CONTENTS

The Caskodens[1]
IThe Duel[6]
IIHow Brandon Came to Court[13]
IIIThe Princess Mary[23]
IVA Lesson in Dancing[45]
VAn Honor and an Enemy[74]
VIA Rare Ride to Windsor[89]
VIILove's Fierce Sweetness[102]
VIIIThe Trouble in Billingsgate Ward[128]
IXPut Not Your Trust in Princesses[146]
XJustice, O King![169]
XILouis XII a Suitor[182]
XIIAtonement[202]
XIIIA Girl's Consent[213]
XIVIn the Siren Country[226]
XVTo Make a Man of Her[244]
XVIA Hawking Party[256]
XVIIThe Elopement[268]
XVIIITo the Tower[289]
XIXProserpina[302]
XXDown into France[320]
XXILetters from a Queen[337]

*"Cloth of gold do not despise,
Though thou be match'd with cloth of frize;
Cloth of frize, be not too bold,
Though thou be match'd with cloth of gold
."

* Inscription on a label affixed to Brandon's lance under a picture of Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon, at Strawberry Hill.


The Play

The initial performance of the play was given in St. Louis on the evening of November 26, 1900, and the first New York production was on the fourteenth of the following January.