The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-26


Let all rich men remember that hard word.
l nave not time for moie II ever, now
Let them now Iortl in charity seeing now
The poor many, and all food so DEAR
Long have lain "a prison, yet nave heard
vi all their wretchedness. GIVE to Tie poor,
Ye give 10 God. lie is with US in the poor.
And now, ano iorasmuch as nave come
To the last end OF life, and thereupon
Hangs all my past, and all my life 10 be,
Either to 1--we with Chrst IN Heaven with Joy,
or TO be still In pain with devls In hell;
And, seeing In moment, shall sud
[Potntia0 upacard,
Heaven or else hell ready to swallow me-
snail declare to you my very faith
Without all color.
COLE.
Hear him, my good brethren.
CRANMEE.
/ do believe In God, Father OF all;
In every article OF the Catholic faith,
And every syllable taught Us by our Lord,
His prophets, and apostles In the Testaments.
Both OLD and New.
BE palmer, Master Cranmer.
CRANMER.
And now come to the great cause that weighs
Upon my conscience more than any thing
or said or done IN all my lie by me;
For there be writings | nave set abroad
Against the trutn Knew WITHIN my heart,
Written for lear OF death, TO save my life,
II that might be the papers by nay hand
Sign'd since my degradaIlon-ny THIS hand
lHoLltfag out ms right hand.
And since my hand offended, having written
Against my heart, my hand shan first be burnt,
so Tmay come 10 tue nre. Dead silence.
PROTESTANT mat7-ne1trs
FIRST PROTESTANT.
Knew IL would be so.
SECOND PROTESTANT.
Our prayers are heard
THIRD PROTESTANT.
God bless him
CATHOLIC murmurs.
our upon mimi out upon himi
Liar dissemblerl traitor 10 the ire
WILLIAMS (fQtSinq his U0ics).
You know that YOU recantea all you SAID
Touching the sacrament IN that same book
You wrote against my LORD - " lnehester;
ntaEn ami nsaFs nj n hrlu mas
CRANMER.
Alas, my Lord.
have been man loved planness all my life:
For utter truth and planness; wherefore, say
mold oJ all wrote wltAin that book.
Moreover,
AS Tor the Pope count him Antchrst.
With ali his DEVILS doctrines; and refuse,
Reject MIN and abnor MIN. have said.
tcries on all sIdeS, "Pull him DOWN. Away
with him."
Az, stop the neretc's mouth. Hale him away.
WILLIAMS.
Harm MIN not, harm him not, nave him to the IRE.
[CRAEMER GOES out 0ettceen Tlco Ff1aTs, smiling;
hands are reached 10 him rom the croUd.
LORD WILLIAM HOWARD ana LORD PAGEr are
len alone u TIE church.
The nave and aisles all empty as q FOOLS jesti
No, here's Lord William Howard. VIVA, my Lord.
You nave not gone 10 see the burning
HOWARD.
To stand az ease, and stare as at q show.
And watch O good man uurn. Never again.
saw the deaths Of Latlmer and hsley.
Moreover tho a Catholic, would not,
For tue pure honor OF our common nature,
Hear what mIgnt-anotner recantatlon
Of Cranmer az the stake.
Enter PETERS.
Peters, my gentleman, en- honest Catholic,
VINO iollow'd win the crowd 70 Oranmers nro
one that would neither misreport uor lie
Not 70 gain paradise; no, nor II the Pope
Charged him 10 do 1.-The 10 white as death.
Peters, how pale you look you bring the smoke
OF CTanmer's burning with you.
PETERS.
The smoke OF Cranmer's burning wrapt me round.
HOWARD.
Peters, you know me Gatnonc, but English.
DO he ole bravelyf Tel me That, or leave
PETERS
Ny Lord, ne dled most nravely.
HOWARD.
Then tell me all
PAcEr.
Az, Master Peters tell US.
PETERS
You saw him now he past among the crowd;
And ever as he walked tue spanish Iriars
Still pied nlm with entreaty and repruach:
But Cranmer, as tue helmsman at the helm
steers. ever cooking 10 the happy haven
Where ne snail rest at nignt. moved 10 his death;
And / coule see that many silent hanus
Came rom tue crowd and met his own; ana thus,
When we nad come where Ridley burnt Win Latt.
He. with cheerful smile, as one whose mind
Is all made up IN haste put on the rags
They nd mOcked ms misery with, and all in
His long white beard which he had never shayea
since Henry's death, uUwn-sweeping TO the cnain,
wBere with they bound aim to the stake, he stood.
More IKE III ancient father oil the Cnurcn,
Tnan hereto oI these times; and srlI the frlars
PIED hin. but Cranmer ONLY shook MS head,
Or answeT'd them in smiling negatives;
Wnsrelt LORD Williams gave suaden cry -
"Make shortl make saort" and so they lit the
Then Lranmer lifted Mis- left hand to heaven,
Ana thrust MS rign. into the bitter fame;
AND CRYING, ~ his deep voice, more tnan once,
So held ~ till it all WIS burnld, before
Tue n4me had reaca'd nls body stood near
Mako nins-ne never uttered moan OF pain:
lie never stlrr'd or wrlIaed, cut, IKE q statue
Unmoving in the greatness OF the me.
Gave up the ghost; and so past marty T.llke-
Martyr may not call him-past-ous wnithcrs
PAGET
TO purgatOry, man, 70 pargstory.
NaY bat, mr. Lord, he denied purgatory.
why then TO heaven aud God IA mercy on MIN.
HOWARD.
Paget, despite his fearful norsses,
! loved the man, ana needs must moan for MIN;
Cranmerl
FACET
But your moan IL useless now:
Come out my Lord, II u world oil tools.
As the drama has no claims TO be considered an
actlnq play, though 10 Ia TO this extent failure
we need scarcely consider II In that aspect. Its
aching force may be judged ron the act RON
which we have quoted so LARGELY as well "a nom
any part Of the play; but even ths scenes wnica
ncent in everything like movement. the
nrst quality OF piece intended Tor
representation on tue Stage IL action
bat OF this Mr. Tennyson's drama possessos
almost nothing. From beginning to enI T. Is
mere diaogue-diaoRue, too, OF q kind tnat on
Mr.. wallacEs or Mr.. Days stage would be pro.
nounced dull Events are RELAXED. not acted and
the drpma i consequently narrative, not a play
Except In one scene-scone 3, act 3--wnch repre-
aents the GREAT Hall IN whitehall with MARI. PhInp
aud Pole On dais at one END, aud tue Commons
on bencnes ia front, there Ia 40 opportunity Tor
stage decoration; bus even here tne poet has
failed az a drametiss, and bis grand scene would
probably be pronounced o terrible bore should
any manager have the courage 10 give It .
setting.
THE PTvoT1L SCENE or rHg DRAMA.
1 And Jet this scene In TINS act - tbs hinge upon