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Title: Lucy and Their Majesties, a comedy in wax
Year: 1800 (1800s)
Authors: Farjeon, B. L. (Benjamin Leopold), 1833-1903
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Publisher: New York, The Century co., 1904
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ad provided a splendid col-lection of slides, and he had selected these es-pecially for Queen Bess. Artful young man!With the majority of the company the mostpopular were the dissolving views, wintermelting into spring, spring into summer, sum-mer into autumn, autumn into winter withthe snow falling, and the moving pictures,conjurers throwing balls, girls skipping, theflower in the flower-pot changing to a Turkshead, and the clown jumping through a hoop.Great stamping of feet, clapping of hands,and amazed exclamations of delight greetedeach fresh tableau. Harry Bower wound up his entertainmentwith the pictures which described the deathand burial of poor Cock Robin, and to hear iNote for scholarly young readers (others may skip it). HerMajestys allusions to and quotations from The Winters Tale and The Tempest will settle the dispute as to the dates of the pro-duction of these plays — for surely in matters of importance occur-ring during her reign Queen Elizabeth is a final authority.
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London Bridge is Falling Down 286 LUCY AND THEIR MAJESTIES the celebrities joining in the chorus to eachverse was something to be remembered: All the birds in the air fell a-sighing and a- sobbing When they heard the bell toll for poor CockRobin. It was most affecting; and, indeed, severalof the celebrities wore expressions of grief. When the last chorus was sung and CockRobin comfortably buried, the lights wereturned up and they had games- LondonBridge is Falling Down, Nuts in May, Hunt the Slipper, Musical Chairs, andothers with which they were highly diverted.Not the least popular were the kissing games,in which Henry VIII came out in great force. Oh, dear, thought Lucy, when he caughther in his arms, I 5ve been kissed by a king!But how rough they are!) Then followed songs. Queen Elizabethsang a love ditty, Henry VIII a hunting song,and Tom Thumb stood on a chair and gavethem Yankee Doodle. Of course Lucyand Lydia were called upon, and they sang CELEBRITIES ENTERTAINED 287 very swe

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