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قراءة كتاب When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth
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When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth
WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER
or, the Love Story of
Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor
the King's Sister, and Happening
in the Reign of
His August Majesty
King Henry the
Eighth
REWRITTEN AND RENDERED
INTO MODERN ENGLISH FROM
SIR EDWIN CASKODEN'S MEMOIR
By
Edwin Caskoden
[Charles Major]
JULIA MARLOWE EDITION
WITH SCENES FROM THE PLAY
INDIANAPOLIS, U.S.A.
THE BOWEN-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED NINETY
EIGHT, AND NINETEEN HUNDRED ONE
BY THE BOWEN-MERRILL COMPANY
Press of
Braunworth & Co.
Bookbinders and Printers
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Who charmed alike the tilt-yard and the bow'r."
To My Wife
CONTENTS
| The Caskodens | 1 | |
| I | The Duel | 6 |
| II | How Brandon Came to Court | 13 |
| III | The Princess Mary | 23 |
| IV | A Lesson in Dancing | 45 |
| V | An Honor and an Enemy | 74 |
| VI | A Rare Ride to Windsor | 89 |
| VII | Love's Fierce Sweetness | 102 |
| VIII | The Trouble in Billingsgate Ward | 128 |
| IX | Put Not Your Trust in Princesses | 146 |
| X | Justice, O King! | 169 |
| XI | Louis XII a Suitor | 182 |
| XII | Atonement | 202 |
| XIII | A Girl's Consent | 213 |
| XIV | In the Siren Country | 226 |
| XV | To Make a Man of Her | 244 |
| XVI | A Hawking Party | 256 |
| XVII | The Elopement | 268 |
| XVIII | To the Tower | 289 |
| XIX | Proserpina | 302 |
| XX | Down into France | 320 |
| XXI | Letters from a Queen | 337 |
*"Cloth of gold do not despise,
Though thou be match'd with cloth of frize;
Cloth of frize, be not too bold,
Though thou be match'd with cloth of gold."
* Inscription on a label affixed to Brandon's lance under a picture of Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon, at Strawberry Hill.
The Play
The initial performance of the play was given in St. Louis on the evening of November 26, 1900, and the first New York production was on the fourteenth of the following January.
Its instant and continued success is well known. A prominent dramatic critic of the press has said:
"Julia Marlowe fully realized the popular idea of the Mary described by the novelist. She seemed to revel in the role. With its instantaneous changes from gay daring to