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Mary Stuart
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2017
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And did he in my name
Deliver it?
BURLEIGH
No, that I cannot say.
ELIZABETH
And dared you then to execute the writ
Thus hastily, nor wait to know my pleasure?
Just was the sentence – we are free from blame
Before the world; yet it behooved thee not
To intercept our natural clemency.
For this, my lord, I banish you my presence;
And as this forward will was yours alone
Bear you alone the curse of the misdeed!
[To DAVISON.
For you, sir; who have traitorously o'erstepped
The bounds of your commission, and betrayed
A sacred pledge intrusted to your care,
A more severe tribunal is prepared:
Let him be straight conducted to the Tower,
And capital arraignments filed against him.
My honest Talbot, you alone have proved,
'Mongst all my counsellors, an upright man:
You shall henceforward be my guide – my friend.
SHREWSBURY
Oh! banish not the truest of your friends;
Nor cast those into prison, who for you
Have acted; who for you are silent now.
But suffer me, great queen, to give the seal,
Which, these twelve years, I've borne unworthily,
Back to your royal hands, and take my leave.
ELIZABETH (surprised)
No, Shrewsbury; you surely would not now
Desert me? No; not now.
SHREWSBURY
Pardon, I am
Too old, and this right hand is growing too stiff
To set the seal upon your later deeds.
ELIZABETH
Will he forsake me, who has saved my life?
SHREWSBURY
'Tis little I have done: I could not save
Your nobler part. Live – govern happily!
Your rival's dead! Henceforth you've nothing more
To fear – henceforth to nothing pay regard.
[Exit.
ELIZABETH (to the EARL of KENT, who enters)
Send for the Earl of Leicester.
KENT
He desires
To be excused – he is embarked for France.
The Curtain drops
notes
1
The picture of Ate, the goddess of mischief, we are acquaintedwith from Homer, II. v. 91, 130. I. 501. She is a daughter ofJupiter, and eager to prejudice every one, even the immortal gods.She counteracted Jupiter himself, on which account he seized her byher beautiful hair, and hurled her from heaven to the earth, whereshe now, striding over the heads of men, excites them to evil inorder to involve them in calamity. – HERDER.Shakspeare has, in Julius Caesar, made a fine use of this image: – "And Caesar's spirit ranging for revengewith Ate by his side, come hot from hell,Shall in these confines, with a monarch's voice,Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war."I need not point out to the reader the beautiful propriety ofintroducing the evil spirit on this occasion. – TRANSLATOR.
2
The document is now in the British Museum.
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