Act III.

(Scene: Outside the Boar's Head Inn, Greenwich)

Queen Elizabeth

Mr. N. L. Knell

Oh! 'tis a glorious thing, I ween,
To be a regular Royal Queen!
No half-and-half affair, I mean
But a right-down regular Royal Queen.

—Gondoliers.

Bessie Throckmorton (Attendant on Queen)

Miss M. Morpeth

Thus always it was ruled:
And when a woman smiled,
The strong man was a child,
The sage a noodle,

—Thackeray.

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Sir Walter Raleigh

Mr. A. W. Free

I thought 'twas Venus from her isle,
And wondered where she'd left her sparrows.

—Praed.

Earl of Essex

Mr. H. Adams

A little, curly-headed, good-for-nothing,
And mischief-making monkey from his birth.

—Byron.

Innkeeper

Mr. Henderson

Lo! with a voice unspeakably dramatic,
Lo! with a gesture, singularly fine.

—Stephen.

Landlady

Miss G. Aplin