Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley & *ANN PAGEt*
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>> I find it outrageous that Oxford, whose OWN BASTARD SON
>> Lee had agreed to raise (Lee finally married his old mistress
>> Anne Vavasour,
Dwebb wrote:
> Huh? Wikipedia and other sources say that Anne Vavasour
> married John Finch, then later John Richardson; she was
> only the mistress -- never the wife -- of Sir Henry Lee.
> Of Sir Henry Lee, the only wife listed is *ANN PAGEt* ;
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. Merry Wives of Windsor > Act III, scene IV
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FENTON: Good Mistress Page, for that I love your daughter
. In such a righteous fashion as I do,
. Perforce, against all cheques, rebukes and manners,
. I must advance the colours of my love
. And not retire: let me have your good will.
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*ANNE PAGE* : Good mother, do not marry me to yond fool.
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MISTRESS PAGE: I mean it not; I seek you a better husband.
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MISTRESS QUICKLY: That's my master, master doctor.
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*ANNE PAGE* : Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth
. And bowl'd to death with turnips!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_of_Ditchley
<<Sir Henry Lee KG (1533 – 12 February 1611), of Ditchley, became
Queen Elizabeth I’s champion in 1570 and was appointed Master of the
Royal Armouries in 1580, an office which he held until his death. As
Queen's Champion, Lee devised the Accession Day tilts held annually on
17 November, the most important Elizabethan court festival from the
1580s. He retired as Queen's Champion in 1590, and his poems "His
Golden Locks" and "Time's Eldest Son" were set to music by John
Dowland and performed at the lavish retirement pageant. He was made a
Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1597.
Sir Henry, like most courtiers of the day, had a portrait painted by a
leading artist. In Lee's picture, his sleeves are decorated with
armillary spheres, a symbol of wisdom and also his device as queen's
champion. His sleeves are also decorated with lovers knots which,
combined with the armillary spheres can be seen to represent his love
for learning (the wisdom of the armillary spheres) and for the Queen
(his symbol as her champion). Lee also wears several rings tied to his
arm, and has his finger through a third ring around his neck. This may
represent his marriages, and the third ring, which is not quite on his
finger, may represent his relationship with Anne Vavasour.
Suit of armour belonging to Sir Henry Lee
After the death of his wife *ANN PAGEt* in 1590, Lee openly lived with
his long-time mistress, Anne Vavasour, formerly one of the Queen's
Ladies in Waiting.
Sir Henry commissioned the famous Ditchley Portrait of Queen
Elizabeth, which shows her standing on a map of the British Isles,
surveying her dominions. One foot rests near Ditchley in Oxfordshire,
to commemorate her visit to Sir Henry Lee there, as sign of particular
favour. Sir Henry was later famous for refusing to receive his monarch
a second time, because of the enormous expense.
Three suits of armour were made for Sir Henry Lee by the renowned
Greenwich armoury, and are depicted in the album of drawings left
behind by that workshop. Portions of the armour survive to the present
day. One of the armours currently stands in the hall of the Armourers
and Brasiers company in London.
He was the uncle of Captain Thomas Lee, a troublesome soldier on whose
behalf he allowed himself to be bound over and who was put to death in
1601 for an involvement in the treason of the 2nd Earl of Essex.>>
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His goulden locks time hath to siluer turnd
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His golden locks time hath to silver turnde,
O time too swift, O swiftnesse neuer ceasing!
His youth gainst time and age hath euer spurnd,
But spurnd in vain, youth waneth by increasing.
Beautie, strength, youth are flowers but fading seene:
Dutie, Faith, Loue are roots and euer greene.
His helmet now shall make a hiue for Bees,
And louers Sonets turne to holy Psalmes:
A man at armes must now serue on his knees,
And feed on prayers which are ages almes:
But though from Court to cotage he depart,
His Saint is sure of his vnspotted heart.
And when he saddest sits in homely Cell,
Hee'l teach his swaines this Caroll for a song,
Blest be the hearts that wish my Soueraigne well,
Curst be the soule that thinks her any wrong.
Yee gods allow this aged man his right,
To be your Beadsman now that was your Knight.
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Tymes eldest sonne, old age the heire of ease
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Time's eldest son, Old Age the heir of Ease,
Strength's foe, Love�s woe, and foster to Devotion,
Bids galant youths in martial prowess please,
As for himself, he hath no earthly motion,
But thinks sighs, tears, vows, prayers, and sacrifices,
As good shows, masks, jousts, or tilt devises.
Then sit thee down, and say thy Nunc Dimitis
With De profundis, Credo, and Te Deum,
Chant Miserere for now so fit is,
As that, or this, Paratum est cor meum
O that thy Saint would take in worth thy heart,
Thou canst not please her with a better part.
When others sings Venite exultemus,
Stand by and turn to Noli aemulari,
For Quare fremuerunt use Oremus,
Vivat Eliza for an Ave Mari,
And teach those swains that lives about thy cell,
To say Amen when thou dost pray so well.
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Art Neuendorffer
neonprose @ gmail.com
of Bacon's cousin William Cooke to Sir Thomas Lucy's
grand-daughter, the triple-heiress Joyce Lucy. The
minute William Cooke married Joyce Lucy her inheritance
would be, under English law, his, his and only his.
Oxford was dead. Oxford is always dead because
he simply died before the Jacobean-era plays were
written.
Next time chose a candidate that isn't dead.