. Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry . e, and my sighes unknowneAre all the physicke that my harmes onley hopes was in this goodly tree,Which I did plant in love, bring up in careBut all in vaine, for now to late I seeThe shales be mine, the kernels others areMy musique may be plaintes, my musique teares,If this be all the fruite my love-tree beares. 302 VISIT TO HAMPTON COURT. We step through the door on which Jane Shores spectralvisage is hung; and lo ! we are on the Queens Staircase,
. Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry . e, and my sighes unknowneAre all the physicke that my harmes onley hopes was in this goodly tree,Which I did plant in love, bring up in careBut all in vaine, for now to late I seeThe shales be mine, the kernels others areMy musique may be plaintes, my musique teares,If this be all the fruite my love-tree beares. 302 VISIT TO HAMPTON COURT. We step through the door on which Jane Shores spectralvisage is hung; and lo ! we are on the Queens Staircase, anddescend once more to the courts of Wolsey. Long as we havelingered in this old palace, we have had but a glimpse of antiquities, its pleasantness, and its host of paintings, cannotbe comprehended in a Visit; they require a volume; and a mostdelicious volume that would be, which should take us leisurelythrough the whole, giving us the spirit and the history, in ahearty and congenial tone, of its towers and gardens, and allthe renowned persons who have figured in its courts, or whoselimned shapes now figure on its WOLSEYS WELL.
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