Anna Dickinson  Speeches & Writings File  PLAYS   "A Crown of Thorns" Stage Sketches[This document includes two sketches with text.]
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R Stair Case
C Space back +under + front of D. C.
L Side of wall door with flaps opening inward

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R [] +c light of an elbow from floor.
C Lamp from ceiling vista to garden door sash open
L Door [] dark room +cR
Chair  Floor   
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the sides of fire place stand out

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window66                             HISTORY OF FRANCE                       [Chap. LII.

cousin, head of the House of Conde, who had but lately taken the
place of the duke of Maine near his person, he sought in his
preceptor's eyes the guidance he needed, and contented himself
with sanctioning by an inclination of the head the elevation of the
duke, presented by Fleury.  The new duke of Orleans, as yet
quite a youth, hovering between debauchery and devotion, obtained
no portion of his father's heritage; he had taken away from him
even the right of doing business with the king, a right secured to
him by his office of colonel-general.
    The bishop of Frejus had nursed his power more skilfully; he
kept the list of benefices, and he alone, it was said, knew how to
unloosen the king's tongue; but he had not calculated upon the
pernicious and all-powerful influence of the marchioness of Prie,
favourite "by appointment" (attitree) to the duke.  Clever, adroit,
depraved, she aspired to govern, and chose for her minister Paris-

Act 3               Anna Boleyn
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etching[*Catesby:  I come; Lords will you go 
with me?
Richard III.    33
Q. Eliz.          [Rises.
[I never did her any, to my knowledge.]
[Re???l], Madam, he will attend your grace.
[Yet you have all the vantage of her wrong.]
I was too hot to do something good, 
That is too cold in thinking of it now. 
Marry, as for Clarence, he is well repaid;
He is franked up to fatting for his pains:
God pardon them that are the cause of it. 
Hast. 
[A virtuous and a Christian-like conclusion, 
To pray for them that have done scathe to us. 
Glos. 
So do I ever. [Aside.] Being well advised: 
For had I cursed now, I had cursed myself.]
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Madam, his majesty doth for you, - 
[Exeunt Queen Elizabeth and Courtiers
[*and for your grace, - and you my noble lords*]
Glos.[Sketch]R furniture 
door 
table 
fire place & []
R grain window high & [] [] 
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[Centre] door 
C
high
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 chair table