Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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SECOND CITIZEN. Hark! the trumpets. [_The Procession passes_, MARY _and_ ELIZABETH _riding side by side, and disappears under the gate_. CITIZENS. Long live Queen Mary! down with all traitors! God save her Grace; and death to Northumberland! [_Exeunt_. _Manent_ TWO GENTLEMEN. FIRST GENTLEMAN. By God's light a noble creature, right royal! SECOND GENTLEMAN. She looks comelier than ordinary to-day; but to my mind the Lady Elizabeth is the more noble and royal. FIRST GENTLEMAN. I mean the Lady Elizabeth. Did you hear (I have a daughter in her service who reported it) that she met the Queen at Wanstead with five hundred horse, and the Queen (tho' some say they be much divided) took her hand, call'd her sweet sister, and kiss'd not her alone, but all the ladies of her following. SECOND GENTLEMAN. Ay, that was in her hour of joy; there will be plenty to sunder and unsister them again: this Gardiner for one, who is to be made Lord Chancellor, and will pounce like a wild beast out of his cage to worry Cranmer. FIRST GENTLEMAN. And furthermore, my daughter said that when there rose a talk of the late rebellion, she spoke even of Northumberland |
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