A foreign land is now her choice, Of those that say they love her. And smooth as mirrors each the while And then the gay and glittering crowd Where mounting high from clumps of oak Thus seized and speechless had she stood, And then if silence will not speak, But could she have revealed to him Who questioned thus, the vision bright That mind and memory both must fail, And thought its functions must forego, Or ere that land Could pictured be less bright and fair To her whose home and heart are there! That land the loveliest that eye can see The stranger ne'er forgets, then how should she? H -Cease the soft sounds, the mellow voice is mute, And quivers to a close that plaintive lady's lute.Pass we to matters masculine; to strains Where weightier themes may pay the reader's pains. Again disclose we counsels of the wise, Deeds of the warlike:-let the Curtain rise. PHILIP VAN Part the Second. "Oh Lord, what is thys worldys blysse, My somer's day in lusty May THE NOT-BROWNE MAYD. "I say, ye Commoners, why were ye so stark mad, Where was youre wit and reason ye shuld have had, Yowre naturall lord?" SKELTON. (SECOND PART.) MEN OF FLANDERS. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE, Regent of Flanders. PETER VAN DEN BOSCH. VAN STOCKENSTROM, VAN WHELK, } Citizens of Ypres. The Burgomaster and divers Burgesses of Ypres, Officers, Messengers, &c. MEN OF FRANCE. KING CHARLES THE SIXTH. THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY, his uncle, and heir presumptive to the Earl of Flanders. THE DUKE OF BOURBON, also uncle to the king. SIR FLEUREANT OF HEURLÉE, a Follower of the Duke of Bourbon. SIR OLIVER OF CLISSON, Constable of France. SIR JOHN DE VIEN, Admiral of France. The LORDS OF SAIMPI, SANXERE, and ST. JUST; SIR RAOUL OF RANEVAL; THE LORD OF Coucy, and many other Lords and Knights belonging to the French King's Council. TRISTRAM OF LESTOVET, Clerk of the Council. WOMEN. ELENA DELLA TORRE, an Italian Lady. CECILE, her Attendant. DAME VOORST, a Woman of Ypres. The SCENE is laid sometimes in FLANDERS and sometimes in FRANCE. |