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(pastoral) that .. of poetry that sought to imitate and celebrate the … of …

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mode; virtues; rural life

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(pastoral) Arcadia: a small … area that developed a … civilization in 400 B.C.

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Greek; pastoral

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(pastoral) In Greece, the fictive possibilities of the pastoral were written by … in his …, in Rome by … in his …

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Theocritus; Idylls; Virgil; Eclogues

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(pastoral) In 1504, the Italian poet … published …, renewing the … and … of the pastoral

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Jacopo Sannazzaro; L’Arcadia; fashion; visibility

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(pastoral) the plot of Sannazzaro’s poem was about a … who finds comfort in the … and …. of a rural place and it spoke to a deep European unease about …, …, and the … made for a new …

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heartbroken shepherd; simplicity; shelter; power; urbanization; demands; centralization

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(pastoral) Philip Sidney confirmed this renewal in England with his publication of what is now called “…” in 1590

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The Old Arcadia

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(pastoral) In the Elizabethan court the pastoral glowed as an oblique … comment on …: a poetry in which a perspective of … and … is taken on and … and … are idealized from the vantage point of a … and …

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political; power; grief; yearning; rural manners; customs; corrupt; treacherous court

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(pastoral) By the end of the sixteenth century and the start of the seventeenth, the pastoral convention had become one of the true … engines of …

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intellectual; poetry

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(pastoral) on the surface, the pastoral appeared to be about an … and sometimes … view of the rural and bucolic life

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ornamental; fictional

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(pastoral) In the pastoral mode, poets could experiment with …, some of which verged on a … subversion of … themes in poetry

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huge questions; philosophical subversion; traditional religious

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(pastoral) Was man made for … or … for …

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nature; nature; man

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(pastoral) Was the natural world to enter the poem as a …n object or as a … projection of …

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realistic; fictive; inner feelings

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(pastoral) Would the natural world always enter the poem shadowed by the religious myths of the .. and …?

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Garden of Eden; man’s fall

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(pastoral) throughout the … and … centuries, the pastoral convention was a … in poetry. The pastoral was still both an … and an ..

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seventeenth; eighteenth; constant; escape; idea

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(pastoral) The pastoral broke apart in the early … century. due to the fact that the … had destroyed its habitat such that a poet’s imagination could no longer find that easy rest in an ever-present … that was a … as well as an … possession. But the pastoral was also …

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nineteenth; Industrial Revolution; countryside; communal; imaginative; renewed

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(pastoral) In the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution replaced the … as a place from which to mourn for and celebrate …

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court; rural life

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(pastoral) The pastoral mode can be recognized throughout the 20th century, echoing in laments about …, celebration of …, speculations about the future of the …, right up to the new ….

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urban intrusion; urban hubris; physical world; eco-poetry

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(pastoral) contemporary poets remain haunted by the mix of … and … that the pastoral convention has always offered

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sweet dream; rude awakening

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(pastoral) in the twentieth century the pastoral is often the almost invisible … in the nature poem, a nature poem in which the dream becomes a … or in which the idyll is restated with a new … by a poet like …

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distance; nightmare; pessimism; James Wright

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(pastoral) Christopher Marlowe:

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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

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(Marlowe) Marlowe belonged to the first generation of

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Elizabethan dramatists

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(Marlowe) Marlowe’s career ended around the time when … began

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Shakespeare’s

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(Marlowe) Marlowe was the son of a … n Canterbury and was a brilliant …, winning scholarships to the … in Canterbury and then to … in Cambridge

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shoemaker; student; King’s School; Corpus Cristi College

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(Marlowe) The scholarsips he received were usually reserved for boys who intended to become

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priests

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(Marlowe) After earning his degrees, Marlowe became a …

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spy

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(Marlowe) Elizabeth’s government maintained an elaborate espionage system to keep track of .., esp those living in … on the Continent

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Roman Catholics; exile

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(Marlowe) Man in charge of the espionage system was . the …, Sir … who was Sidney’s …

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Secretary of State; Sir Francis Walsingham; father-in-law

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(Marlowe) Along with poet …, Marlowe got involved in a …, which ended with one man … and Marlowe and the other poet in …

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Thomas Watson; street fight; murdered; jail

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(Marlowe) Marlowe’s roommate, dramatist …., accused him of making …, …, and …. speeches leading to Marlowe’s

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Thomas Kyd; scandalous; seditious; atheistic; arrest

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(Marlowe) Before Marlowe’s case was to be heard, he went with shady characters who he was acquainted with down the Thames to …. in Deptford. There they had dinner, walked and talked in a garden, and after supper got into a … over the … and according to the coroner’s inquest, Marlowe died instantly from a … inflicted above the …

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Eleanor Bull’s tavern; fight; bill; two-inch dagger wound; eye

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(Marlowe) The court acquitted the man who stabbed him on the grounds of …

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self-defense

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(Marlowe) some people believed that Marlowe wasn’t murdered but lived on to write all of … for him

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Shakespeare’s plays

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(Marlowe) Marlowe translated some poems by …, the Roman poet who had great influence on .. and … literature

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Ovid; Medieval; Renaissance

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(Marlowe) Hero and Leander: a tale of ill-fated … but was …

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love; incomplete

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(Marlowe) All of Marlowe’s … dramatic poems are … and are: …, … of … (with Thomas Nashe), … l(in two parts), …., …, …, and …

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seven; tragedies; DIdo; Queen of Carthage; Tamburlaine; The Jew of Malta; The Massacre of Paris; Edward II; Doctor Faustus

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(Marlowe) Marlowe’s greatest tragic heroes have been called “…”: self-driven and power-hungry men who refuse to recognize either their .. as human beings or their … to God and their fellow creatures

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overreachers; limitations; responsibilities

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(Marlowe) Tamburlaine seeks … through …; Barrabas, through …; Faustus, through … They all want to be more than mere men, and only … can put an end to their monstrous ambitious

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power; military conquest; money; knowledge; death

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(Marlowe) Marlowe created … and … poetry and showed Shakespeare what was possible in … poetry

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wild; soaring; dramatic

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(Raleigh) one of the most … figures of a very … age

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colorful; colorful

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(Raleigh) At the peak of Raleigh’s success, he was Queen Elizabeth’s … and … of her …

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confidential secretary; captain; guard

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(Raleigh) Raleigh fought brilliantly for England in …, …, …, and … and was passionately devoted to the cause of … the …

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France; Spain; Ireland; America; colonizing; New World

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(Raleigh) To advertise the products of the New World, Raleigh became one of the first bold Englishmen to … and ….

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smoke tobacco; grow potatoes

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(Raleigh) Raleigh made many … who poisoned … against him, and had him …. of … on false evidence

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enemies; King James’s mind; convicted treason

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(Raleigh) Raleigh was sentenced to death in … and was executed in …

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1603; 1618

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(Raleigh) While imprisoned in the Tower of London, he conducted … and wrote … that runs from the story of Adam and Eve to the establishment of the …

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chemical experiments; History of the World; Roman Empire

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(Raleigh) In 1617, he was allowed to undertake his last voyage to …, which he believed contained vast hoards of … and …

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Guiana; gold; jewels

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(Raleigh) In Guiana, the … killed many of Raleigh’s men, including his … and Raleigh returned home … with … and facing a certain …

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Spanish; son; ill; fever; shameful death

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(Raleigh) Raleigh was sacrificed to placate the Spanish, who made his death a condition for maintaining … with England

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peaceful relations

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(Raleigh) On the scaffold, Raleigh described himself as a … man, a …, and a …

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seafaring; soldier; courtier

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(Raleigh) Raleigh did not think of himself as a …. and was carefree with his …

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writer; poems

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(Raleigh) Raleigh’s most ambitious poem was …., one of the hundreds of literary works that Queen Elizabeth’s subjects wrote to express their … and … and it has only survived in fragments

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The Ocean to Cynthia; love; devotion

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(Raleigh) Raleigh’s poems are …, …, even …, and suffused with the courage of a man who was always ready to accept whatever life might bring him

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powerful; outspoken; blunt

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(Raleigh) He could have been thinking of himself when he wrote in his History: “There is no man so assured of his …, of his …, …, .or …, but that he may be deprived of either or all, the very next hour or day to come”

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honor; riches; health; life

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(Sonnet 73/154) maybe to

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Beloved young man

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(Sonnet 73/154) “Upon those boughs which shake against the cold” boughs: …
Boughs can be replaced with … (…- when hands/limbs shake involuntarily)

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Tree branch; limbs; palsy

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(Sonnet 73/154) speaker talking to a

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Younger person

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(Sonnet 73/154) “Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.”
Extended metaphor is also that a person’s life is like a …
This line is describing the …, which is a gathering place for … like a church, image of a …, birds no longer there
In old age we become bade ruined choirs as the “birds” disappear (birds are …, …, etc)

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Tree; tree; bird choir; bombed out church; talents; hobbies

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(Sonnet 73/154) “In me thou see’st the twilight of such day/ As after sunset fadeth in the west;”
Twilight: moment right after … and before I️t becomes … (German word is … from which we get gloom)
1st line refers to the last glimmer of …
2nd line begs the question what is one’s sunset? What is that last glimmer of you at your …?

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Sun sets; dark; gloaming; light; best

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(Sonnet 73/154) “Which by and by black night doth take away,/ Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest.”
Are people really… or …?
Death’s second self is death’s …: ….
Death and .. are mirror images of each other, and … is a reminder that we will soon die and stay dead

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Given; taken; doppelgänger; sleeping; sleep; sleep

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(Sonnet 73/154) “In me though see’st the glowing of such fire,/ That in the ashes of his youth doth lie,”
1st line: you see last … that will eventually go out when you look at me
2nd line: when you want to sustain a fire you add wood on top of … of previous: like life- we … and … until we become …

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Glowing ember; ashes; augment; grow; less

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(Sonnet 73/154) “As the death-bed, wherein I️t must expire,/ Consumed with that which I️t was nourish’d by.”
Fire dies on I️ts own deathbed. Dying of old age is like … too much, just as a fire that gets too much … (fires need … to survive but burn out when it gets too much)

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Breathing; oxygen; oxygen

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(Sonnet 73/154) “This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong,/ To love that well, which thou must leave ere long.”
… that comes with old make makes one more lovable because people recognize that they may … you soon

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Vulnerability; lose

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(Whoso List to Hunt) whoso list means

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Whoever Desires

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(Whoso List to Hunt) “Whoso List to hunt, I️ know where is an hind,”
Hind:

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Female deer

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(Whoso List to Hunt) But as for me, alas, I️ may no more.”
Alas: …
Question: what happened that’s stopping him from … when he knows where … is

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Alas; hunting; deer

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(Whoso List to Hunt) “the vain travail hath wearied me so sore/ I️ am of them that farthest cometh behind.”
Vain: …, …, …
Travail: …
He’s not a good …

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Useless; pointless; worthless; hard labor; hunter

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Catherine of Aragon: Henry VIII’s .. wife, Henry VIII formed … to divorce her (This was the … church)
Henry VIII locked her in a … until she … when she refused the divorce
She gave birth to …

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first; Church of England; Protestant; tower; died; Mary

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Anne Boleyn: Henry VIII’s … wife
Henry VIII was sleeping with her when married to … Married her under promise that she would give him a …, but she gives birth to …
Henry had her … on false claims of …

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second; Catherine; son; Elizabeth I; beheaded; affair

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Jane Seymour: Henry’s … wife, gave birth to … who …
She died at …
Henry actually … her

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third; Edward the Sixth; died; childbirth; loved

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Anne of Cleaves: Henry’s … wife, Henry saw her in a …. and asked someone to find her but she was … in reality (Henry had artist … for …)
Henry called her … which means ..
They divorced soon after marriage but had a … after

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fourth; painting; ugly; killed; deception; Flanders Mare; horse of Flanders; platonic friendship

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Catherine Howard: Henry’s … wife, she was a … and had a … Henry demanded that she leave him and he married her
While married, Henry caught Catherine with her … and had them both …

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fifth; teenager; boyfriend; boyfriend; killed

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Catherine Parr: Henry’s … wife; She was his …, became a … to Henry’s kids and ensured that his daughters became …, she … him

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sixth; 3rd cousin; mother; queens; survived