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178 Harley Granville-Barkeralone to furnish half-a-dozen plays. The last scene of allis the finest. It starts subduedly. Herries is pleadingwith the Queen, even now, when she stands on the shoreat Solway, even at this last moment to stay.Go not hence:You shall find no man's faith or love on earthLike theirs that here cleave to you.So he ends, and she answersI have foundAnd think to find no hate of men on earthLike theirs that here beats on me.Quotation is unfair: the scene is an entity and the verysimple form of it helps to give it beauty and power. Mary'ssombre wrath rolls up like a wave, sentence crowningsentence, to its first height. Then it subsides to the softnessofCome, friends,I think the fisher's boat hath hoised up sailThat is to bear none but one friend and me:Here must my true men and their queen take leave,And each keep thought of other. My fair page,Before the man's change darken on your chinI may come back to ride with you at reinTo a more fortunate field: howe'er that be,Ride you right on with better hap, and liveAs true to one of merrier days than mineAs on that "night to Mary once your queen.Douglas, I have not won a word of you:What would you do to have me tarry?George Douglas.Die.Douglas speaks no other word throughout the scene. Thestill figure standing there, passionate in silence, madeeloquent by one word! Who shall say that Swinburnehad not the stuff of the dramatist in him?But the boy's devotion only stings her now:I lack not love it seems then at my last.That word was bitter; yet I blame it not,