that you walk so late?' So he let us through the gate with a good will, and at long last we reached each man to his lodging." At four o'clock on the morning of Ash Wednesday, London was awoke by drums beating all through the streets of the city. John and Robin rose hastily, and went out to ascertain the cause. They came in shortly, saying that the drums beat for all soldiers to arm and repair to Charing Cross, for that Wyatt was seeking to come in by Westminster, and had reached as far as Brentford. About one or two o'clock, Wyatt came, and marched past Charing Cross, without hindrance (except that as he passed Saint James's the Earl of Pembroke fell upon his rear), and so marched along the Strand, and up Fleet Street, until he came before Ludgate. There they knocked to come in, falsely saying that the Queen had granted their request and pardoned them; but Lord William Howard was not to be thus deceived, as others had been on the way. His answer was a stern cry of "Avaunt, traitor! thou shalt not come in here." For a little while Wyatt rested upon a seat at the Belle Sauvage gate; but at last, being weary of this pastime, he turned back on Charing Cross. When he reached Temple Bar the Queen's horsemen met him, and the battle began. When he saw the fight going against him, Wyatt yielded. And so Sir Maurice Berkeley and others brought him and his chief captains to Court, and at five o'clock they were taken to the Tower by water. And as they passed in, Sir John Bridges, the Lieutenant, ungenerously upbraided the prisoner, saying that "if it were not that the law must justly pass upon him, he would strike him with his dagger." To whom Wyatt answered, "with a grim and grievous look"--"It were no mastery now." And so they passed on. Thus was Wyatt's rebellion quashed. The stars in their courses fought against him. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Note 1. In addition to his cruel persecution of the Gospellers, he had been a notorious libertine. Note 2. Cott. Ms., Appendix, twenty-eight, folio 93, 94.--Miss Strickland says (Lives of the Queens, three, page 459), that this was Mary, wife of James Basset; but the Tallies Roll for 2-3 Philip et Mary distinctly names this lady as one of Queen Mary's maids of honour, in recording the payment of her pension--"_Anna_ Basset, virginis Reginae." Note 3. Harl. Ms. 425, folio 92, 93. Note 4. Underhill is a Warwickshire family, but Anne Wynter, the mother of Edward Underhill, was a Worcestershire woman. Note 5. Notes on this poem. See Harl. Ms. 424, folio 9. Plags means plagues. "Wealthe" means "personal interest." "Wreche" means "wretch." "Lake" means "lack." "Wrake" means "wrack." CHAPTER NINE. WHO PAID THE PENALTY. "And make me die the thrall of Margaret's curse-- Nor mother, wife, nor England's counted Queen." Shakespeare.