The Stratford gallery; . to Henry, shedictates a farewell letter to him, over which even he, monster ashe is, sheds tears; and having carefully instructed her women asto their last sad offices, she gives up her troubled ghost: I thank you, honest lord. Remember meIn all humility unto his highness :Say his long trouble now is passingOyt of this world; tell him in death I blessd him,For so I will.—Mine eyes grow dim.—Farewell,My lord !—Griffith, farewell!—Nay, Patience,You must not leave me yet. I must to bed ;Call in more women.—When I am dead, good wench,Let me be used with honor ; strew me ov
The Stratford gallery; . to Henry, shedictates a farewell letter to him, over which even he, monster ashe is, sheds tears; and having carefully instructed her women asto their last sad offices, she gives up her troubled ghost: I thank you, honest lord. Remember meIn all humility unto his highness :Say his long trouble now is passingOyt of this world; tell him in death I blessd him,For so I will.—Mine eyes grow dim.—Farewell,My lord !—Griffith, farewell!—Nay, Patience,You must not leave me yet. I must to bed ;Call in more women.—When I am dead, good wench,Let me be used with honor ; strew me overWith maiden flowers, that all the world may knowI was a chaste wife to my grave ; embalm me,Then lay me forth ; although unqueend, yet likeA queen, and daughter to a king, inter can no more.— * * * * * * ****** Pat. Do you note How much her grace is alterd on a sudden—How long her face is drawn ? How pale she looks,And of an earthly cold ! Mark you her eyes ? Orif. She is going, wench ; pray, pray !. ANtfE BULLEN. Anne Bulled was the daughter of Sir Thomas Bullen, andsecond wife to Henry VIII. of England. While still very young,slie, as maid of honor, accompanied Henrys sister, the PrincessMary, to France, when the latter was united to Louis XII. ;• andafterwards she served, in the same capacity in the households ofseveral royal ladies of that country. On returning home she wasappointed to attend on Queen Katharine of Arragon, and at onceentered upon her elegant duties. In the story of Henrys first wife, Katharine, we have told how-Anne supplanted her mistress iu the affections of her husbandjand how, for her sake, the Spanish woman was put away, and thefamous courtdjeauty crowned queen. Of this marriage was bornElizabeth, with whose christening the play of Kimj Henry Anne Bullens supremacy over the fickle mind of her royalhusband was of but short duration; for she, in her turn, was sup-planted by one of her maids of honor, Jane Seymour. A
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