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Mary Stuart
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2017
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A nobleman from court.
MORTIMER
It is Lord Burleigh.
Collect yourself, my queen, and strive to hear
The news he brings with equanimity.
[He retires through a side door, and KENNEDY follows him.
SCENE VII
Enter LORD BURLEIGH, and PAULET.
PAULET (to MARY)
You wished to-day assurance of your fate;
My Lord of Burleigh brings it to you now;
Hear it with resignation, as beseems you.
MARY
I hope with dignity, as it becomes
My innocence, and my exalted station.
BURLEIGH
I come deputed from the court of justice.
MARY
Lord Burleigh lends that court his willing tongue,
Which was already guided by his spirit.
PAULET
You speak as if no stranger to the sentence.
MARY
Lord Burleigh brings it; therefore do I know it.
PAULET
[It would become you better, Lady Stuart,
To listen less to hatred.
MARY
I but name
My enemy: I said not that I hate him.]
But to the matter, sir.
BURLEIGH
You have acknowledged
The jurisdiction of the two-and-forty.
MARY
My lord, excuse me, if I am obliged
So soon to interrupt you. I acknowledged,
Say you, the competence of the commission?
I never have acknowledged it, my lord;
How could I so? I could not give away
My own prerogative, the intrusted rights
Of my own people, the inheritance
Of my own son, and every monarch's honor
[The very laws of England say I could not.]
It is enacted by the English laws
That every one who stands arraigned of crime
Shall plead before a jury of his equals:
Who is my equal in this high commission?
Kings only are my peers.
BURLEIGH
But yet you heard
The points of accusation, answered them
Before the court —
MARY
'Tis true, I was deceived
By Hatton's crafty counsel: – he advised me,
For my own honor, and in confidence
In my good cause, and my most strong defence,
To listen to the points of accusation,
And prove their falsehoods. This, my lord, I did
From personal respect for the lords' names,
Not their usurped charge, which I disclaim.
BURLEIGH
Acknowledge you the court, or not, that is
Only a point of mere formality,
Which cannot here arrest the course of justice.
MORTIMER
It is Lord Burleigh.
Collect yourself, my queen, and strive to hear
The news he brings with equanimity.
[He retires through a side door, and KENNEDY follows him.
SCENE VII
Enter LORD BURLEIGH, and PAULET.
PAULET (to MARY)
You wished to-day assurance of your fate;
My Lord of Burleigh brings it to you now;
Hear it with resignation, as beseems you.
MARY
I hope with dignity, as it becomes
My innocence, and my exalted station.
BURLEIGH
I come deputed from the court of justice.
MARY
Lord Burleigh lends that court his willing tongue,
Which was already guided by his spirit.
PAULET
You speak as if no stranger to the sentence.
MARY
Lord Burleigh brings it; therefore do I know it.
PAULET
[It would become you better, Lady Stuart,
To listen less to hatred.
MARY
I but name
My enemy: I said not that I hate him.]
But to the matter, sir.
BURLEIGH
You have acknowledged
The jurisdiction of the two-and-forty.
MARY
My lord, excuse me, if I am obliged
So soon to interrupt you. I acknowledged,
Say you, the competence of the commission?
I never have acknowledged it, my lord;
How could I so? I could not give away
My own prerogative, the intrusted rights
Of my own people, the inheritance
Of my own son, and every monarch's honor
[The very laws of England say I could not.]
It is enacted by the English laws
That every one who stands arraigned of crime
Shall plead before a jury of his equals:
Who is my equal in this high commission?
Kings only are my peers.
BURLEIGH
But yet you heard
The points of accusation, answered them
Before the court —
MARY
'Tis true, I was deceived
By Hatton's crafty counsel: – he advised me,
For my own honor, and in confidence
In my good cause, and my most strong defence,
To listen to the points of accusation,
And prove their falsehoods. This, my lord, I did
From personal respect for the lords' names,
Not their usurped charge, which I disclaim.
BURLEIGH
Acknowledge you the court, or not, that is
Only a point of mere formality,
Which cannot here arrest the course of justice.
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