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The Queen's Four Maries. This is an ancient and tragic ballad of what happened at the Edinburgh court of the young Mary Queen of Scots. The Queen’s Four Maries as widely sung has only a few verses set in Edinburgh, in which Mary Hamilton laments that she is to die, without explaining why.
The Four Marys. Last night there were four Marys. Tonight there'll be but three: There was Mary Seaton and Mary Beaton. And Mary Carmichael and me. Word's gane tae the kitchen. And word's gane tae the hall. That Mary Hamilton's great wi' child. By the highest Stewart of a' Arise, arise, Mary Hamilton. Arise and come wi' me.
A selection of hymns and songs for the month of May - which is dedicated to Mary, and in many northern-hemisphere countries includes features a May-queening ceremony.
- The Usual Interpretation
- Other Possibilities
- Other Connections
- The History of The Song
The usual interpretation is that Mary Hamilton was a lady-in-waiting at the Scottish court of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587) and that the affair was with the Queen's second husband, Lord Darnley. Accusations of infidelity are consistent with stories of their troubled marriage. There were "four Maries" sent to France with the young Mary, Queen of ...
There are other possibilities that have been offered as roots of the story in the ballad: 1. John Knox, in his History of the Reformation, mentions an incident of infanticide by a lady-in-waiting from France, after an affair with the apothecary of Mary, Queen of Scots. The couple was reported to have been hanged in 1563. 2. Some have speculated tha...
The story in the song is about unwanted pregnancy; could it be that the British birth control activist, Marie Stopes, took her pseudonym, Marie Carmichael, from this song? In Virginia Woolf's feminist text, A Room of One's Own, she includes characters named Mary Beton, Mary Seton and Mary Carmichael.
The Child Ballads were first published between 1882 and 1898 as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads.Francis James Child collected 28 versions of the song, which he classified as Child Ballad #173. Many refer to a Queen Marie and four other Maries, often with the names Mary Beaton, Mary Seaton, Mary Carmichael (or Michel) and the narrator, Mary...
- Jone Johnson Lewis
Queen Mary's Song" is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1889. The words are by Tennyson , sung by Queen Mary I of England as she plays a lute in scene 2, act 5 of his 1875 play Queen Mary: A Drama .
In all versions of the song, Mary Hamilton is a personal attendant to the Queen of Scots, but precisely which queen is not specified. She becomes pregnant by the Queen's husband, the King of Scots, which results in the birth of a baby.
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Aug 1, 2014 · In a touching and delicate aria sung by the tenor Richard Elford, who soon became Anne’s favorite singer, the words express the hope that she might bear another child. In her brave offspring still she’ll live, Nor must she bless our age alone; But to succeeding ages give, Heirs to her virtues, and the throne.
