The Fine Line Between Love And Hate by Le’Ann Reis
19th May 1536
To those who loved thy once Queen,and those who harbor,hardheaded hate ,once thy Queen.I have sit many a day a night within the darkness of such cold Tower,with thy ladies,my only friend lonelyness,silent with thy thouhts for silent ,such must be none can know Queens mind.These shall be thy QUEEN WIFE MOTHER last thouhts alone within thee,How was my love husband King lost in such short a time,as husband King hate me much and his hate grow stronger with each passing day.I love as a much loyal wife and friend Queen,could a women can ,my Lord love now far gone from thee never to return.Never did wife betray thy loyal King for another,never did wife sin against God nor King for lust of another man,nor practice evil doings to King nor others.Hours of thy life grow short yet seem to long,now my name be sorrow,I shall die they say for sin against Husband King and God.I forgive thee who do me wrong.They say I make joke of thy death this not be true,but welcome and forgive those who do me wrong, wish myn death for they are true sinner that speak with ILL mouth against God King Queen.I shall forgive those who wish harm,for to forgive is to have faith.without faith one can not forgive,I walk to my fate,with scaffold before me,I feel soul leaveing myn body already,.Soon I will dwell in the house of thy God,for God seeth and knowith thy trueth I will ask myn God to take thy soul gentle kind and with comfort.I knowith God see never did thy siin.I will hence leave this world,I take know hate but only forgive and love, never did thee sin with another.I pray now for all who see my death who love thee who hate thee.I feel the last beat of thy heart I shall die with Gods grace God see all God no all.You shall never see thy face nor here thy voice speak,live well,hate not for hate be a fever for which there is know cure.God as my witness God taketh thy soul.On this day 19th May 1536; Queen Anne Boleyn was beheaded with sins she dinot commit,along with many others God forgve those they know not what they do the Lord did sayeth. IN LOVING MEMORY REST IN PEACE QUEEN ANNE BOLEYN.
Wonderful! there is a FINE LINE between love and hate!
I can see that you and I did have fund doing a great amount of reseearch with your having much more experience in writing things like this than I did. I looked up and learned many things about fencing, french names in 16th century France, and did use (how unoriginal of me) the name of the executioner from one of Claire’s old articles about the name being written from an earlier Claire’s article on his name might have coming from a fiction book written in 1530.
You went to a lot more research than even I did! I checked on British History Online, and found almost nothing there with the usage of the day, but I think you must have, and please correct me if I am wrong, but might have gone to the Austrian Libary Online our of Vienna. This shows great effort not only in thought, use and spelling of the time, and most probably many rewrites before submitting this.
I am very impressed! You’re showing that you have read original documentation in your speech is magnificent, even if Claire did say on another comment on another writer’s speech that this wasn’t necessary to win, and a couple of other things. I, though, give you many claps of praise for your scaffold speech! Brava!
I do see two commentors on here, and I think it’s time to guess that just might have been judges as they are two of the best commentors on the articles. But I do think if ever a contest be held again, the judges should be made known and their qualificaitions to the potential contest entries are made. Just an opinion, not based on fact! It’s Claire’s site and she can make whatever rules she likes. I’m not going to agree that she is the best on this either, as I do generally agree with Claire. I bought the book before I even learned about the winners. So who cares?
Your have impressed me! Thank you! WilesWales
I will defend Queen Anne as long as I’m around! She gave to England, Queen Elizabeth I, the greatest absolute monarch that country ever had!
“This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.” – Psalms 118:23
Just to clear things up, none of the judges are involved in the site at all (except me) and none have commented on the articles.
This competition was meant to be fun but I’m wondering if some of your comments on entrants’ articles might be upsetting. I’m all for discussion but this competition is not about picking holes in people’s work, it’s about coming together, being inspired and creative, sharing our work and commemorating the death of a queen who means so much to us. Can we encourage each other?
Claire, I think that all the contenders were winners in my opinion. Thank you! WilesWales!
I will defend Queen Anne as long as I’m around! She gave to England, Queen Elizabeth I, the greatest absolute monarch that country ever had!
“This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.” – Psalms 118:23
They were and all the judges said how difficult it was to choose. It was a moving experience reading them.
Claire,As you said this competetion was really fun ,as I said I write with most respect for True Queen Anne Boleyn and wrote from my soul ,as they defaced her and I wanted to give her Grace face back and that is why,I think everyone did a FAB JOB THX Wiles for the nice comp!! THX Claire for letting all of your AB friends be apart of this,but please, would like to see replys on my speech,not anyone going back and forth on who said,keep that private between you Wiles, thank you very much ,I would like to see what others thouht again so much.This is not a debate it is for replys on my Scaffold speech. THX Baroness
Baroness,
Just to explain, I have to answer WilesWales’s points on The AB Files’s comments section as that is where they were raised, on people’s speeches and not in private, so it’s difficult to keep private and I cannot ignore comments raising issues. I take your point though.
Your speech was wonderful and thank you for entering!
Forgive me, Le’Ann! I must have been mistaken. I meant extensive study with the Vienna Archives for quite some time. What it a joy to have us all trying to bring Queen Anne Boleyn into other interests and to this particular site. Thank you, WilesWales!
I will defend Queen Anne as long as I’m around! She gave to England, Queen Elizabeth I, the greatest absolute monarch that country ever had!
“This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.” – Psalms 118:23
I am so very sure it was, Claire! Thank you! WilesWales!
I will defend Queen Anne as long as I’m around! She gave to England, Queen Elizabeth I, the greatest absolute monarch that country ever had!
“This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.” – Psalms 118:23
Claire, I received in my email a reply, and don’t understand why certaind responses have been inserted that are not in the order date and time. Thank you very much!
I will defend Queen Anne as long as I’m around! She gave to England, Queen Elizabeth I, the greatest absolute monarch that country ever had!
“This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.” – Psalms 118:23
Read more: https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/events/anne-boleyn-day-competition-2012/the-fine-line-between-love-and-hate-by-leann-reis/#ixzz1vc2zSgD6
I don’t understand what you mean WilesWales. If you mean that sometimes comments appear on the site out of order it’s because sometimes I have to moderate comments on my phone and it’s hard to moderate them in order that way. I like to moderate comments as quickly as possible but obviously am not always at my computer. I’ve had the day off today because of my children being off school so have been out and about.
Baroness has already asked that comments on her article should be connected to the article so this is getting silly!