Basically, just an ad for the new season of the television show The Tudors (which I haven't seen, but have heard favors melodrama, scene-chewing, and eye-candy over historical accuracy, but why not?), this website will help you understand the role you might have played in Tudor society, had you lived in 16th Century England.
http://www.whothetudorareyou.com/
By the way, wait until the Great Chain of Being comes to a halt (it starts at the top, so for a moment or two you'll think you're a Queen/King before you slide down -- unless of course, you are a Queen/King).
I would, apparently, have been a prostitute, which at least was higher on the hierarchy than thieves or actors. I wouldn't have been disfigured by the diseases that later prostitutes suffered, because they hadn't yet come to English shores. And anyway, by my age, I would have been dead already.
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...and I would have been an Abbess! If I were not dead by now, of course...
I'm a dead beggar, and beneath contempt. Sigh.
I am a shepherd, content to live alone with my sheep until I die in about four years.
I lied about my age, and said I aspired to power, hence my elevation to the nobility. I feel so, well, noble.
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