Shakespeare's Christmas gift to Queen Bess in the year 1596 . Queen Elizabeth liftening to the Play Gift to Queen Befs 45 Chanting faint hymns to the cold, fruitlefs blefsed they that mafter so their undergo fuch maiden pilgrimage;But earthlier happy is the rofe diftilldThan that which withering on the virgin thornGrows, lives, and dies in Jingle blefsednefs. The tributes to the maiden pilgrimageand Jingle blefsednefs win from theQueens countenance a glow which agehas had no power to diminifh. The high-way to favour with the Virgin ^ueen, as [every 46 Shakefpeares Chriftma

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Shakespeare's Christmas gift to Queen Bess in the year 1596 . Queen Elizabeth liftening to the Play Gift to Queen Befs 45 Chanting faint hymns to the cold, fruitlefs blefsed they that mafter so their undergo fuch maiden pilgrimage;But earthlier happy is the rofe diftilldThan that which withering on the virgin thornGrows, lives, and dies in Jingle blefsednefs. The tributes to the maiden pilgrimageand Jingle blefsednefs win from theQueens countenance a glow which agehas had no power to diminifh. The high-way to favour with the Virgin ^ueen, as [every 46 Shakefpeares Chriftmas every courtier and every writer knows, liesthrough praifes of her voluntary Jiate ofcelibacy. Thus threatened, Hermia is urged byLyfander to a clandejline marriage:— If thou lovft me then. Steal forth thy father s houfe to-morrow night. And in the wood, a league without the town. Where I did meet thee once with Helena To do obfervance to a morn of May, There will I ftay for thee. [H ermia. In the wood, a league without the townTo do obfervance to a morn of Mayy iS

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