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A street in Westminster.
[Enter two Gentlemen, meeting one another]
FIRST GENTLEMAN
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You're well met | once a|gain.
SECOND GENTLEMAN
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So | are you.
FIRST GENTLEMAN
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You come | to take | your stand | here, and |
behold
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The La|dy Anne,| pass from her | coro|nation.
SECOND GENTLEMAN
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'Tis all | my bus|iness. At | our last
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The Duke | of Buck|ingham | came from | his
trial.
FIRST GENTLEMAN
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'Tis ve|ry true:| but that | time^of|fered
sorrow,
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This | gene|ral joy.
SECOND GENTLEMAN
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'Tis well:| the cit|izens (tri with prev)
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I am sure | have shown | at full | their roy|al
minds,
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As let |'em have | their rights,| they are ev|er
for||ward
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In ce|lebra|tion of | this day | with shows,
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Pageants,| and sights | of hon|or.
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nev|er great||er,
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Nor | I'll assure | you bet|ter tak|en sir.
SECOND GENTLEMAN
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May I | be bold | to ask | at what that |
contains,
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That pap|er in | your hand.
FIRST GENTLEMAN
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Yes, 'tis | the list
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Of those | that claim | their of|fices | this
day,
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By cust|om of | the cor|ona|tion.
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The Duke | of Suf|folk is | the first,| and
claims
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To be high | steward;| next the | Duke of |
Norfolk,
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He to | be earl | marshal:| you may read | the
rest.
SECOND GENTLEMAN
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I thank | you sir:| had I not | known
those^|customs,
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I should have | been be|holding | to your |
paper:
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But I be|seech you,| what's be|come of |
Katharine
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The prin|cess dow|ager?| How goes^her | business?
FIRST GENTLEMAN
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That I | can tell | you too.| The Arch|bishop
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Of Cant|erbury,| accomp|anied with | other
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Learned,| and reve|rend fath|ers of his | order,
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Held a late court | at Dun|stable, six |
miles^off
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From Amp|thill, where | the prin|cess lay,| to
which
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She was of|ten cit|ed by | them, but ap/peared not:
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And to | be short,| for not | appear|ance, and
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The king's late scrup|le, by | the main | assent
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Of all | these learn|ed men,| she was | divorced,
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And the / late mar|riage made | of none | effect:
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Since^which,| she was | removed | to Kim|bolton,
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Where she re|mains now* | sick.
SECOND GENTLEMAN
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A|las good | lady.
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The trump|ets sound:| stand close,
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The queen is | coming.
THE ORDER OF THE CORONATION
1. A lively flourish of Trumpets.
2. Then, two Judges.
3. Lord Chancellor, with the purse and mace before him.
4. Choristers, singing. Music.
5. Mayor of London, bearing the mace. Then Garter, in his coat of arms, and
on his head a gilt copper crown.
6. Marquess Dorset, bearing a scepter of gold, on his head a demi-coronal of
gold. With him, SURREY, bearing the rod of silver with the dove, crowned
with an earl's coronet. Collars of SS.
7. SUFFOLK, in his robe of estate, his coronet on his head, bearing a long
white wand, as high steward. With him, NORFOLK, with the rod of marshalship,
a coronet on his head. Collars of SS.
8. A canopy borne by four of the Cinque-ports; under it, QUEEN ANNE in her
robe; in her hair richly adorned with pearl, crowned. On each side her, the
Bishops of London and Winchester.
9. The old Duchess of Norfolk, in a coronal of gold, wrought with flowers,
bearing QUEEN ANNE's train.
10. Certain Ladies or Countesses, with plain circlets of gold without
flowers. They pass over the stage in order and state.
SECOND GENTLEMAN
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A roy|al train | believe | me: These | I know:
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Who's^that | that bears | the scep|ter?
FIRST GENTLEMAN
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Marquess | Dorset,
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And that | the Earl | of Sur|rey with | the rod.
SECOND GENTLEMAN
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A bold brave gent|leman.| That should be
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The Duke | of Suf|folk.
FIRST GENTLEMAN
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'Tis | the same:| high stew/ard.
SECOND GENTLEMAN
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And that | my Lord | of Nor|folk?
FIRST GENTLEMAN
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Yes.
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Heaven | bless thee. (hex with prev)
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Thou hast the | sweetest | face I | ever looked
on.
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Sir, as | I have | a soul,| she is an | angel;
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Our king | has all | the Ind|ies in | his arms,
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And more,| and rich|er, when | he strains | that
la||dy,
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I | cannot blame | his con|science.
FIRST GENTLEMAN
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They | that bear
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The cloth | of honor | over her,| are four
| barons
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Of the / Cinque-ports.
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Those men | are hap|py,
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And so | are all,| are near | her. \\
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I take | it, she | that car|ries up | the train,
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Is that / old nob|le la|dy, duch|ess of
Nor||folk.
FIRST GENTLEMAN
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It is,| and all | the rest | are count|esses.
SECOND GENTLEMAN
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Their cor|onets say | so. These | are stars |
indeed,
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And some|times^fal|ling ones.
FIRST GENTLEMAN
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No more | of that.
[Exit procession, and then a great flourish of trumpets. Enter a third
Gentleman]
FIRST GENTLEMAN
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God save | you sir.| Where have | you been |
broiling?
THIRD GENTLEMAN
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Among | the crowd | in the Ab|bey, where | a
fing||er
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Could not | be wedged | in^more:| I am | stifled
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With the / mere rank|ness of | their joy.
SECOND GENTLEMAN
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You saw || the ce|remony*?
THIRD GENTLEMAN
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That | I did.
FIRST GENTLEMAN
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How was | it?
THIRD GENTLEMAN
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Well || worth the | seeing.
SECOND GENTLEMAN
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Good sir,| speak it | to us?
THIRD GENTLEMAN
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As well | as I | am ab|le. The / rich stream
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Of lords,| and lad|ies, hav|ing brought | the
queen
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To a | prepared | place in the | choir, fell off
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A dist|ance from | her; while | her grace |
sat^down
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To rest | awhile,| some half | an hour,| or so,
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In a rich | chair of | state, op|posing | freely
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The beaut|y of | her person | to the | people.
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Believe | me sir,| she is the | goodliest | woman
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That ever | lay by man:| which when the | people
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Had the / full view | of, such | a noise | arose,
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As the shrouds | make at | sea, in | a stiff |
tempest,
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As loud,| and to as | many | tunes. Hats, cloaks,
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(Doublets,| I think)| flew^up,| and had | their
fa||ces
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Been loose,| this day | they had | been lost.|
Such joy
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I never | saw be|fore. Great-bel|lied women,
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That had | not half | a week | to go,| like^rams
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In the / old time | of war,| would shake | the
press
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And make |'em reel | before |'em. No |
man^liv||ing
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Could say | this is my | wife there, all | were
woven
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So strange|ly in / one piece.
SECOND GENTLEMAN
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But what | followed?
THIRD GENTLEMAN
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At length,| her grace | rose, and with | modest |
paces
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Came to the | altar,| where she | kneeled, and
saint-like
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Cast her fair^|eyes to | heaven, and | prayed de|voutly.
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Then rose again,| and bowed | her to the |
people:
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When by | the Arch|bishop | of Cant|erbury,
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She had | all the | royal | makings | of a queen;
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As ho|ly oil,| Edward | Confes|sor's crown,
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The rod,| and bird | of peace,| and all |
such^em||blems ??
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Laid nobly on her: which performed, the choir ????
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With all the | choicest | music | of the |
kingdom,
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Togeth|er sung | Te Deum.| So she | parted,
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And with the | same full state | paced^back |
again
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To York-|place, where*| the feast | is held.
FIRST GENTLEMAN
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Sir,
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You must || no more call | it York-|place,
that's past:
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For since | the card|inal fell,| that tit|le's
lost,
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'Tis now | the king's,| and called Whitehall.
THIRD GENTLEMAN
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I know it:
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But 'tis | so late|ly alt|ered, that the / old
name
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Is fresh | about | me.
SECOND GENTLEMAN
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What two | reverend | bishops
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Were those | that went | on each | side of | the
queen?
THIRD GENTLEMAN
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Stokesly and | Gardiner,| the one | of
Winch|ester,
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Newly | preferred | from the / king's sec|retary:
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The oth|er Lon|don.
SECOND GENTLEMAN
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He | of Winch|ester
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Is held | no* great | good* lov|er of the
arch|bishop's,
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The vir|tuous Cran|mer.
THIRD GENTLEMAN
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All | the land knows that:
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Howev|er, yet | there is no | great* breach,|
when it comes
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Cranmer | will find | a friend | will not |
shrink from him.
SECOND GENTLEMAN
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Who may* that | be, I | pray | you.
THIRD GENTLEMAN
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Thomas | Cromwell*,
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A man | in much | esteem | with the king,| and
tru||ly
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A worth|y friend.| The king | has made | him
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Master of the jewel house, ????
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And one | alrea/dy of the | privy | council.
SECOND GENTLEMAN
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He will | deserve | more.
THIRD GENTLEMAN
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Yes with|out all doubt. (tri with prev)
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Come gent/lemen,| ye shall | go my way,
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Which is | to the court,| and there | ye shall be
| my guests:
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Something | I can | command.| As I walk | thither,
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I'll tell | ye more.
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You may | command | us sir.
[Exeunt]