Part 8 (2/2)

FULL NOTES, MAPS, and GLOSSARIES

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Footnotes:

[1] Cavendish was Wolsey's faithful secretary, and after his fall wrote the interesting ”Life of Wolsey,” one of the ma.n.u.script copies of which evidently fell into Shakespeare's hands before he wrote _Henry VIII._

[2] ”Pastime with Good Company,” composed and written by Henry, is sung in the production at His Majesty's Theatre.

[3] Hypocras--”A favourite medicated drink, compound of wine, usually red, with spices and sugar.”

[4] It is Wolsey's fool to whom is given the final note of the play in the production at His Majesty's Theatre.

[5] The ceremony of bringing the Blessed Sacrament from the sepulchre where it had lain since the Good Friday. This took place early on Easter Monday.

[6] Personally, I have been a sentimental adherent of symbolism since my first Noah's Ark. Ever since I first beheld the generous curves of Mrs.

Noah, and first tasted the insidious carmine of her lips, have I regarded the wife of Noah as symbolical of the supreme type of womanhood. I have learnt that the most exclusive symbolists, when painting a meadow, regard purple as symbolical of bright green; but we live in a realistic age and have not yet overtaken the _art nouveau_ of the pale future. It is difficult to deal seriously with so much earnestness. I am forced into symbolic parable. Artemus Ward, when delivering a lecture on his great moral panorama, pointed with his wand to a blur on the horizon, and said: ”Ladies and gentlemen, that is a horse--the artist who painted that picture called on me yesterday with tears in his eyes, and said he would disguise that fact from me no longer!” He, too, was a symbolist.

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