Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 272 of 400
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# This Page: Running Prose This is a page of continuous verse narrative from *Albion's England*, a historical poem. The text describes the execution of a Scottish queen (apparently Mary, Queen of Scots, though not explicitly named until near the end as "Mary Stewards"). The passage details rumors of invasion, a writ of execution issued without the English Queen's knowledge, the condemned woman's dignified composure, her final messages to her son and servants, and her preparation for death on the scaffold, including religious items she carried and her refusal of Protestant prayers.
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ee a ok oo 4 i—_ ae 10.8 < Bk wt 66 | phap. B | a ALBIONS~ ENGLAND. E Sparns huge Navy,toucht before, great rumor now was fpreads ®p And that th’ fnuaders meant to make this Scotri{h Queene ahead .- | For which continued doubt of her in Englith hearts was fhead, iN | ot inthe Vulgars only but fome Nobles of this Land, 4 ho had(not knowing it our Queene)then got into their hand — The Writ of Execution ,that her Heading did purport: he which was executed foone,and ina folemne fort. ; - This nature-frended Lady(had fhe bin as wife as wittie, Vho by the Maffacres in France had learnt toleaue of Pittie, Made there too apt for bloody Aats,the Pope for itto blame) o take her death,too much deferu’d, her felfedid meekely frame. ) \She bids commend her to her Sonne,and will him to efchew Ill Practifes and Policies, for thence her Sorowes grew: True Romif{h,Scottt{h,and true French,tell all my Friends I die. | (When AZeluin(vnto whom fhe fpake)did, weeping, thus replie, ) |The wofulft Meffage,Madame,this thatever me befell, | (When of my Queene and Miftreffe Death I thall the tidings tell, | |She,kiffing him,fayes pray for me,and bids him fo farewell. Then of a debt was due from her (he didthe payment craue ‘ / ) y } And that her Scruants might enioy.thofe legacies fhe gaue,¢ ) And to attend her at her death fome of her owneto haue. All which the Earles commiffioned did yeeld vnto,and fo She to the black-clad Scaffold,there to take her death,did go. Now 44ary Stewards Troubles fhall haue ending once or twife She faid,and not to mone for her did giueto Hersaduife: ) | And whilft the Writ in reading was no more regarded it, } | Thenif ichadfecured or concerned her no whit. } | Beades at her Girdle hung,at end of them a Medall,and | An Agaus-Dei bout her necke,a croft-Chrift in her hand. 1 | They prayed her to feta-part thofe popifh Toyes,and pray } | In faith to Chrift,in onely whom her whole Saluation lay, ~ || And, offring then to pray with her,that Offer fhe withftood, _ —— ———— a 43 as iss ‘comicboo imine “S