Here he tires of Boleyn—who has failed to produce a male heir—and sets to luring Jane Seymour, “modest as a drift of green-white hellebore”.

而在《死尸示众》中，亨利厌倦了未能给他诞下王储的博林皇后，转而追求“保守得像一簇绿白色藜芦”的简·西摩。

And the story of Boleyn, a glittering queen tamed to a “small voice, empty of everything except politeness”, provides a better narrative arc than Cromwell's clamber to the top, and a more grimly dramatic conclusion.

博林皇后曾经光芒万丈，但最后却沦落到“说话轻声细语，除了礼节一无所有”的田地，比起克伦威尔攀龙附凤的经历，博林皇后的故事被叙述得更加跌宕起伏，其戏剧性的结尾也更加悲凉。