The Queen's Quair; or, The Six Years' Tragedy

CONTENTS

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Author’s Prologue		1
BOOK THE FIRST MAIDS’ ADVENTURE
CHAP.
1.	Here you are in the Antechamber	7
2.	Here You step into the Fog	25
3.	Superficial Properties of the Honeypot	36
4.	Rough Music Here	47
5.	Here are Flies at the Honeypot	67
6.	The Fool’s Whip	77
7.	Gordon’s Bane	91
8.	The Divorce of Mary Livingstone (To an Italian Air)	106
9.	Air of St. Andrew: Adonis and the Scapegoat	121
10.	They Look and Like	135
11.	Prothalamium: Venus wins Fair Adonis	146
12.	Epithalamium: End of all Maids’ Adventure	169
BOOK THE SECOND MEN’S BUSINESS
1.	Opinions of French Paris upon some Late Events	191
2.	Griefs and Consolations of Adonis	201
3.	Divers Uses of a Hardy Man	214
4.	Many Dogs	229
5.	Midnight Experiences of Jean-Marie-Baptiste Des-Essars	236
6.	Venus in the Toils	250
7.	Aftertaste	270
8.	King’s Evil	287
9.	The Washing of Hands	306
10.	Extracts from the Diurnall of the Master of Sempill	318
11.	Armida Doubtful in the Garden	328
12.	Scotchmen’s Business	340
BOOK THE THIRD MARKET OF WOMEN
1.	Stormy Opening	351
2.	The Brainsick Sonata	363
3.	Descant upon a Theme as Old as Jason	381
4.	She Looks Back Once	394
5.	Medea in the Bedchamber	404
6.	Kirk o’ Field	414
7.	The Red Bridegroom	430
8.	The Bride’s Prelude	451
9.	The Bride’s Tragedy	Clyx.com