Joseph Mellish - Mary Stuart (Act 5 Scene 12) lyrics

Enter a PAGE. ELIZABETH. Returned alone? Where are the lords? PAGE. My Lord High-Treasurer and the Earl of Leicester? ELIZABETH. Where are they? PAGE. They are not in London. ELIZABETH. No! Where are they then? PAGE. That no one could inform me; Before the dawn, mysteriously, in haste They quitted London. ELIZABETH (exultingly). I am Queen of England! [Walking up and down in the greatest agitation. Go—call me—no, remain, boy! She is dead; Now have I room upon the earth at last. Why do I shake? Whence comes this aguish dread? My fears are covered by the grave; who dares To say I did it? I have tears enough In store to weep her fall. Are you still here? [To the PAGE. Command my secretary, Davison, To come to me this instant. Let the Earl Of Shrewsbury be summoned. Here he comes. [Exit PAGE.