Queen Mary and Harold

Queen Mary and Harold

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QUEEN MARY and HAROLD
BY
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON, POET LAUREATE
[Illustration]

CONTENTS
QUEEN MARY: A DRAMA HAROLD: A DRAMA

QUEEN MARY: A DRAMA.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE QUEEN MARY. PHILIP, _King of Naples
and Sicily, afterwards King of Spain_. THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH.
REGINALD POLE, Cardinal and Papal Legate. SIMON RENARD,
Spanish Ambassador. LE SIEUR DE NOAILLES, French Ambassador.
THOMAS CRANMER, Archbishop of Canterbury. SIR NICHOLAS
HEATH, _Archbishop of York; Lord Chancellor after Gardiner_.
EDWARD COURTENAY, Earl of Devon. LORD WILLIAM
HOWARD, _afterwards Lord Howard, and Lord High Admiral_.
LORD WILLIAMS OF THAME. LORD PAGET. LORD PETRE.
STEPHEN GARDINER, Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor.
EDMUND BONNER, Bishop of London. THOMAS THIRLBY,
Bishop of Ely. SIR THOMAS WYATT | SIR THOMAS STAFFORD |
Insurrectionary Leaders. SIR RALPH BAGENHALL. SIR ROBERT
SOUTHWELL. SIR HENRY BEDINGFIELD. SIR WILLIAM CECIL.
SIR THOMAS WHITE, Lord Mayor of London. THE DUKE OF

ALVA | THE COUNT DE FERIA | attending on Philip. PETER
MARTYR. FATHER COLE. FATHER BOURNE. VILLA GARCIA.
SOTO. CAPTAIN BRETT | ANTHONY KNYVETT | Adherents of
Wyatt. PETERS, Gentleman of Lord Howard. ROGER, Servant to
Noailles. WILLIAM, Servant to Wyatt. STEWARD OF HOUSEHOLD
to the Princess Elizabeth. OLD NOKES and NOKES.
MARCHIONESS OF EXETER, Mother of Courtenay. LADY
CLARENCE | LADY MAGDALEN DACRES | Ladies in Waiting to
the Queen. ALICE | to the Princess Elizabeth. MAID OF HONOUR |
JOAN | TIB | two Country Wives.
Lords and other Attendants, Members of the Privy Council, Members
of Parliament, Two Gentlemen, Aldermen, Citizens, Peasants, Ushers,
Messengers, Guards, Pages, Gospellers, Marshalmen, etc.

QUEEN MARY.

ACT I.
SCENE I.--ALDGATE RICHLY DECORATED.
CROWD. MARSHALMEN.
MARSHALMAN. Stand back, keep a clear lane! When will her
Majesty pass, sayst thou? why now, even now; wherefore draw back
your heads and your horns before I break them, and make what noise
you will with your tongues, so it be not treason. Long live Queen Mary,
the lawful and legitimate daughter of Harry the Eighth! Shout, knaves!
CITIZENS. Long live Queen Mary!
FIRST CITIZEN. That's a hard word, legitimate; what does it mean?
SECOND CITIZEN. It means a bastard.
THIRD CITIZEN. Nay, it means true-born.
FIRST CITIZEN. Why, didn't the Parliament make her a bastard?
SECOND CITIZEN. No; it was the Lady Elizabeth.
THIRD CITIZEN. That was after, man; that was after.
FIRST CITIZEN. Then which is the bastard?
SECOND CITIZEN. Troth, they be both bastards by Act of Parliament
and Council.
THIRD CITIZEN. Ay, the Parliament can make every true-born man of
us a bastard. Old Nokes, can't it make thee a bastard? thou shouldst
know, for thou art as white as three Christmasses.

OLD NOKES (_dreamily_). Who's a-passing? King Edward or King
Richard?
THIRD CITIZEN. No, old Nokes.
OLD NOKES. It's Harry!
THIRD CITIZEN. It's Queen Mary.
OLD NOKES. The blessed Mary's a-passing! [Falls on his knees.
NOKES. Let father alone, my masters! he's past your questioning.
THIRD CITIZEN. Answer thou for him, then thou'rt no such cockerel
thyself, for thou was born i' the tail end of old Harry the Seventh.
NOKES. Eh! that was afore bastard-making began. I was born true man
at five in the forenoon i' the tail of old Harry, and so they can't make
me a bastard.
THIRD CITIZEN. But if Parliament can make the Queen a bastard,
why, it follows all the more that they can make thee one, who art fray'd
i' the knees, and out