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Mary Stuart
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2017
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Betrayed you to this wily Queen of Scots.
ELIZABETH
Oh, she shall pay me for it with her life!
Is the death-warrant ready?
BURLEIGH
'Tis prepared
As you commanded.
ELIZABETH
She shall surely die —
He shall behold her fall, and fall himself!
I've driven him from my heart. No longer love,
Revenge alone is there: and high as once
He stood, so low and shameful be his fall!
A monument of my severity,
As once the proud example of my weakness.
Conduct him to the Tower; let a commission
Of peers be named to try him. He shall feel
In its full weight the rigor of the law.
BURLEIGH
But he will seek thy presence; he will clear —
ELIZABETH
How can he clear himself? Does not the letter
Convict him. Oh, his crimes are manifest!
BURLEIGH
But thou art mild and gracious! His appearance,
His powerful presence —
ELIZABETH
I will never see him;
No never, never more. Are orders given
Not to admit him should he come?
BURLEIGH
'Tis done.
PAGE (entering)
The Earl of Leicester!
ELIZABETH
The presumptuous man!
I will not see him. Tell him that I will not.
PAGE
I am afraid to bring my lord this message,
Nor would he credit it.
ELIZABETH
And I have raised him
So high that my own servants tremble more
At him than me!
BURLEIGH (to the PAGE)
The queen forbids his presence.
[The PAGE retires slowly.
ELIZABETH (after a pause)
Yet, if it still were possible? If he
Could clear himself? Might it not be a snare
Laid by the cunning one, to sever me
From my best friends – the ever-treacherous harlot!
She might have writ the letter, but to raise
Poisonous suspicion in my heart, to ruin
The man she hates.
BURLEIGH
Yet, gracious queen, consider.
SCENE VI
LEICESTER (bursts open the door with violence, and enters with an imperious air).
LEICESTER
Fain would I see the shameless man who dares
Forbid me the apartments of my queen!
ELIZABETH (avoiding his sight)
ELIZABETH
Oh, she shall pay me for it with her life!
Is the death-warrant ready?
BURLEIGH
'Tis prepared
As you commanded.
ELIZABETH
She shall surely die —
He shall behold her fall, and fall himself!
I've driven him from my heart. No longer love,
Revenge alone is there: and high as once
He stood, so low and shameful be his fall!
A monument of my severity,
As once the proud example of my weakness.
Conduct him to the Tower; let a commission
Of peers be named to try him. He shall feel
In its full weight the rigor of the law.
BURLEIGH
But he will seek thy presence; he will clear —
ELIZABETH
How can he clear himself? Does not the letter
Convict him. Oh, his crimes are manifest!
BURLEIGH
But thou art mild and gracious! His appearance,
His powerful presence —
ELIZABETH
I will never see him;
No never, never more. Are orders given
Not to admit him should he come?
BURLEIGH
'Tis done.
PAGE (entering)
The Earl of Leicester!
ELIZABETH
The presumptuous man!
I will not see him. Tell him that I will not.
PAGE
I am afraid to bring my lord this message,
Nor would he credit it.
ELIZABETH
And I have raised him
So high that my own servants tremble more
At him than me!
BURLEIGH (to the PAGE)
The queen forbids his presence.
[The PAGE retires slowly.
ELIZABETH (after a pause)
Yet, if it still were possible? If he
Could clear himself? Might it not be a snare
Laid by the cunning one, to sever me
From my best friends – the ever-treacherous harlot!
She might have writ the letter, but to raise
Poisonous suspicion in my heart, to ruin
The man she hates.
BURLEIGH
Yet, gracious queen, consider.
SCENE VI
LEICESTER (bursts open the door with violence, and enters with an imperious air).
LEICESTER
Fain would I see the shameless man who dares
Forbid me the apartments of my queen!
ELIZABETH (avoiding his sight)
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