Puddle it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be all right, because this World was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. When Walter Raleigh met Queen Elizabeth I, Raleigh is reputed to have thrown his coat over
To the Queen poem and the epilogue to his "Old Fortunatus" (also performed at court in 1599), and a verbal echo of the Dial Hand poem in his "Whore of Babylon" (1605). Hackett states that, unlike Shakespeare, Dekker regularly wrote complimentary verse about Elizabeth and suggests that the poem was intended to be spoken at the end of his play "The Shoemaker's Holiday". To the Queen "To the Queen" (or "To The Queen by the players") is a short 18 line poem praising Queen Elizabeth I attributed to William Shakespeare. It was included in 2007 by Jonathan Bate in his complete Shakespeare edition