I DEDICATE THIS PLAY, AS A PARTIAL EXPRESSION OF REVERENCE AND

ACT I. MARY BEATON. SCENE I. The Upper Chamber in Holyrood.

ACT I. SCENE II. A Hall in the same.

SCENE I. The Queen's Chamber. Night. Lights burning In front of the bed.

Title: Chastelard, a Tragedy

Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne

Language: English

Produced by Tony Adam

Chastelard, a tragedy.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Boston: E.P. Dutton, 1866.

(author's edition)

PERSONS.

MARY STUART. MARY BEATON. MARY SEYTON. MARY CARMICHAEL. MARY HAMILTON. PIERRE DE BOSCOSEL DE CHASTELARD. DARNLEY. MURRAY. RANDOLPH. MORTON. LINDSAY. FATHER BLACK.

Guards, Burgesses, a Preacher, Citizens, &c.

Another Yle is there toward the Northe, in the See Occean, where that ben fulle cruele and ful evele Wommen of Nature: and thei han precious Stones in hire Eyen; and their ben of that kynde, that zif they beholden ony man, thei slen him anon with the beholdynge, as dothe the Basilisk.

MAUNDEVILE'S Voiage and Travaile, Ch. xxviii.