LORD LYTTON, - After old-world records - such as the Bayeux tapestry n de Rou, Edward Freeman's History of the Norman Conquest, and your rical Romance treating of the same times, have been mainly helpful to me Drama. Your father dedicated his 'Harold' to my father's brother; alicate my 'Harold' to yourself.

A GARDEN here

A. TENNYSON.

May breath and bloom of spring-
The cuckoo yonder from an English elm
Crying, 'With my false egg I overwhelm
The native nest; and fancy hears the ring

Of harness, and that deathful arrow sing,
And Saxon battle-axe clang on Norman helm.
Here rose the dragon-banner of our realm;

Here fought, here fell, our Norman-slander'd king.
O Garden blossoming out of English blood!

O strange hate-healer Time! We stroll and stare
Where might made right eight hundred years ago;
Might, right? ay, good, so all things make for good —
But he and he, if soul be soul, are where

Each stands full face with all he did below.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

KING EDWARD THE CONFESSOR.

STIGAND, created Archbishop of Canterbury by the Antipope Benedict.

ALDRED, Archbishop of York.

THE NORMAN BISHOP OF LONDON.

HAROLD, Earl of Wessex, afterwards King of England

TOSTIG, Earl of Northumbria

GURTH, Earl of East Anglia

LEOFWIN, Earl of Kent and Essex

WULFNOTH

COUNT WILLIAM OF NORMANDY.

WILLIAM RUFUS.

WILLIAM MALET, a Norman Nobie. 1

EDWIN, Earl of Mercia

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Sons of Godwin.

MORCAR, Earl of Northumbria after Tostig Sons of Alfgar of Mercia.

GAMEL, a Northumbrian Thane.

GUY, Count of Ponthieu.

ROLF, a Ponthieu Fisherman.

HUGH MARGOT, a Norman Monk.

OSGOD and ATHELRIC, Canons from Waltham.

THE QUEEN, Edward the Confessor's Wife, Daughter of Godwin.

ALDWYTH, Daughter of Alfgar and widow of Griffyth. "King of Wales.
EDITH, Ward of King Edward.

Courtiers, Earls and Thanes, Men-at-Arms, Canons of Waltham, Fishermen, etc.