Anne Boleyn
by
Theseustoo
Anne Boleyn lost her head
And took King Henery to bed;
But only ’cause her little sister
Bore a son ’cause Henery’d kissed ‘er.
Anne didn’t want the brat, you see
To be the heir of Henery;
And when Henry didn’t want the bub
Mary sorely felt the snub.
Mary and the bub were sent
To Rochford; I think, somewhere in Kent…
Or else somewhere on the Yorkshire dales
Or could it be that little place in Wales…?
But Anne then married Henery
And gave birth to Elizabeth, you see…
But she regretted from the very start
That she’d given Henery her heart.
She wanted to give the king a boy
But a stillborn child gave her no joy.
In desperation to become a mother
Anne had sex with her own brother.
But George’s wife told King Henery
Of his wife’s infidelity;
And so Anne lost her liberty
And to the Tower of London sent was she!
“Not guilty Sire!” then pleaded she
To incest and adultery
But Henry’s anger was plain to see:
“Off with ‘er ‘ead!” says Henery.
Although just as true as that Anne was silly,
It’s true too that Henry could not control his willy.
And though she could have been much smarter,
She was something of a fashion starter!
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Can’t understand it Emmjay; I’ve just discovered how to fix up the stanza problem over at Astyages’s Weblog…
I’ve discovered that I have both Windows 7 AND Vista on my machine; if I load up Vista I can run Word 2002 from my old hard-drive and this managed to fix up the stanza problem there, but for some reason I can’t fathom, nothing I try to do, be it editing this post with ‘word’ or copying and pasting the corrected post from Astyages’s’ Weblog, seems to work here; it just will not accept any changes.
Must be some problem with this site’s settings, is my only guess… Any word from Jason?
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Curious. I’ll forward this to him T2
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Windows 7 & Vista are much the same, except that 7 doesn’t freeze as often.
I can’t see how you can have both installed, unless it is vista upgraded.
I have 7, which my son put on after taking off XP (which I wish that I had kept).
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Jules, I’m interested to hear why you might prefer XP over Win 7.
I’m working on my Vista machine now. I dislike it because there are so many things that go arse up. Bluetooth mouse often gets lost, Explorer goes AWOL and needs a half an hour worth of tidying up and a cold boot.
I was thinking about upgrading Vista to Win 7 on this fast, but unreliable Dell XPS notebook and keeping XP on my slow but super light and reliable Netbook.
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There you go, Helvi! I’ve added this lovely portrait of Anne Boleyn just for you… if you click on it, you should be able to view the portrait full-size and even be able to appreciate the brush-strokes.
Wikipedia, from whom I obtained this public domain pic, say the artist is unkown, but it seems to me like an early Holbein; it has the same degree of observation of detail found in Holbein’s famous portrait of Henry VIII, but not yet quite the same level of artistic skill, though it is undoubtedly the work of a very talented artist.
I wonder if Henry did a bit of daubing as well as a bit of songwriting; the song, “Greensleeves” is usually attributed to his majesty!
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Apologies for my misspelling of ‘heir’…
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So you should DL, shocking… 🙂
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:p
I’ll say three hail marys and two our fathers Hung? Okay?
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15 Our fathers and 1 Steinberg
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Hoo?
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Upper case Big M HOO?
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Ha HOO!
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Good sister
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That’s Sister.
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Sister HOO, cousin of Dr Who (or is it HOO?).
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Upper case Big M, always, eyes fussy bout that
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Alright then, I’ll say fifteen our fathers and a steinberg; there! I’ve said it!
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Absolution…at last!
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You are absolved of you sins young man, go the mass has ended
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Thank you Father.
Thank Gordon, too.
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You da man T; da bomb!
Synchronicity: We watched that flick about a week ago. It takes a moment or two to accept Natalie “The Professional” Portman and Scarlett “The Lips” Johansson as English princesses and Eric Bana as Henry I found somehow profoundly unconvincing but in a very charming way. But in the end enjoyable; but not as much as your poem.
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Thank you Warrigal; I’m glad you enjoyed my little piece of doggerel…
I think Bana was aiming at intensity, but somehow misses the mark; he just comes across as rather constipated… ‘wooden’ acting, I’d say, though the girls are very pretty and the movie is enjoyable if not exactly ‘thrilling’…
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Gravtar please WM, the rest of us have to do it, c’mon dude
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Wah? Gravtar, wazzat?
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Ugly mug shot.
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Mine is a mirror cracking countenance guys and since I stopped shaving about six weeks ago it’s even more so. I really couldn’t do it to you.
It’s been known to startle children and frighten horses.
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Oh, go on Warrigal, you know you want to!
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Yes WM, email has been sent with info
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So much history
To me
Is mystery
To me
And misery
To those who
Were there.
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…any other poets here; Julian, Maddie..?
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Haven’t seen Maddie for ages, H… I do hope she’s okay… Wonder what she’s up to these days…
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Julian is on day leave and Maddie is still in a padded cell
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Rolls off the tongue rather nicely.
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I still think it would read better if it were separated into stanzas though, Big M… I’ll do it as soon as I figure out how… In the meantime try to imagine a line break after every fourth line…
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T2, if you email it to me with marks where you want the stanza breaks, I’ll sort it out. WordPress is a bit strange in how it processes text – in Word , but especially from other sources.
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Okay Emm… will do. Many thanks…
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G’day Piglets!
I was watching the movie, “The Other Boleyn Girl”, on dvd last night and the subject matter was interesting enough to inspire me to write a poem, while the acting was wooden enough not to distract me from the task… so here it is!
Dunno what’s happening with the stanzas though; I kept trying to insert line breaks but all to no avail; but then, I’m not entirely sure what I’m using for a word processor these days; it seems to me that my new super-hyper-duper-diaper machine is as contemptuous of Word 2002 as Deep Thought was of human intelligence; I had thought it was using ‘Open Office’ or something as a default… By the time I finally understand this century it’ll be over!
Helvi, I’ve also just posted a couple of pics on the latest episode of ‘Cyrus’. I know it’s a bit late, but just in case you’re interested, I thought I’d mention it; they may give you a giggle.
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Do you remember the original of this, with Joe Brown and The Bruvvers?
It just came into my head when I saw your ditty.
I put up Rolf though for the locals!!! 🙂
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You mean:
“I’m ‘Enerey the Eight I am
‘Enery the Eight I am, I am!
I got married to the widow next door
She’s been married seven times before
And every one was an ‘Enery!
Wouldn’t have a Willy or a Sam! (No Sam!)
I’m her eighth old man called ‘Enery!
‘Enery the Eight I am!”
Remember it well, though it was not one of Joe Brown and the Bruvvers best songs, I don’t think.
What do you mean you ‘put up Rolf for the locals’?
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I always thought Hermans Hermits wrote this. Turns out that it was written in 1910!
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I used to make the same mistake, Big M, until I downloaded the lyrics and chords for it and the poster attributed it to JB et al… If it were a better song I might consider doing a cover of it, but it’s pretty crass really… I do cover a couple of Herman’s Hermits numbers though… “A Kind of Hush”, and also “Mrs Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter”…
I had a jam with my drummer for the first time in ages the other day; maybe we’ll record a couple of items to post here…
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Yes, please do, T2. FM and I listened to Mrs Brown the other day on a 50s, 60s and 70s 5 disk compilation. Not bad value for $10 the lot !
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Blast it. I forgot to tick the notification box (I often do), so I have only just remembered to check this out.
T TWO, The song is Rolf and Joe hamming it up. Using the words that you know of course.
Rolf is a local (Ozzie).
Joe was a local Londoner. …Mike Sarne, Adam Faith and Anthony Newley.
God I must stop, I’ve got tears in my eyes.
Now tick the box Julian!
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Adam Faith and Anthony Newley were favorites of my mothers many, many years ago, Julian…
I remember playing them all on 45 rpm vynil discs on an old ‘Regentone’ record player and radio unit which in those days was quite a nice piece of furniture…
I used to sometimes sit all day and listen to her record collection. Sadly, it is no more; it was given to my brother Trevor many years ago and sort of ‘disappeared’ after his funeral; his current ‘girlfriend’ nabbed ’em and I was not sufficiently petty to go chasing them.
Now you’ve brought a tear or two to my own eyes…
Now just you remember to tick the box every time Julian!
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I always thought it belonged in the dunny
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What a nice way to learn English history , T2…
Being a bit busy lately, I haven’t had too much time or energy to comment, but I always read every Piglet story. Your pictures for the last ‘Cyrus’ are delightful, and complement the story perfectly.
There’s so much talent here at Pig’s Arms!
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Thanks Helvi… it’s always nice to be appreciated. I’m glad you liked the pics on ‘Cyrus’; I posted them specially for you!
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I must say that I too read every Piglet story, Helvi, even when I’m too tired or lethargic to write anything or comment; though I do at least try to comment on all of them!
As you say, there’s so much talent here at the Pigs’ Arms. I kinda feel like it’s kinda like a sorta ‘spiritual home’… know what I mean? All the piglets now feel like family; to me, anyway. After all, we’ve all suckled at the tit of the mother pig, ‘Unleashed’, have we not? And shared what thin nourishment she had to provide… and yet we survived and have thriven and are now doing wonderful things all on our own.
Crikey, I’m in a strange and emotional mood today! I think I’d better sign off at least ’til tomorrow! BTW, ‘respeck’ to Gerard! I’ll comment on his article tomorrow. TTFN!
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MMMmm…porcine milk.
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Too busy in the dunny H? Don’t worry the Poms will like you to believe in history, as they made it up
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Wee are family
Eyes got my brothers and see
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