Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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STAFFORD. I think so. I came to feel the pulse of England, whether It beats hard at this marriage. Did you see it? BAGENHALL. Stafford, I am a sad man and a serious. Far liefer had I in my country hall Been reading some old book, with mine old hound Couch'd at my hearth, and mine old flask of wine Beside me, than have seen it: yet I saw it. STAFFORD. Good, was it splendid? BAGENHALL. Ay, if Dukes, and Earls, And Counts, and sixty Spanish cavaliers, Some six or seven Bishops, diamonds, pearls, That royal commonplace too, cloth of gold, Could make it so. STAFFORD. And what was Mary's dress? BAGENHALL. Good faith, I was too sorry for the woman To mark the dress. She wore red shoes! STAFFORD. Red shoes! BAGENHALL. Scarlet, as if her feet were wash'd in blood, As if she had waded in it. STAFFORD. Were your eyes |
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