Queen Mary and Harold.

by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

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 Amba.s.sador_.

LE SIEUR DE NOAILLES, _French Amba.s.sador_.

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 pa.s.s, 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 b.a.s.t.a.r.d.

THIRD CITIZEN. Nay, it means true-born.

FIRST CITIZEN. Why, didn't the Parliament make her a b.a.s.t.a.r.d?

SECOND CITIZEN. No; it was the Lady Elizabeth.

THIRD CITIZEN. That was after, man; that was after.

FIRST CITIZEN. Then which is the b.a.s.t.a.r.d?

SECOND CITIZEN. Troth, they be both b.a.s.t.a.r.ds by Act of Parliament and Council.

THIRD CITIZEN. Ay, the Parliament can make every true-born man of us a b.a.s.t.a.r.d. Old Nokes, can't it make thee a b.a.s.t.a.r.d? thou shouldst know, for thou art as white as three Christma.s.ses.

OLD NOKES (_dreamily_). Who's a-pa.s.sing? 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-pa.s.sing!

[_Falls on his knees_.

NOKES. Let father alone, my masters! he's past your questioning.