{"id":12575,"date":"2023-01-21T19:18:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T19:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=12575"},"modified":"2023-01-21T19:22:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T19:22:01","slug":"chidiock-pronounced-chidik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/21\/chidiock-pronounced-chidik\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Chidiock pronounced Chidik<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>My prime of youth is but a frost of cares<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who wrote that line Lola&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chidiock Tichborne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was the first line of an elegy that he wrote&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whilst awaiting execution in the Tower of London&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What had he done to deserve such a fate&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had conspired with others to assassinate Queen Elizabeth the First&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was called The Babington Plot&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In short Tichborne and others conspired to murder the Queen and replace her with Mary Queen of Scots&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who apart from being next in line to the throne was also a Catholic&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine it Lola you are in the tower awaiting execution in the most terrible way&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That being&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were all eviscerated hung drawn and quartered&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ouch&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet he still had the energy to write this fine elegy&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I really like the final line which is repeated three times<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And now I live, and now my life is done&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The opening line hints that Tichborne was quite young&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the time of his execution&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was only twenty three or so when he died&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems that we have travelled far Lottie&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we no longer execute people for treason&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But stripped down are we that different<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My prime of youth is but a frost of cares Who wrote that line Lola&nbsp; Chidiock Tichborne It was the first line of an elegy that he wrote&nbsp; Whilst awaiting execution in the Tower of London&nbsp;&nbsp; What had he done to deserve such a fate&nbsp; He had conspired with others to assassinate Queen Elizabeth the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12578,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575\/revisions\/12578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}