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By salutation or by tender eyes;

She hath made a way for my desire to live;

Given ear to me or boldness to my breath;

I pray God cast me forth before day cease

Even to the heaviest place there is in hell。

Yea; if she be not stainless toward all men;

I pray this axe that I shall die upon

May cut me off body and soul from heaven。

Now for my soul's sake I dare pray to you;

Forgive me; madam。



QUEEN。

Yea; I do; fair sir:

With all my heart in all I pardon you。



CHASTELARD。

God thank you for great mercies。  Lords; set hence;

I am right loth to hold your patience here;

I must not hold much longer any man's。

Bring me my way and bid me fare well forth。



'As they pass out the QUEEN stays MARY BEATON。'



QUEEN。

Hark hither; sweet。  Get back to Holyrood

And take Carmichael with you:  go both up

In some chief window whence the squares lie clear

Seem not to know what I shall domark that

And watch how things fare under。  Have good cheer;

You do not think now I can let him die?

Nay; this were shameful madness if you did;

And I should hate you。



MARY BEATON。

Pray you love me; madam;

And swear you love me and will let me live;

That I may die the quicker。



QUEEN。

Nay; sweet; see;

Nay; you shall see; this must not seem devised;

I will take any man with me; and go;

Yea; for pure hate of them that hate him:  yea;

Lay hold upon the headsman and bid strike

Here on my neck; if they will have him die;

Why; I will die too:  queens have died this way

For less things than his love is。  Nay; I know

They want no blood; I will bring swords to boot

For dear love's rescue though half earth were slain;

What should men do with blood?  Stand fast at watch;

For I will be his ransom if I die。



'Exeunt。'



 



SCENE III。The Upper Chamber in Holyrood。



MARY BEATON seated; MARY CARMICHAEL at a window。





MARY BEATON。

Do you see nothing?



MARY CARMICHAEL。

Nay; but swarms of men

And talking women gathered in small space;

Flapping their gowns and gaping with fools' eyes:

And a thin ring round one that seems to speak;

Holding his hands out eagerly; no more。



MARY BEATON。

Why; I hear more; I hear men shout The Queen。



MARY CARMICHAEL。

Nay; no cries yet。



MARY BEATON。

Ah; they will cry out soon

When she comes forth; they should cry out on her;

I hear their crying in my heart。  Nay; sweet;

Do not you hate her? all men; if God please;

Shall hate her one day; yea; one day no doubt

I shall worse hate her。



MARY CARMICHAEL。

Pray you; be at peace;

You hurt yourself:  she will be merciful;

What; could you see a true man slain for you?

I think I could not; it is not like our hearts

To have such hard sides to them。



MARY BEATON。

O; not you;

And I could nowise; there's some blood in her

That does not run to mercy as ours doth:

That fair face and the cursed heart in her

Made keener than a knife for manslaying 

Can bear strange things。



MARY CARMICHAEL。

Peace; for the people come。

AhMurray; hooded over half his face

With plucked…down hat; few folk about him; eyes

Like a man angered; Darnley after him;

Holding our Hamilton above her wrist;

His mouth put near her hair to whisper with

And she laughs softly; looking at her feet。



MARY BEATON。

She will not live long; God hath given her

Few days and evil; full of hate and love;

I see well now。



MARY CARMICHAEL。

Hark; there's their cryThe Queen!

Fair life and long; and good days to the Queen!



MARY BEATON。

Yea; but God knows。  I feel such patience here

As I were sure in a brief while to die。



MARY CARMICHAEL。

She bends and laughs a little; graciously;

And turns half; talking to I know not whom

A big man with great shoulders; ah; the face;

You get his face nowwide and duskish; yea

The youth burnt out of it。  A goodly man;

Thewed mightily and sunburnt to the bone;

Doubtless he was away in banishment;

Or kept some march far off。



MARY BEATON。

Still you see nothing?



MARY CARMICHAEL。

Yea; now they bring him forth with a great noise;

The folk all shouting and men thrust about

Each way from him。



MARY BEATON。

Ah; Lord God; bear with me;

Help me to bear a little with my love

For thine own love; or give me some quick death。

Do not come down; I shall get strength again;

Only my breath fails。  Looks he sad or blithe?

Not sad I doubt yet。



MARY CARMICHAEL。

Nay; not sad a whit;

But like a man who losing gold or lands

Should lose a heavy sorrow; his face set;

The eyes not curious to the right or left;

And reading in a book; his hands unbound;

With short fleet smiles。  The whole place catches breath;

Looking at him; she seems at point to speak:

Now she lies back; and laughs; with her brows drawn

And her lips drawn too。  Now they read his crime

I see the laughter tightening her chin:

Why do you bend your body and draw breath?

They will not slay him in her sight; I am sure

She will not have him slain。



MARY BEATON。

Forth; and fear not:

I was just praying to myselfone word;

A prayer I have to say for her to God

If he will mind it。



MARY CARMICHAEL。

Now he looks her side;

Something he says; if one could hear thus far:

She leans out; lengthening her throat to hear

And her eyes shining。



MARY BEATON。

Ah; I had no hope:

Yea thou God knowest that I had no hope。

Let it end quickly。



MARY CARMICHAEL。

Now his eyes are wide

And his smile great; and like another smile

The blood fills all his face。  Her cheek and neck

Work fast and hard; she must have pardoned him;

He looks so merrily。  Now he comes forth

Out of that ring of people and kneels down;

Ah; how the helve and edge of the great axe

Turn in the sunlight as the man shifts hands

It must be for a show:  because she sits

And hardly moves her head this wayI see

Her chin and lifted lips。  Now she stands up;

Puts out her hand; and they fall muttering;

Ah!



MARY BEATON。

Is it done now?



MARY CARMICHAEL。

For God's love; stay there;

Do not look out。  Nay; he is dead by this;

But gather up yourself from off the floor;

Will she die too?  I shut mine eyes and heard

Sweet; do not beat your face upon the ground。

Nay; he is dead and slain。



MARY BEATON。

What; slain indeed?

I knew he would be slain。  Ay; through the neck:

I knew one must be smitten through the neck

To die so quick:  if one were stabbed to the heart;

He would die slower。



MARY CARMICHAEL。

Will you behold him dead?



MARY BEATON。

Yea:  must a dead man not be looked upon

That living one was fain of? give me way。

Lo you; what sort of hair this fellow had;

The doomsman gathers it into his hand

To grasp the head by for all men to see;

I never did that。



MARY CARMICHAEL。

For God's love; let me go。



MARY BEATON。

I think sometimes she must have held it so;

Holding his head back; see you; by the hair

To kiss his face; still lying in his arms。

Ay; go and weep:  it must be pitiful

If one could see it。  What is this they say?

So perish the Queen's traitors!  Yea; but so

Perish the Queen!  God; do thus much to her

For his sake only:  yea; for pity's sake

Do thus much with her。



MARY CARMICHAEL。

Prithee come in with me:

Nay; come at once。



MARY BEATON。

If I should meet with her

And spit upon her at her coming in

But if I live then shall I see one day

When God will smite her lying harlot's mouth

Surely I shall。  Come; I will go with you;

We will sit down together face to face

Now; and keep silence; for this life is hard;

And the end of it is quietness at last。

Come; let us go:  here is no word to say。



AN USHER。

Make way there for the lord of Bothwell; room

Place for my lord of Bothwell next the queen。







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