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 | | And although, as king of England, he never acted in the glorious masques written for his court by Ben Jonson, in Scotland in 1588 he wrote and performed in one of his own, for the wedding of his then favourite, George Earl of Huntly. |
 | | On the one hand, after fifty years of petticoat government in England and mounting uncertainty over the succession to the throne, there was enthusiasm south of the Border for the fact that there was at last an adult male king, Protestant and with heirs. |
 | | It was a terrible though understandable misjudgement, based in part on an unwillingness to acknowledge the unpalatable fact that England's sporadic attempts to annex Scotland since the late thirteenth century had resulted in the uniting of the kingdoms under a Scottish, not an English, king. |
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