Crossword-Solution: GLORIANA 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

They did not stay to ask What prize should crown their task, Well sure that prize was such as no man strives for; But passed into eclipse, Her kiss upon their lips-- Even Belphoebe’s, whom they gave their lives for! Gloriana Willow Shaw, the little fenced wood where the hop-poles are stacked like Indian wigwams, had been given to Dan and Una for their very own kingdom when they were quite small.

Watch! You are to imagine that she--Gloriana, Belphoebe, Elizabeth--has gone on a progress to Rye to comfort her sad heart (maids are often melancholic), and while she halts at Brickwall House, the village--what was its name?’ She pushed Puck with her foot.

Here for her sins she is waited upon by--What were the young cockerels’ names that served Gloriana at table?’ ‘Frewens, Courthopes, Fullers, Husseys,’ Puck began.

Wherefore’--she looked funnily over her shoulder--‘you are to think of Gloriana in a green and gold-laced habit, dreadfully expecting that the jostling youths behind her would, of pure jealousy or devotion, spatter it with sauces and wines.

You are to think of Gloriana, then (they say she had a pretty hand), excusing herself thus to the company--for the Queen’s time is never her own--and, while the music strikes up, reading Philip’s letter, as I do.’ She drew a real letter from her pocket, and held it out almost at arm’s length, like the old post-mistress in the village when she reads telegrams.