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   0  <O 224><H AIT><D 1613><K play><A ?Fletcher>
   0  <T title>All Is True (Henry VIII)
   0  <X > <Y Pr> <T dsd> {Enter Prologue}
   1  <S PROLOGUE> <T verse> I come no more to make you laugh. Things now
   2  That bear a weighty and a serious brow,
   3  Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe_
   4  Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow
   5  We now present. Those that can pity here
   6  May, if they think it well, let fall a tear.
   7  The subject will deserve it. Such as give
   8  Their money out of hope they may believe,
   9  May here find truth, too. Those that come to see
  10  Only a show or two, and so agree
  11  The play may pass, if they be still, and willing,
  12  I'll undertake may see away their shilling
  13  Richly in two short hours. Only they
  14  That come to hear a merry bawdy play,
  15  A noise of targets, or to see a fellow
  16  In a long motley coat guarded with yellow,
  17  Will be deceived. For, gentle hearers, know
  18  To rank our chosen truth with such a show
  19  As fool and fight is, beside forfeiting
  20  Our own brains, and the opinion that we bring
  21  To make that only true we now intend,
  22  Will leave us never an understanding friend.
  23  Therefore, for goodness' sake, and as you are known
  24  The first and happiest hearers of the town,
  25  Be sad as we would make ye. Think ye see
  26  The very persons of our noble story
  27  As they were living; think you see them great,
  28  And followed with the general throng and sweat
  29  Of thousand friends; then, in a moment, see
  30  How soon this mightiness meets misery.
  31  And if you can be merry then, I'll say
  32  A man may weep upon his wedding day.<T esd> {Exit}
   0  <A Shakespeare>
   0  <X 1> <Y 1> <T dsd> {[A cloth of state throughout the play.] Enter the   +
   0  Duke of Norfolk at one door; at the other door enter the Duke of         +
   0  Buckingham and the Lord Abergavenny}
   1  <S BUCKINGHAM> <T asd> {(to Norfolk)}<T verse> Good morrow, and well     +
   1  met. How have ye done
   2B Since last we saw in France?<S NORFOLK> I thank your grace,
   3  Healthful, and ever since a fresh admirer
   4B Of what I saw there.<S BUCKINGHAM> An untimely ague
   5  Stayed me a prisoner in my chamber when
   6  Those suns of glory, those two lights of men,
   7B Met in the vale of Ardres.<S NORFOLK> 'Twixt Guisnes and Ardres.
   8  I was then present, saw them salute on horseback,
   9  Beheld them when they lighted, how they clung
  10  In their embracement as they grew together,
  11  Which had they, what four throned ones could have weighed
  12B Such a compounded one?<S BUCKINGHAM> All the whole time
  13B I was my chamber's prisoner.<S NORFOLK> Then you lost
  14  The view of earthly glory. Men might say
  15  Till this time pomp was single, but now married
  16  To one above itself. Each following day
  17  Became the next day's master, till the last
  18  Made former wonders its. Today the French,
  19  All clinquant all in gold, like heathen gods
  20  Shone down the English; and tomorrow they
  21  Made Britain India. Every man that stood
  22  Showed like a mine. Their dwarfish pages were
  23  As cherubim, all gilt; the {mesdames}, too,
  24  Not used to toil, did almost sweat to bear
  25  The pride upon them, that their very labour
  26  Was to them as a painting. Now this masque
  27  Was cried incomparable, and th' ensuing night
  28  Made it a fool and beggar. The two kings
  29  Equal in lustre, were now best, now worst,
  30  As presence did present them. Him in eye
  31  Still him in praise, and being present both,
  32  'Twas said they saw but one, and no discerner
  33  Durst wag his tongue in censure. When these suns_
  34  For so they phrase 'em_by their heralds challenged
  35  The noble spirits to arms, they did perform
  36  Beyond thought's compass, that former fabulous story
  37  Being now seen possible enough, got credit
  38B That {Bevis} was believed.<S BUCKINGHAM> O, you go far!
  39  <S NORFOLK> As I belong to worship, and affect
  40  In honour honesty, the tract of ev'rything
  41  Would by a good discourser lose some life
  42  Which action's self was tongue to. All was royal.
  43  To the disposing of it naught rebelled.
  44  Order gave each thing view. The office did
  45B Distinctly his full function.<S BUCKINGHAM> Who did guide_
  46  I mean, who set the body and the limbs
  47  Of this great sport together, as you guess?
  48  <S NORFOLK> One, certes, that promises no element
  49B In such a business.<S BUCKINGHAM> I pray you who, my lord?
  50  <S NORFOLK> All this was ordered by the good discretion
  51  Of the right reverend Cardinal of York.
  52  <S BUCKINGHAM> The devil speed him! No man's pie is freed
  53  From his ambitious finger. What had he
  54  To do in these fierce vanities? I wonder
  55  That such a keech can, with his very bulk,
  56  Take up the rays o' th' beneficial sun,
  57B And keep it from the earth.<S NORFOLK> Surely, sir,
  58  There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends.
  59  For being not propped by ancestry, whose grace
  60  Chalks successors their way, nor called upon
  61  For high feats done to th' crown, neither allied
  62  To eminent assistants, but spider-like,
  63  Out of his self-drawing web, a gives us note
  64  The force of his own merit makes his way_
  65  A gift that heaven gives for him which buys
  66B A place next to the King.<S ABERGAVENNY> I cannot tell
  67  What heaven hath given him_let some graver eye
  68  Pierce into that; but I can see his pride
  69  Peep through each part of him. Whence has he that?
  70  If not from hell, the devil is a niggard
  71  Or has given all before, and he begins
  72B A new hell in himself.<S BUCKINGHAM> Why the devil,
  73  Upon this French going out, took he upon him
  74  Without the privity o' th' King t' appoint
  75  Who should attend on him? He makes up the file
  76  Of all the gentry, for the most part such
  77  To whom as great a charge as little honour
  78  He meant to lay upon; and his own letter,
  79  The honourable board of council out,
  80B Must fetch him in, he papers.<S ABERGAVENNY> I do know
  81  Kinsmen of mine_three at the least_that have
  82  By this so sickened their estates that never
  83B They shall abound as formerly.<S BUCKINGHAM> O, many
  84  Have broke their backs with laying manors on 'em
  85  For this great journey. What did this vanity
  86  But minister communication of
  87B A most poor issue?<S NORFOLK> Grievingly I think
  88  The peace between the French and us not values
  89B The cost that did conclude it.<S BUCKINGHAM> Every man,
  90  After the hideous storm that followed, was
  91  A thing inspired, and, not consulting, broke
  92  Into a general prophecy_that this tempest,
  93  Dashing the garment of this peace, aboded
  94B The sudden breach on 't.<S NORFOLK> Which is budded out_
  95  For France hath flawed the league, and hath attached
  96B Our merchants' goods at Bordeaux.<S ABERGAVENNY> Is it therefore
  97B Th' ambassador is silenced?<S NORFOLK> Marry is 't.
  98  <S ABERGAVENNY> A proper title of a peace, and purchased
  99B At a superfluous rate.<S BUCKINGHAM> Why, all this business
 100B Our reverend Cardinal carried.<S NORFOLK> Like it your grace,
 101  The state takes notice of the private difference
 102  Betwixt you and the Cardinal. I advise you_
 103  And take it from a heart that wishes towards you
 104  Honour and plenteous safety_that you read
 105  The Cardinal's malice and his potency
 106  Together; to consider further that
 107  What his high hatred would effect wants not
 108  A minister in his power. You know his nature,
 109  That he's revengeful; and I know his sword
 110  Hath a sharp edge_it's long, and 't may be said
 111  It reaches far; and where 'twill not extend
 112  Thither he darts it. Bosom up my counsel,
 113  You'll find it wholesome. Lo, where comes that rock
 114  That I advise your shunning.<T dsd> {Enter Cardinal Wolsey, the purse    +
 114  containing the great seal borne before him. Enter with him certain of    +
 114  the guard, and two secretaries with papers. The}
 115  {Cardinal in his passage fixeth his eye on Buckingham and Buckingham on  +
 115  him, both full of disdain}<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T asd> {(to a             +
 115  secretary)}<T verse> The Duke of Buckingham's surveyor, ha?
 116B Where's his examination?<S SECRETARY> Here, so please you.
 117B <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Is he in person ready?<S SECRETARY> Ay, please your  +
 117B grace.
 118  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Well, we shall then know more, and Buckingham
 119  Shall lessen this big look.<T esd> {Exeunt Wolsey and his train}
 120  <S BUCKINGHAM> <T verse> This butcher's cur is venom-mouthed, and I
 121  Have not the power to muzzle him; therefore best
 122  Not wake him in his slumber. A beggar's book
 123B Outworths a noble's blood.<S NORFOLK> What, are you chafed?
 124  Ask God for temp'rance; that's th' appliance only
 125B Which your disease requires.<S BUCKINGHAM> I read in 's looks
 126  Matter against me, and his eye reviled
 127  Me as his abject object. At this instant
 128  He bores me with some trick. He's gone to th' King_
 129B I'll follow, and outstare him.<S NORFOLK> Stay, my lord,
 130  And let your reason with your choler question
 131  What 'tis you go about. To climb steep hills
 132  Requires slow pace at first. Anger is like
 133  A full hot horse who, being allowed his way,
 134  Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England
 135  Can advise me like you. Be to yourself
 136B As you would to your friend.<S BUCKINGHAM> I'll to the King,
 137  And from a mouth of honour quite cry down
 138  This Ipswich fellow's insolence, or proclaim
 139B There's difference in no persons.<S NORFOLK> Be advised.
 140  Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
 141  That it do singe yourself. We may outrun
 142  By violent swiftness that which we run at,
 143  And lose by over-running. Know you not
 144  The fire that mounts the liquor till 't run o'er
 145  In seeming to augment it wastes it? Be advised.
 146  I say again there is no English soul
 147  More stronger to direct you than yourself,
 148  If with the sap of reason you would quench
 149B Or but allay the fire of passion.<S BUCKINGHAM> Sir,
 150  I am thankful to you, and I'll go along
 151  By your prescription; but this top-proud fellow_
 152  Whom from the flow of gall I name not, but
 153  From sincere motions_by intelligence,
 154  And proofs as clear as founts in July when
 155  We see each grain of gravel, I do know
 156B To be corrupt and treasonous.<S NORFOLK> Say not `treasonous".
 157  <S BUCKINGHAM> To th' King I'll say 't, and make my vouch as strong
 158  As shore of rock. Attend: this holy fox,
 159  Or wolf, or both_for he is equal rav'nous
 160  As he is subtle, and as prone to mischief
 161  As able to perform 't, his mind and place
 162  Infecting one another, yea, reciprocally_
 163  Only to show his pomp as well in France
 164  As here at home, suggests the King our master
 165  To this last costly treaty, th' interview
 166  That swallowed so much treasure and, like a glass,
 167B Did break i' th' rinsing.<S NORFOLK> Faith, and so it did.
 168  <S BUCKINGHAM> Pray give me favour, sir. This cunning Cardinal,
 169  The articles o' th' combination drew
 170  As himself pleased, and they were ratified
 171  As he cried `Thus let be", to as much end
 172  As give a crutch to th' dead. But our count-Cardinal
 173  Has done this, and 'tis well for worthy Wolsey,
 174  Who cannot err, he did it. Now this follows_
 175  Which, as I take it, is a kind of puppy
 176  To th' old dam, treason_Charles the Emperor,
 177  Under pretence to see the Queen his aunt_
 178  For 'twas indeed his colour, but he came
 179  To whisper Wolsey_here makes visitation.
 180  His fears were that the interview betwixt
 181  England and France might through their amity
 182  Breed him some prejudice, for from this league
 183  Peeped harms that menaced him. Privily he
 184  Deals with our Cardinal and, as I trow_
 185  Which I do well, for I am sure the Emperor
 186  Paid ere he promised, whereby his suit was granted
 187  Ere it was asked_but when the way was made,
 188  And paved with gold, the Emperor thus desired
 189  That he would please to alter the King's course
 190  And break the foresaid peace. Let the King know,
 191  As soon he shall by me, that thus the Cardinal
 192  Does buy and sell his honour as he pleases,
 193B And for his own advantage.<S NORFOLK> I am sorry
 194  To hear this of him, and could wish he were
 195B Something mistaken in 't.<S BUCKINGHAM> No, not a syllable.
 196  I do pronounce him in that very shape
 197  He shall appear in proof.<T dsd> {Enter Brandon, a serjeant-at-arms      +
 197  before him, and two or three of the guard}
 198B <S BRANDON> <T verse> Your office, serjeant, execute it.<S SERJEANT>     +
 198B Sir.
 199  <T asd> {(To Buckingham)}<T verse> My lord the Duke of Buckingham and    +
 199  Earl
 200  Of Hereford, Stafford, and Northampton, I
 201  Arrest thee of high treason in the name
 202B Of our most sovereign King.<S BUCKINGHAM> <T asd> {[to                   +
 202B Norfolk]}<T verse> Lo you, my lord,
 203  The net has fall'n upon me. I shall perish
 204B Under device and practice.<S BRANDON> I am sorry
 205  To see you ta'en from liberty to look on
 206  The business present. 'Tis his highness' pleasure
 207B You shall to th' Tower.<S BUCKINGHAM> It will help me nothing
 208  To plead mine innocence, for that dye is on me
 209  Which makes my whit'st part black. The will of heav'n
 210  Be done in this and all things. I obey.
 211  O, my lord Abergavenny, fare you well.
 212B <S BRANDON> Nay, he must bear you company.<T asd> {(To                   +
 212B Abergavenny)}<T verse> The King
 213  Is pleased you shall to th' Tower till you know
 214B How he determines further.<S ABERGAVENNY> As the Duke said,
 215  The will of heaven be done and the King's pleasure
 216B By me obeyed.<S BRANDON> Here is a warrant from
 217  The King t' attach Lord Montague and the bodies
 218  Of the duke's confessor, John de la Car,
 219B One Gilbert Perk, his chancellor_<S BUCKINGHAM> So, so;
 220  These are the limbs o' th' plot. No more, I hope.
 221B <S BRANDON> A monk o' th' Chartreux.<S BUCKINGHAM> O, Nicholas Hopkins?
 222A <S BRANDON> He.
 223  <S BUCKINGHAM> My surveyor is false. The o'er-great Cardinal
 224  Hath showed him gold. My life is spanned already.
 225  I am the shadow of poor Buckingham,
 226  Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on
 227  By dark'ning my clear sun.<T asd> {(To Norfolk)}<T verse> My lord,       +
 227  farewell.<T esd> {Exeunt [Norfolk at one door, Buckingham and            +
 227  Abergavenny under guard at another]}
   0  <Y 2> <T dsd> {Cornetts. Enter King Henry leaning on Cardinal Wolsey's   +
   0  shoulder. Enter with them Wolsey's two secretaries, the nobles, and Sir  +
   0  Thomas Lovell. The King ascends to his seat under the cloth of           +
   0  state; Wolsey places himself under the King's feet on his right side}
   1  <S KING HENRY> <T asd> {[to Wolsey]}<T verse> My life itself and the     +
   1  best heart of it
   2  Thanks you for this great care. I stood i' th' level
   3  Of a full-charged confederacy, and give thanks
   4  To you that choked it. Let be called before us
   5  That gentleman of Buckingham's. In person
   6  I'll hear him his confessions justify,
   7  And point by point the treasons of his master
   8  He shall again relate.
   9  <S [CRIER]> <T asd> {(within)}<T verse> Room for the Queen, ushered by   +
   9  the Duke of Norfolk.<T dsd> {Enter Queen Katherine, the Duke of          +
   9  Norfolk, and the Duke of Suffolk. She kneels. King Henry riseth from     +
   9  his state, takes her up, and kisses her}
  10  <S QUEEN KATHERINE> <T verse> Nay, we must longer kneel. I am a suitor.
  11B <S KING HENRY> Arise, and take place by us.<T dsd> {He placeth her by    +
  11B him}<T verse> Half your suit
  12  Never name to us. You have half our power,
  13  The other moiety ere you ask is given.
  14B Repeat your will and take it.<S QUEEN KATHERINE> Thank your majesty.
  15  That you would love yourself, and in that love
  16  Not unconsidered leave your honour nor
  17  The dignity of your office, is the point
  18B Of my petition.<S KING HENRY> Lady mine, proceed.
  19  <S QUEEN KATHERINE> I am solicited, not by a few,
  20  And those of true condition, that your subjects
  21  Are in great grievance. There have been commissions
  22  Sent down among 'em which hath flawed the heart
  23  Of all their loyalties; wherein, although,
  24  My good lord Cardinal, they vent reproaches
  25  Most bitterly on you, as putter-on
  26  Of these exactions, yet the King our master_
  27  Whose honour heaven shield from soil_even he escapes not
  28  Language unmannerly, yea, such which breaks
  29  The sides of loyalty, and almost appears
  30B In loud rebellion.<S NORFOLK> Not `almost appears"_
  31  It doth appear; for upon these taxations
  32  The clothiers all, not able to maintain
  33  The many to them 'longing, have put off
  34  The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers, who,
  35  Unfit for other life, compelled by hunger
  36  And lack of other means, in desperate manner
  37  Daring th' event to th' teeth, are all in uproar,
  38B And danger serves among them.<S KING HENRY> Taxation?
  39  Wherein, and what taxation? My lord Cardinal,
  40  You that are blamed for it alike with us,
  41B Know you of this taxation?<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Please you, sir,
  42  I know but of a single part in aught
  43  Pertains to th' state, and front but in that file
  44B Where others tell steps with me.<S QUEEN KATHERINE> No, my lord?
  45  You know no more than others? But you frame
  46  Things that are known alike, which are not wholesome
  47  To those which would not know them, and yet must
  48  Perforce be their acquaintance. These exactions
  49  Whereof my sovereign would have note, they are
  50  Most pestilent to th' hearing, and to bear 'em
  51  The back is sacrifice to th' load. They say
  52  They are devised by you, or else you suffer
  53B Too hard an exclamation.<S KING HENRY> Still exaction!
  54  The nature of it? In what kind, let's know,
  55B Is this exaction?<S QUEEN KATHERINE> I am much too venturous
  56  In tempting of your patience, but am boldened
  57  Under your promised pardon. The subjects' grief
  58  Comes through commissions which compels from each
  59  The sixth part of his substance to be levied
  60  Without delay, and the pretence for this
  61  Is named your wars in France. This makes bold mouths.
  62  Tongues spit their duties out, and cold hearts freeze
  63  Allegiance in them. Their curses now
  64  Live where their prayers did, and it's come to pass
  65  This tractable obedience is a slave
  66  To each incense\d will. I would your highness
  67  Would give it quick consideration, for
  68B There is no primer business.<S KING HENRY> By my life,
  69B This is against our pleasure.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> And for me,
  70  I have no further gone in this than by
  71  A single voice, and that not passed me but
  72  By learne\d approbation of the judges. If I am
  73  Traduced by ignorant tongues, which neither know
  74  My faculties nor person yet will be
  75  The chronicles of my doing, let me say
  76  'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake
  77  That virtue must go through. We must not stint
  78  Our necessary actions in the fear
  79  To cope malicious censurers, which ever,
  80  As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow
  81  That is new trimmed, but benefit no further
  82  Than vainly longing. What we oft do best,
  83  By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is
  84  Not ours or not allowed; what worst, as oft,
  85  Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up
  86  For our best act. If we shall stand still,
  87  In fear our motion will be mocked or carped at,
  88  We should take root here where we sit,
  89B Or sit state-statues only.<S KING HENRY> Things done well,
  90  And with a care, exempt themselves from fear;
  91  Things done without example, in their issue
  92  Are to be feared. Have you a precedent
  93  Of this commission? I believe not any.
  94  We must not rend our subjects from our laws
  95  And stick them in our will. Sixth part of each?
  96  A trembling contribution! Why, we take
  97  From every tree lop, bark, and part o' th' timber,
  98  And though we leave it with a root, thus hacked
  99  The air will drink the sap. To every county
 100  Where this is questioned send our letters with
 101  Free pardon to each man that has denied
 102  The force of this commission. Pray look to 't_
 103B I put it to your care.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T asd> {(to a                 +
 103B secretary)}<T verse> A word with you.
 104  Let there be letters writ to every shire
 105B Of the King's grace and pardon.<T asd> {(Aside to the                    +
 105B secretary)}<T verse> The grieve\d commons
 106  Hardly conceive of me. Let it be noised
 107  That through our intercession this revokement
 108  And pardon comes. I shall anon advise you
 109  Further in the proceeding.<T esd> {Exit secretary}
 110  <T dsd> {Enter Buckingham's Surveyor}<S QUEEN KATHERINE> <T asd> {(to    +
 110  the King)}<T verse> I am sorry that the Duke of Buckingham
 111B Is run in your displeasure.<S KING HENRY> It grieves many.
 112  The gentleman is learne\d, and a most rare speaker,
 113  To nature none more bound; his training such
 114  That he may furnish and instruct great teachers
 115  And never seek for aid out of himself. Yet see,
 116  When these so noble benefits shall prove
 117  Not well disposed, the mind growing once corrupt,
 118  They turn to vicious forms ten times more ugly
 119  Than ever they were fair. This man so complete,
 120  Who was enrolled 'mongst wonders_and when we
 121  Almost with ravished list'ning could not find
 122  His hour of speech a minute_he, my lady,
 123  Hath into monstrous habits put the graces
 124  That once were his, and is become as black
 125  As if besmeared in hell. Sit by us. You shall hear_
 126  This was his gentleman in trust of him_
 127B Things to strike honour sad.<T asd> {(To Wolsey)}<T verse> Bid him       +
 127B recount
 128  The fore-recited practices whereof
 129  We cannot feel too little, hear too much.
 130  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T asd> {(to the Surveyor)}<T verse> Stand forth,    +
 130  and with bold spirit relate what you
 131  Most like a careful subject have collected
 132B Out of the Duke of Buckingham.<S KING HENRY> <T asd> {(to the            +
 132B Surveyor)}<T verse> Speak freely.
 133  <S BUCKINGHAM'S SURVEYOR> First, it was usual with him, every day
 134  It would infect his speech, that if the King
 135  Should without issue die, he'll carry it so
 136  To make the sceptre his. These very words
 137  I've heard him utter to his son-in-law,
 138  Lord Abergavenny, to whom by oath he menaced
 139B Revenge upon the Cardinal.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T asd> {(to the           +
 139B King)}<T verse> Please your highness note
 140  His dangerous conception in this point,
 141  Not friended by his wish to your high person.
 142  His will is most malignant, and it stretches
 143B Beyond you to your friends.<S QUEEN KATHERINE> My learned Lord           +
 143B Cardinal,
 144B Deliver all with charity.<S KING HENRY> <T asd> {(to the                 +
 144B Surveyor)}<T verse> Speak on.
 145  How grounded he his title to the crown
 146  Upon our fail? To this point hast thou heard him
 147B At any time speak aught?<S BUCKINGHAM'S SURVEYOR> He was brought to      +
 147B this
 148  By a vain prophecy of Nicholas Hopkins.
 149B <S KING HENRY> What was that Hopkins?<S BUCKINGHAM'S SURVEYOR> Sir, a    +
 149B Chartreux friar,
 150  His confessor, who fed him every minute
 151B With words of sovereignty.<S KING HENRY> How know'st thou this?
 152  <S BUCKINGHAM'S SURVEYOR> Not long before your highness sped to France,
 153  The Duke being at the Rose, within the parish
 154  Saint Lawrence Poutney, did of me demand
 155  What was the speech among the Londoners
 156  Concerning the French journey. I replied
 157  Men feared the French would prove perfidious,
 158  To the King's danger; presently the Duke
 159  Said 'twas the fear indeed, and that he doubted
 160  'Twould prove the verity of certain words
 161  Spoke by a holy monk that oft, says he,
 162  `Hath sent to me, wishing me to permit
 163  John de la Car, my chaplain, a choice hour
 164  To hear from him a matter of some moment;
 165  Whom after under the confession's seal
 166  He solemnly had sworn, that what he spoke
 167  My chaplain to no creature living but
 168  To me should utter, with demure confidence
 169  This pausingly ensued: ``neither the King nor 's heirs"",
 170  Tell you the Duke, ``shall prosper. Bid him strive
 171  To win the love o' th' commonalty. The Duke
 172B Shall govern England."" "<S QUEEN KATHERINE> If I know you well,
 173  You were the Duke's surveyor, and lost your office
 174  On the complaint o' th' tenants. Take good heed
 175  You charge not in your spleen a noble person
 176  And spoil your nobler soul. I say, take heed;
 177B Yes, heartily beseech you.<S KING HENRY> Let him on.
 178B <T asd> {(To the Surveyor)}<T verse> Go forward.                         +
 178B <S BUCKINGHAM'S SURVEYOR> On my soul I'll speak but truth.
 179  I told my lord the Duke, by th' devil's illusions
 180  The monk might be deceived, and that 'twas dangerous
 181  To ruminate on this so far until
 182  It forged him some design which, being believed,
 183  It was much like to do. He answered, `Tush,
 184  It can do me no damage", adding further
 185  That had the King in his last sickness failed,
 186  The Cardinal's and Sir Thomas Lovell's heads
 187B Should have gone off.<S KING HENRY> Ha? What, so rank? Ah, ha!
 188  There's mischief in this man. Canst thou say further?
 189B <S BUCKINGHAM'S SURVEYOR> I can, my liege.<S KING HENRY>                 +
 189B Proceed.<S BUCKINGHAM'S SURVEYOR> Being at Greenwich,
 190  After your highness had reproved the Duke
 191B About Sir William Bulmer_<S KING HENRY> I remember
 192  Such a time, being my sworn servant,
 193  The Duke retained him his. But on_what hence?
 194  <S BUCKINGHAM'S SURVEYOR> `If", quoth he, `I for this had been           +
 194  committed"_
 195  As to the Tower, I thought_`I would have played
 196  The part my father meant to act upon
 197  Th' usurper Richard who, being at Salisbury,
 198  Made suit to come in 's presence; which if granted,
 199  As he made semblance of his duty, would
 200B Have put his knife into him."<S KING HENRY> A giant traitor!
 201  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T asd> {(to the Queen)}<T verse> Now, madam, may    +
 201  his highness live in freedom,
 202B And this man out of prison?<S QUEEN KATHERINE> God mend all.
 203  <S KING HENRY> <T asd> {(to the Surveyor)}<T verse> There's something    +
 203  more would out of thee_what sayst?
 204  <S BUCKINGHAM'S SURVEYOR> After `the Duke his father", with `the         +
 204  knife",
 205  He stretched him, and with one hand on his dagger,
 206  Another spread on 's breast, mounting his eyes,
 207  He did discharge a horrible oath whose tenor
 208  Was, were he evil used, he would outgo
 209  His father by as much as a performance
 210B Does an irresolute purpose.<S KING HENRY> There's his period_
 211  To sheathe his knife in us. He is attached.
 212  Call him to present trial. If he may
 213  Find mercy in the law, 'tis his; if none,
 214  Let him not seek 't of us. By day and night,
 215  He's traitor to th' height.<T esd> {[Flourish.] Exeunt}
   0  <A Fletcher>
   0  <Y 3> <T dsd> {Enter the Lord Chamberlain and Lord Sands}
   1  <S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> <T verse> Is 't possible the spells of France       +
   1  should juggle
   2B Men into such strange mysteries?<S SANDS> New customs,
   3  Though they be never so ridiculous_
   4  Nay, let 'em be unmanly_yet are followed.
   5  <S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> As far as I see, all the good our English
   6  Have got by the late voyage is but merely
   7  A fit or two o' th' face. But they are shrewd ones,
   8  For when they hold 'em you would swear directly
   9  Their very noses had been counsellors
  10  To Pe/pin or Clotharius, they keep state so.
  11  <S SANDS> They have all new legs, and lame ones; one would take it,
  12  That never see 'em pace before, the spavin
  13B Or spring-halt reigned among 'em.<S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> Death, my lord,
  14  Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to 't
  15B That sure they've worn out Christendom.<T dsd> {Enter Sir Thomas         +
  15B Lovell}<T verse> How now_
  16B What news, Sir Thomas Lovell?<S LOVELL> Faith, my lord,
  17  I hear of none but the new proclamation
  18B That's clapped upon the court gate.<S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> What is 't for?
  19  <S LOVELL> The reformation of our travelled gallants
  20  That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors.
  21  <S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> I'm glad 'tis there. Now I would pray our           +
  21  `{messieurs}"
  22  To think an English courtier may be wise
  23B And never see the Louvre.<S LOVELL> They must either,
  24  For so run the conditions, leave those remnants
  25  Of fool and feather that they got in France,
  26  With all their honourable points of ignorance
  27  Pertaining thereunto_as fights and fireworks,
  28  Abusing better men than they can be
  29  Out of a foreign wisdom, renouncing clean
  30  The faith they have in tennis and tall stockings,
  31  Short blistered breeches, and those types of travel_
  32  And understand again like honest men,
  33  Or pack to their old playfellows. There, I take it,
  34  They may, {cum privilegio}, `{oui}" away
  35  The lag end of their lewdness and be laughed at.
  36  <S SANDS> 'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases
  37B Are grown so catching.<S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> What a loss our ladies
  38B Will have of these trim vanities!<S LOVELL> Ay, marry,
  39  There will be woe indeed, lords. The sly whoresons
  40  Have got a speeding trick to lay down ladies.
  41  A French song and a fiddle has no fellow.
  42  <S SANDS> The devil fiddle 'em! I am glad they are going,
  43  For sure there's no converting of 'em. Now
  44  An honest country lord, as I am, beaten
  45  A long time out of play, may bring his plainsong
  46  And have an hour of hearing, and, by 'r Lady,
  47B Held current music, too.<S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> Well said, Lord Sands.
  48B Your colt's tooth is not cast yet?<S SANDS> No, my lord,
  49B Nor shall not while I have a stump.<S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> <T asd> {(to     +
  49B Lovell)}<T verse> Sir Thomas,
  50B Whither were you a-going?<S LOVELL> To the Cardinal's.
  51B Your lordship is a guest too.<S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> O, 'tis true.
  52  This night he makes a supper, and a great one,
  53  To many lords and ladies. There will be
  54  The beauty of this kingdom, I'll assure you.
  55  <S LOVELL> That churchman bears a bounteous mind indeed,
  56  A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us.
  57B His dews fall everywhere.<S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> No doubt he's noble.
  58  He had a black mouth that said other of him.
  59  <S SANDS> He may, my lord; he's wherewithal. In him
  60  Sparing would show a worse sin than ill doctrine.
  61  Men of his way should be most liberal.
  62B They are set here for examples.<S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> True, they are so,
  63  But few now give so great ones. My barge stays.
  64  Your lordship shall along.<T asd> {(To Lovell)}<T verse> Come, good Sir  +
  64  Thomas,
  65  We shall be late else, which I would not be,
  66  For I was spoke to, with Sir Henry Guildford,
  67B This night to be comptrollers.<S SANDS> I am your lordship's.<T esd>     +
  67B {Exeunt}
   0  <Y 4> <T dsd> {Hautboys. [Enter servants with] a small table for         +
   0  Cardinal Wolsey [which they place] under the cloth of state, and a       +
   0  longer table for the guests. Then enter at one door Anne Boleyn and      +
   0  divers other ladies and gentlemen as guests, and at another door enter   +
   0  Sir Henry Guildford}
   1  <S GUILDFORD> <T verse> Ladies, a general welcome from his grace
   2  Salutes ye all. This night he dedicates
   3  To fair content and you. None here, he hopes,
   4  In all this noble bevy, has brought with her
   5  One care abroad. He would have all as merry
   6  As feast, good company, good wine, good welcome
   7B Can make good people.<T dsd> {Enter the Lord Chamberlain, Lord Sands,    +
   7B and Sir Thomas Lovell}<T asd> {(To the Lord Chamberlain)}<T verse> O,    +
   7B my lord, you're tardy.
   8  The very thought of this fair company
   9B Clapped wings to me.<S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> You are young, Sir Harry        +
   9B Guildford.
  10  <S SANDS> Sir Thomas Lovell, had the Cardinal
  11  But half my lay thoughts in him, some of these
  12  Should find a running banquet, ere they rested,
  13  I think would better please 'em. By my life,
  14  They are a sweet society of fair ones.
  15  <S LOVELL> O, that your lordship were but now confessor
  16B To one or two of these.<S SANDS> I would I were.
  17B They should find easy penance.<S LOVELL> Faith, how easy?
  18  <S SANDS> As easy as a down bed would afford it.
  19B <S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> Sweet ladies, will it please you sit?<T asd> {(To   +
  19B Guildford)}<T verse> Sir Harry,
  20  Place you that side, I'll take the charge of this.<T dsd> {They sit      +
  20  about the longer table. [A noise within]}
  21  <T verse> His grace is ent'ring. Nay, you must not freeze_
  22  Two women placed together makes cold weather.
  23  My lord Sands, you are one will keep 'em waking.
  24B Pray sit between these ladies.<S SANDS> By my faith,
  25B And thank your lordship.<T dsd> {He sits between Anne and                +
  25B another}<T verse> By your leave, sweet ladies.
  26  If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me.
  27B I had it from my father.<S ANNE> Was he mad, sir?
  28  <S SANDS> O, very mad; exceeding mad_in love, too.
  29  But he would bite none. Just as I do now,
  30B He would kiss you twenty with a breath.<T dsd> {He kisses her}           +
  30B <S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> <T verse> Well said, my lord.
  31  So now you're fairly seated. Gentlemen,
  32  The penance lies on you if these fair ladies
  33  Pass away frowning.
  34A <S SANDS> For my little cure,
  35  Let me alone.<T dsd> {Hautboys. Enter Cardinal Wolsey who takes his      +
  35  seat at the small table under the state}
  36  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T verse> You're welcome, my fair guests. That       +
  36  noble lady
  37  Or gentleman that is not freely merry
  38  Is not my friend. This, to confirm my welcome,
  39B And to you all, good health!<T dsd> {He drinks}<S SANDS> <T verse> Your  +
  39B grace is noble.
  40  Let me have such a bowl may hold my thanks,
  41B And save me so much talking.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> My lord Sands,
  42  I am beholden to you. Cheer your neighbours.
  43  Ladies, you are not merry! Gentlemen,
  44B Whose fault is this?<S SANDS> The red wine first must rise
  45  In their fair cheeks, my lord, then we shall have 'em
  46B Talk us to silence.<S ANNE> You are a merry gamester,
  47B My lord Sands.<S SANDS> Yes, if I make my play.
  48  Here's to your ladyship; and pledge it, madam,
  49B For 'tis to such a thing_<S ANNE> You cannot show me.
  50B <S SANDS> <T asd> {(to Wolsey)}<T verse> I told your grace they would    +
  50B talk anon.<T dsd> {Drum and trumpet. Chambers discharged}                +
  50B <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T verse> What's that?
  51B <S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> <T asd> {(to the servants)}<T verse> Look out       +
  51B there, some of ye.<T esd> {Exit a servant}<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T verse>  +
  51B What warlike voice,
  52  And to what end is this? Nay, ladies, fear not.
  53  By all the laws of war you're privileged.<T dsd> {Enter the servant}
  54B <S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> <T verse> How now_what is 't?<S SERVANT> A noble    +
  54B troop of strangers,
  55  For so they seem. They've left their barge and landed,
  56  And hither make as great ambassadors
  57B From foreign princes.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Good Lord Chamberlain,
  58  Go give 'em welcome_you can speak the French tongue.
  59  And pray receive 'em nobly, and conduct 'em
  60  Into our presence where this heaven of beauty
  61  Shall shine at full upon them. Some attend him.<T esd> {Exit             +
  61  Chamberlain, attended}
  62  <T dsd> {All rise, and some servants remove the tables}<T verse> You     +
  62  have now a broken banquet, but we'll mend it.
  63  A good digestion to you all, and once more
  64  I shower a welcome on ye_welcome all.<T dsd> {Hautboys. Enter, ushered   +
  64  by the Lord Chamberlain, King Henry and others as masquers habited like  +
  64  shepherds. They pass directly before Cardinal Wolsey and gracefully      +
  64  salute him}
  65  <T verse> A noble company. What are their pleasures?
  66  <S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> Because they speak no English, thus they prayed
  67  To tell your grace, that, having heard by fame
  68  Of this so noble and so fair assembly
  69  This night to meet here, they could do no less,
  70  Out of the great respect they bear to beauty,
  71  But leave their flocks, and, under your fair conduct,
  72  Crave leave to view these ladies, and entreat
  73B An hour of revels with 'em.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Say, Lord Chamberlain,
  74  They have done my poor house grace, for which I pay 'em
  75  A thousand thanks, and pray 'em take their pleasures.<T dsd> {The        +
  75  masquers choose ladies. The King chooses Anne Boleyn}
  76  <S KING HENRY> <T asd> {(to Anne)}<T verse> The fairest hand I ever      +
  76  touched. O beauty,
  77  Till now I never knew thee.<T dsd> {Music. They dance}
  78A <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T asd> {(to the Lord Chamberlain)}<T verse> My      +
  78A lord.
  79A <S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> Your grace.
  80A <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Pray tell 'em thus much from me.
  81  There should be one amongst 'em by his person
  82  More worthy this place than myself, to whom,
  83  If I but knew him, with my love and duty
  84B I would surrender it.<S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> I will, my lord.<T dsd> {[He   +
  84B whispers with the masquers]}
  85B <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T verse> What say they?<S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> Such a  +
  85B one they all confess
  86  There is indeed, which they would have your grace
  87B Find out, and he will take it.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T asd>                +
  87B {[standing]}<T verse> Let me see then.
  88  By all your good leaves, gentlemen, here I'll make
  89B My royal choice.<T dsd> {[He bows before the King]}<S KING HENRY>        +
  89B <T asd> {[unmasking]}<T verse> Ye have found him, Cardinal.
  90  You hold a fair assembly. You do well, lord.
  91  You are a churchman, or I'll tell you, Cardinal,
  92B I should judge now unhappily.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> I am glad
  93B Your grace is grown so pleasant.<S KING HENRY> My Lord Chamberlain,
  94B Prithee come hither.<T asd> {(Gesturing towards Anne)}<T verse> What     +
  94B fair lady's that?
  95  <S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> An 't please your grace, Sir Thomas Boleyn's        +
  95  daughter_
  96  The Viscount Rochford_one of her highness' women.
  97  <S KING HENRY> By heaven, she is a dainty one.<T asd> {(To               +
  97  Anne)}<T verse> Sweetheart,
  98  I were unmannerly to take you out
  99  And not to kiss you<T asd> {[kisses her]}<T verse> . A health,           +
  99  gentlemen;<T dsd> {[He drinks]}
 100  <T verse> Let it go round.
 101  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Sir Thomas Lovell, is the banquet ready
 102B I' th' privy chamber?<S LOVELL> Yes, my lord.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY>         +
 102B <T asd> {(to the King)}<T verse> Your grace
 103  I fear with dancing is a little heated.
 104A <S KING HENRY> I fear too much.
 105A <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> There's fresher air, my lord,
 106  In the next chamber.
 107  <S KING HENRY> Lead in your ladies, every one.<T asd> {(To               +
 107  Anne)}<T verse> Sweet partner,
 108  I must not yet forsake you.<T asd> {(To Wolsey)}<T verse> Let's be       +
 108  merry,
 109  Good my lord Cardinal. I have half a dozen healths
 110  To drink to these fair ladies, and a measure
 111  To lead 'em once again, and then let's dream
 112  Who's best in favour. Let the music knock it.<T esd> {Exeunt with        +
 112  trumpets}
 112  [[ACT INTERVAL]]
   0  <A ?Shakespeare>
   0  <X 2> <Y 1> <T dsd> {Enter two Gentlemen, at several doors}
   1B <S FIRST GENTLEMAN> <T verse> Whither away so fast?<S SECOND GENTLEMAN>  +
   1B O, God save ye.
   2  Ev'n to the hall to hear what shall become
   3B Of the great Duke of Buckingham.<S FIRST GENTLEMAN> I'll save you
   4  That labour, sir. All's now done but the ceremony
   5B Of bringing back the prisoner.<S SECOND GENTLEMAN> Were you there?
   6B <S FIRST GENTLEMAN> Yes, indeed was I.<S SECOND GENTLEMAN> Pray speak    +
   6B what has happened.
   7B <S FIRST GENTLEMAN> You may guess quickly what.<S SECOND GENTLEMAN> Is   +
   7B he found guilty?
   8  <S FIRST GENTLEMAN> Yes, truly is he, and condemned upon 't.
   9A <S SECOND GENTLEMAN> I am sorry for 't.
  10A <S FIRST GENTLEMAN> So are a number more.
  11A <S SECOND GENTLEMAN> But pray, how passed it?
  12  <S FIRST GENTLEMAN> I'll tell you in a little. The great Duke
  13  Came to the bar, where to his accusations
  14  He pleaded still not guilty, and allege\d
  15  Many sharp reasons to defeat the law.
  16  The King's attorney, on the contrary,
  17  Urged on the examinations, proofs, confessions,
  18  Of divers witnesses, which the Duke desired
  19  To him brought {viva voce} to his face_
  20  At which appeared against him his surveyor,
  21  Sir Gilbert Perk his chancellor, and John Car,
  22  Confessor to him, with that devil-monk,
  23B Hopkins, that made this mischief.<S SECOND GENTLEMAN> That was he
  24B That fed him with his prophecies.<S FIRST GENTLEMAN> The same.
  25  All these accused him strongly, which he fain
  26  Would have flung from him, but indeed he could not.
  27  And so his peers, upon this evidence,
  28  Have found him guilty of high treason. Much
  29  He spoke, and learne\dly, for life, but all
  30  Was either pitied in him or forgotten.
  31  <S SECOND GENTLEMAN> After all this, how did he bear himself?
  32  <S FIRST GENTLEMAN> When he was brought again to th' bar to hear
  33  His knell rung out, his judgement, he was stirred
  34  With such an agony he sweat extremely,
  35  And something spoke in choler, ill and hasty;
  36  But he fell to himself again, and sweetly
  37  In all the rest showed a most noble patience.
  38B <S SECOND GENTLEMAN> I do not think he fears death.<S FIRST GENTLEMAN>   +
  38B Sure he does not.
  39  He never was so womanish. The cause
  40B He may a little grieve at.<S SECOND GENTLEMAN> Certainly
  41B The Cardinal is the end of this.<S FIRST GENTLEMAN> 'Tis likely
  42  By all conjectures: first, Kildare's attainder,
  43  Then deputy of Ireland, who, removed,
  44  Earl Surrey was sent thither_and in haste, too,
  45B Lest he should help his father.<S SECOND GENTLEMAN> That trick of state
  46B Was a deep envious one.<S FIRST GENTLEMAN> At his return
  47  No doubt he will requite it. This is noted,
  48  And generally: whoever the King favours,
  49  The Card'nal instantly will find employment_
  50B And far enough from court, too.<S SECOND GENTLEMAN> All the commons
  51  Hate him perniciously and, o' my conscience,
  52  Wish him ten fathom deep. This Duke as much
  53  They love and dote on, call him `bounteous Buckingham,
  54B The mirror of all courtesy"_<T dsd> {Enter the Duke of Buckingham from   +
  54B his arraignment, tipstaves before him, the axe with the edge towards     +
  54B him, halberdiers on each side, accompanied with Sir Thomas Lovell, Sir   +
  54B Nicholas Vaux, Sir William Sands, and common people}<S FIRST GENTLEMAN>  +
  54B <T verse> Stay there, sir,
  55  And see the noble ruined man you speak of.
  56B <S SECOND GENTLEMAN> Let's stand close and behold him.<T dsd> {They      +
  56B stand apart}<S BUCKINGHAM> <T asd> {(to the common people)}<T verse>     +
  56B All good people,
  57  You that thus far have come to pity me,
  58  Hear what I say, and then go home and lose me.
  59  I have this day received a traitor's judgement,
  60  And by that name must die. Yet, heaven bear witness,
  61  And if I have a conscience let it sink me,
  62  Even as the axe falls, if I be not faithful.
  63  The law I bear no malice for my death.
  64  'T has done, upon the premises, but justice.
  65  But those that sought it I could wish more Christians.
  66  Be what they will, I heartily forgive 'em.
  67  Yet let 'em look they glory not in mischief,
  68  Nor build their evils on the graves of great men,
  69  For then my guiltless blood must cry against 'em.
  70  For further life in this world I ne'er hope,
  71  Nor will I sue, although the King have mercies
  72  More than I dare make faults. You few that loved me,
  73  And dare be bold to weep for Buckingham,
  74  His noble friends and fellows, whom to leave
  75  Is only bitter to him, only dying,
  76  Go with me like good angels to my end,
  77  And, as the long divorce of steel falls on me,
  78  Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice,
  79  And lift my soul to heaven.<T asd> {(To the guard)}<T verse> Lead on,    +
  79  i' God's name.
  80  <S LOVELL> I do beseech your grace, for charity,
  81  If ever any malice in your heart
  82  Were hid against me, now to forgive me frankly.
  83  <S BUCKINGHAM> Sir Thomas Lovell, I as free forgive you
  84  As I would be forgiven. I forgive all.
  85  There cannot be those numberless offences
  86  'Gainst me that I cannot take peace with. No black envy
  87  Shall mark my grave. Commend me to his grace,
  88  And if he speak of Buckingham, pray tell him
  89  You met him half in heaven. My vows and prayers
  90  Yet are the King's, and, till my soul forsake,
  91  Shall cry for blessings on him. May he live
  92  Longer than I have time to tell his years;
  93  Ever beloved and loving may his rule be;
  94  And, when old time shall lead him to his end,
  95  Goodness and he fill up one monument.
  96  <S LOVELL> To th' waterside I must conduct your grace,
  97  Then give my charge up to Sir Nicholas Vaux,
  98B Who undertakes you to your end.<S VAUX> <T asd> {(to an                  +
  98B attendant)}<T verse> Prepare there_
  99  The Duke is coming. See the barge be ready,
 100  And fit it with such furniture as suits
 101B The greatness of his person.<S BUCKINGHAM> Nay, Sir Nicholas,
 102  Let it alone. My state now will but mock me.
 103  When I came hither I was Lord High Constable
 104  And Duke of Buckingham; now, poor Edward Bohun.
 105  Yet I am richer than my base accusers,
 106  That never knew what truth meant. I now seal it,
 107  And with that blood will make 'em one day groan for 't.
 108  My noble father, Henry of Buckingham,
 109  Who first raised head against usurping Richard,
 110  Flying for succour to his servant Banister,
 111  Being distressed, was by that wretch betrayed,
 112  And without trial fell. God's peace be with him.
 113  Henry the Seventh succeeding, truly pitying
 114  My father's loss, like a most royal prince,
 115  Restored me to my honours, and out of ruins
 116  Made my name once more noble. Now his son,
 117  Henry the Eighth, life, honour, name, and all
 118  That made me happy, at one stroke has taken
 119  For ever from the world. I had my trial,
 120  And must needs say a noble one; which makes me
 121  A little happier than my wretched father.
 122  Yet thus far we are one in fortunes: both
 123  Fell by our servants, by those men we loved most_
 124  A most unnatural and faithless service.
 125  Heaven has an end in all. Yet, you that hear me,
 126  This from a dying man receive as certain_
 127  Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels,
 128  Be sure you be not loose; for those you make friends
 129  And give your hearts to, when they once perceive
 130  The least rub in your fortunes, fall away
 131  Like water from ye, never found again
 132  But where they mean to sink ye. All good people
 133  Pray for me. I must now forsake ye. The last hour
 134  Of my long weary life is come upon me.
 135  Farewell, and when you would say something that is sad,
 136  Speak how I fell. I have done, and God forgive me.<T esd> {Exeunt        +
 136  Buckingham and train}
 137  <T dsd> {The two Gentlemen come forward}<S FIRST GENTLEMAN> <T verse>    +
 137  O, this is full of pity, sir; it calls,
 138  I fear, too many curses on their heads
 139B That were the authors.<S SECOND GENTLEMAN> If the Duke be guiltless,
 140  'Tis full of woe. Yet I can give you inkling
 141  Of an ensuing evil, if it fall,
 142B Greater than this.<S FIRST GENTLEMAN> Good angels keep it from us.
 143  What may it be? You do not doubt my faith, sir?
 144  <S SECOND GENTLEMAN> This secret is so weighty, 'twill require
 145B A strong faith to conceal it.<S FIRST GENTLEMAN> Let me have it_
 146B I do not talk much.<S SECOND GENTLEMAN> I am confident;
 147  You shall, sir. Did you not of late days hear
 148  A buzzing of a separation
 149B Between the King and Katherine?<S FIRST GENTLEMAN> Yes, but it held      +
 149B not.
 150  For when the King once heard it, out of anger
 151  He sent command to the Lord Mayor straight
 152  To stop the rumour and allay those tongues
 153B That durst disperse it.<S SECOND GENTLEMAN> But that slander, sir,
 154  Is found a truth now, for it grows again
 155  Fresher than e'er it was, and held for certain
 156  The King will venture at it. Either the Cardinal
 157  Or some about him near have, out of malice
 158  To the good Queen, possessed him with a scruple
 159  That will undo her. To confirm this, too,
 160  Cardinal Campeius is arrived, and lately,
 161B As all think, for this business.<S FIRST GENTLEMAN> 'Tis the Cardinal;
 162  And merely to revenge him on the Emperor
 163  For not bestowing on him at his asking
 164  The Archbishopric of Toledo this is purposed.
 165  <S SECOND GENTLEMAN> I think you have hit the mark. But is 't not cruel
 166  That she should feel the smart of this? The Cardinal
 167B Will have his will, and she must fall.<S FIRST GENTLEMAN> 'Tis woeful.
 168  We are too open here to argue this.
 169  Let's think in private more.<T esd> {Exeunt}
   0  <Y 2> <T dsd> {Enter the Lord Chamberlain with a letter}
   1  <S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> <T asd> {(reads)}<T prose> `My lord, the horses     +
   1  your
   2  lordship sent for, with all the care I had, I saw well
   3  chosen, ridden, and furnished. They were young and
   4  handsome, and of the best breed in the north. When
   5  they were ready to set out for London, a man of my
   6  lord Cardinal's, by commission and main power, took
   7  'em from me with this reason_his master would be
   8  served before a subject, if not before the King; which
   9  stopped our mouths, sir."
  10  <T verse> I fear he will indeed. Well, let him have them.
  11  He will have all, I think.<T dsd> {Enter to the Lord Chamberlain the     +
  11  Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk}
  12A <S NORFOLK> <T verse> Well met, my Lord Chamberlain.
  13A <S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> Good day to both your graces.
  14B <S SUFFOLK> How is the King employed?<S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> I left him     +
  14B private,
  15B Full of sad thoughts and troubles.<S NORFOLK> What's the cause?
  16  <S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> It seems the marriage with his brother's wife
  17B Has crept too near his conscience.<S SUFFOLK> No, his conscience
  18B Has crept too near another lady.<S NORFOLK> 'Tis so.
  19  This is the Cardinal's doing. The King-Cardinal,
  20  That blind priest, like the eldest son of fortune,
  21  Turns what he list. The King will know him one day.
  22  <S SUFFOLK> Pray God he do. He'll never know himself else.
  23  <S NORFOLK> How holily he works in all his business,
  24  And with what zeal! For now he has cracked the league
  25  Between us and the Emperor, the Queen's great- nephew,
  26  He dives into the King's soul and there scatters
  27  Dangers, doubts, wringing of the conscience,
  28  Fears, and despairs_and all these for his marriage.
  29  And out of all these, to restore the King,
  30  He counsels a divorce_a loss of her
  31  That like a jewel has hung twenty years
  32  About his neck, yet never lost her lustre;
  33  Of her that loves him with that excellence
  34  That angels love good men with; even of her
  35  That, when the greatest stroke of fortune falls,
  36  Will bless the King_and is not this course pious?
  37  <S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> Heaven keep me from such counsel! 'Tis most true_
  38  These news are everywhere, every tongue speaks 'em,
  39  And every true heart weeps for 't. All that dare
  40  Look into these affairs see this main end_
  41  The French king's sister. Heaven will one day open
  42  The King's eyes, that so long have slept, upon
  43  This bold bad man.
  44A <S SUFFOLK> And free us from his slavery.
  45A <S NORFOLK> We had need pray,
  46  And heartily, for our deliverance,
  47  Or this imperious man will work us all
  48  From princes into pages. All men's honours
  49  Lie like one lump before him, to be fashioned
  50B Into what pitch he please.<S SUFFOLK> For me, my lords,
  51  I love him not, nor fear him_there's my creed.
  52  As I am made without him, so I'll stand,
  53  If the King please. His curses and his blessings
  54  Touch me alike; they're breath I not believe in.
  55  I knew him, and I know him; so I leave him
  56B To him that made him proud_the Pope.<S NORFOLK> Let's in,
  57  And with some other business put the King
  58  From these sad thoughts that work too much upon him.
  59B <T asd> {(To the Lord Chamberlain)}<T verse> My lord, you'll bear us     +
  59B company?<S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> Excuse me,
  60  The King has sent me otherwhere. Besides,
  61  You'll find a most unfit time to disturb him.
  62B Health to your lordships.<S NORFOLK> Thanks, my good Lord                +
  62B Chamberlain.<T esd> {Exit the Lord Chamberlain}
  63  <T dsd> {King Henry draws the curtain, and sits reading                  +
  63  pensively}<S SUFFOLK> <T verse> How sad he looks! Sure he is much        +
  63  afflicted.
  64B <S KING HENRY> Who's there? Ha?<S NORFOLK> Pray God he be not angry.
  65  <S KING HENRY> Who's there, I say? How dare you thrust yourselves
  66  Into my private meditations!
  67  Who am I? Ha?
  68  <S NORFOLK> A gracious king that pardons all offences
  69  Malice ne'er meant. Our breach of duty this way
  70  Is business of estate, in which we come
  71B To know your royal pleasure.<S KING HENRY> Ye are too bold.
  72  Go to, I'll make ye know your times of business.
  73  Is this an hour for temporal affairs? Ha?<T dsd> {Enter Cardinal Wolsey  +
  73  and Cardinal Campeius, the latter with a commission}
  74  <T verse> Who's there? My good lord Cardinal? O, my Wolsey,
  75  The quiet of my wounded conscience,
  76B Thou art a cure fit for a king.<T asd> {(To Campeius)}<T verse> You're   +
  76B welcome,
  77  Most learne\d reverend sir, into our kingdom.
  78  Use us, and it.<T asd> {(To Wolsey)}<T verse> My good lord, have great   +
  78  care
  79B I be not found a talker.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Sir, you cannot.
  80  I would your grace would give us but an hour
  81B Of private conference.<S KING HENRY> <T asd> {(to Norfolk and            +
  81B Suffolk)}<T verse> We are busy; go.<T dsd> {Norfolk and Suffolk speak    +
  81B privately to one another as they depart}
  82B <S NORFOLK> <T verse> This priest has no pride in him!<S SUFFOLK> Not    +
  82B to speak of.
  83  I would not be so sick, though, for his place_
  84B But this cannot continue.<S NORFOLK> If it do
  85B I'll venture one have-at-him.<S SUFFOLK> I another.<T esd> {Exeunt       +
  85B Norfolk and Suffolk}
  86  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T asd> {(to the King)}<T verse> Your grace has      +
  86  given a precedent of wisdom
  87  Above all princes in committing freely
  88  Your scruple to the voice of Christendom.
  89  Who can be angry now? What envy reach you?
  90  The Spaniard, tied by blood and favour to her,
  91  Must now confess, if they have any goodness,
  92  The trial just and noble. All the clerks_
  93  I mean the learne\d ones in Christian kingdoms_
  94  Have their free voices. Rome, the nurse of judgement,
  95  Invited by your noble self, hath sent
  96  One general tongue unto us: this good man,
  97  This just and learne\d priest, Card'nal Campeius,
  98  Whom once more I present unto your highness.
  99  <S KING HENRY> <T asd> {(embracing Campeius)}<T verse> And once more in  +
  99  mine arms I bid him welcome,
 100  And thank the holy conclave for their loves.
 101  They have sent me such a man I would have wished for.
 102  <S CARDINAL CAMPEIUS> Your grace must needs deserve all strangers'       +
 102  loves,
 103  You are so noble. To your highness' hand
 104B I tender my commission,<T dsd> {He gives the commission to the           +
 104B King}<T asd> {(To Wolsey)}<T verse> by whose virtue,
 105  The Court of Rome commanding, you, my lord
 106  Cardinal of York, are joined with me their servant
 107  In the unpartial judging of this business.
 108  <S KING HENRY> Two equal men. The Queen shall be acquainted
 109  Forthwith for what you come. Where's Gardiner?
 110  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> I know your majesty has always loved her
 111  So dear in heart not to deny her that
 112  A woman of less place might ask by law_
 113  Scholars allowed freely to argue for her.
 114  <S KING HENRY> Ay, and the best she shall have, and my favour
 115  To him that does best, God forbid else. Cardinal,
 116  Prithee call Gardiner to me, my new secretary.<T dsd> {Cardinal Wolsey   +
 116  goes to the door and calls Gardiner}
 117  <T verse> I find him a fit fellow.<T dsd> {Enter Gardiner}
 118  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T asd> {(aside to Gardiner)}<T verse> Give me your  +
 118  hand. Much joy and favour to you.
 119B You are the King's now.<S GARDINER> <T asd> {(aside to Wolsey)}<T verse>+
 119B  But to be commanded
 120  For ever by your grace, whose hand has raised me.
 121A <S KING HENRY> Come hither, Gardiner.<T dsd> {The King walks with        +
 121A Gardiner and whispers with him}
 122  <S CARDINAL CAMPEIUS> <T asd> {(to Wolsey)}<T verse> My lord of York,    +
 122  was not one Doctor Pace
 123B In this man's place before him?<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Yes, he was.
 124B <S CARDINAL CAMPEIUS> Was he not held a learne\d man?<S CARDINAL WOLSEY>+
 124B  Yes, surely.
 125  <S CARDINAL CAMPEIUS> Believe me, there's an ill opinion spread then,
 126B Even of yourself, lord Cardinal.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> How? Of me?
 127  <S CARDINAL CAMPEIUS> They will not stick to say you envied him,
 128  And fearing he would rise, he was so virtuous,
 129  Kept him a foreign man still, which so grieved him
 130B That he ran mad and died.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Heav'n's peace be with      +
 130B him_
 131  That's Christian care enough. For living murmurers
 132  There's places of rebuke. He was a fool,
 133B For he would needs be virtuous.<T asd> {(Gesturing towards               +
 133B Gardiner)}<T verse> That good fellow,
 134  If I command him, follows my appointment.
 135  I will have none so near else. Learn this, brother:
 136  We live not to be griped by meaner persons.
 137  <S KING HENRY> <T asd> {(to Gardiner)}<T verse> Deliver this with        +
 137  modesty to th' Queen.<T esd> {Exit Gardiner}
 138  <T verse> The most convenient place that I can think of
 139  For such receipt of learning is Blackfriars;
 140  There ye shall meet about this weighty business.
 141  My Wolsey, see it furnished. O, my lord,
 142  Would it not grieve an able man to leave
 143  So sweet a bedfellow? But conscience, conscience_
 144  O, 'tis a tender place, and I must leave her.<T esd> {Exeunt}
   0  <A Shakespeare>
   0  <Y 3> <T dsd> {Enter Anne Boleyn and an Old Lady}
   1  <S ANNE> <T verse> Not for that neither. Here's the pang that pinches_
   2  His highness having lived so long with her, and she
   3  So good a lady that no tongue could ever
   4  Pronounce dishonour of her_by my life,
   5  She never knew harm-doing_O now, after
   6  So many courses of the sun enthrone\d,
   7  Still growing in a majesty and pomp the which
   8  To leave a thousandfold more bitter than
   9  'Tis sweet at first t' acquire_after this process,
  10  To give her the avaunt, it is a pity
  11B Would move a monster.<S OLD LADY> Hearts of most hard temper
  12B Melt and lament for her.<S ANNE> O, God's will! Much better
  13  She ne'er had known pomp; though 't be temporal,
  14  Yet if that quarrel, fortune, do divorce
  15  It from the bearer, 'tis a sufferance panging
  16B As soul and bodies severing.<S OLD LADY> Alas, poor lady!
  17B She's a stranger now again.<S ANNE> So much the more
  18  Must pity drop upon her. Verily,
  19  I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born
  20  And range with humble livers in content
  21  Than to be perked up in a glist'ring grief
  22B And wear a golden sorrow.<S OLD LADY> Our content
  23B Is our best having.<S ANNE> By my troth and maidenhead,
  24B I would not be a queen.<S OLD LADY> Beshrew me, I would_
  25  And venture maidenhead for 't; and so would you,
  26  For all this spice of your hypocrisy.
  27  You, that have so fair parts of woman on you,
  28  Have, too, a woman's heart which ever yet
  29  Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty;
  30  Which, to say sooth, are blessings; and which gifts,
  31  Saving your mincing, the capacity
  32  Of your soft cheveril conscience would receive
  33B If you might please to stretch it.<S ANNE> Nay, good troth.
  34  <S OLD LADY> Yes, troth and troth. You would not be a queen?
  35  <S ANNE> No, not for all the riches under heaven.
  36  <S OLD LADY> 'Tis strange. A threepence bowed would hire me,
  37  Old as I am, to queen it. But I pray you,
  38  What think you of a duchess? Have you limbs
  39B To bear that load of title?<S ANNE> No, in truth.
  40  <S OLD LADY> Then you are weakly made. Pluck off a little;
  41  I would not be a young count in your way
  42  For more than blushing comes to. If your back
  43  Cannot vouchsafe this burden, 'tis too weak
  44B Ever to get a boy.<S ANNE> How you do talk!
  45  I swear again, I would not be a queen
  46B For all the world.<S OLD LADY> In faith, for little England
  47  You'd venture an emballing; I myself
  48  Would for Caernarfonshire, although there 'longed
  49  No more to th' crown but that. Lo, who comes here?<T dsd> {Enter the     +
  49  Lord Chamberlain}
  50  <S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> <T verse> Good morrow, ladies. What were 't worth   +
  50  to know
  51B The secret of your conference?<S ANNE> My good lord,
  52  Not your demand; it values not your asking.
  53  Our mistress' sorrows we were pitying.
  54  <S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> It was a gentle business, and becoming
  55  The action of good women. There is hope
  56B All will be well.<S ANNE> Now I pray God, amen.
  57  <S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> You bear a gentle mind, and heav'nly blessings
  58  Follow such creatures. That you may, fair lady,
  59  Perceive I speak sincerely, and high note's
  60  Ta'en of your many virtues, the King's majesty
  61  Commends his good opinion of you, and
  62  Does purpose honour to you no less flowing
  63  Than Marchioness of Pembroke; to which title
  64  A thousand pound a year annual support
  65B Out of his grace he adds.<S ANNE> I do not know
  66  What kind of my obedience I should tender.
  67  More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers
  68  Are not words duly hallowed, nor my wishes
  69  More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes
  70  Are all I can return. Beseech your lordship,
  71  Vouchsafe to speak my thanks and my obedience,
  72  As from a blushing handmaid to his highness,
  73B Whose health and royalty I pray for.<S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> Lady,
  74  I shall not fail t' approve the fair conceit
  75  The King hath of you.<T asd> {(Aside)}<T verse> I have perused her       +
  75  well.
  76  Beauty and honour in her are so mingled
  77  That they have caught the King, and who knows yet
  78  But from this lady may proceed a gem
  79  To lighten all this isle.<T asd> {(To Anne)}<T verse> I'll to the King
  80  And say I spoke with you.
  81A <S ANNE> My honoured lord.<T esd> {Exit the Lord Chamberlain}
  82A <S OLD LADY> <T verse> Why, this it is_see, see!
  83  I have been begging sixteen years in court,
  84  Am yet a courtier beggarly, nor could
  85  Come pat betwixt too early and too late
  86  For any suit of pounds; and you_O, fate!_
  87  A very fresh fish here_fie, fie upon
  88  This compelled fortune!_have your mouth filled up
  89B Before you open it.<S ANNE> This is strange to me.
  90  <S OLD LADY> How tastes it? Is it bitter? Forty pence, no.
  91  There was a lady once_'tis an old story_
  92  That would not be a queen, that would she not,
  93  For all the mud in Egypt. Have you heard it?
  94B <S ANNE> Come, you are pleasant.<S OLD LADY> With your theme I could
  95  O'ermount the lark. The Marchioness of Pembroke?
  96  A thousand pounds a year, for pure respect?
  97  No other obligation? By my life,
  98  That promises more thousands. Honour's train
  99  Is longer than his foreskirt. By this time
 100  I know your back will bear a duchess. Say,
 101B Are you not stronger than you were?<S ANNE> Good lady,
 102  Make yourself mirth with your particular fancy,
 103  And leave me out on 't. Would I had no being,
 104  If this salute my blood a jot. It faints me
 105  To think what follows.
 106  The Queen is comfortless, and we forgetful
 107  In our long absence. Pray do not deliver
 108B What here you've heard to her.<S OLD LADY> What do you think me_<T esd>  +
 108B {Exeunt}
   0  <Y 4> <T dsd> {Trumpets: sennet. Then cornetts. Enter two vergers with   +
   0  short silver wands; next them two Scribes in the habit of doctors;       +
   0  after them the Archbishop of Canterbury alone; after him the Bishops of  +
   0  Lincoln, Ely, Rochester, and Saint Asaph; next them, with some small     +
   0  distance, follows a gentleman bearing both the purse containing the      +
   0  great seal and a cardinal's hat; then two priests bearing each a silver  +
   0  cross; then a gentleman usher, bare-headed, accompanied with a           +
   0  serjeant-at-arms bearing a silver mace; then two gentlemen bearing two   +
   0  great silver pillars; after them, side by side, the two cardinals,       +
   0  Wolsey and Campeius; then two noblemen with the sword and mace. The      +
   0  King [ascends] to his seat under the cloth of state; the two cardinals   +
   0  sit under him as judges; the Queen, attended by Griffith her gentleman   +
   0  usher, takes place some distance from the King; the Bishops place        +
   0  themselves on each side the court in the manner of a consistory; below   +
   0  them, the Scribes. The lords sit next the Bishops. The rest of the       +
   0  attendants stand in convenient order about the stage}
   1  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T verse> Whilst our commission from Rome is read
   2B Let silence be commanded.<S KING HENRY> What's the need?
   3  It hath already publicly been read,
   4  And on all sides th' authority allowed.
   5B You may then spare that time.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Be 't so. Proceed.
   6  <S SCRIBE> <T asd> {(to the Crier)}<T verse> Say, `Henry, King of        +
   6  England, come into the court".
   7  <S CRIER> Henry, King of England, come into the court.
   8A <S KING HENRY> Here.
   9  <S SCRIBE> <T asd> {(to the Crier)}<T verse> Say, `Katherine, Queen of   +
   9  England, come into the court".
  10  <S CRIER> Katherine, Queen of England, come into the court.<T dsd> {The  +
  10  Queen makes no answer, but rises out of her chair, goes about the        +
  10  court, comes to the King, and kneels at his feet. Then she speaks}
  11  <S QUEEN KATHERINE> <T verse> Sir, I desire you do me right and          +
  11  justice,
  12  And to bestow your pity on me; for
  13  I am a most poor woman, and a stranger,
  14  Born out of your dominions, having here
  15  No judge indifferent, nor no more assurance
  16  Of equal friendship and proceeding. Alas, sir,
  17  In what have I offended you? What cause
  18  Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure
  19  That thus you should proceed to put me off,
  20  And take your good grace from me? Heaven witness
  21  I have been to you a true and humble wife,
  22  At all times to your will conformable,
  23  Ever in fear to kindle your dislike,
  24  Yea, subject to your countenance, glad or sorry
  25  As I saw it inclined. When was the hour
  26  I ever contradicted your desire,
  27  Or made it not mine too? Or which of your friends
  28  Have I not strove to love, although I knew
  29  He were mine enemy? What friend of mine
  30  That had to him derived your anger did I
  31  Continue in my liking? Nay, gave notice
  32  He was from thence discharged? Sir, call to mind
  33  That I have been your wife in this obedience
  34  Upward of twenty years, and have been blessed
  35  With many children by you. If, in the course
  36  And process of this time, you can report_
  37  And prove it, too_against mine honour aught,
  38  My bond to wedlock, or my love and duty
  39  Against your sacred person, in God's name
  40  Turn me away, and let the foul'st contempt
  41  Shut door upon me, and so give me up
  42  To the sharp'st kind of justice. Please you, sir,
  43  The King your father was reputed for
  44  A prince most prudent, of an excellent
  45  And unmatched wit and judgement. Ferdinand
  46  My father, King of Spain, was reckoned one
  47  The wisest prince that there had reigned by many
  48  A year before. It is not to be questioned
  49  That they had gathered a wise council to them
  50  Of every realm, that did debate this business,
  51  Who deemed our marriage lawful. Wherefore I humbly
  52  Beseech you, sir, to spare me till I may
  53  Be by my friends in Spain advised, whose counsel
  54  I will implore. If not, i' th' name of God,
  55B Your pleasure be fulfilled.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> You have here, lady,
  56  And of your choice, these reverend fathers, men
  57  Of singular integrity and learning,
  58  Yea, the elect o' th' land, who are assembled
  59  To plead your cause. It shall be therefore bootless
  60  That longer you desire the court, as well
  61  For your own quiet, as to rectify
  62B What is unsettled in the King.<S CARDINAL CAMPEIUS> His grace
  63  Hath spoken well and justly. Therefore, madam,
  64  It's fit this royal session do proceed,
  65  And that without delay their arguments
  66B Be now produced and heard.<S QUEEN KATHERINE> <T asd> {(to               +
  66B Wolsey)}<T verse> Lord Cardinal,
  67B To you I speak.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Your pleasure, madam.                 +
  67B <S QUEEN KATHERINE> Sir,
  68  I am about to weep, but thinking that
  69  We are a queen, or long have dreamed so, certain
  70  The daughter of a king, my drops of tears
  71B I'll turn to sparks of fire.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Be patient yet.
  72  <S QUEEN KATHERINE> I will when you are humble! Nay, before,
  73  Or God will punish me. I do believe,
  74  Induced by potent circumstances, that
  75  You are mine enemy, and make my challenge
  76  You shall not be my judge. For it is you
  77  Have blown this coal betwixt my lord and me,
  78  Which God's dew quench. Therefore I say again,
  79  I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul,
  80  Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once more
  81  I hold my most malicious foe, and think not
  82B At all a friend to truth.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> I do profess
  83  You speak not like yourself, who ever yet
  84  Have stood to charity, and displayed th' effects
  85  Of disposition gentle and of wisdom
  86  O'er-topping woman's power. Madam, you do me wrong.
  87  I have no spleen against you, nor injustice
  88  For you or any. How far I have proceeded,
  89  Or how far further shall, is warranted
  90  By a commission from the consistory,
  91  Yea, the whole consistory of Rome. You charge me
  92  That I `have blown this coal". I do deny it.
  93  The King is present. If it be known to him
  94  That I gainsay my deed, how may he wound,
  95  And worthily, my falsehood_yea, as much
  96  As you have done my truth. If he know
  97  That I am free of your report, he knows
  98  I am not of your wrong. Therefore in him
  99  It lies to cure me, and the cure is to
 100  Remove these thoughts from you. The which before
 101  His highness shall speak in, I do beseech
 102  You, gracious madam, to unthink your speaking,
 103B And to say so no more.<S QUEEN KATHERINE> My lord, my lord_
 104  I am a simple woman, much too weak
 105  T' oppose your cunning. You're meek and humble-mouthed;
 106  You sign your place and calling, in full seeming,
 107  With meekness and humility_but your heart
 108  Is crammed with arrogancy, spleen, and pride.
 109  You have by fortune and his highness' favours
 110  Gone slightly o'er low steps, and now are mounted
 111  Where powers are your retainers, and your words,
 112  Domestics to you, serve your will as 't please
 113  Yourself pronounce their office. I must tell you,
 114  You tender more your person's honour than
 115  Your high profession spiritual, that again
 116  I do refuse you for my judge, and here,
 117  Before you all, appeal unto the Pope,
 118  To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness,
 119B And to be judged by him.<T dsd> {She curtsies to the King and begins to  +
 119B depart}<S CARDINAL CAMPEIUS> <T verse> The Queen is obstinate,
 120  Stubborn to justice, apt to accuse it, and
 121  Disdainful to be tried by 't. 'Tis not well.
 122B She's going away.<S KING HENRY> <T asd> {(to the Crier)}<T verse> Call   +
 122B her again.
 123  <S CRIER> Katherine, Queen of England, come into the court.
 124A <S GRIFFITH> <T asd> {(to the Queen)}<T verse> Madam, you are called     +
 124A back.
 125  <S QUEEN KATHERINE> What need you note it? Pray you keep your way.
 126  When {you} are called, return. Now the Lord help.
 127  They vex me past my patience. Pray you, pass on.
 128  I will not tarry; no, nor ever more
 129  Upon this business my appearance make
 130B In any of their courts.<T esd> {Exeunt Queen Katherine and her           +
 130B attendants}<S KING HENRY> <T verse> Go thy ways, Kate.
 131  That man i' th' world who shall report he has
 132  A better wife, let him in naught be trusted
 133  For speaking false in that. Thou art alone_
 134  If thy rare qualities, sweet gentleness,
 135  Thy meekness saint-like, wife-like government,
 136  Obeying in commanding, and thy parts
 137  Sovereign and pious else could speak thee out_
 138  The queen of earthly queens. She's noble born,
 139  And like her true nobility she has
 140B Carried herself towards me.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Most gracious sir,
 141  In humblest manner I require your highness
 142  That it shall please you to declare in hearing
 143  Of all these ears_for where I am robbed and bound,
 144  There must I be unloosed, although not there
 145  At once and fully satisfied_whether ever I
 146  Did broach this business to your highness, or
 147  Laid any scruple in your way which might
 148  Induce you to the question on 't, or ever
 149  Have to you, but with thanks to God for such
 150  A royal lady, spake one the least word that might
 151  Be to the prejudice of her present state,
 152B Or touch of her good person?<S KING HENRY> My lord Cardinal,
 153  I do excuse you; yea, upon mine honour,
 154  I free you from 't. You are not to be taught
 155  That you have many enemies that know not
 156  Why they are so, but, like to village curs,
 157  Bark when their fellows do. By some of these
 158  The Queen is put in anger. You're excused.
 159  But will you be more justified? You ever
 160  Have wished the sleeping of this business, never desired
 161  It to be stirred, but oft have hindered, oft,
 162  The passages made toward it. On my honour
 163  I speak my good lord Card'nal to this point,
 164  And thus far clear him. Now, what moved me to 't,
 165  I will be bold with time and your attention.
 166  Then mark th' inducement. Thus it came_give heed to 't.
 167  My conscience first received a tenderness,
 168  Scruple, and prick, on certain speeches uttered
 169  By th' Bishop of Bayonne, then French Ambassador,
 170  Who had been hither sent on the debating
 171  A marriage 'twixt the Duke of Orle/ans and
 172  Our daughter Mary. I' th' progress of this business,
 173  Ere a determinate resolution, he_
 174  I mean the Bishop_did require a respite
 175  Wherein he might the King his lord advertise
 176  Whether our daughter were legitimate,
 177  Respecting this our marriage with the dowager,
 178  Sometimes our brother's wife. This respite shook
 179  The bosom of my conscience, entered me,
 180  Yea, with a spitting power, and made to tremble
 181  The region of my breast; which forced such way
 182  That many mazed considerings did throng
 183  And prest in with this caution. First, methought
 184  I stood not in the smile of heaven, who had
 185  Commanded nature that my lady's womb,
 186  If it conceived a male child by me, should
 187  Do no more offices of life to 't than
 188  The grave does yield to th' dead. For her male issue
 189  Or died where they were made, or shortly after
 190  This world had aired them. Hence I took a thought
 191  This was a judgement on me that my kingdom,
 192  Well worthy the best heir o' th' world, should not
 193  Be gladded in 't by me. Then follows that
 194  I weighed the danger which my realms stood in
 195  By this my issue's fail, and that gave to me
 196  Many a groaning throe. Thus hulling in
 197  The wild sea of my conscience, I did steer
 198  Toward this remedy, whereupon we are
 199  Now present here together_that's to say
 200  I meant to rectify my conscience, which
 201  I then did feel full sick, and yet not well,
 202  By all the reverend fathers of the land
 203  And doctors learned. First I began in private
 204  With you, my lord of Lincoln. You remember
 205  How under my oppression I did reek
 206B When I first moved you.<S LINCOLN> Very well, my liege.
 207  <S KING HENRY> I have spoke long. Be pleased yourself to say
 208B How far you satisfied me.<S LINCOLN> So please your highness,
 209  The question did at first so stagger me,
 210  Bearing a state of mighty moment in 't
 211  And consequence of dread, that I committed
 212  The daring'st counsel which I had to doubt,
 213  And did entreat your highness to this course
 214B Which you are running here.<S KING HENRY> <T asd> {(to                   +
 214B Canterbury)}<T verse> I then moved you,
 215  My lord of Canterbury, and got your leave
 216  To make this present summons. Unsolicited
 217  I left no reverend person in this court,
 218  But by particular consent proceeded
 219  Under your hands and seals. Therefore, go on,
 220  For no dislike i' th' world against the person
 221  Of the good Queen, but the sharp thorny points
 222  Of my allege\d reasons, drives this forward.
 223  Prove but our marriage lawful, by my life
 224  And kingly dignity, we are contented
 225  To wear our mortal state to come with her,
 226  Katherine, our queen, before the primest creature
 227B That's paragoned o' th' world.<S CARDINAL CAMPEIUS> So please your       +
 227B highness,
 228  The Queen being absent, 'tis a needful fitness
 229  That we adjourn this court till further day.
 230  Meanwhile must be an earnest motion
 231  Made to the Queen to call back her appeal
 232B She intends unto his holiness.<S KING HENRY> <T asd> {(aside)}<T verse>  +
 232B I may perceive
 233  These cardinals trifle with me. I abhor
 234  This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.
 235  My learned and well-belove\d servant, Cranmer,
 236  Prithee return. With thy approach I know
 237  My comfort comes along.<T asd> {(Aloud)}<T verse> Break up the court.
 238  I say, set on.<T esd> {Exeunt in manner as they entered}
 238  [[ACT INTERVAL]]
   0  <A Fletcher>
   0  <X 3> <Y 1> <T dsd> {Enter Queen Katherine and her women, as at work}
   1  <S QUEEN KATHERINE> <T verse> Take thy lute, wench. My soul grows sad    +
   1  with troubles.
   2  Sing, and disperse 'em if thou canst. Leave working.
   3  <S GENTLEWOMAN> <T asd> {(sings)}<T song> Orpheus with his lute made     +
   3  trees,
   4  And the mountain tops that freeze,
   5  Bow themselves when he did sing.
   6  To his music plants and flowers
   7  Ever sprung, as sun and showers
   8  There had made a lasting spring.
   9  Everything that heard him play,
  10  Even the billows of the sea,
  11  Hung their heads, and then lay by.
  12  In sweet music is such art,
  13  Killing care and grief of heart
  14  Fall asleep, or hearing, die.<T dsd> {Enter [Griffith,] a gentleman}
  15A <S QUEEN KATHERINE> <T verse> How now?
  16  <S [GRIFFITH]> An 't please your grace, the two great cardinals
  17B Wait in the presence.<S QUEEN KATHERINE> Would they speak with me?
  18B <S [GRIFFITH]> They willed me say so, madam.<S QUEEN KATHERINE> Pray     +
  18B their graces
  19B To come near.<T esd> {[Exit Griffith]}<T verse> What can be their        +
  19B business
  20  With me, a poor weak woman, fall'n from favour?
  21  I do not like their coming, now I think on 't;
  22  They should be good men, their affairs as righteous_
  23B But all hoods make not monks.<T dsd> {Enter the two cardinals, Wolsey    +
  23B and Campeius, [ushered by Griffith]}<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T verse> Peace  +
  23B to your highness.
  24  <S QUEEN KATHERINE> Your graces find me here part of a housewife_
  25  I would be all, against the worst may happen.
  26  What are your pleasures with me, reverend lords?
  27  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> May it please you, noble madam, to withdraw
  28  Into your private chamber, we shall give you
  29B The full cause of our coming.<S QUEEN KATHERINE> Speak it here.
  30  There's nothing I have done yet, o' my conscience,
  31  Deserves a corner. Would all other women
  32  Could speak this with as free a soul as I do.
  33  My lords, I care not_so much I am happy
  34  Above a number_if my actions
  35  Were tried by ev'ry tongue, ev'ry eye saw 'em,
  36  Envy and base opinion set against 'em,
  37  I know my life so even. If your business
  38  Seek me out and that way I am wife in,
  39  Out with it boldly. Truth loves open dealing.
  40  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> {Tanta est erga te mentis integritas, Regina         +
  40  serenissima}_
  41A <S QUEEN KATHERINE> O, good my lord, no Latin.
  42  I am not such a truant since my coming
  43  As not to know the language I have lived in.
  44  A strange tongue makes my cause more strange suspicious_
  45  Pray, speak in English. Here are some will thank you,
  46  If you speak truth, for their poor mistress' sake.
  47  Believe me, she has had much wrong. Lord Cardinal,
  48  The willing'st sin I ever yet committed
  49B May be absolved in English.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Noble lady,
  50  I am sorry my integrity should breed_
  51  And service to his majesty and you_
  52  So deep suspicion, where all faith was meant.
  53  We come not by the way of accusation,
  54  To taint that honour every good tongue blesses,
  55  Nor to betray you any way to sorrow_
  56  You have too much, good lady_but to know
  57  How you stand minded in the weighty difference
  58  Between the King and you, and to deliver,
  59  Like free and honest men, our just opinions
  60B And comforts to your cause.<S CARDINAL CAMPEIUS> Most honoured madam,
  61  My lord of York, out of his noble nature,
  62  Zeal, and obedience he still bore your grace,
  63  Forgetting, like a good man, your late censure
  64  Both of his truth and him_which was too far_
  65  Offers, as I do, in a sign of peace,
  66B His service and his counsel.<S QUEEN KATHERINE> <T asd>                  +
  66B {(aside)}<T verse> To betray me.
  67  <T asd> {(Aloud)}<T verse> My lords, I thank you both for your good      +
  67  wills.
  68  Ye speak like honest men_pray God ye prove so.
  69  But how to make ye suddenly an answer
  70  In such a point of weight, so near mine honour_
  71  More near my life, I fear_with my weak wit,
  72  And to such men of gravity and learning,
  73  In truth I know not. I was set at work
  74  Among my maids, full little_God knows_looking
  75  Either for such men or such business.
  76  For her sake that I have been_for I feel
  77  The last fit of my greatness_good your graces,
  78  Let me have time and counsel for my cause.
  79  Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless.
  80  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Madam, you wrong the King's love with these fears.
  81B Your hopes and friends are infinite.<S QUEEN KATHERINE> In England
  82  But little for my profit. Can you think, lords,
  83  That any Englishman dare give me counsel,
  84  Or be a known friend 'gainst his highness' pleasure_
  85  Though he be grown so desperate to be honest_
  86  And live a subject? Nay, forsooth, my friends,
  87  They that must weigh out my afflictions,
  88  They that my trust must grow to, live not here.
  89  They are, as all my other comforts, far hence,
  90B In mine own country, lords.<S CARDINAL CAMPEIUS> I would your grace
  91B Would leave your griefs and take my counsel.<S QUEEN KATHERINE> How,     +
  91B sir?
  92  <S CARDINAL CAMPEIUS> Put your main cause into the King's protection.
  93  He's loving and most gracious. 'Twill be much
  94  Both for your honour better and your cause,
  95  For if the trial of the law o'ertake ye
  96B You'll part away disgraced.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T asd> {(to the          +
  96B Queen)}<T verse> He tells you rightly.
  97  <S QUEEN KATHERINE> Ye tell me what ye wish for both_my ruin.
  98  Is this your Christian counsel? Out upon ye!
  99  Heaven is above all yet_there sits a judge
 100B That no king can corrupt.<S CARDINAL CAMPEIUS> Your rage mistakes us.
 101  <S QUEEN KATHERINE> The more shame for ye! Holy men I thought ye,
 102  Upon my soul, two reverend cardinal virtues_
 103  But cardinal sins and hollow hearts I fear ye.
 104  Mend 'em, for shame, my lords! Is this your comfort?
 105  The cordial that ye bring a wretched lady,
 106  A woman lost among ye, laughed at, scorned?
 107  I will not wish ye half my miseries_
 108  I have more charity. But say I warned ye.
 109  Take heed, for heaven's sake take heed, lest at once
 110  The burden of my sorrows fall upon ye.
 111  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Madam, this is a mere distraction.
 112  You turn the good we offer into envy.
 113  <S QUEEN KATHERINE> Ye turn me into nothing. Woe upon ye,
 114  And all such false professors. Would you have me_
 115  If you have any justice, any pity,
 116  If ye be anything but churchmen's habits_
 117  Put my sick cause into his hands that hates me?
 118  Alas, he's banished me his bed already_
 119  His love, too, long ago. I am old, my lords,
 120  And all the fellowship I hold now with him
 121  Is only my obedience. What can happen
 122  To me above this wretchedness? All your studies
 123B Make me accursed like this.<S CARDINAL CAMPEIUS> Your fears are worse.
 124  <S QUEEN KATHERINE> Have I lived thus long_let me speak myself,
 125  Since virtue finds no friends_a wife, a true one?
 126  A woman, I dare say, without vainglory,
 127  Never yet branded with suspicion?
 128  Have I with all my full affections
 129  Still met the King, loved him next heav'n, obeyed him,
 130  Been out of fondness superstitious to him,
 131  Almost forgot my prayers to content him?
 132  And am I thus rewarded? 'Tis not well, lords.
 133  Bring me a constant woman to her husband,
 134  One that ne'er dreamed a joy beyond his pleasure,
 135  And to that woman when she has done most,
 136  Yet will I add an honour, a great patience.
 137  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Madam, you wander from the good we aim at.
 138  <S QUEEN KATHERINE> My lord, I dare not make myself so guilty
 139  To give up willingly that noble title
 140  Your master wed me to. Nothing but death
 141B Shall e'er divorce my dignities.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Pray, hear me.
 142  <S QUEEN KATHERINE> Would I had never trod this English earth,
 143  Or felt the flatteries that grow upon it.
 144  Ye have angels' faces, but heaven knows your hearts.
 145  What will become of me now, wretched lady?
 146  I am the most unhappy woman living.
 147  <T asd> {(To her women)}<T verse> Alas, poor wenches, where are now      +
 147  your fortunes?
 148  Shipwrecked upon a kingdom where no pity,
 149  No friends, no hope, no kindred weep for me?
 150  Almost no grave allowed me? Like the lily,
 151  That once was mistress of the field and flourished,
 152B I'll hang my head and perish.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> If your grace
 153  Could but be brought to know our ends are honest,
 154  You'd feel more comfort. Why should we, good lady,
 155  Upon what cause, wrong you? Alas, our places,
 156  The way of our profession, is against it.
 157  We are to cure such sorrows, not to sow 'em.
 158  For goodness' sake, consider what you do,
 159  How you may hurt yourself, ay, utterly
 160  Grow from the King's acquaintance by this carriage.
 161  The hearts of princes kiss obedience,
 162  So much they love it, but to stubborn spirits
 163  They swell and grow as terrible as storms.
 164  I know you have a gentle noble temper,
 165  A soul as even as a calm. Pray, think us
 166  Those we profess_peacemakers, friends, and servants.
 167  <S CARDINAL CAMPEIUS> Madam, you'll find it so. You wrong your virtues
 168  With these weak women's fears. A noble spirit,
 169  As yours was put into you, ever casts
 170  Such doubts as false coin from it. The King loves you.
 171  Beware you lose it not. For us, if you please
 172  To trust us in your business, we are ready
 173  To use our utmost studies in your service.
 174  <S QUEEN KATHERINE> Do what ye will, my lords, and pray forgive me.
 175  If I have used myself unmannerly,
 176  You know I am a woman, lacking wit
 177  To make a seemly answer to such persons.
 178  Pray do my service to his majesty.
 179  He has my heart yet, and shall have my prayers
 180  While I shall have my life. Come, reverend fathers,
 181  Bestow your counsels on me. She now begs
 182  That little thought, when she set footing here,
 183  She should have bought her dignities so dear.<T esd> {Exeunt}
   0  <A Shakespeare>
   0  <Y 2> <T dsd> {Enter the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Suffolk, Lord      +
   0  Surrey, and the Lord Chamberlain}
   1  <S NORFOLK> <T verse> If you will now unite in your complaints,
   2  And force them with a constancy, the Cardinal
   3  Cannot stand under them. If you omit
   4  The offer of this time, I cannot promise
   5  But that you shall sustain more new disgraces
   6B With these you bear already.<S SURREY> I am joyful
   7  To meet the least occasion that may give me
   8  Remembrance of my father-in-law the Duke,
   9B To be revenged on him.<S SUFFOLK> Which of the peers
  10  Have uncontemned gone by him, or at least
  11  Strangely neglected? When did he regard
  12  The stamp of nobleness in any person
  13B Out of himself?<S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> My lords, you speak your pleasures.
  14  What he deserves of you and me I know;
  15  What we can do to him_though now the time
  16  Gives way to us_I much fear. If you cannot
  17  Bar his access to th' King, never attempt
  18  Anything on him, for he hath a witchcraft
  19B Over the King in 's tongue.<S NORFOLK> O, fear him not.
  20  His spell in that is out. The King hath found
  21  Matter against him that for ever mars
  22  The honey of his language. No, he's settled,
  23B Not to come off, in his displeasure.<S SURREY> Sir,
  24  I should be glad to hear such news as this
  25B Once every hour.<S NORFOLK> Believe it, this is true.
  26  In the divorce his contrary proceedings
  27  Are all unfolded, wherein he appears
  28B As I would wish mine enemy.<S SURREY> How came
  29B His practices to light?<S SUFFOLK> Most strangely.<S SURREY> O, how,     +
  29B how?
  30  <S SUFFOLK> The Cardinal's letters to the Pope miscarried,
  31  And came to th' eye o' th' King, wherein was read
  32  How that the Cardinal did entreat his holiness
  33  To stay the judgement o' th' divorce, for if
  34  It did take place, `I do", quoth he, `perceive
  35  My king is tangled in affection to
  36  A creature of the Queen's, Lady Anne Boleyn".
  37B <S SURREY> Has the King this?<S SUFFOLK> Believe it.<S SURREY> Will      +
  37B this work?
  38  <S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> The King in this perceives him how he coasts
  39  And hedges his own way. But in this point
  40  All his tricks founder, and he brings his physic
  41  After his patient's death. The King already
  42B Hath married the fair lady.<S SURREY> Would he had.
  43  <S SUFFOLK> May you be happy in your wish, my lord,
  44B For I profess you have it.<S SURREY> Now all my joy
  45B Trace the conjunction.<S SUFFOLK> My amen to 't.<S NORFOLK> All men's.
  46  <S SUFFOLK> There's order given for her coronation.
  47  Marry, this is yet but young, and may be left
  48  To some ears unrecounted. But, my lords,
  49  She is a gallant creature, and complete
  50  In mind and feature. I persuade me, from her
  51  Will fall some blessing to this land which shall
  52B In it be memorized.<S SURREY> But will the King
  53  Digest this letter of the Cardinal's?
  54B The Lord forbid!<S NORFOLK> Marry, amen.<S SUFFOLK> No, no_
  55  There be more wasps that buzz about his nose
  56  Will make this sting the sooner. Cardinal Campeius
  57  Is stol'n away to Rome; hath ta'en no leave;
  58  Has left the cause o' th' King unhandled, and
  59  Is posted as the agent of our Cardinal
  60  To second all his plot. I do assure you
  61B The King cried `Ha!" at this.<S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> Now God incense him,
  62B And let him cry `Ha!" louder.<S NORFOLK> But, my lord,
  63  When returns Cranmer?
  64  <S SUFFOLK> He is returned in his opinions, which
  65  Have satisfied the King for his divorce,
  66  Together with all famous colleges,
  67  Almost, in Christendom. Shortly, I believe,
  68  His second marriage shall be published, and
  69  Her coronation. Katherine no more
  70  Shall be called `Queen", but `Princess Dowager",
  71B And `widow to Prince Arthur".<S NORFOLK> This same Cranmer's
  72  A worthy fellow, and hath ta'en much pain
  73B In the King's business.<S SUFFOLK> He has, and we shall see him
  74B For it an archbishop.<S NORFOLK> So I hear.<S SUFFOLK> 'Tis so.<T dsd>   +
  74B {Enter Cardinal Wolsey and Cromwell}
  75B <T verse> The Cardinal.<S NORFOLK> Observe, observe_he's moody.<T dsd>   +
  75B {They stand apart and observe Wolsey and Cromwell}
  76  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T asd> {(to Cromwell)}<T verse> The packet,         +
  76  Cromwell_gave 't you the King?
  77B <S CROMWELL> To his own hand, in 's bedchamber.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY>       +
  77B Looked he
  78B O' th' inside of the paper?<S CROMWELL> Presently
  79  He did unseal them, and the first he viewed
  80  He did it with a serious mind; a heed
  81  Was in his countenance. You he bade
  82B Attend him here this morning.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Is he ready
  83  To come abroad?
  84A <S CROMWELL> I think by this he is.
  85A <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Leave me a while.<T esd> {Exit Cromwell}
  86  <T asd> {(Aside)}<T verse> It shall be to the Duchess of Alenc@on,
  87  The French King's sister_he shall marry her.
  88  Anne Boleyn? No, I'll no Anne Boleyns for him.
  89  There's more in 't than fair visage. Boleyn?
  90  No, we'll no Boleyns. Speedily I wish
  91  To hear from Rome. The Marchioness of Pembroke?<T dsd> {The nobles       +
  91  speak among themselves}
  92B <S NORFOLK> <T verse> He's discontented.<S SUFFOLK> Maybe he hears the   +
  92B King
  93B Does whet his anger to him.<S SURREY> Sharp enough,
  94  Lord, for thy justice.
  95  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T asd> {(aside)}<T verse> The late Queen's          +
  95  gentlewoman? A knight's daughter
  96  To be her mistress' mistress? The Queen's queen?
  97  This candle burns not clear; 'tis I must snuff it,
  98  Then out it goes. What though I know her virtuous
  99  And well deserving? Yet I know her for
 100  A spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to
 101  Our cause, that she should lie i' th' bosom of
 102  Our hard-ruled King. Again, there is sprung up
 103  An heretic, an arch-one, Cranmer, one
 104  Hath crawled into the favour of the King
 105B And is his oracle.<T dsd> {The nobles speak among themselves}<S NORFOLK>+
 105B  <T verse> He is vexed at something.<T dsd> {Enter King Henry reading a  +
 105B schedule, and Lovell with him}
 106  <S SURREY> <T verse> I would 'twere something that would fret the        +
 106  string,
 107B The master-cord on 's heart!<S SUFFOLK> The King, the King!
 108  <S KING HENRY> <T asd> {[aside]}<T verse> What piles of wealth hath he   +
 108  accumulated
 109  To his own portion? And what expense by th' hour
 110  Seems to flow from him? How i' th' name of thrift
 111  Does he rake this together?<T asd> {(To the nobles)}<T verse> Now, my    +
 111  lords,
 112B Saw you the Cardinal?<S NORFOLK> My lord, we have
 113  Stood here observing him. Some strange commotion
 114  Is in his brain. He bites his lip, and starts,
 115  Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground,
 116  Then lays his finger on his temple, straight
 117  Springs out into fast gait, then stops again,
 118  Strikes his breast hard, and anon he casts
 119  His eye against the moon. In most strange postures
 120B We have seen him set himself.<S KING HENRY> It may well be
 121  There is a mutiny in 's mind. This morning
 122  Papers of state he sent me to peruse
 123  As I required, and wot you what I found
 124  There, on my conscience put unwittingly?
 125  Forsooth, an inventory thus importing
 126  The several parcels of his plate, his treasure,
 127  Rich stuffs, and ornaments of household which
 128  I find at such proud rate that it outspeaks
 129B Possession of a subject.<S NORFOLK> It's heaven's will.
 130  Some spirit put this paper in the packet
 131B To bless your eye withal.<S KING HENRY> If we did think
 132  His contemplation were above the earth
 133  And fixed on spiritual object, he should still
 134  Dwell in his musings. But I am afraid
 135  His thinkings are below the moon, not worth
 136B His serious considering.<T dsd> {The King takes his seat and whispers    +
 136B with Lovell, who then goes to the Cardinal}<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T verse>+
 136B  Heaven forgive me!
 137B <T asd> {[To the King]}<T verse> Ever God bless your highness!           +
 137B <S KING HENRY> Good my lord,
 138  You are full of heavenly stuff, and bear the inventory
 139  Of your best graces in your mind, the which
 140  You were now running o'er. You have scarce time
 141  To steal from spiritual leisure a brief span
 142  To keep your earthly audit. Sure, in that,
 143  I deem you an ill husband, and am glad
 144B To have you therein my companion.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Sir,
 145  For holy offices I have a time; a time
 146  To think upon the part of business which
 147  I bear i' th' state; and nature does require
 148  Her times of preservation which, perforce,
 149  I, her frail son, amongst my brethren mortal,
 150B Must give my tendance to.<S KING HENRY> You have said well.
 151  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> And ever may your highness yoke together,
 152  As I will lend you cause, my doing well
 153B With my well-saying.<S KING HENRY> 'Tis well said again,
 154  And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well_
 155  And yet words are no deeds. My father loved you.
 156  He said he did, and with his deed did crown
 157  His word upon you. Since I had my office,
 158  I have kept you next my heart, have not alone
 159  Employed you where high profits might come home,
 160  But pared my present havings to bestow
 161B My bounties upon you.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T asd> {(aside)}<T verse>      +
 161B What should this mean?
 162B <S SURREY> <T asd> {[aside]}<T verse> The Lord increase this             +
 162B business!<S KING HENRY> Have I not made you
 163  The prime man of the state? I pray you tell me
 164  If what I now pronounce you have found true,
 165  And, if you may confess it, say withal
 166  If you are bound to us or no. What say you?
 167  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> My sovereign, I confess your royal graces
 168  Showered on me daily have been more than could
 169  My studied purposes requite, which went
 170  Beyond all man's endeavours. My endeavours
 171  Have ever come too short of my desires,
 172  Yet filed with my abilities. Mine own ends
 173  Have been mine so that evermore they pointed
 174  To th' good of your most sacred person and
 175  The profit of the state. For your great graces
 176  Heaped upon me, poor undeserver, I
 177  Can nothing render but allegiant thanks,
 178  My prayers to heaven for you, my loyalty,
 179  Which ever has and ever shall be growing,
 180B Till death, that winter, kill it.<S KING HENRY> Fairly answered.
 181  A loyal and obedient subject is
 182  Therein illustrated. The honour of it
 183  Does pay the act of it, as, i' th' contrary,
 184  The foulness is the punishment. I presume
 185  That as my hand has opened bounty to you,
 186  My heart dropped love, my power rained honour, more
 187  On you than any, so your hand and heart,
 188  Your brain, and every function of your power,
 189  Should, notwithstanding that your bond of duty,
 190  As 'twere in love's particular, be more
 191B To me, your friend, than any.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> I do profess
 192  That for your highness' good I ever laboured
 193  More than mine own; that am, have, and will be_
 194  Though all the world should crack their duty to you,
 195  And throw it from their soul, though perils did
 196  Abound, as thick as thought could make 'em, and
 197  Appear in forms more horrid_yet, my duty,
 198  As doth a rock against the chiding flood,
 199  Should the approach of this wild river break,
 200B And stand unshaken yours.<S KING HENRY> 'Tis nobly spoken.
 201  Take notice, lords, he has a loyal breast,
 202  For you have seen him open 't.<T asd> {(To Wolsey)}<T verse> Read o'er   +
 202  this,<T dsd> {He gives him a paper}
 203  <T verse> And after this<T asd> {(giving him another paper)}<T verse> ,  +
 203  and then to breakfast with
 204B What appetite you have.<T esd> {Exit King Henry, frowning upon           +
 204B the Cardinal. The nobles throng after the King, smiling and              +
 204B whispering}                                                              +
 204B <A ?Shakespeare>                                                         +
 204B <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T verse> What should this mean?
 205  What sudden anger's this? How have I reaped it?
 206  He parted frowning from me, as if ruin
 207  Leaped from his eyes. So looks the chafe\d lion
 208  Upon the daring huntsman that has galled him,
 209  Then makes him nothing. I must read this paper_
 210B I fear, the story of his anger.<T dsd> {He reads one of the              +
 210B papers}<T verse> 'Tis so.
 211  This paper has undone me. 'Tis th' account
 212  Of all that world of wealth I have drawn together
 213  For mine own ends_indeed, to gain the popedom,
 214  And fee my friends in Rome. O negligence,
 215  Fit for a fool to fall by! What cross devil
 216  Made me put this main secret in the packet
 217  I sent the King? Is there no way to cure this?
 218  No new device to beat this from his brains?
 219  I know 'twill stir him strongly. Yet I know
 220  A way, if it take right, in spite of fortune
 221B Will bring me off again. What's this?<T dsd> {He reads the other         +
 221B paper}<T verse> `To th' Pope"?
 222  The letter, as I live, with all the business
 223  I writ to 's holiness. Nay then, farewell.
 224  I have touched the highest point of all my greatness,
 225  And from that full meridian of my glory
 226  I haste now to my setting. I shall fall
 227  Like a bright exhalation in the evening,
 228  And no man see me more.<T dsd> {Enter to Cardinal Wolsey the Dukes of    +
 228  Norfolk and}
 229  {Suffolk, the Earl of Surrey, and the Lord Chamberlain}<S NORFOLK>       +
 229  <T verse> Hear the King's pleasure, Cardinal, who commands you
 230  To render up the great seal presently
 231  Into our hands, and to confine yourself
 232  To Asher House, my lord of Winchester's,
 233B Till you hear further from his highness.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Stay_
 234  Where's your commission, lords? Words cannot carry
 235B Authority so weighty.<S SUFFOLK> Who dare cross 'em
 236  Bearing the King's will from his mouth expressly?
 237  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Till I find more than will or words to do it_
 238  I mean your malice_know, officious lords,
 239  I dare and must deny it. Now I feel
 240  Of what coarse metal ye are moulded_envy.
 241  How eagerly ye follow my disgraces
 242  As if it fed ye, and how sleek and wanton
 243  Ye appear in everything may bring my ruin!
 244  Follow your envious courses, men of malice.
 245  You have Christian warrant for 'em, and no doubt
 246  In time will find their fit rewards. That seal
 247  You ask with such a violence, the King,
 248  Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me,
 249  Bade me enjoy it, with the place and honours,
 250  During my life; and, to confirm his goodness,
 251  Tied it by letters patents. Now, who'll take it?
 252B <S SURREY> The King that gave it.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> It must be himself  +
 252B then.
 253B <S SURREY> Thou art a proud traitor, priest.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Proud    +
 253B lord, thou liest.
 254  Within these forty hours Surrey durst better
 255B Have burnt that tongue than said so.<S SURREY> Thy ambition,
 256  Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land
 257  Of noble Buckingham, my father-in-law.
 258  The heads of all thy brother cardinals
 259  With thee and all thy best parts bound together
 260  Weighed not a hair of his. Plague of your policy,
 261  You sent me deputy for Ireland,
 262  Far from his succour, from the King, from all
 263  That might have mercy on the fault thou gav'st him;
 264  Whilst your great goodness, out of holy pity,
 265B Absolved him with an axe.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> This, and all else
 266  This talking lord can lay upon my credit,
 267  I answer is most false. The Duke by law
 268  Found his deserts. How innocent I was
 269  From any private malice in his end,
 270  His noble jury and foul cause can witness.
 271  If I loved many words, lord, I should tell you
 272  You have as little honesty as honour,
 273  That in the way of loyalty and truth
 274  Toward the King, my ever royal master,
 275  Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be,
 276B And all that love his follies.<S SURREY> By my soul,
 277  Your long coat, priest, protects you; thou shouldst feel
 278  My sword i' th' life-blood of thee else. My lords,
 279  Can ye endure to hear this arrogance,
 280  And from this fellow? If we live thus tamely,
 281  To be thus jaded by a piece of scarlet,
 282  Farewell nobility. Let his grace go forward
 283B And dare us with his cap, like larks.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> All goodness
 284B Is poison to thy stomach.<S SURREY> Yes, that goodness
 285  Of gleaning all the land's wealth into one,
 286  Into your own hands, Card'nal, by extortion;
 287  The goodness of your intercepted packets
 288  You writ to th' Pope against the King; your goodness_
 289  Since you provoke me_shall be most notorious.
 290  My lord of Norfolk, as you are truly noble,
 291  As you respect the common good, the state
 292  Of our despised nobility, our issues_
 293  Whom if he live will scarce be gentlemen_
 294  Produce the grand sum of his sins, the articles
 295  Collected from his life.<T asd> {(To Wolsey)}<T verse> I'll startle you
 296  Worse than the sacring-bell when the brown wench
 297  Lay kissing in your arms, lord Cardinal.
 298  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T asd> {[aside]}<T verse> How much, methinks, I     +
 298  could despise this man,
 299  But that I am bound in charity against it.
 300  <S NORFOLK> <T asd> {(to Surrey)}<T verse> Those articles, my lord, are  +
 300  in the King's hand;
 301B But thus much_they are foul ones.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> So much fairer
 302  And spotless shall mine innocence arise
 303B When the King knows my truth.<S SURREY> This cannot save you.
 304  I thank my memory I yet remember
 305  Some of these articles, and out they shall.
 306  Now, if you can blush and cry `Guilty", Cardinal,
 307B You'll show a little honesty.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> Speak on, sir;
 308  I dare your worst objections. If I blush,
 309  It is to see a nobleman want manners.
 310  <S SURREY> I had rather want those than my head. Have at you!
 311  First, that without the King's assent or knowledge
 312  You wrought to be a legate, by which power
 313  You maimed the jurisdiction of all bishops.
 314  <S NORFOLK> <T asd> {(to Wolsey)}<T verse> Then, that in all you writ    +
 314  to Rome, or else
 315  To foreign princes, `{Ego et Rex meus}"
 316  Was still inscribed_in which you brought the King
 317B To be your servant.<S SUFFOLK> <T asd> {(to Wolsey)}<T verse> Then,      +
 317B that without the knowledge
 318  Either of King or Council, when you went
 319  Ambassador to the Emperor, you made bold
 320  To carry into Flanders the great seal.
 321  <S SURREY> <T asd> {(to Wolsey)}<T verse> Item, you sent a large         +
 321  commission
 322  To Gregory de Cassado, to conclude,
 323  Without the King's will or the state's allowance,
 324  A league between his highness and Ferrara.
 325  <S SUFFOLK> <T asd> {(to Wolsey)}<T verse> That out of mere ambition     +
 325  you have caused
 326  Your holy hat to be stamped on the King's coin.
 327  <S SURREY> <T asd> {(to Wolsey)}<T verse> Then, that you have sent       +
 327  innumerable substance_
 328  By what means got, I leave to your own conscience_
 329  To furnish Rome, and to prepare the ways
 330  You have for dignities to the mere undoing
 331  Of all the kingdom. Many more there are,
 332  Which since they are of you, and odious,
 333B I will not taint my mouth with.<S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> O, my lord,
 334  Press not a falling man too far. 'Tis virtue.
 335  His faults lie open to the laws. Let them,
 336  Not you, correct him. My heart weeps to see him
 337B So little of his great self.<S SURREY> I forgive him.
 338  <S SUFFOLK> Lord Cardinal, the King's further pleasure is_
 339  Because all those things you have done of late,
 340  By your power legantine within this kingdom,
 341  Fall into th' compass of a praemunire_
 342  That therefore such a writ be sued against you,
 343  To forfeit all your goods, lands, tenements,
 344  Chattels, and whatsoever, and to be
 345  Out of the King's protection. This is my charge.
 346  <S NORFOLK> <T asd> {(to Wolsey)}<T verse> And so we'll leave you to     +
 346  your meditations
 347  How to live better. For your stubborn answer
 348  About the giving back the great seal to us,
 349  The King shall know it and, no doubt, shall thank you.
 350  So fare you well, my little good lord Cardinal.<T esd> {Exeunt all but   +
 350  Wolsey}
 351  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T verse> So farewell_to the little good you bear    +
 351  me.
 352  Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness!
 353  This is the state of man. Today he puts forth
 354  The tender leaves of hopes; tomorrow blossoms,
 355  And bears his blushing honours thick upon him;
 356  The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,
 357  And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
 358  His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root,
 359  And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured,
 360  Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
 361  This many summers in a sea of glory,
 362  But far beyond my depth; my high-blown pride
 363  At length broke under me, and now has left me
 364  Weary, and old with service, to the mercy
 365  Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
 366  Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye!
 367  I feel my heart new opened. O, how wretched
 368  Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
 369  There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to,
 370  That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,
 371  More pangs and fears than wars or women have,
 372  And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,
 373B Never to hope again.<T dsd> {Enter Cromwell, who then stands             +
 373B amazed}<T verse> Why, how now, Cromwell?
 374B <S CROMWELL> I have no power to speak, sir.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> What,     +
 374B amazed
 375  At my misfortunes? Can thy spirit wonder
 376B A great man should decline?<T dsd> {[Cromwell begins to weep]}<T verse>  +
 376B Nay, an you weep
 377B I am fall'n indeed.<S CROMWELL> How does your grace?<S CARDINAL WOLSEY>  +
 377B Why, well_
 378  Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell.
 379  I know myself now, and I feel within me
 380  A peace above all earthly dignities,
 381  A still and quiet conscience. The King has cured me.
 382  I humbly thank his grace, and from these shoulders,
 383  These ruined pillars, out of pity, taken
 384  A load would sink a navy_too much honour.
 385  O, 'tis a burden, Cromwell, 'tis a burden
 386  Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven.
 387  <S CROMWELL> I am glad your grace has made that right use of it.
 388  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> I hope I have. I am able now, methinks,
 389  Out of a fortitude of soul I feel,
 390  To endure more miseries and greater far
 391  Than my weak-hearted enemies dare offer.
 392B What news abroad?<S CROMWELL> The heaviest and the worst
 393B Is your displeasure with the King.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> God bless him.
 394  <S CROMWELL> The next is that Sir Thomas More is chosen
 395B Lord Chancellor in your place.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> That's somewhat        +
 395B sudden.
 396  But he's a learne\d man. May he continue
 397  Long in his highness' favour, and do justice
 398  For truth's sake and his conscience, that his bones,
 399  When he has run his course and sleeps in blessings,
 400  May have a tomb of orphans' tears wept on him.
 401B What more?<S CROMWELL> That Cranmer is returned with welcome,
 402  Installed lord Archbishop of Canterbury.
 403B <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> That's news indeed.<S CROMWELL> Last, that the Lady  +
 403B Anne,
 404  Whom the King hath in secrecy long married,
 405  This day was viewed in open as his queen,
 406  Going to chapel, and the voice is now
 407  Only about her coronation.
 408  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> There was the weight that pulled me down. O,         +
 408  Cromwell,
 409  The King has gone beyond me. All my glories
 410  In that one woman I have lost for ever.
 411  No sun shall ever usher forth mine honours,
 412  Or gild again the noble troops that waited
 413  Upon my smiles. Go, get thee from me, Cromwell.
 414  I am a poor fall'n man, unworthy now
 415  To be thy lord and master. Seek the King_
 416  That sun I pray may never set_I have told him
 417  What and how true thou art. He will advance thee.
 418  Some little memory of me will stir him.
 419  I know his noble nature not to let
 420  Thy hopeful service perish too. Good Cromwell,
 421  Neglect him not. Make use now, and provide
 422B For thine own future safety.<S CROMWELL> <T asd> {[weeping]}<T verse>    +
 422B O, my lord,
 423  Must I then leave you? Must I needs forgo
 424  So good, so noble, and so true a master?
 425  Bear witness, all that have not hearts of iron,
 426  With what a sorrow Cromwell leaves his lord.
 427  The King shall have my service, but my prayers
 428  For ever and for ever shall be yours.
 429  <S CARDINAL WOLSEY> <T asd> {(weeping)}<T verse> Cromwell, I did not     +
 429  think to shed a tear
 430  In all my miseries, but thou hast forced me,
 431  Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman.
 432  Let's dry our eyes, and thus far hear me, Cromwell,
 433  And when I am forgotten, as I shall be,
 434  And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention
 435  Of me more must be heard of, say I taught thee_
 436  Say Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory,
 437  And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour,
 438  Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in,
 439  A sure and safe one, though thy master missed it.
 440  Mark but my fall, and that that ruined me.
 441  Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.
 442  By that sin fell the angels. How can man, then,
 443  The image of his maker, hope to win by it?
 444  Love thyself last. Cherish those hearts that hate thee.
 445  Corruption wins not more than honesty.
 446  Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace
 447  To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not.
 448  Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,
 449  Thy God's, and truth's. Then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell,
 450  Thou fall'st a blesse\d martyr.
 451  Serve the King. And prithee, lead me in_
 452  There take an inventory of all I have:
 453  To the last penny 'tis the King's. My robe,
 454  And my integrity to heaven, is all
 455  I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell,
 456  Had I but served my God with half the zeal
 457  I served my King, He would not in mine age
 458  Have left me naked to mine enemies.
 459B <S CROMWELL> Good sir, have patience.<S CARDINAL WOLSEY> So I have.      +
 459B Farewell
 460  The hopes of court; my hopes in heaven do dwell.<T esd> {Exeunt}
 460  [[ACT INTERVAL]]
   0  <X 4> <Y 1> <T dsd> {Enter the two Gentlemen meeting one another. The    +
   0  first holds a paper}
   1B <S FIRST GENTLEMAN> <T verse> You're well met once again.                +
   1B <S SECOND GENTLEMAN> So are you.
   2  <S FIRST GENTLEMAN> You come to take your stand here and behold
   3  The Lady Anne pass from her coronation?
   4  <S SECOND GENTLEMAN> 'Tis all my business. At our last encounter
   5  The Duke of Buckingham came from his trial.
   6  <S FIRST GENTLEMAN> 'Tis very true. But that time offered sorrow,
   7B This, general joy.<S SECOND GENTLEMAN> 'Tis well. The citizens,
   8  I am sure, have shown at full their royal minds_
   9  As, let 'em have their rights, they are ever forward_
  10  In celebration of this day with shows,
  11B Pageants, and sights of honour.<S FIRST GENTLEMAN> Never greater,
  12  Nor, I'll assure you, better taken, sir.
  13  <S SECOND GENTLEMAN> May I be bold to ask what that contains,
  14B That paper in your hand?<S FIRST GENTLEMAN> Yes, 'tis the list
  15  Of those that claim their offices this day
  16  By custom of the coronation.
  17  The Duke of Suffolk is the first, and claims
  18  To be High Steward; next, the Duke of Norfolk,
  19  He to be Earl Marshal. You may read the rest.<T dsd> {He gives him the   +
  19  paper}
  20  <S SECOND GENTLEMAN> <T verse> I thank you, sir. Had I not known those   +
  20  customs,
  21  I should have been beholden to your paper.
  22  But I beseech you, what's become of Katherine,
  23  The Princess Dowager? How goes her business?
  24  <S FIRST GENTLEMAN> That I can tell you too. The Archbishop
  25  Of Canterbury, accompanied with other
  26  Learne\d and reverend fathers of his order,
  27  Held a late court at Dunstable, six miles off
  28  From Ampthill, where the Princess lay; to which
  29  She was often cited by them, but appeared not.
  30  And, to be short, for not appearance, and
  31  The King's late scruple, by the main assent
  32  Of all these learne\d men, she was divorced,
  33  And the late marriage made of none effect,
  34  Since which she was removed to Kimbolton,
  35B Where she remains now sick.<S SECOND GENTLEMAN> Alas, good lady!<T dsd>  +
  35B {Flourish of trumpets within}
  36  <T verse> The trumpets sound. Stand close. The Queen is coming.<T dsd>   +
  36  {Enter the coronation procession, which passes over the stage in order   +
  36  and state. Hautboys, within, [play during the procession]}
  37  <T asd> {the order of the coronation}<T dsd> {1. First, [enter]          +
  37  trumpeters, who play a lively flourish. 2. Then, enter two judges. 3.    +
  37  Then, enter the Lord Chancellor, with both the purse containing the      +
  37  great seal and the mace borne before him. 4. Then, enter choristers      +
  37  singing; [with them, musicians playing.] 5. Then, enter the Lord Mayor   +
  37  of London bearing the mace, followed by Garter King-of-Arms wearing his  +
  37  coat of arms and a gilt copper crown. 6. Then, enter Marquis Dorset      +
  37  bearing a sceptre of gold, and wearing, on his head, a demi-coronal of   +
  37  gold and, about his neck, a collar of esses. With him enter the Earl     +
  37  of Surrey bearing the rod of silver with the dove, crowned with an       +
  37  earl's coronet, and also wearing a collar of esses. 7. Next, enter the   +
  37  Duke of Suffolk as High Steward, in his robe of estate, with his         +
  37  coronet on his head, and bearing a long white wand. With him, enter the  +
  37  Duke of Norfolk with the rod of marshalship and a coronet on his head.   +
  37  Each wears a collar of esses. 8. Then, under a canopy borne by four      +
  37  barons of the Cinque Ports, enter Anne, the new Queen, in her robe. Her  +
  37  hair, which hangs loose, is richly adorned with pearl. She wears a       +
  37  crown. Accompanying her on either side are the Bishops of London and     +
  37  Winchester. 9. Next, enter the old Duchess of Norfolk, in a coronal of   +
  37  gold wrought with flowers, bearing the Queen's train. 10. Finally,       +
  37  enter certain ladies or countesses, with plain circlets of gold without  +
  37  flowers. The two Gentlemen comment on the procession as it passes over   +
  37  the stage}<S SECOND GENTLEMAN> <T verse> A royal train, believe me.      +
  37  These I know.
  38B Who's that that bears the sceptre?<S FIRST GENTLEMAN> Marquis Dorset.
  39  And that, the Earl of Surrey with the rod.
  40  <S SECOND GENTLEMAN> A bold brave gentleman. That should be
  41B The Duke of Suffolk?<S FIRST GENTLEMAN> 'Tis the same: High Steward.
  42B <S SECOND GENTLEMAN> And that, my lord of Norfolk?<S FIRST GENTLEMAN>    +
  42B Yes.<S SECOND GENTLEMAN> <T asd> {(seeing Anne)}<T verse> Heaven bless   +
  42B thee!
  43  Thou hast the sweetest face I ever looked on.
  44  Sir, as I have a soul, she is an angel.
  45  Our King has all the Indies in his arms,
  46  And more, and richer, when he strains that lady.
  47B I cannot blame his conscience.<S FIRST GENTLEMAN> They that bear
  48  The cloth of honour over her are four barons
  49  Of the Cinque Ports.
  50A <S SECOND GENTLEMAN> Those men are happy,
  51  And so are all are near her.
  52  I take it she that carries up the train
  53  Is that old noble lady, Duchess of Norfolk.
  54  <S FIRST GENTLEMAN> It is. And all the rest are countesses.
  55  <S SECOND GENTLEMAN> Their coronets say so. These are stars indeed_
  56B <S [FIRST GENTLEMAN]> And sometimes falling ones.<S SECOND GENTLEMAN>    +
  56B No more of that.<T esd> {Exit the last of the procession, and then}
  57  {a great flourish of trumpets within}<T dsd> {Enter a third Gentleman    +
  57  [in a sweat]}<S FIRST GENTLEMAN> <T verse> God save you, sir. Where      +
  57  have you been broiling?
  58  <S THIRD GENTLEMAN> Among the crowd i' th' Abbey, where a finger
  59  Could not be wedged in more. I am stifled
  60  With the mere rankness of their joy.
  61B <S SECOND GENTLEMAN> You saw the ceremony?<S THIRD GENTLEMAN> That I     +
  61B did.
  62A <S FIRST GENTLEMAN> How was it?
  63B <S THIRD GENTLEMAN> Well worth the seeing.<S SECOND GENTLEMAN> Good      +
  63B sir, speak it to us.
  64  <S THIRD GENTLEMAN> As well as I am able. The rich stream
  65  Of lords and ladies, having brought the Queen
  66  To a prepared place in the choir, fell off
  67  A distance from her, while her grace sat down
  68  To rest a while_some half an hour or so_
  69  In a rich chair of state, opposing freely
  70  The beauty of her person to the people.
  71  Believe me, sir, she is the goodliest woman
  72  That ever lay by man; which when the people
  73  Had the full view of, such a noise arose
  74  As the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest,
  75  As loud and to as many tunes. Hats, cloaks_
  76  Doublets, I think_flew up, and had their faces
  77  Been loose, this day they had been lost. Such joy
  78  I never saw before. Great-bellied women,
  79  That had not half a week to go, like rams
  80  In the old time of war, would shake the press,
  81  And make 'em reel before 'em. No man living
  82  Could say `This is my wife" there, all were woven
  83B So strangely in one piece.<S SECOND GENTLEMAN> But what followed?
  84  <S THIRD GENTLEMAN> At length her grace rose, and with modest paces
  85  Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like
  86  Cast her fair eyes to heaven, and prayed devoutly,
  87  Then rose again, and bowed her to the people,
  88  When by the Archbishop of Canterbury
  89  She had all the royal makings of a queen,
  90  As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown,
  91  The rod and bird of peace, and all such emblems
  92  Laid nobly on her. Which performed, the choir,
  93  With all the choicest music of the kingdom,
  94  Together sung {Te Deum}. So she parted,
  95  And with the same full state paced back again
  96B To York Place, where the feast is held.<S FIRST GENTLEMAN> Sir,
  97  You must no more call it York Place_that's past,
  98  For since the Cardinal fell, that title's lost.
  99B 'Tis now the King's, and called Whitehall.<S THIRD GENTLEMAN> I know     +
  99B it,
 100  But 'tis so lately altered that the old name
 101B Is fresh about me.<S SECOND GENTLEMAN> What two reverend bishops
 102  Were those that went on each side of the Queen?
 103  <S THIRD GENTLEMAN> Stokesley and Gardiner, the one of Winchester_
 104  Newly preferred from the King's secretary_
 105B The other London.<S SECOND GENTLEMAN> He of Winchester
 106  Is held no great good lover of the Archbishop's,
 107B The virtuous Cranmer.<S THIRD GENTLEMAN> All the land knows that.
 108  However, yet there is no great breach. When it comes,
 109  Cranmer will find a friend will not shrink from him.
 110B <S SECOND GENTLEMAN> Who may that be, I pray you?<S THIRD GENTLEMAN>     +
 110B Thomas Cromwell,
 111  A man in much esteem with th' King, and truly
 112  A worthy friend. The King has made him
 113  Master o' th' Jewel House,
 114  And one already of the Privy Council.
 115B <S SECOND GENTLEMAN> He will deserve more.<S THIRD GENTLEMAN> Yes,       +
 115B without all doubt.
 116  Come, gentlemen, ye shall go my way,
 117  Which is to th' court, and there ye shall be my guests.
 118  Something I can command. As I walk thither
 119B I'll tell ye more.<S FIRST {AND} SECOND GENTLEMEN> You may command us,   +
 119B sir.<T esd> {Exeunt}
   0  <Y 2> <T dsd> {[Three chairs.] Enter Katherine Dowager, sick, led        +
   0  between Griffith her gentleman usher, and Patience her woman}
   1B <S GRIFFITH> <T verse> How does your grace?<S KATHERINE> O Griffith,     +
   1B sick to death.
   2  My legs, like loaden branches, bow to th' earth,
   3  Willing to leave their burden. Reach a chair.<T dsd> {A chair is         +
   3  brought to her. She sits}
   4  <T verse> So now, methinks, I feel a little ease.
   5  Didst thou not tell me, Griffith, as thou led'st me,
   6  That the great child of honour, Cardinal Wolsey,
   7B Was dead?<S GRIFFITH> Yes, madam, but I think your grace,
   8  Out of the pain you suffered, gave no ear to 't.
   9  <S KATHERINE> Prithee, good Griffith, tell me how he died.
  10  If well, he stepped before me happily
  11B For my example.<S GRIFFITH> Well, the voice goes, madam.
  12  For after the stout Earl Northumberland
  13  Arrested him at York, and brought him forward,
  14  As a man sorely tainted, to his answer,
  15  He fell sick, suddenly, and grew so ill
  16B He could not sit his mule.<S KATHERINE> Alas, poor man.
  17  <S GRIFFITH> At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester,
  18  Lodged in the abbey, where the reverend abbot,
  19  With all his convent, honourably received him,
  20  To whom he gave these words: `O father abbot,
  21  An old man broken with the storms of state
  22  Is come to lay his weary bones among ye.
  23  Give him a little earth, for charity."
  24  So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness
  25  Pursued him still, and three nights after this,
  26  About the hour of eight, which he himself
  27  Foretold should be his last, full of repentance,
  28  Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows,
  29  He gave his honours to the world again,
  30  His blesse\d part to heaven, and slept in peace.
  31  <S KATHERINE> So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him.
  32  Yet thus far, Griffith, give me leave to speak him,
  33  And yet with charity. He was a man
  34  Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking
  35  Himself with princes; one that by suggestion
  36  Tied all the kingdom. Simony was fair play.
  37  His own opinion was his law. I' th' presence
  38  He would say untruths, and be ever double
  39  Both in his words and meaning. He was never,
  40  But where he meant to ruin, pitiful.
  41  His promises were, as he then was, mighty;
  42  But his performance, as he is now, nothing.
  43  Of his own body he was ill, and gave
  44B The clergy ill example.<S GRIFFITH> Noble madam,
  45  Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues
  46  We write in water. May it please your highness
  47B To hear me speak his good now?<S KATHERINE> Yes, good Griffith,
  48B I were malicious else.<S GRIFFITH> This cardinal,
  49  Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly
  50  Was fashioned to much honour. From his cradle
  51  He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one,
  52  Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading;
  53  Lofty and sour to them that loved him not,
  54  But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
  55  And though he were unsatisfied in getting_
  56  Which was a sin_yet in bestowing, madam,
  57  He was most princely: ever witness for him
  58  Those twins of learning that he raised in you,
  59  Ipswich and Oxford_one of which fell with him,
  60  Unwilling to outlive the good that did it;
  61  The other, though unfinished, yet so famous,
  62  So excellent in art, and still so rising,
  63  That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue.
  64  His overthrow heaped happiness upon him,
  65  For then, and not till then, he felt himself,
  66  And found the blesse\dness of being little.
  67  And to add greater honours to his age
  68  Than man could give him, he died fearing God.
  69  <S KATHERINE> After my death I wish no other herald,
  70  No other speaker of my living actions
  71  To keep mine honour from corruption
  72  But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
  73  Whom I most hated living, thou hast made me,
  74  With thy religious truth and modesty,
  75  Now in his ashes honour. Peace be with him.
  76  <T asd> {(To her woman)}<T verse> Patience, be near me still, and set    +
  76  me lower.
  77  I have not long to trouble thee. Good Griffith,
  78  Cause the musicians play me that sad note
  79  I named my knell, whilst I sit meditating
  80  On that celestial harmony I go to.<T dsd> {Sad and solemn music.         +
  80  Katherine sleeps}
  81  <S GRIFFITH> <T asd> {(to the woman)}<T verse> She is asleep. Good       +
  81  wench, let's sit down quiet
  82  For fear we wake her. Softly, gentle Patience.<T dsd> {They sit}
  83  <T asd> {the vision}<T dsd> {Enter, solemnly tripping one after          +
  83  another, six personages clad in white robes, wearing on their heads      +
  83  garlands of bays, and golden visors on their faces. They carry branches  +
  83  of bays or palm in their hands. They first conge/ unto Katherine,        +
  83  then dance; and, at certain changes, the first two hold a spare          +
  83  garland over her head at which the other four make reverent curtsies.    +
  83  Then the two that held the garland deliver the same to the other next    +
  83  two, who observe the same order in their changes and holding the         +
  83  garland over her head. Which done, they deliver the same garland to the  +
  83  last two who likewise observe the same order. At which, as it were by    +
  83  inspiration, she makes in her sleep signs of rejoicing, and holdeth up   +
  83  her hands to heaven. And so in their dancing vanish, carrying the        +
  83  garland with them. The music continues}<S KATHERINE> <T asd>             +
  83  {(waking)}<T verse> Spirits of peace, where are ye? Are ye all gone,
  84  And leave me here in wretchedness behind ye?<T dsd> {Griffith and        +
  84  Patience rise and come forward}
  85B <S GRIFFITH> <T verse> Madam, we are here.<S KATHERINE> It is not you I  +
  85B call for.
  86B Saw ye none enter since I slept?<S GRIFFITH> None, madam.
  87  <S KATHERINE> No? Saw you not even now a blesse\d troop
  88  Invite me to a banquet, whose bright faces
  89  Cast thousand beams upon me, like the sun?
  90  They promised me eternal happiness,
  91  And brought me garlands, Griffith, which I feel
  92  I am not worthy yet to wear. I shall,
  93  Assuredly.
  94  <S GRIFFITH> I am most joyful, madam, such good dreams
  95B Possess your fancy.<S KATHERINE> Bid the music leave.
  96B They are harsh and heavy to me.<T dsd> {Music ceases}<S PATIENCE>        +
  96B <T asd> {(to Griffith)}<T verse> Do you note
  97  How much her grace is altered on the sudden?
  98  How long her face is drawn? How pale she looks,
  99  And of an earthy colour? Mark her eyes?
 100B <S GRIFFITH> She is going, wench. Pray, pray.<S PATIENCE> Heaven         +
 100B comfort her.<T dsd> {Enter a Messenger}
 101B <S MESSENGER> <T asd> {(to Katherine)}<T verse> An 't like your          +
 101B grace_<S KATHERINE> You are a saucy fellow_
 102B Deserve we no more reverence?<S GRIFFITH> <T asd> {(to the               +
 102B Messenger)}<T verse> You are to blame,
 103  Knowing she will not lose her wonted greatness,
 104  To use so rude behaviour. Go to, kneel.
 105  <S MESSENGER> <T asd> {(kneeling before Katherine)}<T verse> I humbly    +
 105  do entreat your highness' pardon.
 106  My haste made me unmannerly. There is staying
 107  A gentleman sent from the King to see you.
 108  <S KATHERINE> Admit him entrance, Griffith. But this fellow
 109B Let me ne'er see again.<T esd> {Exit Messenger}<T dsd> {Enter Lord       +
 109B Caputius [ushered by Griffith]}<T verse> If my sight fail not,
 110  You should be lord ambassador from the Emperor,
 111  My royal nephew, and your name Caputius.
 112B <S CAPUTIUS> Madam, the same,<T asd> {[bowing]}<T verse> your            +
 112B servant.<S KATHERINE> O, my lord,
 113  The times and titles now are altered strangely
 114  With me since first you knew me. But I pray you,
 115B What is your pleasure with me?<S CAPUTIUS> Noble lady,
 116  First mine own service to your grace; the next,
 117  The King's request that I would visit you,
 118  Who grieves much for your weakness, and by me
 119  Sends you his princely commendations,
 120  And heartily entreats you take good comfort.
 121  <S KATHERINE> O, my good lord, that comfort comes too late,
 122  'Tis like a pardon after execution.
 123  That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me;
 124  But now I am past all comforts here but prayers.
 125B How does his highness?<S CAPUTIUS> Madam, in good health.
 126  <S KATHERINE> So may he ever do, and ever flourish
 127  When I shall dwell with worms, and my poor name
 128  Banished the kingdom.<T asd> {(To her woman)}<T verse> Patience, is      +
 128  that letter
 129B I caused you write yet sent away?<S PATIENCE> No, madam.
 130  <S KATHERINE> <T asd> {(to Caputius)}<T verse> Sir, I most humbly pray   +
 130  you to deliver
 131B This to my lord the King.<T dsd> {The letter is given to                 +
 131B Caputius}<S CAPUTIUS> <T verse> Most willing, madam.
 132  <S KATHERINE> In which I have commended to his goodness
 133  The model of our chaste loves, his young daughter_
 134  The dews of heaven fall thick in blessings on her_
 135  Beseeching him to give her virtuous breeding.
 136  She is young, and of a noble modest nature.
 137  I hope she will deserve well_and a little
 138  To love her for her mother's sake, that loved him,
 139  Heaven knows how dearly. My next poor petition
 140  Is that his noble grace would have some pity
 141  Upon my wretched women, that so long
 142  Have followed both my fortunes faithfully;
 143  Of which there is not one, I dare avow_
 144  And now I should not lie_but will deserve,
 145  For virtue and true beauty of the soul,
 146  For honesty and decent carriage,
 147  A right good husband. Let him be a noble,
 148  And sure those men are happy that shall have 'em.
 149  The last is for my men_they are the poorest,
 150  But poverty could never draw 'em from me_
 151  That they may have their wages duly paid 'em,
 152  And something over to remember me by.
 153  If heaven had pleased to have given me longer life,
 154  And able means, we had not parted thus.
 155  These are the whole contents; and, good my lord,
 156  By that you love the dearest in this world,
 157  As you wish Christian peace to souls departed,
 158  Stand these poor people's friend and urge the King
 159B To do me this last rite.<S CAPUTIUS> By heaven I will,
 160  Or let me lose the fashion of a man.
 161  <S KATHERINE> I thank you, honest lord. Remember me
 162  In all humility unto his highness.
 163  Say his long trouble now is passing
 164  Out of this world. Tell him, in death I blessed him,
 165  For so I will. Mine eyes grow dim. Farewell,
 166B My lord. Griffith, farewell.<T asd> {(To her woman)}<T verse> Nay,       +
 166B Patience,
 167  You must not leave me yet. I must to bed.
 168  Call in more women. When I am dead, good wench,
 169  Let me be used with honour. Strew me over
 170  With maiden flowers, that all the world may know
 171  I was a chaste wife to my grave. Embalm me,
 172  Then lay me forth. Although unqueened, yet like
 173  A queen and daughter to a king inter me.
 174  I can no more.<T esd> {Exeunt [Caputius and Griffith at one door;        +
 174  Patience] leading Katherine [at another]}
 174  [[ACT INTERVAL]]
   0  <A Shakespeare>
   0  <X 5> <Y 1> <T dsd> {Enter [at one door] Gardiner, Bishop of             +
   0  Winchester; before him, a Page with a torch}
   1B <S GARDINER> <T verse> It's one o'clock, boy, is 't not?<S PAGE> It      +
   1B hath struck.
   2  <S GARDINER> These should be hours for necessities,
   3  Not for delights; times to repair our nature
   4  With comforting repose, and not for us
   5B To waste these times.<T dsd> {Enter [at another door] Sir Thomas         +
   5B Lovell, meeting them}<T verse> Good hour of night, Sir Thomas!
   6B Whither so late?<S LOVELL> Came you from the King, my lord?
   7  <S GARDINER> I did, Sir Thomas, and left him at primero
   8B With the Duke of Suffolk.<S LOVELL> I must to him too,
   9  Before he go to bed. I'll take my leave.
  10  <S GARDINER> Not yet, Sir Thomas Lovell_what's the matter?
  11  It seems you are in haste. An if there be
  12  No great offence belongs to 't, give your friend
  13  Some touch of your late business. Affairs that walk,
  14  As they say spirits do, at midnight, have
  15  In them a wilder nature than the business
  16B That seeks dispatch by day.<S LOVELL> My lord, I love you,
  17  And durst commend a secret to your ear
  18  Much weightier than this work. The Queen's in labour_
  19  They say in great extremity_and feared
  20B She'll with the labour end.<S GARDINER> The fruit she goes with
  21  I pray for heartily, that it may find
  22  Good time, and live. But, for the stock, Sir Thomas,
  23B I wish it grubbed up now.<S LOVELL> Methinks I could
  24  Cry the amen, and yet my conscience says
  25  She's a good creature and, sweet lady, does
  26B Deserve our better wishes.<S GARDINER> But sir, sir,
  27  Hear me, Sir Thomas. You're a gentleman
  28  Of mine own way. I know you wise, religious.
  29  And let me tell you, it will ne'er be well_
  30  'Twill not, Sir Thomas Lovell, take 't of me_
  31  Till Cranmer, Cromwell_her two hands_and she,
  32B Sleep in their graves.<S LOVELL> Now, sir, you speak of two
  33  The most remarked i' th' kingdom. As for Cromwell,
  34  Beside that of the Jewel House is made Master
  35  O' th' Rolls and the King's secretary. Further, sir,
  36  Stands in the gap and trade of more preferments
  37  With which the time will load him. Th' Archbishop
  38  Is the King's hand and tongue, and who dare speak
  39B One syllable against him?<S GARDINER> Yes, yes, Sir Thomas_
  40  There are that dare, and I myself have ventured
  41  To speak my mind of him, and, indeed, this day,
  42  Sir_I may tell it you, I think_I have
  43  Incensed the lords o' th' Council that he is_
  44  For so I know he is, they know he is_
  45  A most arch heretic, a pestilence
  46  That does infect the land; with which they, moved,
  47  Have broken with the King, who hath so far
  48  Given ear to our complaint, of his great grace
  49  And princely care, foreseeing those fell mischiefs
  50  Our reasons laid before him, hath commanded
  51  Tomorrow morning to the Council board
  52  He be convented. He's a rank weed, Sir Thomas,
  53  And we must root him out. From your affairs
  54  I hinder you too long. Good night, Sir Thomas.
  55  <S LOVELL> Many good nights, my lord; I rest your servant.<T esd>        +
  55  {Exeunt Gardiner and Page at one door}
  56  <T dsd> {Enter King Henry and Suffolk at another door}<S KING HENRY>     +
  56  <T asd> {(to Suffolk)}<T verse> Charles, I will play no more tonight.
  57  My mind's not on 't. You are too hard for me.
  58  <S SUFFOLK> Sir, I did never win of you before.
  59A <S KING HENRY> But little, Charles,
  60  Nor shall not when my fancy's on my play.
  61  Now, Lovell, from the Queen what is the news?
  62  <S LOVELL> I could not personally deliver to her
  63  What you commanded me, but by her woman
  64  I sent your message, who returned her thanks
  65  In the great'st humbleness, and desired your highness
  66B Most heartily to pray for her.<S KING HENRY> What sayst thou? Ha?
  67  To pray for her? What, is she crying out?
  68  <S LOVELL> So said her woman, and that her suffrance made
  69B Almost each pang a death.<S KING HENRY> Alas, good lady.
  70  <S SUFFOLK> God safely quit her of her burden, and
  71  With gentle travail, to the gladding of
  72B Your highness with an heir.<S KING HENRY> 'Tis midnight, Charles.
  73  Prithee to bed, and in thy prayers remember
  74  Th' estate of my poor queen. Leave me alone,
  75  For I must think of that which company
  76B Would not be friendly to.<S SUFFOLK> I wish your highness
  77  A quiet night, and my good mistress will
  78B Remember in my prayers.<S KING HENRY> Charles, good night.<T esd> {Exit  +
  78B Suffolk}
  79  <T dsd> {Enter Sir Anthony Denny}<T verse> Well, sir, what follows?
  80  <S DENNY> Sir, I have brought my lord the Archbishop,
  81B As you commanded me.<S KING HENRY> Ha, Canterbury?
  82B <S DENNY> Ay, my good lord.<S KING HENRY> 'Tis true_where is he, Denny?
  83B <S DENNY> He attends your highness' pleasure.<S KING HENRY> Bring him    +
  83B to us.<T esd> {Exit Denny}
  84  <S LOVELL> <T asd> {(aside)}<T verse> This is about that which the       +
  84  Bishop spake.
  85  I am happily come hither.<T dsd> {Enter Cranmer the Archbishop, ushered  +
  85  by Denny}
  86A <S KING HENRY> <T asd> {(to Lovell and Denny)}<T verse> Avoid the        +
  86A gallery.<T dsd> {[Denny begins to depart.] Lovell seems to stay}
  87  <T verse> Ha? I have said. Be gone.
  88B What?<T esd> {Exeunt Lovell and Denny}<S CRANMER> <T asd>                +
  88B {(aside)}<T verse> I am fearful. Wherefore frowns he thus?
  89  'Tis his aspect of terror. All's not well.
  90  <S KING HENRY> How now, my lord? You do desire to know
  91B Wherefore I sent for you.<S CRANMER> <T asd> {(kneeling)}<T verse> It    +
  91B is my duty
  92B T' attend your highness' pleasure.<S KING HENRY> Pray you, arise,
  93  My good and gracious Lord of Canterbury.
  94  Come, you and I must walk a turn together.
  95  I have news to tell you. Come, come_give me your hand.<T dsd> {[Cranmer  +
  95  rises. They walk]}
  96  <T verse> Ah, my good lord, I grieve at what I speak,
  97  And am right sorry to repeat what follows.
  98  I have, and most unwillingly, of late
  99  Heard many grievous_I do say, my lord,
 100  Grievous_complaints of you, which, being considered,
 101  Have moved us and our Council that you shall
 102  This morning come before us, where I know
 103  You cannot with such freedom purge yourself
 104  But that, till further trial in those charges
 105  Which will require your answer, you must take
 106  Your patience to you, and be well contented
 107  To make your house our Tower. You a brother of us,
 108  It fits we thus proceed, or else no witness
 109B Would come against you.<S CRANMER> <T asd> {(kneeling)}<T verse> I       +
 109B humbly thank your highness,
 110  And am right glad to catch this good occasion
 111  Most throughly to be winnowed, where my chaff
 112  And corn shall fly asunder. For I know
 113  There's none stands under more calumnious tongues
 114B Than I myself, poor man.<S KING HENRY> Stand up, good Canterbury.
 115  Thy truth and thy integrity is rooted
 116  In us, thy friend. Give me thy hand. Stand up.
 117B Prithee, let's walk.<T dsd> {Cranmer rises. They walk}<T verse> Now, by  +
 117B my halidom,
 118  What manner of man are you? My lord, I looked
 119  You would have given me your petition that
 120  I should have ta'en some pains to bring together
 121  Yourself and your accusers, and to have heard you
 122B Without indurance further.<S CRANMER> Most dread liege,
 123  The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.
 124  If they shall fail, I with mine enemies
 125  Will triumph o'er my person, which I weigh not,
 126  Being of those virtues vacant. I fear nothing
 127B What can be said against me.<S KING HENRY> Know you not
 128  How your state stands i' th' world, with the whole world?
 129  Your enemies are many, and not small; their practices
 130  Must bear the same proportion, and not ever
 131  The justice and the truth o' th' question carries
 132  The dew o' th' verdict with it. At what ease
 133  Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt
 134  To swear against you? Such things have been done.
 135  You are potently opposed, and with a malice
 136  Of as great size. Ween you of better luck,
 137  I mean in perjured witness, than your master,
 138  Whose minister you are, whiles here he lived
 139  Upon this naughty earth? Go to, go to.
 140  You take a precipice for no leap of danger,
 141B And woo your own destruction.<S CRANMER> God and your majesty
 142  Protect mine innocence, or I fall into
 143B The trap is laid for me.<S KING HENRY> Be of good cheer.
 144  They shall no more prevail than we give way to.
 145  Keep comfort to you, and this morning see
 146  You do appear before them. If they shall chance,
 147  In charging you with matters, to commit you,
 148  The best persuasions to the contrary
 149  Fail not to use, and with what vehemency
 150  Th' occasion shall instruct you. If entreaties
 151  Will render you no remedy,<T asd> {[giving his ring]}<T verse> this      +
 151  ring
 152  Deliver them, and your appeal to us
 153B There make before them.<T dsd> {Cranmer weeps}<T verse> Look, the good   +
 153B man weeps.
 154  He's honest, on mine honour. God's blest mother,
 155  I swear he is true-hearted, and a soul
 156  None better in my kingdom. Get you gone,
 157B And do as I have bid you.<T esd> {Exit Cranmer}<T verse> He has          +
 157B strangled
 158B His language in his tears.<T dsd> {Enter the Old Lady}<S [LOVELL]>       +
 158B <T asd> {(within)}<T verse> Come back! What mean you?<T dsd> {[Enter     +
 158B Lovell, following her]}
 159  <S OLD LADY> <T verse> I'll not come back. The tidings that I bring
 160  Will make my boldness manners.<T asd> {(To the King)}<T verse> Now good  +
 160  angels
 161  Fly o'er thy royal head, and shade thy person
 162B Under their blesse\d wings.<S KING HENRY> Now by thy looks
 163  I guess thy message. Is the Queen delivered?
 164B Say, `Ay, and of a boy."<S OLD LADY> Ay, ay, my liege,
 165  And of a lovely boy. The God of heaven
 166  Both now and ever bless her! 'Tis a girl
 167  Promises boys hereafter. Sir, your queen
 168  Desires your visitation, and to be
 169  Acquainted with this stranger. 'Tis as like you
 170B As cherry is to cherry.<S KING HENRY> Lovell_<S LOVELL> Sir?
 171  <S KING HENRY> Give her an hundred marks. I'll to the Queen.<T esd>      +
 171  {Exit}
 172  <S OLD LADY> <T verse> An hundred marks? By this light, I'll ha' more.
 173  An ordinary groom is for such payment.
 174  I will have more, or scold it out of him.
 175  Said I for this the girl was like to him? I'll
 176  Have more, or else unsay 't; and now, while 'tis hot,
 177  I'll put it to the issue.<T esd> {Exeunt}
   0  <A Fletcher>
   0  <Y 2> <T dsd> {Enter [pursuivants, pages, footboys, and grooms. Then     +
   0  enter] Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury}
   1  <S CRANMER> <T verse> I hope I am not too late, and yet the gentleman
   2  That was sent to me from the council prayed me
   3  To make great haste. All fast? What means this?<T asd> { (Calling at     +
   3  the door)}<T verse> Ho!
   4B Who waits there?<T dsd> {Enter a Doorkeeper}<T verse> Sure you know      +
   4B me?<S DOORKEEPER> Yes, my lord,
   5B But yet I cannot help you.<S CRANMER> Why?<T dsd> {[Enter Doctor Butts,  +
   5B passing over the stage]}
   6B <S DOORKEEPER> <T verse> Your grace must wait till you be called         +
   6B for.<S CRANMER> So.
   7  <S BUTTS> <T asd> {(aside)}<T verse> This is a piece of malice. I am     +
   7  glad
   8  I came this way so happily. The King
   9B Shall understand it presently.<T esd> {Exit}<S CRANMER> <T asd>          +
   9B {(aside)}<T verse> 'Tis Butts,
  10  The King's physician. As he passed along
  11  How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me!
  12  Pray heaven he found not my disgrace. For certain
  13  This is of purpose laid by some that hate me_
  14  God turn their hearts, I never sought their malice_
  15  To quench mine honour. They would shame to make me
  16  Wait else at door, a fellow Councillor,
  17  'Mong boys, grooms, and lackeys. But their pleasures
  18  Must be fulfilled, and I attend with patience.<T dsd> {Enter King Henry  +
  18  and Doctor Butts at a window, above}
  19B <S BUTTS> <T verse> I'll show your grace the strangest sight_            +
  19B <S KING HENRY> What's that, Butts?
  20  <S BUTTS> I think your highness saw this many a day.
  21B <S KING HENRY> Body o' me, where is it?<S BUTTS> <T asd> {(pointing at   +
  21B Cranmer, below)}<T verse> There, my lord.
  22  The high promotion of his grace of Canterbury,
  23  Who holds his state at door, 'mongst pursuivants,
  24B Pages, and footboys.<S KING HENRY> Ha? 'Tis he indeed.
  25  Is this the honour they do one another?
  26  'Tis well there's one above 'em yet. I had thought
  27  They had parted so much honesty among 'em_
  28  At least good manners_as not thus to suffer
  29  A man of his place and so near our favour
  30  To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures,
  31  And at the door, too, like a post with packets!
  32  By holy Mary, Butts, there's knavery!
  33  Let 'em alone, and draw the curtain close.
  34  We shall hear more anon.<T esd> {[Cranmer and the doorkeeper stand to    +
  34  one side. Exeunt the lackeys]}
  35  <T dsd> {Above, Butts [partly] draws the curtain close. Below, a         +
  35  council table is brought in along with chairs and stools, and placed     +
  35  under the cloth of state. Enter the Lord Chancellor, who places himself  +
  35  at the upper end of the table, on the left hand, leaving a seat void     +
  35  above him at the table's head as for Canterbury's seat. The Duke of      +
  35  Suffolk, the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Surrey, the Lord               +
  35  Chamberlain, and Gardiner, the Bishop of Winchester, seat themselves     +
  35  in order on each side of the table. Cromwell sits at the lower end, and  +
  35  acts as secretary}<S LORD CHANCELLOR> <T asd> {(to Cromwell)}<T verse>   +
  35  Speak to the business, master secretary.
  36B Why are we met in council?<S CROMWELL> Please your honours,
  37  The chief cause concerns his grace of Canterbury.
  38B <S GARDINER> Has he had knowledge of it?<S CROMWELL> Yes.<S NORFOLK>     +
  38B <T asd> {(to the Doorkeeper)}<T verse> Who waits there?
  39B <S DOORKEEPER> <T asd> {[coming forward]}<T verse> Without, my noble     +
  39B lords?<S GARDINER> Yes.<S DOORKEEPER> My lord Archbishop;
  40  And has done half an hour, to know your pleasures.
  41B <S LORD CHANCELLOR> Let him come in.<S DOORKEEPER> <T asd> {(to          +
  41B Cranmer)}<T verse> Your grace may enter now.<T dsd> {Cranmer approaches  +
  41B the Council table}
  42  <S LORD CHANCELLOR> <T verse> My good lord Archbishop, I'm very sorry
  43  To sit here at this present and behold
  44  That chair stand empty, but we all are men
  45  In our own natures frail, and capable
  46  Of our flesh; few are angels; out of which frailty
  47  And want of wisdom, you, that best should teach us,
  48  Have misdemeaned yourself, and not a little,
  49  Toward the King first, then his laws, in filling
  50  The whole realm, by your teaching and your chaplains'_
  51  For so we are informed_with new opinions,
  52  Diverse and dangerous, which are heresies,
  53  And, not reformed, may prove pernicious.
  54  <S GARDINER> Which reformation must be sudden too,
  55  My noble lords; for those that tame wild horses
  56  Pace 'em not in their hands to make 'em gentle,
  57  But stop their mouths with stubborn bits and spur 'em
  58  Till they obey the mane\ge. If we suffer,
  59  Out of our easiness and childish pity
  60  To one man's honour, this contagious sickness,
  61  Farewell all physic_and what follows then?
  62  Commotions, uproars_with a general taint
  63  Of the whole state, as of late days our neighbours,
  64  The upper Germany, can dearly witness,
  65  Yet freshly pitied in our memories.
  66  <S CRANMER> My good lords, hitherto in all the progress
  67  Both of my life and office, I have laboured,
  68  And with no little study, that my teaching
  69  And the strong course of my authority
  70  Might go one way, and safely; and the end
  71  Was ever to do well. Nor is there living_
  72  I speak it with a single heart, my lords_
  73  A man that more detests, more stirs against,
  74  Both in his private conscience and his place,
  75  Defacers of a public peace than I do.
  76  Pray heaven the King may never find a heart
  77  With less allegiance in it. Men that make
  78  Envy and crooked malice nourishment
  79  Dare bite the best. I do beseech your lordships
  80  That, in this case of justice, my accusers,
  81  Be what they will, may stand forth face to face,
  82B And freely urge against me.<S SUFFOLK> Nay, my lord,
  83  That cannot be. You are a Councillor,
  84  And by that virtue no man dare accuse you.
  85  <S GARDINER> <T asd> {(to Cranmer)}<T verse> My lord, because we have    +
  85  business of more moment,
  86  We will be short with you. 'Tis his highness' pleasure
  87  And our consent, for better trial of you,
  88  From hence you be committed to the Tower
  89  Where, being but a private man again,
  90  You shall know many dare accuse you boldly,
  91  More than, I fear, you are provided for.
  92  <S CRANMER> Ah, my good lord of Winchester, I thank you.
  93  You are always my good friend. If your will pass,
  94  I shall both find your lordship judge and juror,
  95  You are so merciful. I see your end_
  96  'Tis my undoing. Love and meekness, lord,
  97  Become a churchman better than ambition.
  98  Win straying souls with modesty again;
  99  Cast none away. That I shall clear myself,
 100  Lay all the weight ye can upon my patience,
 101  I make as little doubt as you do conscience
 102  In doing daily wrongs. I could say more,
 103  But reverence to your calling makes me modest.
 104  <S GARDINER> My lord, my lord_you are a sectary,
 105  That's the plain truth. Your painted gloss discovers,
 106  To men that understand you, words and weakness.
 107  <S CROMWELL> <T asd> {(to Gardiner)}<T verse> My lord of Winchester,     +
 107  you're a little,
 108  By your good favour, too sharp. Men so noble,
 109  However faulty, yet should find respect
 110  For what they have been. 'Tis a cruelty
 111B To load a falling man.<S GARDINER> Good master secretary,
 112  I cry your honour mercy. You may worst
 113B Of all this table say so.<S CROMWELL> Why, my lord?
 114  <S GARDINER> Do not I know you for a favourer
 115B Of this new sect? Ye are not sound.<S CROMWELL> Not sound?
 116B <S GARDINER> Not sound, I say.<S CROMWELL> Would you were half so        +
 116B honest!
 117  Men's prayers then would seek you, not their fears.
 118B <S GARDINER> I shall remember this bold language.<S CROMWELL> Do.
 119B Remember your bold life, too.<S LORD CHANCELLOR> This is too much.
 120B Forbear, for shame, my lords.<S GARDINER> I have done.<S CROMWELL> And   +
 120B I.
 121  <S LORD CHANCELLOR> <T asd> {(to Cranmer)}<T verse> Then thus for you,   +
 121  my lord. It stands agreed,
 122  I take it, by all voices, that forthwith
 123  You be conveyed to th' Tower a prisoner,
 124  There to remain till the King's further pleasure
 125  Be known unto us. Are you all agreed, lords?
 126B <S ALL THE COUNCIL> We are.<S CRANMER> Is there no other way of mercy,
 127B But I must needs to th' Tower, my lords?<S GARDINER> What other
 128  Would you expect? You are strangely troublesome.
 129B Let some o' th' guard be ready there.<T dsd> {Enter the guard}           +
 129B  <S CRANMER> <T verse> For me?
 130B Must I go like a traitor thither?<S GARDINER> <T asd> {(to the           +
 130B guard)}<T verse> Receive him,
 131B And see him safe i' th' Tower.<S CRANMER> Stay, good my lords.
 132  I have a little yet to say. Look there, my lords_<T dsd> {He shows the   +
 132  King's ring}
 133  <T verse> By virtue of that ring I take my cause
 134  Out of the grips of cruel men, and give it
 135  To a most noble judge, the King my master.
 136B <S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> This is the King's ring.<S SURREY> 'Tis no          +
 136B counterfeit.
 137  <S SUFFOLK> 'Tis the right ring, by heav'n. I told ye all
 138  When we first put this dangerous stone a-rolling
 139B 'Twould fall upon ourselves.<S NORFOLK> Do you think, my lords,
 140  The King will suffer but the little finger
 141B Of this man to be vexed?<S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> 'Tis now too certain.
 142  How much more is his life in value with him!
 143B Would I were fairly out on 't.<T esd> {[Exit King with Butts             +
 143B above]}<S CROMWELL> <T verse> My mind gave me,
 144  In seeking tales and informations
 145  Against this man, whose honesty the devil
 146  And his disciples only envy at,
 147  Ye blew the fire that burns ye. Now have at ye!<T dsd> {Enter, below,    +
 147  King Henry frowning on them. He takes his seat}
 148  <S GARDINER> <T verse> Dread sovereign, how much are we bound to heaven
 149  In daily thanks, that gave us such a prince,
 150  Not only good and wise, but most religious.
 151  One that in all obedience makes the church
 152  The chief aim of his honour, and, to strengthen
 153  That holy duty, out of dear respect,
 154  His royal self in judgement comes to hear
 155  The cause betwixt her and this great offender.
 156  <S KING HENRY> You were ever good at sudden commendations,
 157  Bishop of Winchester. But know I come not
 158  To hear such flattery now; and in my presence
 159  They are too thin and base to hide offences.
 160  To me you cannot reach. You play the spaniel,
 161  And think with wagging of your tongue to win me.
 162  But whatsoe'er thou tak'st me for, I'm sure
 163  Thou hast a cruel nature and a bloody.
 164B <T asd> {(To Cranmer)}<T verse> Good man, sit down.<T dsd> {Cranmer      +
 164B takes his seat at the head of the Council table}<T verse> Now let me     +
 164B see the proudest,
 165  He that dares most, but wag his finger at thee.
 166  By all that's holy, he had better starve
 167  Than but once think this place becomes thee not.
 168B <S SURREY> May it please your grace_<S KING HENRY> No, sir, it does not  +
 168B please me!
 169  I had thought I had had men of some understanding
 170  And wisdom of my Council, but I find none.
 171  Was it discretion, lords, to let this man,
 172  This good man_few of you deserve that title_
 173  This honest man, wait like a lousy footboy
 174  At chamber door? And one as great as you are?
 175  Why, what a shame was this! Did my commission
 176  Bid ye so far forget yourselves? I gave ye
 177  Power as he was a Councillor to try him,
 178  Not as a groom. There's some of ye, I see,
 179  More out of malice than integrity,
 180  Would try him to the utmost, had ye mean;
 181B Which ye shall never have while I live.<S LORD CHANCELLOR> Thus far,
 182  My most dread sovereign, may it like your grace
 183  To let my tongue excuse all. What was purposed
 184  Concerning his imprisonment was rather_
 185  If there be faith in men_meant for his trial
 186  And fair purgation to the world than malice,
 187B I'm sure, in me.<S KING HENRY> Well, well, my lords_respect him.
 188  Take him and use him well, he's worthy of it.
 189  I will say thus much for him_if a prince
 190  May be beholden to a subject, I
 191  Am for his love and service so to him.
 192  Make me no more ado, but all embrace him.
 193  Be friends, for shame, my lords.<T asd> {(To Cranmer)}<T verse> My lord  +
 193  of Canterbury,
 194  I have a suit which you must not deny me:
 195  That is a fair young maid that yet wants baptism_
 196  You must be godfather, and answer for her.
 197  <S CRANMER> The greatest monarch now alive may glory
 198  In such an honour; how may I deserve it,
 199  That am a poor and humble subject to you?
 200  <S KING HENRY> <T prose> Come, come, my lord_you'd spare your
 201  spoons. You shall have two noble partners with you_
 202  the old Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Marquis Dorset.
 203  Will these please you?
 204  <T asd> {(To Gardiner)}<T verse> Once more, my lord of Winchester, I     +
 204  charge you
 205B Embrace and love this man.<S GARDINER> With a true heart
 206B And brother-love I do it.<T dsd> {[Gardiner and Cranmer                  +
 206B embrace]}<S CRANMER> <T asd> {(weeping)}<T verse> And let heaven
 207  Witness how dear I hold this confirmation.
 208  <S KING HENRY> Good man, those joyful tears show thy true heart.
 209  The common voice, I see, is verified
 210  Of thee which says thus, `Do my lord of Canterbury
 211  A shrewd turn, and he's your friend for ever."
 212  Come, lords, we trifle time away. I long
 213  To have this young one made a Christian.
 214  As I have made ye one, lords, one remain_
 215  So I grow stronger, you more honour gain.<T esd> {Exeunt}
   0  <Y 3> <T dsd> {Noise and tumult within. Enter Porter [with rushes] and   +
   0  his man [with a broken cudgel]}
   1  <S PORTER> <T asd> {(to those within)}<T verse> You'll leave your noise  +
   1  anon, ye rascals. Do you take
   2  The court for Paris Garden, ye rude slaves?
   3  Leave your gaping.
   4  <S ONE> <T asd> {(within)}<T verse> Good master porter, I belong to th'  +
   4  larder.
   5  <S PORTER> Belong to th' gallows, and be hanged, ye rogue!
   6  Is this a place to roar in?
   7  <T asd> {(To his man)}<T verse> Fetch me a dozen crab-tree staves, and   +
   7  strong ones,
   8B <T asd> {[Raising his rushes]}<T verse> These are but switches to        +
   8B 'em.<T asd> {(To those within)}<T verse> I'll scratch your heads.
   9  You must be seeing christenings? Do you look
  10  For ale and cakes here, you rude rascals?
  11  <S MAN> Pray, sir, be patient. 'Tis as much impossible,
  12  Unless we sweep 'em from the door with cannons,
  13  To scatter 'em as 'tis to make 'em sleep
  14  On May-day morning_which will never be.
  15  We may as well push against Paul's as stir 'em.
  16A <S PORTER> How got they in, and be hanged?
  17  <S MAN> Alas, I know not. How gets the tide in?
  18  As much as one sound cudgel of four foot_<T dsd> {He raises his cudgel}
  19  <T verse> You see the poor remainder_could distribute,
  20B I made no spare, sir.<S PORTER> You did nothing, sir.
  21  <S MAN> I am not Samson, nor Sir Guy, nor Colbrand,
  22  To mow 'em down before me; but if I spared any
  23  That had a head to hit, either young or old,
  24  He or she, cuckold or cuckold-maker,
  25  Let me ne'er hope to see a chine again_
  26  And that I would not for a cow, God save her!
  27A <S ONE> <T asd> {(within)}<T verse> Do you hear, master porter?
  28  <S PORTER> I shall be with you presently,
  29  Good master puppy.<T asd> {(To his man)}<T verse> Keep the door close,   +
  29  sirrah.
  30B <S MAN> What would you have me do?<S PORTER> What should you do,
  31  <T prose> but knock 'em down by th' dozens? Is this Moorfields
  32  to muster in? Or have we some strange Indian with
  33  the great tool come to court, the women so besiege us?
  34  Bless me, what a fry of fornication is at door! On my
  35  Christian conscience, this one christening will beget a
  36  thousand. Here will be father, godfather, and all
  37  together.
  38  <S MAN> The spoons will be the bigger, sir. There is a fellow
  39  somewhat near the door, he should be a brazier by his
  40  face, for o' my conscience twenty of the dog-days now
  41  reign in 's nose. All that stand about him are under the
  42  line_they need no other penance. That fire-drake did
  43  I hit three times on the head, and three times was his
  44  nose discharged against me. He stands there like a
  45  mortar-piece, to blow us. There was a haberdasher's
  46  wife of small wit near him, that railed upon me till her
  47  pinked porringer fell off her head, for kindling such a
  48  combustion in the state. I missed the meteor once, and
  49  hit that woman, who cried out `Clubs!", when I might
  50  see from far some forty truncheoners draw to her
  51  succour, which were the hope o' th' Strand, where she
  52  was quartered. They fell on. I made good my place. At
  53  length they came to th' broomstaff to me. I defied 'em
  54  still, when suddenly a file of boys behind 'em, loose
  55  shot, delivered such a shower of pebbles that I was fain
  56  to draw mine honour in and let 'em win the work. The
  57  devil was amongst 'em, I think, surely.
  58  <S PORTER> These are the youths that thunder at a playhouse,
  59  and fight for bitten apples, that no audience but the
  60  tribulation of Tower Hill or the limbs of Limehouse,
  61  their dear brothers, are able to endure. I have some of
  62  'em in {limbo patrum}, and there they are like to dance
  63  these three days, besides the running banquet of two
  64  beadles that is to come.<T dsd> {Enter the Lord Chamberlain}
  65  <S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> <T verse> Mercy o' me, what a multitude are here!
  66  They grow still, too_from all parts they are coming,
  67  As if we kept a fair here! Where are these porters,
  68  These lazy knaves?<T asd> {(To the Porter and his man)}<T verse> You've  +
  68  made a fine hand, fellows!
  69  There's a trim rabble let in_are all these
  70  Your faithful friends o' th' suburbs? We shall have
  71  Great store of room, no doubt, left for the ladies
  72B When they pass back from the christening!<S PORTER> An 't please your    +
  72B honour,
  73  We are but men, and what so many may do,
  74  Not being torn a-pieces, we have done.
  75B An army cannot rule 'em.<S LORD CHAMBERLAIN> As I live,
  76  If the King blame me for 't, I'll lay ye all
  77  By th' heels, and suddenly_and on your heads
  78  Clap round fines for neglect. You're lazy knaves,
  79  And here ye lie baiting of bombards when
  80B Ye should do service.<T dsd> {Flourish of trumpets within}<T verse>      +
  80B Hark, the trumpets sound.
  81  They're come, already, from the christening.
  82  Go break among the press, and find a way out
  83  To let the troop pass fairly, or I'll find
  84  A Marshalsea shall hold ye play these two months.<T dsd> {[As they       +
  84  leave, the Porter and his man call within]}
  85B <S PORTER> <T verse> Make way there for the Princess!<S MAN> You great   +
  85B fellow,
  86  Stand close up, or I'll make your head ache.
  87  <S PORTER> You i' th' camlet, get up o' th' rail_
  88  I'll peck you o'er the pales else.<T esd> {Exeunt}
   0  <Y 4> <T dsd> {Enter trumpeters, sounding. Then enter two aldermen, the  +
   0  Lord Mayor of London, Garter King-of-Arms, Cranmer the Archbishop of     +
   0  Canterbury, the Duke of Norfolk with his marshal's staff, the Duke       +
   0  of Suffolk, two noblemen bearing great standing bowls for the            +
   0  christening gifts; then enter four noblemen bearing a canopy, under      +
   0  which is the Duchess of Norfolk, godmother, bearing the                  +
   0  child Elizabeth richly habited in a mantle, whose train is borne by a    +
   0  lady. Then follows the Marchioness Dorset, the other godmother, and      +
   0  ladies. The troop pass once about the stage and Garter speaks}
   1  <S GARTER> <T prose> Heaven, from thy endless goodness send
   2  prosperous life, long, and ever happy, to the high and
   3  mighty Princess of England, Elizabeth.<T dsd> {Flourish. Enter King      +
   3  Henry and guard}
   4  <S CRANMER> <T asd> {(kneeling)}<T verse> And to your royal grace, and   +
   4  the good Queen!
   5  My noble partners and myself thus pray
   6  All comfort, joy, in this most gracious lady,
   7  Heaven ever laid up to make parents happy,
   8B May hourly fall upon ye.<S KING HENRY> Thank you, good lord Archbishop.
   9B What is her name?<S CRANMER> Elizabeth.<S KING HENRY> Stand up,          +
   9B lord.<T dsd> {Cranmer rises}
  10B <T asd> {(To the child)}<T verse> With this kiss take my                 +
  10B blessing_<T dsd> {He kisses the child}<T verse> God protect thee,
  11B Into whose hand I give thy life.<S CRANMER> Amen.
  12  <S KING HENRY> <T asd> {(to Cranmer, old Duchess, and                    +
  12  Marchioness)}<T verse> My noble gossips, you've been too prodigal.
  13  I thank ye heartily. So shall this lady,
  14B When she has so much English.<S CRANMER> Let me speak, sir,
  15  For heaven now bids me, and the words I utter
  16  Let none think flattery, for they'll find 'em truth.
  17  This royal infant_heaven still move about her_
  18  Though in her cradle, yet now promises
  19  Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings
  20  Which time shall bring to ripeness. She shall be_
  21  But few now living can behold that goodness_
  22  A pattern to all princes living with her,
  23  And all that shall succeed. Saba was never
  24  More covetous of wisdom and fair virtue
  25  Than this pure soul shall be. All princely graces
  26  That mould up such a mighty piece as this is,
  27  With all the virtues that attend the good,
  28  Shall still be doubled on her. Truth shall nurse her,
  29  Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her.
  30  She shall be loved and feared. Her own shall bless her;
  31  Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn,
  32  And hang their heads with sorrow. Good grows with her.
  33  In her days every man shall eat in safety
  34  Under his own vine what he plants, and sing
  35  The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours.
  36  God shall be truly known, and those about her
  37  From her shall read the perfect ways of honour,
  38  And by those claim their greatness, not by blood.
  39  Nor shall this peace sleep with her, but, as when
  40  The bird of wonder dies_the maiden phoenix_
  41  Her ashes new create another heir
  42  As great in admiration as herself,
  43  So shall she leave her blesse\dness to one,
  44  When heaven shall call her from this cloud of darkness,
  45  Who from the sacred ashes of her honour
  46  Shall star-like rise as great in fame as she was,
  47  And so stand fixed. Peace, plenty, love, truth, terror,
  48  That were the servants to this chosen infant,
  49  Shall then be his, and, like a vine, grow to him.
  50  Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine,
  51  His honour and the greatness of his name
  52  Shall be, and make new nations. He shall flourish,
  53  And like a mountain cedar reach his branches
  54  To all the plains about him. Our children's children
  55B Shall see this, and bless heaven.<S KING HENRY> Thou speakest wonders.
  56  <S CRANMER> She shall be, to the happiness of England,
  57  An age\d princess. Many days shall see her,
  58  And yet no day without a deed to crown it.
  59  Would I had known no more. But she must die_
  60  She must, the saints must have her_yet a virgin,
  61  A most unspotted lily shall she pass
  62  To th' ground, and all the world shall mourn her.
  63A <S KING HENRY> O lord Archbishop,
  64  Thou hast made me now a man. Never before
  65  This happy child did I get anything.
  66  This oracle of comfort has so pleased me
  67  That when I am in heaven I shall desire
  68  To see what this child does, and praise my maker.
  69  I thank ye all. To you, my good Lord Mayor,
  70  And your good brethren, I am much beholden.
  71  I have received much honour by your presence,
  72  And ye shall find me thankful. Lead the way, lords.
  73  Ye must all see the Queen, and she must thank ye.
  74  She will be sick else. This day, no man think
  75  He's business at his house, for all shall stay_
  76  This little one shall make it holiday.<T esd> {[Flourish.] Exeunt}
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   0  <X > <Y Ep> <T dsd> {Enter Epilogue}
   1  <S EPILOGUE> <T verse> 'Tis ten to one this play can never please
   2  All that are here. Some come to take their ease,
   3  And sleep an act or two; but those, we fear,
   4  We've frighted with our trumpets; so, 'tis clear,
   5  They'll say 'tis naught. Others to hear the city
   6  Abused extremely, and to cry `That's witty!"_
   7  Which we have not done neither; that, I fear,
   8  All the expected good we're like to hear
   9  For this play at this time is only in
  10  The merciful construction of good women,
  11  For such a one we showed 'em. If they smile,
  12  And say `'Twill do", I know within a while
  13  All the best men are ours_for 'tis ill hap
  14  If they hold when their ladies bid 'em clap.<T esd> {Exit}
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