Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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COURTENAY. I do not love your Grace should call me coward. _Enter another_ MESSENGER. MESSENGER. Over, your Grace, all crush'd; the brave Lord William Thrust him from Ludgate, and the traitor flying To Temple Bar, there by Sir Maurice Berkeley Was taken prisoner. MARY. To the Tower with _him_! MESSENGER. 'Tis said he told Sir Maurice there was one Cognisant of this, and party thereunto, My Lord of Devon. MARY. To the Tower with _him_! COURTENAY. O la, the Tower, the Tower, always the Tower, I shall grow into it--I shall be the Tower. MARY. Your Lordship may not have so long to wait. Remove him! COURTENAY. La, to whistle out my life, And carve my coat upon the walls again! [_Exit_ COURTENAY _guarded_. MESSENGER. Also this Wyatt did confess the Princess Cognisant thereof, and party thereunto. |
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