| ACT IV SCENE I | A street in Westminster. |
| [Enter two Gentlemen, meeting one another] |
| First Gentleman | You're well met once again. |
| Second Gentleman | So are you. |
| First Gentleman | You come to take your stand here, and behold |
| The Lady Anne pass from her coronation? |
| Second Gentleman | 'Tis all my business. At our last encounter, | 5 |
| The Duke of Buckingham came from his trial. |
| First Gentleman | 'Tis very true: but that time offer'd sorrow; |
| This, general joy. |
| Second Gentleman | 'Tis well: the citizens, |
| I am sure, have shown at full their royal minds-- | 10 |
| As, let 'em have their rights, they are ever forward-- |
| In celebration of this day with shows, |
| Pageants and sights of honour. |
| First Gentleman | Never greater, |
| Nor, I'll assure you, better taken, sir. | 15 |
| Second Gentleman | May I be bold to ask at what that contains, |
| That paper in your hand? |
| First Gentleman | Yes; 'tis the list |
| Of those that claim their offices this day |
| By custom of the coronation. | 20 |
| The Duke of Suffolk is the first, and claims |
| To be high-steward; next, the Duke of Norfolk, |
| He to be earl marshal: you may read the rest. |
| Second Gentleman | I thank you, sir: had I not known those customs, |
| I should have been beholding to your paper. | 25 |
| But, I beseech you, what's become of Katharine, |
| The princess dowager? how goes her business? |
| First Gentleman | That I can tell you too. The Archbishop |
| Of Canterbury, accompanied with other |
| Learned and reverend fathers of his order, | 30 |
| Held a late court at Dunstable, six miles off |
| From Ampthill where the princess lay; to which |
| She was often cited by them, but appear'd not: |
| And, to be short, for not appearance and |
| The king's late scruple, by the main assent | 35 |
| Of all these learned men she was divorced, |
| And the late marriage made of none effect |
| Since which she was removed to Kimbolton, |
| Where she remains now sick. |
| Second Gentleman | Alas, good lady! | 40 |
[Trumpets] |
| The trumpets sound: stand close, the queen is coming. |
| [Hautboys] |
| [THE ORDER OF THE CORONATION] |
| [1. A lively flourish of Trumpets.] |
| [2. Then, two Judges.] |
| [3. Lord Chancellor, with the purse and mace before him.] |
| [4. Choristers, singing.] |
| [Music] |
| [5. Mayor of London, bearing the mace. Then Garter, in his coat of arms, and on his head a gilt copper crown.] |
| [6. Marquess Dorset, bearing a sceptre of gold, on his head a demi-coronal of gold. With him, SURREY, bearing the rod of silver with the dove, crowned with an earl's coronet. Collars of SS.] |
| [7. SUFFOLK, in his robe of estate, his coronet on his head, bearing a long white wand, as high-steward. With him, NORFOLK, with the rod of marshalship, a coronet on his head. Collars of SS.] |
| [8. A canopy borne by four of the Cinque-ports; under it, QUEEN ANNE in her robe; in her hair richly adorned with pearl, crowned. On each side her, the Bishops of London and Winchester.] |
| [9. The old Duchess of Norfolk, in a coronal of gold, wrought with flowers, bearing QUEEN ANNE's train.] |
| [10. Certain Ladies or Countesses, with plain circlets of gold without flowers.] |
| [They pass over the stage in order and state] |
| Second Gentleman | A royal train, believe me. These I know: |
| Who's that that bears the sceptre? |
| First Gentleman | Marquess Dorset: |
| And that the Earl of Surrey, with the rod. | 45 |
| Second Gentleman | A bold brave gentleman. That should be |
| The Duke of Suffolk? |
| First Gentleman | 'Tis the same: high-steward. |
| Second Gentleman | And that my Lord of Norfolk? |
| First Gentleman | Yes; | 50 |
| Second Gentleman | Heaven bless thee! |
[Looking on QUEEN ANNE] |
| Thou hast the sweetest face I ever look'd on. |
| Sir, as I have a soul, she is an angel; |
| Our king has all the Indies in his arms, |
| And more and richer, when he strains that lady: | 55 |
| I cannot blame his conscience. |
| First Gentleman | They that bear |
| The cloth of honour over her, are four barons |
| Of the Cinque-ports. |
| Second Gentleman | Those men are happy; and so are all are near her. | 60 |
| I take it, she that carries up the train |
| Is that old noble lady, Duchess of Norfolk. |
| First Gentleman | It is; and all the rest are countesses. |
| Second Gentleman | Their coronets say so. These are stars indeed; |
| And sometimes falling ones. | 65 |
| First Gentleman | No more of that. |
| [Exit procession, and then a great flourish of trumpets] |
| [Enter a third Gentleman] |
| First Gentleman | God save you, sir! where have you been broiling? |
| Third Gentleman | Among the crowd i' the Abbey; where a finger |
| Could not be wedged in more: I am stifled |
| With the mere rankness of their joy. | 70 |
| Second Gentleman | You saw |
| The ceremony? |
| Third Gentleman | That I did. |
| First Gentleman | How was it? |
| Third Gentleman | Well worth the seeing. | 75 |
| Second Gentleman | Good sir, speak it to us. |
| Third Gentleman | As well as I am able. The rich stream |
| Of lords and ladies, having brought the queen |
| To a prepared place in the choir, fell off
|
| A distance from her; while her grace sat down | 80 |
| To rest awhile, some half an hour or so, |
| In a rich chair of state, opposing freely |
| The beauty of her person to the people. |
| Believe me, sir, she is the goodliest woman |
| That ever lay by man: which when the people | 85 |
| Had the full view of, such a noise arose |
| As the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest, |
| As loud, and to as many tunes: hats, cloaks-- |
| Doublets, I think,--flew up; and had their faces |
| Been loose, this day they had been lost. Such joy | 90 |
| I never saw before. Great-bellied women, |
| That had not half a week to go, like rams |
| In the old time of war, would shake the press, |
| And make 'em reel before 'em. No man living |
| Could say 'This is my wife' there; all were woven | 95 |
| So strangely in one piece. |
| Second Gentleman | But, what follow'd? |
| Third Gentleman | At length her grace rose, and with modest paces |
| Came to the altar; where she kneel'd, and saint-like |
| Cast her fair eyes to heaven and pray'd devoutly. | 100 |
| Then rose again and bow'd her to the people: |
| When by the Archbishop of Canterbury |
| She had all the royal makings of a queen; |
| As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown, |
| The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems | 105 |
| Laid nobly on her: which perform'd, the choir, |
| With all the choicest music of the kingdom, |
| Together sung 'Te Deum.' So she parted, |
| And with the same full state paced back again |
| To York-place, where the feast is held. | 110 |
| First Gentleman | Sir, |
| You must no more call it York-place, that's past; |
| For, since the cardinal fell, that title's lost: |
| 'Tis now the king's, and call'd Whitehall. |
| Third Gentleman | I know it; | 115 |
| But 'tis so lately alter'd, that the old name |
| Is fresh about me. |
| Second Gentleman | What two reverend bishops |
| Were those that went on each side of the queen? |
| Third Gentleman | Stokesly and Gardiner; the one of Winchester, | 120 |
| Newly preferr'd from the king's secretary, |
| The other, London. |
| Second Gentleman | He of Winchester |
| Is held no great good lover of the archbishop's, |
| The virtuous Cranmer. | 125 |
| Third Gentleman | All the land knows that: |
| However, yet there is no great breach; when it comes, |
| Cranmer will find a friend will not shrink from him. |
| Second Gentleman | Who may that be, I pray you? |
| Third Gentleman | Thomas Cromwell; | 130 |
| A man in much esteem with the king, and truly |
| A worthy friend. The king has made him master |
| O' the jewel house, |
| And one, already, of the privy council. |
| Second Gentleman | He will deserve more. | 135 |
| Third Gentleman | Yes, without all doubt. |
| Come, gentlemen, ye shall go my way, which |
| Is to the court, and there ye shall be my guests: |
| Something I can command. As I walk thither, |
| I'll tell ye more. | 140 |
| Both | You may command us, sir. |
| [Exeunt] |
The Essential Student History Quiz (with answers and illustrations)