The Play Is O'er

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Title:     The Play Is O'er
Author: Cotton Noe [More Titles by Noe]

The play is o'er! Great Wolsey's dead--
That scarlet power once England's dread;
And lustful Henry's brutal sin
Hath slain the noble Catharine,--
More stainless wife was never wed.

Anne Boleyn shares the royal bed
And wears upon her graceless head
The good queen's crown without chagrin--
The play is o'er!

A few brief months have swiftly sped,
The faithless consort's blood is shed.
What means the mighty noise within?
The trumpet's blare, the cymbal's din?
Jane Seymour's to the altar led,--
The play is o'er!

[The end]
Cotton Noe's poem: Play Is O'er

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