By bonds of beeswax, like your creeping thing;
But your wise bees had stung him first to death.
THIRD MEMBER. Hush, hush!
You wrong the Chancellor: the clauses added
To that same treaty which the emperor sent us
Were mainly Gardiner's: that no foreigner
Hold office in the household, fleet, forts, army;
That if the Queen should die without a child,
The bond between the kingdoms be dissolved;
That Philip should not mix us any way
With his French wars--
SECOND MEMBER. Ay, ay, but what security,
Good sir, for this, if Philip----
THIRD MEMBER. Peace--the Queen, Philip, and Pole.
[_All rise, and stand_.
_Enter_ MARY, PHILIP, _and_ POLE.
[GARDINER _conducts them to the three chairs of state_.
PHILIP _sits on the_ QUEEN'S _left_, POLE _on her right_.
GARDINER. Our short-lived sun, before his winter plunge,
Laughs at the last red leaf, and Andrew's Day.
MARY. Should not this day be held in after years
More solemn than of old?
PHILIP. Madam, my wish
Echoes your Majesty's.
POLE. It shall be so.
GARDINER. Mine echoes both your Graces'; (_aside_) but the Pope--
Can we not have the Catholic church as well
Without as with the Italian? if we cannot,
Why then the Pope.
My lords of the upper house,
And ye, my masters, of the lower house,
Do ye stand fast by that which ye resolved?
VOICES.
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