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    Queen Mary: "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever."
    Queen Mary: "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever."
    Queen Mary: "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever."
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    Queen Mary: "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever."

    By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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    Alfred Tennyson was born on August 6th, 1809, in Somersby, Lincolnshire, the fourth of twelve children. Most of Tennyson's early education was under the direction of his father, although he did spend four unhappy years at a nearby grammar school. He left home in 1827 to join his elder brothers at Trinity College, Cambridge, more to escape his father than a desire for serious academic work. At Trinity he was living for the first time among young men of his own age who knew little of his problems. He was delighted to make new friends; he was handsome, intelligent, humorous, a gifted impersonator and soon at the center of those interested in poetry and conversation. That same year, he and his brother Charles published Poems by Two Brothers. Although the poems in the book were of teenage quality, they attracted the attention of the “Apostles," a select undergraduate literary club led by Arthur Hallam. The “Apostles” provided Tennyson with friendship and confidence. Hallam and Tennyson became the best of friends; they toured Europe together in 1830 and again in 1832. Hallam’s sudden death in 1833 greatly affected the young poet. The long elegy In Memoriam and many of Tennyson’s other poems are tributes to Hallam. In 1830, Tennyson published Poems, Chiefly Lyrical and in 1832 he published a second volume entitled simply Poems. Some reviewers condemned these books as “affected” and “obscure.” Tennyson, stung by the reviews, would not publish another book for nine years. In 1836, he became engaged to Emily Sellwood. When he lost his inheritance on a failed investment in 1840, the engagement was cancelled. In 1842, however, Tennyson’s Poems [in two volumes] was a tremendous critical and popular success. In 1850, with the publication of In Memoriam, Tennyson’s reputation was pre-eminent. He was also selected as Poet Laureate in succession to Wordsworth and, to complete a wonderful year, he married Emily Sellwood. At the age of 41, Tennyson had established himself as the most popular poet of the Victorian era. The money from his poetry [at times exceeding 10,000 pounds per year] allowed him to purchase a home in the country and to write in relative seclusion. His appearance—a large and bearded man, he regularly wore a cloak and a broad brimmed hat—enhanced his notoriety. In 1859, Tennyson published the first poems of Idylls of the Kings, which sold more than 10,000 copies in a fortnight. In 1884, he accepted a peerage, becoming Alfred Lord Tennyson. On October 6th, 1892, an hour or so after midnight, surrounded by his family, he died at Aldworth. It is said that the moonlight was streaming through the window and Tennyson himself was holding open a volume of Shakespeare. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.

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    Queen Mary: "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever."
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    Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) was a British poet. Born into a middle-class family in Somersby, England, Tennyson began writing poems with his brothers as a teenager. In 1827, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, joining a secret society known as the Cambridge Apostles and publishing his first book of poems, a collection of juvenile verse written by Tennyson and his brother Charles. He was awarded the Chancellor’s Gold Medal in 1829 for his poem “Timbuktu” and, in 1830, published Poems Chiefly Lyrical, his debut individual collection. Following the death of his father in 1831, Tennyson withdrew from Cambridge to care for his family. His second volume of poems, The Lady of Shalott (1833), was a critical and commercial failure that put his career on hold for the next decade. That same year, Tennyson’s friend Arthur Hallam died from a stroke while on holiday in Vienna, an event that shook the young poet and formed the inspiration for his masterpiece, In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850). The poem, a long sequence of elegiac lyrics exploring themes of loss and mourning, helped secure Tennyson the position of Poet Laureate, to which he was appointed in 1850 following the death of William Wordsworth. Tennyson would hold the position until the end of his life, making his the longest tenure in British history. With most of his best work behind him, Tennyson continued to write and publish poems, many of which adhered to the requirements of his position by focusing on political and historical themes relevant to the British royal family and peerage. An important bridge between Romanticism and the Pre-Raphaelites, Tennyson remains one of Britain’s most popular and influential poets.

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      Queen Mary - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

      Queen Mary by Alfred Lord Tennyson

      Alfred Tennyson was born on August 6th, 1809, in Somersby, Lincolnshire, the fourth of twelve children.

      Most of Tennyson's early education was under the direction of his father, although he did spend four unhappy years at a nearby grammar school. He left home in 1827 to join his elder brothers at Trinity College, Cambridge, more to escape his father than a desire for serious academic work. At Trinity he was living for the first time among young men of his own age who knew little of his problems. He was delighted to make new friends; he was handsome, intelligent, humorous, a gifted impersonator and soon at the center of those interested in poetry and conversation.

      That same year, he and his brother Charles published Poems by Two Brothers. Although the poems in the book were of teenage quality, they attracted the attention of the Apostles, a select undergraduate literary club led by Arthur Hallam. The Apostles provided Tennyson with friendship and confidence. Hallam and Tennyson became the best of friends; they toured Europe together in 1830 and again in 1832. Hallam’s sudden death in 1833 greatly affected the young poet. The long elegy In Memoriam and many of Tennyson’s other poems are tributes to Hallam.

      In 1830, Tennyson published Poems, Chiefly Lyrical and in 1832 he published a second volume entitled simply Poems. Some reviewers condemned these books as affected and obscure. Tennyson, stung by the reviews, would not publish another book for nine years.

      In 1836, he became engaged to Emily Sellwood. When he lost his inheritance on a failed investment in 1840, the engagement was cancelled.

      In 1842, however, Tennyson’s Poems (in two volumes) was a tremendous critical and popular success. In 1850, with the publication of In Memoriam, Tennyson’s reputation was pre-eminent. He was also selected as Poet Laureate in succession to Wordsworth and, to complete a wonderful year, he married Emily Sellwood.

      At the age of 41, Tennyson had established himself as the most popular poet of the Victorian era. The money from his poetry (at times exceeding 10,000 pounds per year) allowed him to purchase a home in the country and to write in relative seclusion. His appearance—a large and bearded man, he regularly wore a cloak and a broad brimmed hat—enhanced his notoriety. 

      In 1859, Tennyson published the first poems of Idylls of the Kings, which sold more than 10,000 copies in a fortnight. In 1884, he accepted a peerage, becoming Alfred Lord Tennyson.

      On October 6th, 1892, an hour or so after midnight, surrounded by his family, he died at Aldworth.  It is said that the moonlight was streaming through the window and Tennyson himself was holding open a volume of Shakespeare.

      He was buried in Westminster Abbey.

      Index of Contents

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE

      ACT I

      SCENE I―ALDGATE RICHLY DECORATED

      SCENE II―A ROOM IN LAMBETH PALACE

      SCENE III―ST. PAUL'S CROSS

      SCENE IV―LONDON. A ROOM IN THE PALACE

      SCENE V―A ROOM IN THE PALACE

      ACT II

      SCENE I―ALINGTON CASTLE

      SCENE II―GUILDHALL

      SCENE III―LONDON BRIDGE

      SCENE IV―ROOM IN THE GATEHOUSE OF WESTMINSTER PALACE

      ACT III

      SCENE I―THE CONDUIT IN GRACECHURCH

      SCENE II―ROOM IN WHITEHALL PALACE

      SCENE III―GREAT HALL IN WHITEHALL

      SCENE IV―WHITEHALL. A ROOM IN THE PALACE

      SCENE V―WOODSTOCK

      SCENE VI―LONDON. A ROOM IN THE PALACE

      ACT IV

      SCENE I―A ROOM IN THE PALACE

      SCENE II―OXFORD. CRANMER IN PRISON

      SCENE III―ST. MARY'S CHURCH

      ACT V

      SCENE I―LONDON. HALL IN THE PALACE

      SCENE II―A ROOM IN THE PALACE

      SCENE III―A HOUSE NEAR LONDON

      SCENE IV―LONDON. BEFORE THE PALACE

      SCENE V―LONDON. A ROOM IN THE PALACE

      ALFRED LORD TENNYSON – A SHORT HISTORY

      ALFRED LORD TENNYSON – A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY

      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.

      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 at elbow, and bald o' the back, and bursten at the toes, and down at heels.

      NOKES

      I was born of a true man and a ring'd wife, and I can't argue upon it; but I and my old woman 'ud burn upon it, that would we.

      MARSHALMAN

      What are you cackling of bastardy under the Queen's own nose? I'll have you flogg'd and burnt too, by the Rood I will.

      FIRST CITIZEN

      He swears by the Rood. Whew!

      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 pitifully, and of the good Lady Jane as a poor innocent child who had but obeyed her father; and furthermore, she said that no one in her time should be burnt for heresy.

      SECOND GENTLEMAN

      Well, sir, I look for happy times.

      FIRST GENTLEMAN

      There is but one thing against them. I know not if you know.

      SECOND GENTLEMAN

      I suppose you touch upon the rumour that Charles, the master of the world, has offer'd her his son Philip, the Pope and the Devil. I trust it is but a rumour.

      FIRST GENTLEMAN

      She is going now to the Tower to loose the prisoners there, and among them Courtenay, to be made Earl of Devon, of royal blood, of splendid feature, whom the council and all her people wish her to marry. May it be so, for we are many of us Catholics, but few Papists, and the Hot Gospellers will go mad upon it.

      SECOND GENTLEMAN

      Was she not betroth'd in her babyhood to the Great Emperor himself?

      FIRST GENTLEMAN

      Ay, but he's too old.

      SECOND GENTLEMAN

      And again to her cousin Reginald Pole, now Cardinal; but I hear that he too is full of aches and broken before his day.

      FIRST GENTLEMAN

      O, the Pope could dispense with his Cardinalate, and his achage, and his breakage, if that were all: will you not follow the procession?

      SECOND GENTLEMAN

      No; I have seen enough for this day.

      FIRST GENTLEMAN

      Well, I shall follow; if I can get near enough I shall judge with my own eyes whether her Grace incline to this splendid scion of Plantagenet.

      [Exeunt.

      SCENE II―A ROOM IN LAMBETH PALACE.

      CRANMER

      To Strasburg, Antwerp, Frankfort, Zurich, Worms,

      Geneva, Basle―our Bishops from their sees

      Or fled, they say, or flying―Poinet, Barlow,

      Bale, Scory, Coverdale; 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 PETER MARTYR

      PETER MARTYR

      Fly, Cranmer! were there nothing else, your name

      Stands first of those who sign'd the Letters Patent

      That gave her royal crown to Lady Jane.

      CRANMER

      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 young Edward might bequeath the crown

      Of England, putting by his father's will.

      Yet I stood out, till Edward sent for me.

      The wan boy-king, with his fast-fading eyes

      Fixt hard on mine, his frail transparent hand,

      Damp with the sweat of death, and griping mine,

      Whisper'd me, if I loved him, not to yield

      His Church of England to the Papal wolf

      And Mary; then I could no more―I sign'd.

      Nay, for bare shame of inconsistency,

      She cannot pass her traitor council by,

      To make me headless.

      PETER 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

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