Category: Historical Novels
ENGLISH SPY, (_In a serious musing attitude_)—I have watched this game from its beginning, when Mary married Philip. With all the might of Spain and Rome to back her she failed to crush a seeming helpless girl. The young Nobility, the proud hold chivalry of England took her pa...
ENGLISH SPY, (_In a serious musing attitude_)—I have watched this game from its beginning, when Mary married Philip. With all the might of Spain and Rome to back her she failed...
2. SCENE II.—“THE BLUE ANCHOR”—THE TAP ROOM._Ornamented with model ships of every form and rig_; _all of a warlike character_. _Here and there are hung up arms_, _chiefly those used at sea_, _with Parrots and curious bird...
3. SCENE III.—THE MARKET PLACE._A great crowd surging along_, _pushing_, _fighting_, _and hallooing in the rear of a compact body of Rovers or freebooters_, _well armed_, _bringing with them a band of Spanish...
4. SCENE IV.—A ROOM IN THE PALACE.LEICESTER (_laughing_). Ha-Ha-Ha! I cannot see it. Excommunicated! How is it possible? Even the Pope cannot put one out of his house who never was in it. Ha! Ha! Ha! It’s a joke...
5. SCENE I.—THE HARBOUR OF SAN JUAN DE ULLOA.HAWKINS. Comrades, we may well thank God for this refuge. We had a narrow escape in that gale. I thought the “Jesus” of Lubeck would never weather it. Our voyage has been prospe...
6. SCENE II.—AN ISLAND WITH BATTERIES COMMANDING THE MOUTH OF THE HARBOUR._The Spanish fleet of thirteen sail_, _sent out expressly to look for_ HAWKINS, _and to treat him as a pirate_. _The English forbid entrance_. _A party of Spaniards_, _with the...
7. SCENE III.—HARBOUR OF SAN JUAN DE ULLOA._The Spaniards during the night have got possession of the batteries on the heights_, _filled with men a hulk close to the Minion_, _in order to board her_. _Their fleet of thir...
8. SCENE IV.—THE BATTLE OF SAN JUAN DE ULLOA._The harbour filled with burning ships_. _The Jesus is aboard the Spanish Admiral_, _both in flames_, _yet still fighting broadside to broadside_. _Three hundred Spaniards attem...
9. SCENE I.—PLYMOUTH._The Hoe_—_a high ground commanding a view of the Town_, _Harbour and Sound seaward_. _Ships sailing in and out_. _Privateers cruising by the Offing_—_a number of the same sort...
10. SCENE II.HAWKINS. Let us get among the sailors and hear what they think, their instinct for the real is marvellous, as their far-sightedness at sea. Here’s a group of the right sort for...
11. SCENE III.—THE TERRACE OF GREENWICH PALACE.AMBASSADOR. Three large and richly laden merchant ships for Flanders, after a brave defence, taken off the Goodwins, and their crews massacred, drowned or captive! A Spanish ves...
12. SCENE IV.—A ROOM IN THE PALACE.QUEEN (_proudly_). It is their born faith—the creed they’ll fight for—that the ocean, all that floats upon its waves or lives in its waters, of right belongs to England. This is...
13. SCENE I.—DECK OF THE PACHA.DRAKE. Land of wonder! Beauty! Richness! Abundance! which poets in their wildest flights of fancy never dreamed of.—Beyond!—The vast continent, stretching one knows not whither....
14. SCENE II.—THE MARKET PLACE._With the main street leading down to the harbour_, _crowded with English_, _shouting and firing_. _In the distance the bay_, _with the ships_. DRAKE _enters at one side with hi...
15. SCENE III.—CREEK IN THE RIVER CHAGRES.CHIRUCA. There is no danger. They know nothing of this region. Five nations of warriors are in arms against them. Our homes will be your homes; our food will be your food; the b...
16. SCENE IV.—TWO STREAMS MEETING AT A POINT OF LAND,_On which grows a tall solitary Palm_, _its feathered branches waving in the morning air_. _The densely wooded banks reflected in the still water_. _The horizon in the backgroun...
17. SCENE VI.—PALACE OF THE INDIAN CACIQUE.DRAKE. Grand! rich! sublime! Nature has sown thick her gifts and broadcast. On earth and sky every element of the picturesque is here; the horizon of that Majestic Sierra, with...
18. SCENE VII.—INTERIOR OF THE PALACE._The_ CACIQUE’S _family ranged on a dais_. _The women are clothed with a short white cotton petticoat round their middle_, _elaborately embroidered_, _their limbs __naked save f...
19. SCENE VIII.—THE HALL OF THE DEAD._A retired and sacred part of the building devoted to the purpose_, _richly decorated and stored with masses of gold and silver_. _A long line of mummied dead_, _dressed in robe...
20. SCENE IX.—THE FOREST.CHIRUCA. There are whole provinces, where they have never set a foot, and where every mountain stream runs gold. It may be gathered in nets and baskets. The greatest collection...
21. SCENE X.—THE MOUNTAIN TOPS._With precipitous crags and a great cataract with river running down a deep gorge at the side_, _lined with rocks like walls_. _They have arrived at the last peak and stand at t...
22. SCENE XI.—THE PLATEAU AND THE GREAT COTTON TREE._Before them the high bold peak or summit of Panama_, _on either side the two oceans_. _On the South_, _the pacific with the city of Panama_, _and the Isle of Pearls in its bay_...
23. SCENE XII.—THE FOREST.CHIRUCA. Above a hundred mules and as many llamas loaded! tons of gold, silver, and, precious stones. You must form your own idea of their value. We wonder at your desire for su...
24. SCENE I.—PORT ST. JULIAN, PATAGONIA._Rugged rocks of the coast_. _Small plain with scanty vegetation_. _Black snow-clad hills around_. _Gibbets and gallows_, _with skeletons suspended to them_, _the remains of Mag...
25. SCENE II.—THE QUEEN’S PRIVATE CHAMBER._The_ QUEEN _walking about in deep thought_, _with anxious uneasy gestures_, _and hesitating step_, MRS. ASHLEY, _her waiting woman watching her intently_. _The_ QUEEN _stops in...
26. SCENE III.—CENTRE OF THE PACIFIC.MOON (_at the helm_). I say, Hixom—Is not our craft a seaboat and no mistake? She steers herself. See how she answers to the least touch of the helm, and cuts the water like a d...
27. SCENE IV._Deck of the Golden Hind_—_Midnight_, _the moon behind a cloud_, _constellations of the southern hemisphere brilliant in the deep blue firmament_. _The ship Argo amid the waves_...
28. SCENE V.—ROOM IN HAMPTON COURT._The_ QUEEN _alone waiting for_ LORD WILLIAM HOWARD, EARL OF EFFINGHAM. _She walks back and forward in deep abstraction past a large steel mirror_. _She is startled and arrested...
29. SCENE VI.—THE TERRACE OF GREENWICH PALACE.QUEEN (_laughing_). Abajo Perro! Down dog! Brave boy! I must see him Drake, Ha! Ha! Ha! Abajo Perro! So he leaped foremost aboard, felled the first Spaniard with his fist, shout...
30. SCENE VII.—A ROOM IN THE PALACE.LEICESTER. What thinks my royal Mistress of my symboled future now? (_he point to it_) These figures seem to speak and challenge me to ask.—I always felt that thought was inspir...
31. SCENE VIII.—TERRACE OF GREENWICH PALACE._Decorated with masts_, _bearing various devices_, _illustrative of England’s heroes and their victories_, _and surmounted with the National flag_. _The river is crowded with sh...