Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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page 72 of 333 (21%)
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On friend and foe. Your gentlemen-at-arms,
If this be not your Grace's order, cry To have the gates set wide again, and they With their good battleaxes will do you right Against all traitors. MARY. They are the flower of England; set the gates wide. [_Exit_ SOUTHWELL. _Enter_ COURTENAY. COURTENAY. All lost, all lost, all yielded! A barge, a barge! The Queen must to the Tower. MARY. Whence come you, sir? COURTENAY. From Charing Cross; the rebels broke us there, And I sped hither with what haste I might To save my royal cousin. MARY. Where is Pembroke? COURTENAY. I left him somewhere in the thick of it. MARY. Left him and fled; and thou that would'st be King, And hast nor heart nor honour. I myself Will down into the battle and there bide The upshot of my quarrel, or die with those That are no cowards and no Courtenays. |
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