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Two historical plays on the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth
Two historical plays on the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth Author:Thomas Heywood Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES AND VARIOUS READINGS TO THE FIRST PAKT OF IF YOU KNOW NOT ME, YOU KNOW NOBODY. Page 4, line 6, Into that war.] Unto that war, edit. 1606. Page ... more »5, line 24, Made to them.] Edit. 1606 omits " to." Page 5, line 33, Jar in the Princes' ears.] Jar in the Princess ears, edit. 1606, which may be right; but the change does not seem necessary, as the word " prince" was often, of old, applied to a queen. We follow the first edition, of 1605, in all cases where a change is not required by the obvious meaning of the poet. Page 6, line 3, And made first head with you at Framlingham.] Queen Mary sought shelter in Framlingham Castle, while the Duke of Northumberland was endeavouring to enforce the claim of Lady Jane Grey. " When the Lady Mary received the news of her brother's death, having long before been acquainted with the Duke of Northumberland's secret practices, she judged it unsafe to remain near London, where her enemies were in full power; and, therefore, pretending a fear of the plague, by reason of the sudden death of one of her domestics, she withdrew from St. Edmund's Bury, (her abode at that time) and in one day came to Framlingham Castle, in the county of Suffolk, about four score miles from London, and not far from the sea; by which, if the extremity of her fears required it, she might have an easy passage to France At the same time, news was brought that the people of Norfolk and Suffolk had taken their oaths to her."—Bishop Godwin, in Kennett, ii., 329. Stow says—" By this time word was brought to the Tower that the Lady Mary was fled to Framlingham Castle, in Suffolk, where the people of the country almost wholly resorted to her."—Annales, 1615, p. 1032. In the old copies of this play, the name of the place is printed Fromagham, according to the r...« less