'^^^ «e. W«l^ K, poor— ther give the poor who die Well bum me or net lum me I am fixt • It u but a comnaunion, not a mass ' [act IV. [Exit Cole. ii ■-^ if f - ■ . - ■ - f 1 - * ■ « , "..'.■ ■ \. ( • , . • i- ■ i Qne^FMi ary. 8CBN* li.] A hftly Supper, not a sacrifice ; No man can make his maker— Villa Garcia. 141 Enter V1LL4 Garoia. Villa Garcja. •Pray you wrrite out this paper for me, Cranmer, Cranmer. Have I not Mrrit enough to satisfy you 1 ' ' - Villa Garcia. It is the last. Cranmer. Give it me, then. " Villa ' Garcia. [He writes. Novr sign. Cranmer. I have sign'd enough, and I will sign no more. Villa Garcia. It is no more than what you have sign'd already, The public form thereof. Cranmer. _ . . It may be so ; I sign it with my presence, if I read it. Villa Garcia. But this is idle of you. Well^ sir, well, You are to beg the people to ptay for you } Exhort them to a pure and virtuous life ; 142 Queen Mary. Will v^n w '*'' ^°'*""^ ^" y°"^ book. *»iii you not 8*gn it now ? i, Cranmeb, I-igThomore. Will they havflXy:n^rr' STiLLA Garcia. Have you good hope, of mercy ? So, farewell. [E^l Cranmee. Good hopes, not theirs, have I that T am fl,+ After the long bram-dazing colloqmes, ' fctfo'f^Ksrji^iX^-. To scare me into dreaming, '' what am I T^ ^1 ^ »^^ndering my most inward friend Tr'i*^%^"^* ^^ "^y «^««t outward foe- The soft and tremulous coward in the flesh ? O higher, hoher, earlier, purer church It is hn^^^ ^^^^ ^"^ not leave thee any more It IS but a communion, not a mass^ ^ No sacn£ce, but a life-giving feast > iWntes,) So, so ; this till f say^thus will I pray. [Puts up ttie paper. Enter Bonner. BoNJfBR. [act IV. M- ■^ SCENE II.] Queen Mary. 143 : ike Ev'n at the best : I Jscarce have spoken with you Since when ? — your degradation. At your trial Never stood up a bolder man than you ; You would not cap the Pope's commissioner — Your learning, and your stoutness, and your heresy, Dumbfounded half of us. So, after that, We had to dis-archbishbp and unlord, And make you simple Cranmer once again. The common barber dipt your hair, and 1 Scraped from your finger-points the lioly oil ; And worse than all, you had to kneet to me : Which was not pleasant for you, Matffeer Cranmer. 'Now you, that would not recognise the Pope, And you, that would not own the Real Presence, Have found a real presence in the stake, Which frights you back into the ancient faith ; And so have recanted to the Pope. How ai« the mighty fallen. Master Cranmer ! ^--.., Cranmer. You have been more fierce against the Pope than I ; But why fling back the stone he strikes me with ? [Aside. Bonner, if I ever did you kindness — -Power hath been given yovi toAry faith by fire — Pray you, remembering how yourself have changed, Be somewhat pitiful, after I have gone, To the poor flock — to women and to children — Then when T was archbishop he^d with me. Bonner. Ay — gentle as they call you — live of die ! Pitiful to this pitiful heresy ? 1 must obey the Queen and Council, man. ' Win thro' this day with honour to yourself, And I'll Bay something for you — so — good-bye. [Exit. Cranmer. This hatd coarse man of old hath crouched to me Ti il I myself was half ashamed for him. i ^ ' ' 1 V '"" S -•.-■*' 1 - 1 . 4 I ■K 144 Queen Mary. [act iv. Enter Thiblby. Weep not, good Thirlby. V Thirlby. Oh, my Lord, my Lord I My heart is no such block as Bonner's is : Who would not weep ? Wh6 am disgraced 1 By your recanting. Obanmek. Why do you so my-lord me, ^ On earth ; but saved in heaven Cranmer. Will they bum me, Thirlby ? Thirlby. A W they will, these burnings will not help Thejpurpose of the faith ; but my poor voice Agunst them is a whisper to the romr Of a spring-tide. Cbanaur. And they V4II surely bum me ? ^ Thiblbt.. ' ■". ' , ' ■ Ay ; and besides, will hav« you isLtH^ church Biepeat your recantation In the eara Of all men, to the saving of their souls. Before your execution. 1^ God help you Thro' that hard hour. ♦ ' ^w^ mmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmKmmm SCENB II. J r Queen Mary. Crinmer. 145 Woii +1, t, 1, ,- ^^ ™*y ^^^ ^^e»8 yo«» Thirlby. WeU, they shall hear my recantation there. Tk- J ••• , ,, [^051* Thirlby. Disgraced, dishonour'd !— nc^t by them, indeed, By mme own self— by mine j)wn hand ! thin-skinn'd hand and jutting veins, 'twas you ihat sign'd the burning of jioor Joan of Kent ; But then she was a witch. Ifou have written much But you were never raised lb plead for Frith, Whose dogmas I have reach'd ; h^ was deliver'd' To the secular arm to bum ; land there was Lambert • Who can foresee himself ? trily these burnings As Thirlby says, are profitless to the burners, ' And help the other side. You shall bum too. Bum first when I am buijit.i T A Fire— inch by inch to die in agony ! Latimer, Had a brief end— not Ridley. Hooper burn'd Three-quarters of an hour. Will my faggots Be wet as his were ? It is » day of rain. 1 will not miue upon it. " ' My fancy takes the burner's part and makes > The fire seem even ci^^er than it is. ^ No, I not doubt that God will give me strength Albeit I have denied himi MifeKSoTo (Wid Villa Garcia. Villa Garcia. * _, ' We are ready To take you to St. Mary's, Master Cralimer. \ And ]\i lead on ; i jr ye Cra^tmbr.' loose me from my bonds^ A'. 1. ■ m '*' • ■ ,A\ I ,♦ »sw. !l' I- Ui r l^G-* . Queen Mary. SCENE IlI.-^ST. MARY'S CHURCH. fAOT IV. CoLB in the Pulpit, Lord Williams op Thamk presiding. Lord William Howard, Lord Paget, and others. Cran- MER enters between Soto atid Villa Garcia, and the whole CJwir strike np ** Nunc Dimittis." Cranmbr is set upon a , Scaffold before the people. Behold him- COLB \^A pavW; people in the foregrounds People. » » Oh, unhappy sight ! First Protestant. See how the tears run down his fatherly face. Second PROTisTANt. James, didst thou ever see a/canlon crow Stand watching a sick boast before he dies \ FlR8*|gftOTE8TANT, ri■•^ Him perch 'd up th^?' I wish some thundorbol Would make this Qfilo a cinder, pulpit and all. / next to Qod^ Yc«4o unmurmuringly and willingly. Ob^ your King and Queen, and i^pt f(ir dread , l>t these alone, but from the fear of Him - Wholseministers they be to govern you. Thirdly, 1 pray you all to love together' Like brethren ,^yet what hatred Christian men Bear ,to each other, seeming not as brethren. But mortal foes ! But do you good to all ' Ad much as in you lieth. Hurt no man more Than you would harm your loving natural brother Ut the same roof, same breast. If any do, Albeit he think himself at home with God, . Of this be sure, he is whole worlds away. ' / ■■ • I i ■ Protestant murmurs. * 4 ^ What sort of brothers then be those that lust To burn each other ? " Williams. % Peace among you, yiero. CrANMB;R. • Fourthly, to those that own exceeding wealth. Remember tl^at sore saying spoken once By Him that was the truth,' " how hard it is For the rich man , to enter intp Heaven ;" Let all rich men iremember that hard word. I have not time f6r more : if ever, now Let them flow forth in charity, seeing now The poor so mAny, and all food so dear. Long have I Iain in prison, yet have heard Of all, their wretchedness. Give to the poor Ye give to God.' He is with us in the poor.' * And now, and foraJsmuch as I have come To the last end of life, and thereupon ' Hangs all ray past, and all my life to be. Either to live with Christ in Heaven with joy, Or to be still in paui with dovUs in Hell ; ■MHIPI \. SCBNE HI.] Quemi Mary. ' 151 And, seeing* in a moment, I shall fipd [Pomting upwards. Heaven or else hell ready to swallow me, _,-,,,' . [Pointing downwards. 1 shall declare to you my very faith Without all colour. ^ . OOLE. Hear him, my good brethren. > , Cranmer. . . ' I do believe in God ,- Father of all ; • ' In every article of the Catholic faith, And every syllable taught U8 by our Lord, His prophets,' and apostles in the Testaments. Both Old and New. i Cole. /' ' "^ Be plainer, Master Cranmer. * Cranmer.. - , ' And now I como to the grorit cause that weighs Upon my conscience more than anytlJSng ^ ^ / . Or said or done in all my life by me ; * " " For there be writings I have set abroad Against the ti^uth T knew within my heart, - Writteii for fear of death, to save my life, - ■ If that might be ; the papers by my hand • * Sign'd since my degradation -T^by this hand > < ^[Holditig imt his right ha)id. Written and sign'd— I hete iierrounce the all ; And, since my hand offended, having written Aj|kinst my heart, my hand shall first be burnt. So 1 may come to the fire. , [Dead UleiKC ' - tjPROTB^TANT murmnrs. First ProtestaSi^ I knew it would be so. . •^^ ' r --• (■ ' ^^ ', v"",/'*;,Jiv^f Fact iv. God blesa him ! ^ ' Q,neen Mary. Second PRoi!ii. , . W;/k "^ f/'u -^^P^ 1°°""* ^i™ Anticlirist, With all his devil's doctrines ; and refuse Reject him, and abhor him. I have S' \.(^r^esonall side,, « Pull him down ! Away with Cole. Ay, stop the heretic's mouth. Hale him away. Williams. .garm him not harm him not, have him to the fire l^hANMEKcfoesout between Two Friars, milinn • ^ • Jmndsare reached to him from ihTcroZ' ore left alone m the church. rs are heard. SCENE III.] Queen Mary. 153 Paget. The nave and aisles all empty as a fool's jest ! Na, here's Lord William Howard. Wliat, my Lord, You have not gone to see the burning 1 Howard. Fie ! To stand at ease, and stare as at a show, And watch a good man burn. Never again. I saw the deathA of Latimer and Ridley. Moreover tho' a Catholic, I would not, For the pure honour of our common nature, Hear what I might — another recantation Of Granmer at the stake. , . Paoet. - _ '- t You'd not hear that. He pass'd out smiling and he walk'd upright ; His eye was like a soldier's, whom the general He looks to and leans on as hia God, Hath rated for some backwardness and bidd'n him Charge one-against a thousand, and the man Hurls his soil'd life against tho pikes and dies. Howard. Yet that he might not after all those papers Of recantation yield again, who knows ? Paget. Papers of recantation, think you then That Cranmer read all papers that he sign'd ] Or sign'd all those they tell us that he" sign'd ' Np,y, I trow not : and you shall see, my Lord, That howsoever herp-like the man Dies in the fire, this Bonner, or another Will in some lying fashion misreport His ending to the glory of their.- church. vf \ iivM'iu'i'ufvi jL J Jiiiiupiipiipiimiii III II mi I |i r 154 <• ^wee?^ i/ai^2/. [act rv, Of We wTott^iZ'" '" ""' ' "" •«" Howard. Look'd somewhat crookA^^l*'®^?^*^^®*^ ■ But after they had f^r^nf 1 • " I"'? "^ ^^^ ^^eze ; He stood Sht a ri h"' *'' ^^" ^'^^"d. And gatherWth hLi.''^*r^*y^°"^' • And wash'd hilhant anSlT/hf f ^*^"# «^™-' ITntil the powder suddfinitKi ^\^*^® ^^^^^in Ridley wa?CgrSj.tJh^r^.^«*^- As manfully an^d bold^ .l^^^o^e ^.'^^^^ fc, tTeat:*^^^^^^^ ones. Our Ridley-soIdierS^.^ ?*f> ^^**^ ^P^i^, Will teachVsometl4 ^''^™«'-«^il-r« Paget. Wm tell you thlt the devi,t;^ttl'T&,r"'.^ ■ H.., Ho. tH<«e ^vz:^^zt;^'"-- Howard. Paget. They can but weep inice.*"^ '''"'^'^' too broken, Howard, In .ong. .0 Wd. „.e beril^hr^tt^l'l .■',<^ SCENE HI.] Queen Mary. 155 To being in God's image, more than they ? Have I not seen the gamekeeper, the groom, Gardener, and huntsman, in the parson's place, The parson from his own spire swung out dead, And Ignorance crying in the streets, -and all meh Regarding her 1 I say they have drawn the iire On their own heads : yet, Paget', I do hold The Catholic, if he have the greater right. Hath been the crueller. Paget. Action and reaction. The miserable see-saw of our chil^J-world, • Make us despise it at odd hours, my Lord. Heaven help that this re-action not re-act^ Yet fiercelier under Queen Elizabeth, So that she come to rule us. X, Howaud! ; The world's mad. Paget. My Lord, the world is like a dninken -man, , Who canliot move straight to his end! - - '1 • • / ■J ."■. ....:^^ : . SCENE 111.] Queen Mary. 159 • •■•Z- '■:, ' „ ' " Paget. • The fools I Tib. Ay, Joan ; and Queen Mary gwoes on a-bumin' and a- bumin', to git her baaby bom ; but all her burnins' 'ill never bum out the hypocrisy that makes the water in her. There's nouhgt but the vire of God's hell ez can burn out that. Thank the Lord, therev The fools '^ Tib. A-bumin' and a-biimin', and a-makin' o' volk madder and madder ; but tek thou my word vor't. Joan, — and I beaii't wrong not twice i' ten year — the burniii' o' the owld arch- bishop 'ill burn tjie Pwoap out o' this 'ere land for iver and iver. .,, >, . . , ' Howard , Out of the(^hurch, you brace of cursed crones, Or I will have you duck'd. (Women hurry out.) Said I not right 1 For how should reverend prelate or throned Brook for an hour such brute malignity ? Ah, what an acrid wine has Luther brew'd ! Paqet. Pooh, pooh, my Lord ! poor gaSrulons country -wives. Buy you their cheeses, and they'll side with you ; You cannofjudge the liquor from the less. HOWAED. T think that in some sort we may. But see, iV , i ).!• .S 160o f ^ Queen Mary. . Enter Petbbs. [act IV. Peters, my gentleman, an honest Catholic, Who follow'd with the crowd to Cranmer's fire. One that yrould neither misreport nor He, Not to gain paradise : no, nor if the Pope Charged him to do it — he is white as- death. P^eters, how pale you look ! you bring the smoke Of Cranmer^ burning with you. PETEB9. X-} , , Twice or thrico The sjnoke of Cranmer'a burning wrapt me roiiu'ft. Howard. Peters, you know me Catholic, but English. Did he die bravely ? Tell n^e that, or leave All else untold. Peters. My Lord, he died most bravely. 4 Howard. Then tell me all. Paget. • Ay, Master Peters, toll us. la ' . Peters. ♦■ ' ' Yoti flaw him h(^ he past among the crowd,; And ever as ho walk'd the Spanish frairs ' Still plied him with entreaty and reproach : But Cranmor, as the helmsman at the holm^^ Stelw, over looking to thb happy haven Where he shall rest at night, moved to his- death ; Ami I could see that many silent hands Cailb from the crowd and met his own ; and thus, O ♦ / SOENB HI.] Queen Marif. 161 When we had come \vhere Ridley burnt with Latimer, He, with a cheerful smile, as one whose raind^ Is all made up, in Kftste to put off the rags They had mock'd his misery with, and all in white, His long white beard, which he had never shaven Since Henry's death, down-sweeping to the chain, Wherewith they bound him to the stake, he stood, More like an ancient father of the Church, jg Than heretic of these times ; and still the fwars Plied him, but Cranmer only shook his head, Or answer'd them in tfmiliftg negatives ; Whereat Lord WilliaYns gave a sudden cry : — . " Make short ! make short I" and so they lit the wood.^ Then Granmer lifted his left hand to heaven, And thrust his right into the bitter flame ; And crying, in his deep voice, mure than once, "This hath ofi'ended — this unworthy hand ! " So held it till it all was bum'd, before The flame had reach'd his body ; I stood near — ' Mark'd him — he never uttered moan of pain : ' He never stirr'd or writhed, but like a statue, Unmoving in the greatness of the flame. Gave up the ghost ; and 'so past martyr-like — Martyr I^ay not call hito — past — but whither ? , KkOET.' To purgatory, man, to purgatory. Peters. Nay, but, my Lord, he denied purgatory. Paget. Why then to heaven, and God ha' mercy on him. HowARn. Paget, despite his fearful heresies, I loved the man, and need| must moan for him O Cranmer ! Paoet, But your moan is uselgss now : Oom© out^ my Lord, it is a world of fools. [Exeunt, K . , , , ^»^.*^' ♦ i. mil <» 162 Queen Mary. [act v. „ ' ACT V. SOENE I.— LONDON. HALL IN THE PALACE. QtTEEN, Sitt. Nicholas Heath. Heath. Madam, * <« I do assure you, that it must be look'd to : ' Calais is but ill-garrisou'd, in Giiisnes Are scarce two hundred men, and the French fleet Rule in the narrow seas. It must -be look'd to, .. If war shoukl fall between yourself and France ; Or you will lose your, Calais. Mary. It shall be look'd to ; ' I wish you a good morning, good Sir Nicholas : Hero is the King. [Exit Heath. Enter Philip. -^ Philip. Sir Nicholas tells you true, And yow must look to Calais when I go. Maky. Go ! must you go, indeed — again — so soon ? Why, nature's licensed vagabond, the swallow, That might live always in the sun's warm heart. Stays longer here in our poor north than you : — Knows where he Msted — ever oomes again. SCENE I.] ' , Queen Mai^j. ^T ,Philipj * Andj Madam, bo shall I. 163 Maey. t- O, will you ? will you 1 I am faint with feaj^that you will coirre no more. (^ Philip. Ay, ay ; but many voices call tCfn hence. Mary. ^ Voices — I hear unhappy rumours — nav, I say not, I boliwrei What voices call yotf . Dearei^ than mine that should be dearest to you ? Alas, my Lord ! what voices and how many ? itt. dfelLIP. Th6 voices of Castile and Aragon, Granada, liaples, Sicily, -iind Milan,— The voices of Francho-C6nit6, and the Netliorlands, The voices of Peru and Mexico, Tunis, and Oran, and the Philippines, And all the fair spice-islands of the East. Mary (adrkiringly). You are the mightiest tnonarch upilSii earth, I but a little Queen ; and so, indeed, Need you the more ; and wherefore could you not Helm the huge vessel of your state, n^j* liego, Here, by the side of her who loves you most i . Philip. |k No, Madam, no ! a candle in the sun Is all but smoke — a star beside the moon Is all but lost ; your people will not crown me — Your people wre m oheerles* as your clime ; «i ■* 55ft^* -^ ii II n 1 164 Queen Mary^ [act V, > . Bate me and mine : witness the brawls, the gibb,ets. ;^Qre swings a Spaniard— there an Englishman ; ' The jpeoples are unlike as their complexion ; Yet will I be your swallow and retum-r- BvU; now I cannot bide. Maey. Not to help mc ^/^ They hate me also for my love to you, # My Philip ; "and the^ judgments on the land — Harvestless autumns, horrible agues, plague — "^ Philip. The bipod and «weat of heretics at the stake s God'^B besi iiirn more ! Is God'^B best dew upon the barren field. / ■■ IVJary. *- I will, 1 will ;, and you Will stay. Philip. Have I not said ? Madam, I came to sue Your Council and yourself to declaBe war. Mary. ^ Sir, there iate many English in your ranks To help your battle. Philip. «■» " So far, good. I say I came to suo your Ootmoil and yourself To declare war against the King of .Franco, MaR¥. Not to see me 1 iioxift:'L] Queen Mo(>ry. , Philip. 165 Ay, Madam, to see you. Unalterably and p^steringly fond ! [Aside^ . r JBut, soon or late you must have war with France ; King Henry warms your traitors at his hearth. -m Carew is there, and Thomas Stafford there. \ ■ Couiiitenay, belike — • *. •' Mary. . A fool and. f eatherhead ! , , 'h " .,. Pmur. . ■ » <=■ - . ■ • • . ' Ay, but they use his name. In brief, ihis Henry ^tini up your land against you to the intent That you may lose yoitr English heritage. And then, your Scottish "namesake marrying The Dauphin, he would weld France, England, Scotland, Into one sword to hack at Spain and mo. . > * Mary. And yet the Pope is now oblleagued with Franco ; Tou ;nako your wars upon him down in Italy : — - Philip, can that be well ? Philip. , ,t^j„, Contenlryou, Madam^|§pr You must abide m^lfrtdgment, and my father's. Who deems it a most just and holy war. Jho Pope would cast the Spaniard out of Naples : He calls us worse than Jewib^oors, -Saracens. The Pope has pushM his homflfbeyond hisipitre— Beyond his province. Now, Duke Alva will but touch him on the^homsf And he withdraws ; and of his holy heftd — For Alva is trutf son of the true church- No hair i» harm'd. Will you not help me^here 1 W' ':m • /•^v ^■v^ •^^ Aeen. Mo/ry. A'f;*'j,-'i"f MarV. Alas ! the CoMjU wil| not hear of %ar. ^ : They say yQiir wars ail'not th^fewfuj^ of liiglanl.^ '^^^ '"^ TW will no* lay mor^taxes on^a|^nd If So nunge|-nipt and wfiyfe^d ; aflf |teu kho*^'*^ v • Till crowii is poor. \%j||[kve gi^^^ie ch'Urch-laiidfi back t The uobles would not j Tjay, they fclafit ^ip.hWs • ' Ji^ Upon theij* swords when as^ ; andsf^ei^ai^G^ . ; ; "^^ l8,-ltMrd,jgpoii t|§^jpeo|>le. . IVhat's to be (»n^«*,.*;^H|l| em, in "your cause ^gaii»^^ \ '.» loanii^ajl'd subsidieJi ^ W^*'.^<^ ft'. '■■m' ■'''*^^am];:my thanjcs: » .\ ^t8;|f|u|d Sir Thomas Greshahi> "W Antwerp and the Jews. Mary. And you will stay yoiMgoing ? Philip. ^' And further to discgurage and, lay lam^ ' The plots of France^" altho' you love Ker not, ^ You must proclaim Elizabeth your heir. . .' She stands between you 'and th© Queen of Scots. JJVCary. The Queen of Scots at least is Catholic. • PhJlip. Ay, Madam, Catholic ; but.f will not have The King of TPranoe the King of England too. Maey. '^"^'^ ' But she's a li3i|w> ^^^> when I am gon Brings the nevvflBping back. Ml.' ■ • ■' ■ • • 'n '■ --■A::^:.y-r^-: ■->-■' ■.— -;;«■' -;:^ -' . » iv^Jn>RJ^-imT^ * ^ a • ROBNE I.] ' . ,0 ^ Queen Mary. 167 ' >, , Philip. • M .: r - • . - ■ \ ' You must proclaim It must be done, Elizabeth your heir. • . V. ^ \ > Mary. . , , \ - . - , Then it is done ; but you will stay your going Somewhat beyond your settled purpose ? ' ■ ■ ■ Philip. ' 1 "■ ■ , .^^ % ■ ■ Mary. No! •" What, not one day ? Philip. > ' «"" " ■ , > ' -, 4 . You beat upon the rock.' > • • ' «•' . " ■ Mary. 1 And I am broken there. V- n, • Philip. . -^ . " ' Is this a place To wail in, Madam ? what ! a public hall. Go in, I pi-ay you. Mary; Dp not seem so changed. Sajf go ; but only say it lovingly* Philip, 'I You do mistake. I am not one to change. I never loVed ypu. more. ^ Come quickly. ;-f Mary. „*„ Sire, I obey you. • * ' , Philip. ■ - , " Ay. • [Exit Mary. > f , I M 1^8 Qnem Mary. ' j-^ct v. •^. ^nUr Count db Feeia. Fbria (i K be war ,with France, at last, m^ liege ; '■ Sir Thomas Stafford, a bullJieaded aM, Sailiri^ from France with tlflrty EngliUlpaen, Hath taken Scarboro* Castle, north of^ork ; Proclaims himself protector, and affirms ^ The (^een lyis forfeited her right to reign By mari^?ige with an alien--other things ^ As idle ; a weak Wyatt ! Little doubt This buzz will soon be silenced ! but the Council (I have talked- with so&ii already^ are for war T'V.i'o {o fViQ fiffVi />r>W©Sira»ir TiafoVi'rl i|U f'ranCe fyour Grace, M 'i-ti, This is the fifth coi^iraty hatch'd m f'rance ; They showJheir teeth upon.it ; and your Gri So you wiiffl|ke '^Ji^ice of mine, shoMd stay Yet for awmp^, to wiape and guide the event. 4^ .Philip. Good ! Renard] I will stay Mn. i?,; '^ /• A •*■; ^^ ^ Als6i,'sire, Might I not Bay— ti) p|HP ■pr wifej^the«Queen ? -^ ^ Ay, ip^enard, if you care to put it so ?^Philip. [Exeunt. fm SCENE II.] Queen Mary. 171 SCENE II. -A ROOM IN THE PALACE. Mary and Cardinal Pole. Lady Ct-arence and Alice in the hackgrmind. Maey. Reginald Pole, what news hath plagued thy heart ? ^' What makes thy favour like the bloodless head Fall'n on the block, and held up by the hair ? Philip?— . ^ %OLE. . \ No, Philip is as warm in life ^ As ever. i Mary. w ' Ay, and then as cold as ever. ^ Is Calais ;4aken ? ; ^n^ ' \ Pole. , Ipjk Cousin, there hath chanced W^^j^ Aarper harm to England and to Rome, Tflj^ Calais taken. Julius the Third VVHIkver just, and mild, and fatherlike ; ^ But this new Pope Caraflfa, Paul the Fourth, Not only reft me of that legateship Which Julius gave me, and the legateship Anilex'd to Canterbury— nay, but worse— And yet I must obey the holy father, ^fe^ And so must you, good-cousin ; — worse than all, ^^ loL A passing bell toll'd in a dying ear — W^r He hath cited me to Rome, for heresy, W*^ Before his Inquisition. > . . '^^ " ■' Mary; •-' ^ '^ ' I knew it, cousin, . But held from you all papers sent by Rome, That you might rest among us, till the Pope, ^ t ' ■ ~ • . ■ ■ 1 ,".'". ■ -« ' . *■ •. " . ''w ' • iB Queen Mary. To compass whiph I wrote myseft to Rome, Berersed his doom, and that you might not seem To disobey hia Holiness. Pole. He hates Philip ; He is all Italian, and he hates the Spaniard ; He cannot dream that J advised the war ; He strikes thro' me at Philip and yourself. •Nay, but I know it of old, he hates me too ; So brands me in the stare of Christendom A heretic ! Now, eveii now, when bow'd before my time, The house half-ruin'd ere the lease be out ; When I should guide the Church in peace at home, After my twenty years of banishment, . And all my lifelong labour to uphold The primacy — a heretic. Long ago, ^ ' When T was ruler in the patrimony, .. I was too lenient to the Lutheran, ' And I and learned friends among ourselves Would freely canvass certain Lutheranisms. What then, he knew I was no Lutheran. A heretic ! He drew this shaft against me to the head, When i$ was thought I might be chosen Pope, But then withdrew it. In full consistory, When I was made Archbishop, he approved me. And how should he have sent me Legate hither, Deeming me heretic ? and what heresy since 1 But he was evermore mine enemy. And hates the Spaniara-^fiery-choleric, A drinker of black, strong, volcanic wines. That ever make him fierier. I, a heretic ? Your Highness knows that in pursuing heresy I have gone beyond your late Lord Chancellor, — He cried Enough ! enough ! before his death. — Gone beyond him and mine own natural ^an (It was God's cause) ; so far they call me nbw, .The scourge and butchw of their English chukih.^ JL iSH^^^^^ ;»■■ 80KNE H.] Queen Mary. Mart. 17» Have courage, your reward is Heaven itself. -3P- Pole. They groan amen ; they swarm into the fire Like flies— for what ? no dogma. They know nothing ; They burn for nothing, Mary, You have done your beat, Pole. Have done my best, and as a faithful son, That all day long nath wrought his father's work, When back he comes at eveiiing hath the door Shut on him by the father whom he loved, His early follies cast into his teeth, And *fte poor son tum'd out into the street ^o sleep,-4io die— I shall die of it, cousin. Mary. I .pray you be not so disconsolate ; I still will do mine utmost with the Pope. Poor cousin. v Have I not been the fast friend of your life Since mine began, and it was thought we two Might make one flesh, and cleave unto each other As man and wife. ■ . r* " ^ ■ Pole. . ',' " ^ . • ' Ah, cousin, I remember, jjfeHowJ! would dandle you upon my knee At lisping age. I w^^faM you dancing once With your huge f^^ii|;^^e looJc'd the Great Harry, You but hiis cockboa^ j pettily you did it, And innocently. No^we wore not made One flesh in happiness, ho happiness here ; ^.«< ( 174 Queen Mary. [act r. " But now we are .made one fl6sh in misery ; Our brideamaids are not lovely — Disappointment, Ingratitude, Injugtice, Evil-tongue, , Labour-in- vain. ° ■ ; ^ Mary. Surely, not all in vain. ■ ^ ^ Peace, couBin, peacQ ! I am sad at heart myself. ' "^ Pole. Our altar is a mound of dead men's clay, Dug frorti the grave that yawM for us bejgpnd ; And tliere is one Death stan^behind- the Groom, And there is one Death stands behind the Bride— MAR^r Have you been looking at the ** Dance of Death ?' Pole. " »\ No ; .but, these lijarellous papers whicJi I found Strewn in your rsod Queen and Car&inal Pole." Hhi^last— I dare not read it to t, > ( Mary, H {Afiu)(' V Away Why do you bring me these ? 1 thought you know mo better. ,1 never read, ^ 1 tear them ^ they come back upon my jjreams. The hands that write them should be burnt clean olf As Cranmer'8,.ahd the fiends that utter them Ti)ngue-torn with pincers, lashM to death, or lie * Faiiiishing in black cells, while famished rats Bat them alive. Why do they bring me these ? Do you-nnean to dAve me mad ? . ■ - ^ ••\ _ : ■ ' -■ ■■'■}, ■ r t k * ** I " 4 .^ \. [act r. SOBKE II.] Queen Mary. Pole. 176 nt, if. 'i. . -.f - I had forgotten How these poor libels trouble you. ( Your pardon, Sweet cousin, and farewell ! " bubble world, Whose colours in a momeftt break and fly ! " Why, who said that ? I know not— true enough ! \Puts up flic papers, alfbut thfi last, which falls. , Exit EmB. ^ s Aliob. n, If Cranmer's spirit were a mockinp; one, ^ And heard these two, th^e might be sport for him, Mary. Clarence, they hate mo ; even while I speak There lurks a silent dagger^ listening . In some dark closet, some long gallery, drawn, [Aside. And panting for my blood as I go by. -.! ■♦ ff*, Lady Clarence. 1 1; ' Nay, '^adam, there be loyal paf)6rs t/)o, Aijd I have often found them. « MarV. J Asiile Ip"''l^ ' • Find irtfe one ! •. ^,^ \ . ' Lady Clarbnob. ' v " * Ay, Madam ; but Sir'Mcholaa H|fc,h, the Chaaoellor, ■ '■.' Would pee yovr Highness. . jf '] { > • Mary. ^-^^^ s ' '-' ' Wherefore should I see him fi- f ■ ■ '■" V* ' ■ '' t " ' • ' '-'it' *' '''♦ ' ' LaDT CtARBNOB. > ■* , i •* "^-^ • \7©11, Mada^n, he may bring,you pews from Pl^ilip. ■ ■^ ' . ■ ;h«: '9 f i ^, yt 1 ^^H } IH^' ' - ^176 Queen Mary. , [aot ▼. \ M ^ Maey. So, Clarence, 1 * IIk ' Lady Clarhnob. ' . ' Hi' l| Let me first put up your hairt ; ., . It tumbles all abroad. t 1 IP • ■ ^ , 4 ' Mary. ■ l 1 And the ^ay dawn ' Of an old age that never wiU b€K*nine .^ Ib all the clearer seen. No, no ; what matters t Forlorn I am, anl am too weak to stir abroad. •< Tell my mind to the Council- to the |*arliamen( : Froolaim H. to the winds. Thou art cold thyself - To baM>lo of their coldness. C) woidd I were My father for an hofif ! Away now — quick ! 'Hi 1 hoped I had served God with all my mig It seems I have- not. Ah ! much heresy .Shelter'd in Calais. «Saint«> [ haw rbbuil L. ' ■ * th. ;iA. '8' li a I «• > 178' * Queen Mary. [aot v. ,* S( Your shrinea, set up your broken images ; Be comfortable to me. Suii'er not That my brief roign in England be defamed Thro' all her angry chronicles hereafter By loss of Calais. Grant me Calais. Philip, We have made war upon the Holy Father All for your sake ; what good cbuld como of that 1 Lady Claeence. No, Madam, not against the. Holy Father ? ' You did but help King Philip's war with Franco Your troops were u«ver down in Italy. Mary. I am a byword. Heretic and rebel Point at mo and majce merry. Philip gone ! And Calais gnie ! Time that I were gone too ! LAuiY Clarence. Nay, if the fetid gutter had' a voice And cried I was not cleaji, what should \ care 1 Or you, for heretic crie^ ? And I believe, Spite of your melancholy Sir Nicholas, . /Your England is as-loyal Hs myself. Mahy (seeing tlie paper dropt by Pole). There, there ' another paper»! Said you not Many of fheso w(Jr<§ loyiU ' Shall I try If this be one of 8U«h ? LAi>y <'t,AHRN(jE. o Let It. be let it ho. God pardon me ! I have never yet found <>nv {.Ssidf Makv (teacb). *' Your people hat© you as your buMband hate* ynw /' CTaronce, Clarence, wtiid.^ have f dt^d?^ i^q^f J Beyond all grace, all pardon j Mother of 0< d, t ,1 h t. «>■ A".- \. ■■ ^ ,/;'»CBNB II.]. Queen Mary. I Thou knowest never woman meant so well, And fared so ill in this dia^vstrous world. My peuple hate mo and desire xfiy death. Laoy C'larbnce. No, Madam, no. MAby, _ My husband hates me, and desijM my "death. Lady Clakenoe. No, Madam ; these are libels. / Mary. ' , I hate myself, and I desire my death. Lady CxAR|iNCE, S.%' A) 179 Long live yom- Majesty ! ShaM Alipo «ahg you One of her pleasant songs ? Alice, my child,. Bring us your lute (Alu:b gots). They say the gloom of Saul ^ ' ' Was liKhten'd. by young Da \f id's harp. ., , Mary. Too young ! And never knew a Phih^ {re-mtet- Alice). Give im the ' lute. 1 He hates me,_! * ' {She micja.) Hftfili'HB doom of woman hanpy in hotrothins,' ! lieauty passcH like a broath nud lovo Ih lost in loathincr : Lovr, my liit« ; apeak low, my lutts hut say the world ia nothing- ^ v, lute, It) ■ JiOW. ,t)W M>ve will hover foumi the, flowers when th«y^fir8t awaken ; h,yf will fly the falloji Inaf, and not^be overtaken ; Low. my luto ! oh, low my lute ! we fadu and are forsaken - Low, dear lut», low f , Takt ft nway ! nt>t low enough for me ! ^ i: i;^U££:A. '.f V, .i 180 , Queen Mary. ' [act ▼; Alice. Your Grace hath a low voice. >« MilRY. I How dare you say it 1 ^ Even for that he hates me. A low voice Lost in a wilderness where none can hea^ ! A voice of shipwreck on a shoreless sea y>3 / . . ^, •A low votce from the dust and from the grave {sitting on the ground). . . ^,*" There, am I low enough now 1 Alice. :,^. Good Lord ! how grim And ghastly loots her Grace,, With both hep knees drawn upward to her chin. There was an old-world tomb beside my father's, And this was open'd, and the dead were found Sitting, and in this fashion ; she looks a corpse. Enter Lady Magdalen Dacres. Lady MAGDApBN. Madam, the Count do Foria waits without, In hopes to see your Highness. • Lady Clarence {pointing to Mary). Wait he must — Her trance again. She neither sees nor hears, And may not speak for hours. Lady Magdalen. ; * Unhappiest Of Quoene and wivel and women. Alice {in tlie foregrownd with Lady MacIvalen). Of Philip. And all along \ fl ' \ ■^ ■ ^, 'M-. » [act ▼; ■'J>i. W > SCJlBNE 11.3 P\ Queen Mary. XiADY Magdalen. 181 I Not so loud 1 Our Clarence there Sees ever inch an aureole round the Queen, > It gilds the greatest wronger of her peace, Who stands the nearest to her. ' j Alice." Ay, this Philip ; I used to love the Queen with all my h6art — God help me, but methinks I love her less t'oT such a dotage upon such a man. I would I were as tall and strong as you. Lady Magdalen. I ^eem half -shamed at times to be so tall. Alice. ' • You are the stateliest deer in all the herd — Beyond his aim — but I am small and scandalous. And love to hoar bad tales of Philip. Why , Lady Magdalen. I never heard him utter worse of you Than that jjpu were low-statured. Alice . Does ho think Low stature. is low nature, or all women's Low as his own ? Lady Magdalen. ^ There you strike in the nail . ThitiiiBoarseneBS is a want of i)hantaay. It is the low man thinks the woman low ; Sin ia too dull to see beyond himself. m \ 182 Queen Mary. Alice. [act v. Ah, Magdalen, sin is bold as well as dull. How dared he ? Lady Maoralen, Stupid soldiers oft are bold. Poor lads, they see not what the gefneral sees, A risk of utter ruin, 1 am not Beyond his aim, or was not. Alice, Tell me, tell me - Who? Not you? save my credit with myself. Lady Magdalen. I never breathed it to a bird in the eaves, Would not for all the stars and maiden moon Our drooping Queen should know ! In Hampton C^virt My window look'd upon the corridor ; And I was robing ; — this poor throat of mine, Barer than I should wish a man to see it, — When he we speak of drove the window back, And, like a thief, push'd in his royal hand ; But by God's providence a good stout staff Lay near me ; and you know me strong of arm ; I do believe I lAmed his Majesty's For a day or two, tho', give the Devil his duo, m>:- I never fou|id he bore me any spite. Alicb. < ■ I would she could have Wedded that poor youth,- My Lord of Devon — light enough, Cod knows, And mix'd with Wyatt a rising— and the boy Not out of him' — but neither cold, coarse, cruel, And mure than all— nu Spaniard. [act v. OENE II.] Queen Mary. 18» "^ iADY Clarence, ^ Not so lo\id. Lord Devon, girls ! whaf are you whispering here Alice. Probing an old state-secret— how it chanped That this young Earl wras sent on foreign travel, Not lost his head. Lady Claeence. There was no proof against him. Alice. Nay, Madam ; did not Gardiner intercept • A letter which the Count do Noailles wrote To that dead traitor Wyatt, with full proof Of Courtenay'a treason ? What became of that I ' ' Lady Clarence. Some say th«t Gfardiner, out of love for him. Burnt it, and some relate that it was lost When VVyatt sack'd the Chancellor'% house in South wark. Let dead things rest. Alfmo in Italy. Alice, ' Ay, and with him who di^d Lady CLAnENCE. Much, changed, I hear, Had put off levity and pift gravcncss on. The forejign courts report him in his manner Noble as his young persen and old^iield.. It might be so— but all "is over no-wl| He caught a chill ^n the laj^oons of Venice, And died in PadUa. ' • ^ - N' -/ ' r^ - /^■•.' t * .» >-![■ r^ 1 m\ ;^ '■■^^^tiif- 184 •yliAe'^* ^ ■^.T" ^ Mary (ioo^iwgf wp suddenly). M ACT t. Died in the true faith ? Lady Clarence. * Ay, Madam, happily. . .^ Mary. ' . Happier he than T. Lady Magdalen. „ It seems her Highness hath awaken'd. Think you ihat 1 might dare to tell her that the Count—-- Mi.RY. , I will seo no man hence for evermore, Saving mv^nfessor and my cousin Pole. %■ Ttis What Count Lady Magdalen. p. de Feria, my dear lady. Mary. Lady Magdalen. The Count de Feria, from his Majesty King Philip. , Mary, Philfp ! quick ! loop up my hair! Throw cushions on that seat, and make it throne-like Arrange my dress— the gorgeous Indian shawl Ihat Phihp brought me in our happy days '— That covers all. So— am I somewhat Queenlike Bnde of the mightiest sovereign upon earth ? ' I i V Si SCENE ji.] Q^een Mary. • . Lady Claebncb. Ay, so your Grace would bide a moment yet. Mary. No, no, he brings a letter. I may die Before I read it. Let me see him at once. 185 Enter Count de Feria (M Feria. ■ ^ I trust your Grace is well, (aside) How her hand burng., Mary. I am not well,.but it will better me, Sir Comit, to read the letter which you brihg. Feria . o Madam, I bring no letter. Mary. How ! no letter ? Feria. His Highness is so vex'd with strange affairs— Mary. That hi«%wn wife is no affair of his. Feria. Nay, Madam, nay ! he sends his veriest love, And says, he will come quickly. mmmmmmm A -.*i" 3 ^ ■i*.- ■ wm wm — l_^ ■■,?■'■■ > / • P^ • /■ 1 y^ 1 i F^ ■ V ■ A ■ ^ ■• '^ 1 t> ' » ^1 • ■ ' ^'- 1 0> , - • ^1 ' « ' ^ ^^^1 ■ ( .4 ^ r- ^ ^M 1 - • k \ « t f ^ • '1 ^■■<| ^ i IMAQE EVALUATION TEST TAilGET (MT-3) -^ ^. 1.0 1.1 1.25 1.4 11.6 V <^ '/ » Hiotographic Sciences •Corporation i3 WIST MAIN STRUT WItSTH.N.Y. 14SM (n*)l7a-4903 1 * -. v ■. . ' ■"' ■ - ■ ■ '■-[■:_■■■_ ^- ; .- . ■ ...: f ^ . .■ ^ ^ '' ' ^ : '■„-■ V -■ w • > S ' t i "•* , * ^ ♦ ^ h /. 186 Queen Mary. Maby. [act ▼. . . Doth he, indeed ? You, BIT, do you remember what you said When last you came to England ? „ Feeia. ,- ^. , Madam, I brought My King s co^grafculationjKj it was hoped Your Highness was once more in happy state' To give him an heir male. Matiy. «. . , , , , Sir, you said more ; xou said he would come quickly. I had horses On all the road from D.over, day and night ; On all the road from Harwich, night and "flay ; But the chjld came not, and the husband came not ; And yet he will come quickly. . . Thou hast learnt Thy lesson, and I mine. There is no need For Philip so.to shame himseif again. Return, And tell him that I know ho comes no more, xTefl him at last^I know His love is dead, And that 'I am m state to bring forth death— Thou art commission'd to Elizabeth, And not to me ! . Fekia. T» * V II T , ^®''® compliments and wishes. But shall I take some message from your Grace ? MAiftr. Tell her to come and close my dying eyes, And wear my crown, and dauoo upon my grave. Fbbia. Then I may say your Grace will ^ee y^u^sister t Your Grace is too low-spirited. Air and sunshine. 5jh mak SCENE II.] Queen Mary. i^would we had you, Madam, in our warm Spain. /You droop in your dim London. |„. Makt. Have him away, I sicken of his readinesfl. Lady Claren'cb. My Lord Count, Her HighnesB is too ill for cwUoquy. FbrIA {hmelSf and Ussea her hmid). I wish her Highness better, {aside) How her *»»n^^*^«- SCENE IIL- A HQUSE NEAR LONDON. Elizabeth, Steward of the Household, Attendants. Elizabeth. „ There's half an angel wrong'd in your account ; Methinks I am all angel, that I bear it Without more ruffling. Cast it o er again. ■■' ''\ A "'■ • STEWAltib. I were whole devil if I wrong'd you Madanv^^ ^^^^^^^ to ■ Attendant. The Count de Foria^ from the King of Spain. msism^Km A * * ' 188 Queen Mary. Elizabkth. [aox v. Ah I— let him enter. Nay, you need not go : T> -xv XI- . ,- , [2^0 ^r Ladies. Kemain withm the chamber, but apart. We'll have no private conference. Welcome to England ! Mnter Fbria. Fbbia, Fair island star. . - Elizabeth. I shine ! What else, Sir Count ? Fbria. As far as France, and into Phillip's heart. My King would know if you be fairly serve. ^..^..^^.^,^^a...>.^.x^ai...^.:^iK^..^iir,.i,^^^^ ,1- ,r,>j^ >^. !•! 194 Qtteen Mi^ry. [Adr v. "«. , Lapy- Claebnob. Mine eyes are dim : what hath she written ? read. , • Alice. , ' " I am dying, Philip. J conie ,t(? me." . Lady IiIagdalbn. There— up and down, poor lady, up atid down. -'*, ■ ' AlIOB. ' : • ' - * And -how her shadow crosses one by one . - The moonlight casements pattem'd on the waH, Following her libe^r sorrow. 3he turns again. < . 't- \(^\j^^ siU and writes, - **• kdr V. ■ '■-'I xgavn. '.turns. dotoii. SOBNB v.] Queen Mary. 196 Jto your great King in amour therej his hand Upon hia hehnet. . ^ ^ ^ t*x u [Poi/nting to the pQr^a%t of PhilIp on the wall. I- ^ . ■ ' Mary. t)oth he not look noble ? I had heard of him in battle over seas, And I would have mywarrior all in arms. r He said it was not courtly ta stand helmeted Before the Queen. He had his gracious moment Altho' you'll not believe me. How he smiles As if he loved me yet ! * ' ^ Lady CiiAKiiiHOBr. - \ And so he does. > "A, Mary. / He never loved me— nay, he could not love me It was his f ather'3 policy against France. I am eleven years older than he,v Poor boy. Alice. That was a lusty boy, of twenty-seven ; Poor enough in God's grace i Mary. j- WP" — And all in vain ! The Queen of Scots is married to the Dauphin, And Charles, the lord of this low world is gone ; And all his wars and wisdoms past away j And in a moment I shall follow him. [Weeps. ■ 1 Lady Clarbnoe.^ Hay, dearest Lady, see your good physician. ' ^ ^ ■ \ • * i ;"\. V r 1 '% ^ V ^^m 190- ^f Queen Mdry. ^ Maby. . [act V, Drugisr— but he knows they cannot help me^— says That rest is all — tells me I mtist not think— - That I must rest — I shall rest by-and-by. Catch the wild cat, cage him, -and when he springs And nlaims himself as^ainst the bars, say * ' rest " : ' Why, you must kill hini if you would hate liim rest- Dead or a^ive you cannot make him happy, * ' Law Olakencb.' •" ' - ^ i - . Your Majesty has lived so pure a life, And done such mighty tilings bv^oly Church, I trust that God will make you nappy yet. \ Mary: ) What is the strange thing happiness ? Sit down here : Tell m& thine happiest hoiir. , ^ Lady'Clarekcb. /' ' I will, if that May make your Grace forget yourself a little. There runs a shallow/brook across our field For twenty miles,'wnere the black crow flies 6ve, And doth so bound and babble all the way As if itself were happjr. It»was May-time, And I was walking with the man I lo^d. I loved him, but I thought I was not loved. And both.Y^ere silent, letting the wild brook Speak for us— till he stoop'd and gatlier'd one From out a bed of thick forget-me-nots, " Lqok'd hafd and sweet at me, and gave it' me, I took it, tho' I did not know I took it, And put it in my bosom, and all at onco' < \ felt his arms about me, and his lips— r— Mary. I ■ God ! T have beelfi too slack, There are Hot Gospellers even too slack,.^ - among our guards- _^ •> 1 \ 4 *) * ■■ / J ' / \ 1 '■■ ....—.- ■ 1 ■ — 1 — .- -r — — _-_i — .-. — . ». 1 « * 1 • ■^^ -- a ;. ; '._ 1-.,...,^ . ' . ,; _ - ■ _.v ,. ' -■' *^ ,..-■■ ... ■• %'t -.- - • «...-', . . . -' T SOEMil v.] Queen Mwry.. 197 / • , ■< ^ -NobleB we daxednot_ touch. We have but burnt The heretic priest, workmen, and women iand children. . W The pade is keen as death. . » Mabt. This PhiUp shall not Stare in upcm me in my haggardness ; Old, miserable, diseased, Incapable of children. Come thou down. \Guts out the picture and throws it doivii. Lie there. (WaiU.) God, 1 have kiU'd my Philip. AuoK. No, Madam, you have but cut the canvas out. We can replace it. / ' All is well *hen ; rest — I will to rest ; he said, Fmust hiive rest. [Cries 'of " Elizabeth " in the street, A cry 1 What's that i Mizabeth ? revolt ? ■''*M' ./..i L.S.' ' 1 SCENB v.] Queen Mary. 199 A new Northumberland, another Wyatt ? I'll fight it on the threshold of the grave. Lady Clarence. Madam, your royal sister comes to see you. * Mart. I will not see her. Who knows if Boleyn's daughter be my sister ? I will see nofte except the priest. Your arm. [To Laby Clarence. O Saint of .^^on, with that sweet worn smile Among thy iflpent wrinkles — Help me hence. . [Exeunt. ^ The Priest pcisses. Enter Elizabeth and Sir William Cecil. EliI^abbth. (■' Oood counsel yours — No one in waiting ? still, jQ As if the chamberlain were Death himself !