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<X Henry VIII -- by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher >
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<X Text from 1623 Shake. Folio (based on Norton Facsimile) >
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<X   T. B. Horton (1982 Univ. of Tennessee, revised '87 Univ. of Edinburgh) >

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<T H8>
<I Epi><Z THE  PROLOGUE.>
<L 2> I Come no more to make you laugh, Things now,
<L 3> That beare a Weighty, and a Serious Brow,
<L 4> Sad, high, and working, full of State and woe:
<L 5> Such Noble Scoenes, as draw the Eye to flow
<L 6> We now present.  Those that can Pitty, heere
<L 7> May (if they thinke it well) let fall a Teare,
<L 8> The Subject will deserve it.  Such as give
<L 9> Their Money out of hope they may beleeve,
<L 10> May heere finde Truth too.  Those that come to see
<L 11> Onely a show or two, and so agree
<L 12> The Play may passe:  If they be still, and willing,
<L 13> Ile undertake may see away their shilling
<L 14> Richly in two short houres.  Onely they
<L 15> That come to heare a Merry, Bawdy Play,
<L 16> A noyse of Targets:  Or to see a Fellow
<L 17> In a long Motley Coate, garded with Yellow,
<L 18> Will be deceyv'd. For gentle Hearers, know
<L 19> To ranke our chosen Truth with such a show
<L 20> As Foole, and Fight is, beside forfeyting
<L 21> Our owne Braines, and the Opinion that we bring
<L 22> To make that onely true, we now intend,
<L 23> Will leave us never an understanding Friend.
<L 24> Therefore, for Goodnesse sake, and as you are knowne
<L 25> The First and Happiest Hearers of the Towne,
<L 26> Be sad, as we would make ye.  Thinke ye see
<L 27> The very Persons of our Noble Story,
<L 28> As they were Living:  Thinke you see them Great,
<L 29> And follow'd with the generall throng, and sweat
<L 30> Of thousand Friends:  Then, in a moment, see
<L 31> How soone this Mightinesse, meets Misery:
<L 32> And if you can be merry then, Ile Say,
<L 33> A Man may weepe upon his Wedding day.
<I 1.1><L 34><Z Actus Primus.  Scoena Prima.>
<L 35><D Enter the Duke of Norfolke at one doore.  At the other,>
<L 36><D the Duke of Buckingham, and the Lord>
<L 37><D Aburgavenny.>
<L 38><V 1><Q Buckingham.><S Buck.>
<L 39> Good morrow, and well met.  How have ye done
<L 40> Since last we saw in France?
<L 41><V 2><Q Norf.><S Norf.>  I thanke your Grace:
<L 42> Healthfull, and ever since a fresh Admirer
<L 43> Of what I saw there.
<L 44><V 4><Q Buck.><S Buck.>  An untimely Ague
<L 45> Staid me a Prisoner in my Chamber, when
<L 46> Those Sunnes of Glory, those two Lights of Men
<L 47> Met in the vale of Andren.
<L 48><V 7><Q Nor.><S Nor.> 'Twixt Guynes and Arde,
<L 49> I was then present, saw them salute on Horsebacke,
<L 50> Beheld them when they lighted, how they clung
<L 51> In their Embracement, as they grew together,
<L 52> Which had they,
<L 53> What foure Thron'd ones could have weigh'd
<L 54> Such a compounded one?
<L 55><V 12><Q Buck.><S Buck.> All the whole time
<L 56> I was my Chambers Prisoner.
<L 57><V 13><Q Nor.><S Nor.> Then you lost
<L 58> The view of earthly glory: Men might say
<L 59> Till this time Pompe was single, but now married
<L 60> To one above it selfe.  Each following day
<L 61> Became the next dayes master, till the last
<L 62> Made former Wonders, it's.  To day the French,
<L 63> All Clinquant all in Gold, like Heathen Gods
<L 64> Shown downe the English; and to morrow, they
<L 65> Made Britaine, India: Every man that flood,
<L 66> Shew'd like a Mine.  Their Dwarfish Pages were
<L 67> As Cherubins, all gilt: the Madams too,
<L 68> Not us'd to toyle, did almost sweat to beare
<L 69> The Pride upon them, that their very labour
<L 70> Was to them, as a Painting.  Now this Maske
<L 71> Was cry'de incompareable; and th' ensuing night
<L 72> Made it a Foole, and Begger.  The two Kings
<L 73> Equall in lustre, were now best, now worst
<L 74> As presence did present them: Him in eye,
<L 75> Still him in praise, and being present both,
<L 76> 'Twas said they saw but one, and no Discerner
<L 77> Durst wagge his Tongue in censure, when these Sunnes
<L 78> (For so they phrase 'em) by their Heralds challeng'd
<L 79> The Noble Spirits to Armes, they did performe
<L 80> Beyond thoughts Compasse, that former fabulous Storie
<L 81> Being now seene, possible enough, got credit
<L 82> That Bevis was beleev'd.
<L 83><V 38><Q Buc.><S Buck.> Oh you go farre.
<L 84><V 39><Q Nor.><S Nor.> As I belong to worship, and affect
<L 85> In Honor, Honesty, the tract of ev'rything,
<L 86> Would by a good Discourser loose some life,
<L 87> Which Actions selfe, was tongue too.
<L 88><V 42><Q Buc.><S Buck.> All was royall,
<L 89> To the disposing of it nought rebell'd,
<L 90> Order gave each thing view.  The Office did
<L 91> Distinctly his full Function: who did guide,
<L 92> I meane who set the Body, and the Limbes
<L 93> Of this great Sport together?
<L 94><V 47><Q Nor.><S Nor.> As you guesse:
<L 95> One certes, that promises no Element
<L 96> In such a businesse.
<L 97><V 49><Q Buc.><S Buck.> I pray you, my Lord?
<L 98><V 50><Q Nor.><S Nor.> All this was ordred by the good Discretion
<L 99> Of the right Reverend Cardinall of Yorke.
<L 100><V 52><Q Buc.><S Buck.> The divell speed him: No mans Pye is freed
<L 101> From his Ambitious finger.  What had he
<L 102> To do in these fierce Vanities?  I wonder,
<L 103> That such a Keech can with his very bulke
<L 104> Take up the Rayes o' th' beneficiall Sun,
<L 105> And keepe it from the Earth.
<L 106><V 57><Q Nor.><S Nor.> Surely Sir,
<L 107> There's in him stuffe, that put's him to these ends:
<L 108> For being not propt by Auncestry, whose grace
<L 109> Chalkes Successors their way; nor call'd upon
<L 110> For high feats done to' th' Crowne; neither Allied
<L 111> To eminent Assistants; but Spider-like
<L 112> Out of his Selfe-drawing Web.  O gives us note,
<L 113> The force of his owne merit makes his way
<L 114> A guift that heaven gives for him, which buyes
<L 115> A place next to the King.
<L 116><V 66><Q Abur.><S Aber.> I cannot tell
<L 117> What Heaven hath given him: let some Graver eye
<L 118> Pierce into that, but I can see his Pride
<L 119> Peepe through each part of him: whence ha's he that,
<L 120> If not from Hell? The Divell is a Niggard,
<L 121> Or ha's given all before, and he begins
<L 122> A new Hell in himselfe.
<L 123><V 72><Q Buc.><S Buck.> Why the Divell,
<L 124> Upon this French going out, tooke he upon him
<L 125> (Without the privity o' th' King) t' appoint
<L 126> Who should attend on him: He makes up the File
<L 127> Of all the Gentry; for the most part such
<L 128> To whom as great a Charge, as little Honor
<L 129> He meant to lay upon: and his owne Letter
<L 130> The honourable Boord of Councell, out
<L 131> Must fetch him in, he Papers.
<L 132><V 80><Q Abur.><S Aber.> I do know
<L 133> Kinsmen of mine, three at the least, that have
<L 134> By this, so sicken'd their Estates, that never
<L 135> They shall abound as formerly.
<L 136><V 83><Q Buc.><S Buck.> O many
<L 137> Have broke their backes with laying Mannors on 'em
<L 138> For this great Journey.  What did this vanity
<L 139> But minister communication of
<L 140> A most poore issue.
<L 141><V 87><Q Nor.><S Nor.> Greevingly I thinke,
<L 142> The Peace betweene the French and us, not valewes
<L 143> The Cost that did conclude it.
<L 144><V 89><Q Buc.><S Buck.> Every man,
<L 145> After the hideous storme that follow'd, was
<L 146> A thing Inspir'd, and not consulting, broke
<L 147> Into a generall Prophesie; That this Tempest
<L 148> Dashing the Garment of this peace, aboaded
<L 149> The sodaine breach on't.
<L 150><V 94><Q Nor.><S Nor.> Which is budded out,
<L 151> For France hath flaw'd the League, and hath attach'd
<L 152> Our Merchants goods at Burdeux.
<L 153><V 96><Q Abur.><S Aber.> Is it therefore
<L 154> Th' Ambassador is silenc'd?
<L 155><V 97><Q Nor.><S Nor.> Marry is't.
<L 156><V 98><Q Abur.><S Aber.> A proper Title of a Peace, and purchas'd
<L 157> At a superfluous rate.
<L 158><V 99><Q Buc.><S Buck.> Why all this Businesse
<L 159> Our Reverend Cardinall carried.
<L 160><V 100><Q Nor.><S Nor.> Like it your Grace,
<L 161> The State takes notice of the private difference
<L 162> Betwixt you, and the Cardinall.  I advise you
<L 163> (And take it from a heart, that wishes towards you
<L 164> Honor, and plenteous safety) that you reade
<L 165> The Cardinals Malice, and his Potency
<L 166> Together; To consider futher, that
<L 167> What his high Hatred would effect, wants not
<L 168> A Minister in his Power.  You know his Nature,
<L 169> That he's Revengefull; and I know his Sword
<L 170> Hath a sharpe edge: It's long, and't may be saide
<L 171> It reaches farre, and where 'twill not extend,
<L 172> Thither he darts it.  Bosome up my counsell,
<L 173> You'l finde it wholesome.  Loe, where comes that Rock
<L 174> That I advice your shunning.
<L 175><D Enter Cardinall Wolsey, the Purse borne before him, certaine>
<L 176><D of the Guard, and two Secretaries with Papers: The>
<L 177><D Cardnall in his Passage, fixeth his eye on Buck->
<L 178><D ham, and Buckingham on him,>
<L 179><D both full of disdaine.>
<L 180><V 115><Q Car.><S Wol.> The Duke of Buckinghams Surveyor? Ha?
<L 181> Where's his Examination?
<L 182><V 116><Q Secr.><S First Sec.> Heere so please you.
<L 183><V 117><Q Car.><S Wol.> Is he in person, ready?
<L 184><V 117><Q Secr.><S First Sec.> I, please your Grace.
<L 185><V 118><Q Car.><S Wol.> Well, we shall then know more, & Buckingham
<L 186> Shall lessen this bigge looke.
<L 187><D Exeunt Cardinall, and his Traine.>
<L 188><V 120><Q Buc.><S Buck.> This Butchers Curre is venom'd-mouth'd, and I
<L 189> Have not the power to muzzle him, therefore best
<L 190> Not wake him in his slumber.  A Beggers booke,
<L 191> Out-worths a Nobles blood.
<L 192><V 123><Q Nor.><S Nor.> What are you chaff'd?
<L 193> Aske God for Temp'rance, that's th' appliance onely
<L 194> Which your disease requires.
<L 195><V 125><Q Buc.><S Buck.> I read in's looks
<L 196> Matter against me, and his eye revil'd
<L 197> Me as his abject obiect, at this instant
<L 198> He bores me with some tricke; He's gone to' th' King:
<L 199> Ile follow, and out-stare him.
<L 200><V 129><Q Nor.><S Nor.> Stay my Lord,
<L 201> And let your Reason with your Choller question
<L 202> What 'tis you go about: to climbe steepe hilles
<L 203> Requires slow pace at first.  Anger is like
<L 204> A full hot Horse, who being allow'd his way
<L 205> Selfe-mettle tyres: Not a man in England
<L 206> Can adsive me like you: Be to your selfe,
<L 207> As you would to your Friend.
<L 208><V 136><Q Buc.><S Buck.> Ile to the King,
<L 209> And from a mouth of Honor, quite cry downe
<L 210> This Ipswich fellowes insolences; or proclaime,
<L 211> There's difference in no persons.
<L 212><V 139><Q Norf.><S Nor.> Be Advis'd;
<L 213> Heat not a Furnace for your foe so hot
<L 214> That it do sindge your selfe.  We may out-runne
<L 215> By violent swiftness that which we run at;
<L 216> And lose by over-running: know you not,
<L 217> The fire that mounts the liquor til 't run ore,
<L 218> In seeming to augment it, wasts it: be advis'd;
<L 219> I say againe there is no English Soule
<L 220> More stronger to direct you then your selfe;
<L 221> If with the sap of reason you would quench,
<L 222> Or but allay the fire of passion.
<L 223><V 149><Q Buck.><S Buck.> Sir,
<L 224> I am thankfull to you, and Ile goe along
<L 225> By your prescription: but this top-proud fellow,
<L 226> Whom from the flow of gall I name not, but
<L 227> From sincere motions, by Intelligence,
<L 228> And proofes as cleere as Founts in July, when
<L 229> Wee see each graine of gravell; I doe know
<L 230> To be corrupt and treasonous.
<L 231><V 156><Q Norf.><S Nor.> Say not treasonous.
<L 232><V 157><Q Buc.><S Buck.> To th' King Ile say 't, & make my vouch as
 strong
<L 233> As shore of Rocke: attend.  This holy Foxe,
<L 234> Or Wolfe, or both (for he is equall rav'nous
<L 235> As he is subtile, and as prone to mischiefe,
<L 236> As able to perform 't) his minde, and place
<L 237> Infecting one another, yea reciprocally,
<L 238> Only to shew his pompe, as well in France,
<L 239> As here at home, suggests the King our Master
<L 240> To this last costly Treaty: Th' enterview
<L 241> That swallowed so much treasure, and like a glasse
<L 242> Did breake ith' wrenching.
<L 243><V 167><Q Norf.><S Nor.> Faith, and so it did.
<L 244><V 168><Q Buck.><S Buck.> Pray give me favour Sir: This cunning Cardinall
<L 245> The Articles o' th' Combination drew
<L 246> As himselfe pleas'd; and they were ratified
<L 247> As he cride thus let be, to as much end,
<L 248> As give a Crutch to th' dead.  But our Count-Cardinall
<L 249> Has done this, and tis well: For worthy Wolsey
<L 250> (Who cannot erre) he did it.  Now this followes,
<L 251> (Which as I take it is a kinde of Puppie
<L 252> To th' old dam Treason) Charles the Emperour,
<L 253> Under pretence to see the Queene his Aunt,
<L 254> (For twas indeed his colour, but he came
<L 255> To whisper Wolsey) here makes visitation,
<L 256> His feares were that the Interview betwixt
<L 257> England and France, might through their amity
<L 258> Breed him some prejudice; for from this League,
<L 259> Peep'd harmes that menac'd him.  Privily
<L 260> Deales with our Cardinal, and as I troa
<L 261> Which I doe well; for I am sure the Emperour
<L 262> Paid ere he promis'd, whereby his Suit was granted
<L 263> Ere it was ask'd.  But when the way was made
<L 264> and pav'd with gold: the Emperor thus desir'd,
<L 265> That he would please to alter the Kings course,
<L 266> And breake the foresaid peace.  Let the King know
<L 267> (As soone he shall by me) that thus the Cardinall
<L 268> Does buy and sell his Honour as he pleases,
<L 269> And for his owne advantage.
<L 270><V 193><Q Norf.><S Nor.> I am sorry
<L 271> To heare this of him; and could wish he were
<L 272> Somthing mistaken in 't.
<L 273><V 195><Q Buck.><S Buck.> No, not a sillable:
<L 274> I doe pronounce him in that very shape
<L 275> He shall appeare in proofe.
<L 276><D Enter Brandon, a Sergeant at Armes before him, and>
<L 277><D two or theee of the Guard.>
<L 278><V 198><Q Brandon.><S Bran.> Your Office Sergeant: execute it.
<L 279><V 198><Q Sergeant.><S Serg.> Sir
<L 280> My Lord the Duke of Buckingham, and Earle
<L 281> Of Hertford, Stafford and Northampton, I
<L 282> Arrest thee of High Treason, in the name
<L 283> Of our most Soveraigne King.
<L 284><V 202><Q Buck.><S Buck.> Lo you my Lord,
<L 285> The net has falne upon me, I shall perish
<L 286> Under Device, and practise:
<L 287><V 204><Q Bran.><S Bran.> I am sorry,
<L 288> To see you tane from liberty, to looke on
<L 289> The busines present.  Tis his Highnes pleasure
<L 290> You shall to th' Tower.
<L 291><V 207><Q Buck.><S Buck.> It will helpe me nothing
<L 292> To plead mine Innocence; for that dye is on me
<L 293> Which makes my whit'st part, black.  The will of Heav'n
<L 294> Be done in this and all things: I obey.
<L 295> O my Lord Aburgany: Fare you well.
<L 296><V 212><Q Bran.><S Bran.> Nay he must beare you company.  The King
<L 297> Is pleas'd you shall to th' Tower, till you know
<L 298> How he determines further.
<L 299><V 214><Q Abur.><S Aber.> As the Duke said,
<L 300> The will of Heaven be done, and the Kings pleasure
<L 301> By me obey'd.
<L 302><V 216><Q Bran.><S Bran.> Here is a warrant from
<L 303> The King, t' attach Lord Mountacute, and the Bodies
<L 304> Of the Dukes Confessor, John de la Car,
<L 305> One Gilbert Pecke, his Councellour.
<L 306><V 219><Q Buck.><S Buck.> So, so;
<L 307> These are the limbs o' th' Plot: no more I hope.
<L 308><V 221><Q Bra.><S Bran.> A Monke o' th' Chartreux.
<L 309><V 221><Q Buck.><S Buck.> O Michaell Hopkins?
<L 310><V 221><Q Bra.><S Bran.> He.
<L 311><V 222><Q Buck.><S Buck.> My Surveyor is falce: The ore-great Cardinall
<L 312> Hath shew'd him gold; my life is spand already:
<L 313> I am the shadow of poore Buckingham,
<L 314> Whose Figure even this instant Clowd puts on,
<L 315>By Darkning my cleere Sunne.  My Lords farewell.<D Exe.>
<I 1.2><L 316><Z Scena Secunda.>
<L 317><D Cornets. Enter King Henry, leaning on the Cardinals shoul->
<L 318><D der, the Nobles and Sir Thomas Lowell: The Cardinall>
<L 319><D places himselfe under the Kings feete on>
<L 320><D his right side.>
<L 321><V 1><Q King.><S King.> My life it selfe, and the best heart of it,
<L 322> Thankes you for this great care: I stood i' th' levell
<L 323> Of a full-charg'd confederacie, and give thankes
<L 324> To you that choak'd it.  Let be cald before us
<L 325> The Gentleman of Buckinghams, in person,
<L 326> Ile heare him his confessions justifie
<L 327> And point by point the Treasons of his Maister,
<L 328> He shall againe relate.
<L 329><D A noyse within crying roome for the Queene, usher'd by the>
<L 330><D Duke of Norfolke.  Enter the Queene, Norfolke and>
<L 331><D Suffolke; She kneels.  King riseth from his State,>
<L 332><D takes her up, kisses and placeth>
<L 333><D her by him.>
<L 334><V 9><Q Queene.><S Kath.> Nay, we must longer kneele; I am a Suitor.
<L 335><V 10><Q King.><S King.> Arise, and take place by us; halfe your Suit
<L 336> Never name to us; you have halfe our power:
<L 337> The other moity ere you aske is given,
<L 338> Repeat your will, and take it.
<L 339><V 13><Q Queen.><S Kath.> Thanke your Majesty
<L 340> That you would lose your selfe, and in that love
<L 341> Not unconsidered leave your Honour, nor
<L 342> The dignity of your Office; is the poynt
<L 343> Of my Petition.
<L 344><V 17><Q Kin.><S King.> Lady mine proceed.
<L 345><V 18><Q Queen.><S Kath.> I am solicited not by a few,
<L 346> And those of true condition; That your Subjects
<L 347> Are in great grievance: There have beene Commissions
<L 348> Sent downe among 'em, which hath flaw'd the heart
<L 349> Of all their Loyalties; wherein, although
<L 350> My good Lord Cardinall, they vent reproches
<L 351> Most bitterly on you, as putter on
<L 352> Of these exactions: yet the King, our Maister
<L 353> Whose Honor Heaven shield from soile; even he escapes not
<L 354> Language unmannerly; yea, such which breakes
<L 355> The sides of loyalty, and almost appeares
<L 356> In lowd Rebellion.
<L 357><V 29><Q Norf.><S Nor.> Not almost appeares,
<L 358> It doth appeare; for, upon these Taxations,
<L 359> The Clothiers all not able to maintaine
<L 360> The many to them longing, have put off
<L 361> The Spinsters, Carders, Fullers, Weavers, who
<L 362> Unfit for other life, compeld by hunger
<L 363> And lack of other meanes; in desperate manner
<L 364> Daring th' event too th' teeth, are all in uprore,
<L 365> And danger serves among them.
<L 366><V 37><Q Kin.><S King.> Taxation?
<L 367> Wherein? and what Taxation? My Lord Cardinall,
<L 368> You that are blam'd for it alike with us,
<L 369> Know you of this Taxation?
<L 370><V 40><Q Card.><S Wol.> Please you Sir,
<L 371> I know but of a single part in ought
<L 372> Pertaines to th' State: and front but in that File
<L 373> Where others tell steps with me.
<L 374><V 43><Q Queen.><S Kath.> No, my Lord?
<L 375> You know no more then others? But you frame
<L 376> Things that are knowne alike, which are not wholsome
<L 377> To those which would not know them, and yet must
<L 378> Perforce be their acquaintance.  These exactions
<L 379> (Where of my Soveraigne would have note) they are
<L 380> Most pestilent to th' hearing, and to beare 'em,
<L 381> The Backe is Sacrifice to th' load; They say
<L 382> They are devis'd by you, er else you suffer
<L 383> Too hard an exclamation.
<L 384><V 52><Q Kin.><S King.> Still Exaction:
<L 385> The nature of it, in what kinde let's know,
<L 386> Is this Exaction?
<L 387><V 54><Q Queen.><S Kath.> I am much too venturous
<L 388> In tempting of your patience; but am boldned
<L 389> Under your promis'd pardon.  The Subjects griefe
<L 390> Comes through Commissions, which compels from each
<L 391> The sixt part of his Substance, to be levied
<L 392> Without delay; and the pretence for this
<L 393> Is nam'd, your warres in France: this makes bold mouths,
<L 394> Tounges spit their duties out, and cold hearts freeze
<L 395> Allegeance in them; their curses now
<L 396> Live where their prayers did: and it's come to passe,
<L 397> This tractable obedience is a Slave
<L 398> To each incensed Will: I would you Highnesse
<L 399> Would give it quicke consideration; for
<L 400> There is no primer basenesse.
<L 401><V 67><Q Kin.><S King.> By my life,
<L 402> This is against our pleasure.
<L 403><V 68><Q Car.><S Wol.> And for me,
<L 404> I have no further gone in this, then by
<L 405> A single voice, and that not past me, but
<L 406> By learned approbation of the Judges: If I am
<L 407> Traduc'd by ignorant Tongues,which neither know
<L 408> My faculties nor person, yet will be
<L 409> The Chronicles of my doing: Let me say,
<L 410> 'Tis but the fate of Place, and the rough Brake
<L 411> That Vertue must goe through: we must not stint
<L 412> Our necessary actions, in the feare
<L 413> To cope malicious Censurers, which ever,
<L 414> As rav'nous Fishes doe a Vessell follow
<L 415> That is new trim'd; but benefit no further
<L 416> Then vainly longing.  What we oft doe best,
<L 417> By sicke Interpreters (once weake ones) is
<L 418> Not ours, or not allow'd; what worst, as oft
<L 419> Hitting a grosser quality, is cride up
<L 420> For our best Act: if we shall stand still,
<L 421> In feare our motion will be mock'd, or carp'd at,
<L 422> We should take roote here, where we sit;
<L 423> Or sit State Statues onely.
<L 424><V 88><Q Kin.><S King.> Things done well,
<L 425> And with a care, exempt themselves from feare:
<L 426> Things done without example, in their issue
<L 427> Are to be fear'd.  Have you a President
<L 428> Of this Commission? I beleeve, not any.
<L 429> We must not rend our Subjects from our Lawes,
<L 430> And sticke them in our Will.  Sixt part of each?
<L 431> A trembling Contribution; why we take
<L 432> From every Tree, lop, barke, and part o' th' Timber:
<L 433> And though we leave it with a roote thus hackt,
<L 434> The Ayre will drinke the Sap.  To every County
<L 435> Where this is question'd, send our Letters, with
<L 436> Free pardon to each man that has deny'de
<L 437> The force of this Commission: pray looke too 't;
<L 438> I put it to your care.
<L 439><V 102><Q Card.><S Wol.> A word with you.
<L 440> Let there be Letters writ to every Shire,
<L 441> Of the Kings grace and pardon: the greeved Commons
<L 442> Hardly conceive of me.  Let it be nois'd,
<L 443> That through our Intercession, this Revokement
<L 444> And pardon comes: I shall anon advise you
<L 445>Further in the procedding.  <D Exit Secret.>
<L 446><D Enter Surveyor.>
<L 447><V 109><Q Queen.><S Kath.> I am sorry, that the Duke of Buckingham
<L 448> Is run in your displeasure.
<L 449><V 110><Q Kin.><S King.> It grieves many:
<L 450> The Gentleman is Learn'd, and a most rare Speaker,
<L 451> To Nature none more bound; his trayning such,
<L 452> That he may furnish and instruct great Teachers,
<L 453> And never seeke for ayd out of himselfe: yet see,
<L 454> When these so Noble benefits shall prove
<L 455> Not well dispos'd, the minde growing once corrupt,
<L 456> They turne to vicious formes, ten times more ugly
<L 457> Then ever they were faire.  This man so compleat,
<L 458> Who was enrold 'mongst wonders; and when we
<L 459> Almost with ravish'd listning, could not finde
<L 460> His houre of speech, a minute: He, (my Lady)
<L 461> Hath into monstrous habits put the Graces
<L 462> That once were his, and is become as blacke,
<L 463> As if besmear'd in hell.  Sit by Us, you shall heare
<L 464> (This was his Gentleman in trust) of him
<L 465> Things to strike Honour sad.  Bid him recount
<L 466> The fore-recited practises, whereof
<L 467> We cannot feele too little, heare too much.
<L 468><V 129><Q Card.><S Wol.> Stand forth, & with bold spirit relate what you
<L 469> Most like a carefull Subject have collected
<L 470> Out of the Duke of Buckingham.
<L 471><V 131><Q Kin.><S King.> Speake freely.
<L 472><V 132><Q Sur.><S Surv.> First, it was usuall with him; every day
<L 473> It would infect his Speech: That if the King
<L 474> Should without issue dye; hee'l carry it so
<L 475> To make the Scepter his.  These very words
<L 476> I've heard him utter to his Sonne in Law,
<L 477> Lord Aburgany, to whom by oth he menac'd
<L 478> Revenge upon the Cardinall.
<L 479><V 138><Q Card.><S Wol.> Please your Highnesse note
<L 480> This dangerous conception in this point,
<L 481> Not frended by his wish to your High person;
<L 482> His will is most malignant, and it stretches
<L 483> Beyond you to your friends.
<L 484><V 142><Q Queen.><S Kath.> My learn'd Lord Cardinall,
<L 485> Deliver all with Charity.
<L 486><V 143><Q Kin.><S King.> Speake on;
<L 487> How grounded hee his Title to the Crowne
<L 488> Upon our faile; to this poynt hast thou heard him,
<L 489> At any time speake ought?
<L 490><V 146><Q Sur.><S Surv.> He was brought to this,
<L 491> By a vaine Prophesie of Nicholas Henton.
<L 492><V 148><Q Kin.><S King.> What was that Henton?
<L 493><V 148><Q Sur.><S Surv.> Sir, a Chartreux Fryer,
<L 494> His Confessor, who fed him every minute
<L 495> With words of Soveraignty.
<L 496><V 150><Q Kin.><S King.> How know'st thou this?
<L 497><V 151><Q Sur.><S Surv.> Not long before your Highnesse sped to France,
<L 498> The Duke being at the Rose, within the Parish
<L 499> Saint Laurence Poultney, did of me demand
<L 500> What was the speech among the Londoners,
<L 501> Concerning the French Journey.  I replide,
<L 502> Men feare the French would prove persidious
<L 503> To the Kings danger: presently the Duke
<L 504> Said, 'twas the feare indeed, and that he doubted
<L 505> 'Twould prove the verity of certaine words
<L 506> Spoke by a holy Monke, that oft, sayes he
<L 507> Hath sent to me, wishing me to permit
<L 508> John de la Car, my Chaplaine, a choyce howre
<L 509> To heare from him a matter of some moment:
<L 510> Whom after under the Commissions Seale,
<L 511> He sollemnly had sworne, that what he spoke
<L 512> My Chaplaine to no Creature living, but
<L 513> To me, should utter, with demure Confidence,
<L 514> This pausingly ensu'de; neither the King, nor's Heyres
<L 515> (Tell you the Duke) shall prosper, bid him strive
<L 516> To the love o' th' Commonalty, the Duke
<L 517> Shall governe England.
<L 518><V 171><Q Queen.><S Kath.> If I know you well,
<L 519> You were the Dukes Surveyor, and lost your Office
<L 520> On the Complaint o' th' Tenants; take good heed
<L 521> You charge not in you spleene a Noble person,
<L 522> And spoyle your nobler Soule; I say, take heed;
<L 523> Yes, heartily beseech you.
<L 524><V 999><Q Kin.><S King.> Let him on: Goe forward.
<L 525><V 999><Q Sur.><S Surv.> On my Soule, Ile speake but truth,
<L 526> I told my Lord the Duke, by th' Divels illusions
<L 527> The Monke might be deceiv'd, and that 'twas dangerous
<L 528> For this to ruminate on this so farre, untill
<L 529> It forg'd him some designe, which being beleev'd
<L 530> It was much like to doe: He answer'd, Tush,
<L 531> It can doe me no damage; adding futher,
<L 532> That the King in his last Sicknesse faild,
<L 533> The Cardinals and Sir Thomas Lovels heads
<L 534> Should have gone off.
<L 535><V 186><Q Kin.><S King.> Ha? what, so rancke? Ah, ha,
<L 536> There's mischiefe in this man; canst thou say further?
<L 537><V 188><Q Sur.><S Surv.> I can my Liedge.
<L 538><V 188><Q Kin.><S King.> Proceed.
<L 539><V 188><Q Sur.><S Surv.> Being at Greenwich,
<L 540> After your Highnesse had reprov'd the Duke
<L 541> About Sir William Blumer.
<L 542><V 191><Q Kin.><S King.> I remember of such a time, being my sworn
 servant,
<L 543> The Duke retein'd him his.  But on: what hence?
<L 544><V 193><Q Sur.><S Surv.>  If (quoth he) I for this had beene committed,
<L 545> As to the Tower, I thought; I would have plaid
<L 546> The Part my Father meant to act upon
<L 547> Th' Usurper Richard, who being at Salsbury,
<L 548> Made suit to come in's presence which if granted,
<L 549> (As he made semblance of his duty) would
<L 550> Have put his knife into him.
<L 551><V 199><Q Kin.><S King.> A Gyant Traytor.
<L 552><V 200><Q Card.><S Wol.> Now Madam, may his Highnes live in freedome,
<L 553> And this man out of Prison.
<L 554><V 201><Q Queen.><S Kath.> God mend all.
<L 555><V 202><Q Kin.><S King.> Ther's something more would out of thee; what
 say'st?
<L 556><V 203><Q Sur.><S Surv.> After the Duke his father, with the knife
<L 557> He stretch'd him, and with one hand on his dagger,
<L 558> Another spread on's breast, mounting his eyes,
<L 559> He did discharge a horrible Oath, whose tenor
<L 560> Was, were he evill us'd, he would outgoe
<L 561> His Father, by as much as a performance
<L 562> Do's an irresolute purpose.
<L 563><V 209><Q Kin.><S King.> There's his period,
<L 564> To sheath his knife in us: he is attach'd,
<L 565> Call him to present tryall: if he may
<L 566> Finde mercy in the Law, 'tis his; if none,
<L 567> Let him not seek't of us: By day and night
<L 568>Hee's Traytor to th' height. <D Exeunt.>
<I 1.3><L 569><Z Scaena Tertia.>
<L 570><D Enter L. Chamberlaine and L. Sandys.>
<L 571><V 1><Q L. Ch.><S Cham.> Is 't possible the spels of France should juggle
<L 572> Men into such strange mysteries?
<L 573><V 2><Q L. San.><S Sands.> New customes,
<L 574> Though they be never so ridiculous,
<L 575> (Nay let 'em be unmanly) yet are follow'd.
<L 576><V 5><Q L. Ch.><S Cham.>  As farre as I see, all the good our English
<L 577> Have got by the late Voyage, is but meerely
<L 578> A fit or two o' th' face, (but they are shrewd ones)
<L 579> For when they hold 'em, you would sweare directly
<L 580> Their very noses had been Councellours
<L 581> To Pepin or Clotharius, they keepe State so.
<L 582><V 11><Q L. San.><S Sands.> They have all new legs,
<L 583> And lame ones; one would take it,
<L 584> That never see 'em pace before, the Spaven
<L >> A Spring-halt rain'd among 'em.
<L 586><V 13><Q L.><S Cham.> Ch. Death my Lord,
<L 587> Their cloathes are after such a Pagan cut too 't,
<L 588> That sure th' have worne out Christendome: how now?
<L 589> What newes, Sir Thomas Lowell?
<L 590><D Enter Sir Thomas Lowell.>
<L 591><V 16><Q Lowell.><S Lov.>  Faith my Lord,
<L 592> I heare of none but the new Proclamation,
<L 593> That's clapt upon the Court Gate.
<L 594><V 18><Q L. Cham.><S Cham.> What is't for?
<L 595><V 19><Q Lov.><S Lov.> The reformation of our travel'd Gallants,
<L 596> That fill the Court with quarrels, talke, and Taylors.
<L 597><V 21><Q L. Cham.><S Cham.> I'm glad 'tis there;
<L 598> Now I would pray our Monsieurs
<L 599> To thinke an English Courtier may be wise,
<L 600> And never see the Louvre.
<L 601><V 23><Q Lov.><S Lov.> They must either
<L 602> (For so run the Conditions) leave those remnants
<L 603> Of Foole and Feather, that they got in France,
<L 604> With all their honourable points of ignorance
<L 605> Pertaining thereunto; as Fights and Fire-workes,
<L 606> Abusing better men then they can be
<L 607> Out of a forreigne wisedome, renouncing cleane
<L 608> The faith they have in Tennis and tall Stockings,
<L 609> Short blistred Breeches, and those types of Travell;
<L 610> And understand againe like honest men,
<L 611> Or pack to their old Playfellowes; there, I take it,
<L 612> They may Cum Privilegio, wee away
<L 613> The lag end of their lewdnesse, and be laugh'd at.
<L 614><V 36><Q L. San.><S Sands.> Tis time to give 'em Physicke, their diseases
<L 615> Are growne so catching.
<L 616><V 37><Q L. Cham><S Cham.>  What a losse our Ladies
<L 617> Will have of these trim vanities?
<L 618><V 38><Q Lovell.><S Lov.>  I marry,
<L 619> there wil be woe indeed Lords, the slye whorsons
<L 620> Have got a speeding tricke to lay downe Ladies.
<L 621> A French Song, and a Fiddle, ha's no Fellow.
<L 622><V 42><Q L. San.><S Sands.> The Divell fiddle 'em,
<L 623> I am glad they are going,
<L 624> For sure there's no converting of 'em: now
<L 625> An honest Country Lord as I am, beaten
<L 626> A long time out of play, may bring his plaine song,
<L 627> And have an houre of hearing, and by'r Lady
<L 628> Held currant Musicke too.
<L 629><V 47><Q L. Cham.><S Cham.> Well said Lord Sands,
<L 630> Your Colts tooth is not cast yet?
<L 631><V 48><Q L. San.><S Sands.> No my Lord,
<L 632> Nor shall not while I have a stumpe.
<L 633><V 49><Q L. Cham.><S Cham.> Sir Thomas,
<L 634> Whither were you a going?
<L 635><V 50><Q Lov.><S Lov.> To the Cardinals;
<L 636> Your Lordship is a guest too.
<L 637><V 51><Q L. Cham.><S Cham.> O, 'tis true;
<L 638> This night he makes a Supper, and a great one.
<L 639> To many Lords and Ladies; there will be
<L 640> The Beauty of this Kingdome Ile assure you.
<L 641><V 55><Q Lov.><S Lov.> That Churchman
<L 642> Beares a bounteous minde indeed,
<L 643> A hand as fruitfull as the Land that feeds us,
<L 644> His dewes fall everywhere.
<L 645><V 57><Q L. Cham.><S Cham.> No doubt hee's Noble;
<L 646> He had a blacke mouth that said other of him.
<L 647><V 59><Q L. San.><S Sands.> He may my Lord,
<L 648> Ha's wherewithall in him;
<L 649> Sparing would shew a worse sinne, then ill Doctrine,
<L 650> Men of his way, should be most liberall,
<L 651> They are set heere for examples.
<L 652><V 62><Q L. Cham.><S Cham.> True, they are so;
<L 653> But few give so great ones:
<L 654> My Barge stayes;
<L 655> Your Lordship shall along: Come, good Sir Thomas,
<L 656> We shall be late else, which I would not be,
<L 657> For I was spoke to, with Sir Henry Guilford
<L 658> This night to be Comptrollers.
<L 659><V 67><Q L. San.><S Sands.> I am your Lordships.   <D Exeunt.>
<I 1.4><L 660><Z Scena Quarta.>
<L 661><D Hoboies. A small Table under a State for the Cardinall, a>
<L 662><D longer Table for the Guests.  Then Enter Anne Bullen,>
<L 663><D and divers other Ladies, & Gentlemen, as Guests>
<L 664><D at one Doore; at an other Doore enter>
<L 665><D Sir Henry Guilford.>
<L 666><V 1><Q S. Hen. Guilf.><S Guil.> Ladyes,
<L 667> A generall welcome from his Grace
<L 668> Salutes ye all; This Night he dedicates
<L 669> To faire content, and you:  None heere he hopes
<L 670> In all this Noble Bevy, has brought with her
<L 671> One care abroad: hee would have all as merry:
<L 672> As first, good Company, good wine, good welcome,
<L 673> Can make good people.
<L 674><D Enter L. Chamberlaine L. Sands, and Lovell.>
<L 675> O my Lord, y' are tardy;
<L 676> The very thought of this faire Company,
<L 677> Clapt wings to me.
<L 678><V 9><Q Cham.><S Cham.> You are young Sir Harry Guilford.
<L 679><V 10><Q San.><S Sands.> Sir Thomas Lovell, had the Cardinall
<L 680> But halfe my Lay-thoughts in him, some of these
<L 681> Should finde a running Banket, ere they rested,
<L 682> I thinke would better please 'em: by my life,
<L 683> They are a sweet society of faire ones.
<L 684><V 15><Q Lov.><S Lov.> O that your Lordship were but now Confessor,
<L 685> To one or two of these.
<L 686><V 16><Q San.><S Sands.> I would I were,
<L 687> They should finde easie pennance.
<L 688><V 17><Q Lov.><S Lov.> Faith how easie?
<L 689><V 18><Q San.><S Sands.> As easie as a downe bed would affoord it.
<L 690><V 19><Q Cham.><S Cham.> Sweet Ladies will it please you sit; Sir Harry
<L 691> Place you that side, Ile take the charge of this:
<L 692> His Grace is entring.  Nay, you must not freeze,
<L 693> Two women plac'd together, makes cold weather:
<L 694> My Lord Sands, you are one will keepe 'em waking:
<L 695> Pray sit betweene these Ladies.
<L 696><V 24><Q San.><S Sands.> By my faith,
<L 697> And thanke your Lorship: by your leave sweet Ladies,
<L 698> If I chance to talke a little wilde, forgive me:
<L 699> I had it from my Father.
<L 700><V 27><Q An. Bul.><S Anne.> Was he mad Sir?
<L 701><V 28><Q San.><S Sands.> O very mad, exceeding mad, in love too;
<L 702> But he would bite none, just as I doe now,
<L 703> He would Kisse you Twenty with a breath.
<L 704><V 30><Q Cham.><S Cham.> Well said my Lord:
<L 705> So now y' are fairely seated: Gentlemen,
<L 706> The pennance lyes on you; if these faire Ladies
<L 707> Passe away frowning.
<L 708><V 33><Q San.><S Sands.> For my little Cure,
<L 709> Let me alone.
<L 710><D Hoboyes.  Enter Cardinall Wolsey, and takes his State.>
<L 711><V 35><Q Card.><S Wol.> Y' are welcome my faire Guests; that noble Lady
<L 712> Or Gentleman that is not freely merry
<L 713> Is not my Friend.  This to confirme my welcome,
<L 714> And to you all good health.
<L 715><V 38><Q San.><S Sands.> Your Grace is Noble,
<L 716> Let me have such a Bowle may hold my thankes.
<L 717> And save me so much talking.
<L 718><V 40><Q Card.><S Wol.> My Lord Sands,
<L 719> I am beholding to you: cheere your neighbours:
<L 720> Ladies you are not merry; Gentlemen,
<L 721> Whose fault is this?
<L 722><V 43><Q San.><S Sands.> The red wine first must rise
<L 723> In their faire cheekes my Lord, then wee shall have 'em
<L 724> Talk us to silence.
<L 725><V 45><Q An. B.><S Anne.> You are a merry Gamster
<L 726> My Lord Sands.
<L 727><V 46><Q San.><S Sands.> Yes, if I make my play:
<L 728> Heer's to your Ladiship, and pledge it Madam:
<L 729> For tis to such a thing.
<L 730><V 48><Q An. B.><S Anne.> You cannot shew me.
<L 731><D Drum and Trumpet, Chambers dischargd.>
<L 732><V 49><Q San.><S Sands.> I told your Grace, they would talke anon.
<L 733><V 49><Q Card.><S Wol.> What's that?
<L 734><V 50><Q Cham.><S Cham.> Looke out there, some of ye.
<L 735><V 50><Q Card.><S Wol.>  What warlike voyce,
<L 736> And to what end is this?  Nay Ladies feare not;
<L 737> By all the lawes of Warre y' are priviledg'd.
<L 738><D Enter a Servant.>
<L 739><V 53><Q Cham.><S Cham.> How now, what is 't?
<L 740><V 53><Q Serv.><S Serv.>  A noble troupe of Strangers,
<L 741> For so they seeme; th' have left their Barge and landed,
<L 742> And hither make, as great Embassadors
<L 743> From forraigne Princes.
<L 744><V 56><Q Card.><S Wol.>  Good Lord Chamberlaine,
<L 745> Go, give 'em welcome; you can speake the French tongue
<L 746> And pray receive 'em Nobly, and conduct 'em
<L 747> Into our presence, where this heaven of beauty
<L 748> Shall shine at full upon them.  Some attend him.
<L 749><D All rise, and Tables remov'd.>
<L 750> You have now a broken Banket, but wee'l mend it.
<L 751> A good digestion to you all; and once more
<L 752> I showre a welcome on yee: welcome all.
<L 753><D Hoboyes.  Enter King and others as Maskers, habited like>
<L 754><D Shepheards, usher'd by the Lord Chamberlaine.  They>
<L 755><D passe directly before the Cardinall, and gracefully sa->
<L 756><D lute him.>
<L 757> A noble Company: what are their pleasures?
<L 758><V 65><Q Cham.><S Cham.>  Because they speak no English, thus they praid
<L 759> To tell your Grace: That having heard by fame
<L 760> Of this so Noble and so faire assembly,
<L 761> This night to meet heere they could doe no lesse,
<L 762> (Out of the great respect they beare to beauty)
<L 763> But leave their Flockes, and under your faire Conduct
<L 764> Crave leave to view these Ladies, and entreat
<L 765> An houre of Revels with 'em.
<L 766><V 72><Q Card.><S Wol.> Say, Lord Chamberlaine,
<L 767> They have done my poore house grace:
<L 768> For which I pay 'em a thousand thankes,
<L 769> And pray 'em take their pleasures.
<L 770><D Choose Ladies, King and An. Bullen.>
<L 771><V 75><Q King.><S King.>  The fairest hand I ever touch'd: O Beauty,
<L 772> Till now I never knew thee.
<L 773><D Musicke, Dance.>
<L 774><V 77><Q Card.><S Wol.> My Lord.
<L 775><V 77><Q Cham.><S Cham.> Your Grace.
<L 776><V 77><Q Card.><S Wol.>  Pray tell 'em thus much from me:
<L 777> There should be one amongst 'em by his person
<L 778> More worthy this place then myselfe, to whom
<L 779> (If I but knew him) with my love and duty
<L 780>I would surrender it.         <D Whisper.>
<L 781><V 81><Q Cham.><S Cham.> I will my Lord.
<L 782><V 82><Q Card.><S Wol.> What say they?
<L 783><V 82><Q Cham.><S Cham.> Such a one, they all confesse
<L 784> There is indeed, which they would have your Grace
<L 785> Find out, and he will take it.
<L 786><V 84><Q Card.><S Wol.> Let me see them,
<L 787> By all your good leaves Gentlemen; heere Ile make
<L 788> My royall choyce.
<L 789><V 86><Q Kin.><S King.> Ye have found him Cardinall,
<L 790> You hold a faire Assembly; you doe well Lord:
<L 791> You are a Churchman, or Ile tell you Cardinall,
<L 792> I should judge now unhappily.
<L 793><V 89><Q Card.><S Wol.> I am glad
<L 794> Your Grace is growne so pleasant.
<L 795><V 90><Q Kin.><S King.> My Lord Chamberlaine,
<L 796> Prethee come hither, what faire Ladie's that?
<L 797><V 999><Q Cham.><S Cham.> An 't please your Grace,
<L 798> Sir Thomas Bullens Daughter, the Viscount Rochford,
<L 799> One of her Highnesse women.
<L 800><V 94><Q Kin.><S King.>  By Heaven she is a dainty one.  Sweetheart,
<L 801> I were unmannerly to take you out,
<L 802> And not to kisse you.  A health Gentlemen,
<L 803> Let it goe round.
<L 804><V 98><Q Card.><S Wol.>  Sir Thomas Lovell, is the Banket ready
<L 805> I' th' Privy Chamber?
<L 806><V 99><Q Lov.><S Lov.> Yes, my Lord.
<L 807><V 99><Q Card.><S Wol.> Your Grace
<L 808> I feare, with dancing is a little heated.
<L 809><V 101><Q Kin.><S King.> I feare too much.
<L 810><V 101><Q Card.><S Wol.> There's fresher ayre my Lord,
<L 811> In the next Chamber.
<L 812><V 103><Q Kin.><S King.> Lead in your Ladies ev'ry one: Sweet Partner,
<L 813> I must not yet forsake you: Let's be merry,
<L 814> Good my Lord Cardinall: I have a dozen healths,
<L 815> To drinke to these faire Ladies, and a measure
<L 816> To lead 'em once againe, and then let's dreame
<L 817> Who's best in favour.  Let the Musicke knock it.
<L 818><D Exeunt with Trumpets.>
<I 2.1><L 819><Z Actus Secundus.  Scena Prima.>
<L 820><D Enter two Gentlemen at severall Doores.>
<L 821><V 1><Q 1.><S 1 Gent.> Whether away so fast?
<L 822><V 1><Q 2.><S 2 Gent.> O, God save ye:
<L 823> Ev'n to the Hall, to heare what shall become
<L 824> Of the great Duke of Buckingham.
<L 825><V 3><Q 1.><S 1 Gent.> Ile save you
<L 826> That labour Sir.  All's now done but the Ceremony
<L 827> Of bringing backe the Prisoner.
<L 828><V 5><Q 2.><S 2 Gent.> Were you there?
<L 829><V 6><Q 1.><S 1 Gent.> Yes indeed was I.
<L 830><V 6><Q 2.><S 2 Gent.> Pray speake what ha's happen'd.
<L 831><V 7><Q 1.><S 1 Gent.> You may guesse quickly what.
<L 832><V 7><Q 2.><S 2 Gent.> Is he found guilty?
<L 833><V 8><Q 1.><S 1 Gent.> Yes truely is he,
<L 834> And condemn'd upon 't.
<L 835><V 9><Q 2.><S 2 Gent.> I am sorry fort.
<L 836><V 9><Q 1.><S 1 Gent.> So are a number more.
<L 837><V 10><Q 2.><S 2 Gent.> But pray how past it?
<L 838><V 11><Q 1.><S 1 Gent.> Ile tell you in a little.  The great Duke
<L 839> Came to the Bar; where, to his accusations
<L 840> He pleaded still not guilty, and alleadged
<L 841> Many sharpe reasons to defeat the Law.
<L 842> The Kings Atturney on the Contrary,
<L 843> Urg'd on the Examinations, proofes, confessions
<L 844> Of divers witnesse, which the Duke desir'd
<L 845> To him brought viva voce to his face;
<L 846> At which appear'd against him, his Surveyor
<L 847> Sir Gilbert Pecke his Chancellour, and John Car,
<L 848> Confessor to him, with that Divell Monke,
<L 849> Hopkins, that make this mischiefe.
<L 850><V 22><Q 2.><S 2 Gent.> That was hee
<L 851> That fed him with his Prophecies.
<L 852><V 23><Q 1.><S 1 Gent.> The same,
<L 853> All these accus'd him strongly, which he faine
<L 854> Would have flung him from him; but indeed he couldnot;
<L 855> And so his Peeres upon this evidence,
<L 856> Have found him guilty of high Treason.  Much
<L 857> He spoke, and learnedly for life: But all
<L 858> Was either pittied in him or forgotten.
<L 859><V 30><Q 2.><S 2 Gent.> After all this, how did he beare himselfe?
<L 860><V 31><Q 1.><S 1 Gent.> When he was brought agen to th' Bar, to heare
<L 861> His Knell rung out, his Judgement, he was stir'd
<L 862> With such an Agony, he sweat extreamly,
<L 863> And somthing spoke in choller, ill, and hasty:
<L 864> But he fell to himselfe againe, and sweetly,
<L 865> In all the rest shew'd a most Noble patience.
<L 866><V 37><Q 2.><S 2 Gent.> I doe not thinke he feares death.
<L 867><V 37><Q 1.><S 1 Gent.> Sure he does not,
<L 868> He never was so womanish, the cause
<L 869> He may a little grieve at.
<L 870><V 39><Q 2.><S 2 Gent.> Certainly,
<L 871> The Cardinall is the end of this.
<L 872><V 40><Q 1.><S 1 Gent.> Tis likely,
<L 873> By all conjectures: First Kildares Attendure;
<L 874> Then Deputy of Ireland, who remov'd
<L 875> Earle Surrey, was sent thither, and in hast too,
<L 876> Least he should helpe his Father.
<L 877><V 44><Q 2.><S 2 Gent.> That tricke of State
<L 878> Was a deepe envious one,
<L 879><V 45><Q 1.><S 1 Gent.> At his returne,
<L 880> No doubt he will requite it; this is noted
<L 881> (And generally) who ever the King favours,
<L 882> The Cardnall instantly will finde imployment,
<L 883> And farre enough from Court too.
<L 884><V 49><Q 2.><S 2 Gent.> All the Commons
<L 885> Hate him perniciously, and o' my Conscience
<L 886> Wish him ten faddom deepe: This Duke as much
<L 887> They love and doate on: call him bounteous Buckingham,
<L 888> The Mirror of all courtesie.
<L 889><D Enter Buckingham from his Arraignment, Tipstaves before>
<L 890><D him, the Axe with the edge towards him, Halberds on each>
<L 891><D side, accompanied with Sir Thomas Lovell, Sir Nicholas>
<L 892><D Vaux, Sir Walter Sands, and common people, etc.>
<L 893><V 53><Q 1.><S 1 Gent.> Stay there Sir,
<L 894> And see the noble ruin'd man you speake of.
<L 895><V 55><Q 2.><S 2 Gent.> Let's stand close and behold him.
<L 896><V 55><Q Buck.><S Buck.> All good people,
<L 897> You that thus farre have come to pitty me:
<L 898> Heare what I say, and then goe home and lose me.
<L 899> I have this day receiv'd a Traitors judgement,
<L 900> And by that name must dye; yet Heaven beare witnes,
<L 901> And if I have a Conscience, let it sincke me,
<L 902> Even as the Axe falls, if I be not faithfull.
<L 903> The Law I beare no mallice for my death,
<L 904> T' has done upon the premises, but Justice:
<L 905> But those that sought it, I could wish more Christians:
<L 906> (Be what they will) I heartily forgive 'em;
<L 907> Yet let 'em looke they glory not in mischiefe;
<L 908> Nor build their evils on the graves of great men;
<L 909> For then, my guiltlesse blood must cry against 'em
<L 910> For further life in this world I ne're hope,
<L 911> Nor will I sue, although the King have mercies
<L 912> More then I dare make faults.
<L 913> You that lov'd me,
<L 914> And dare be bold to weepe for Buckingham,
<L 915> His Noble Friends and Fellowes; whom to leave
<L 916> Is only bitter to him, only dying:
<L 917> Goe with me like good Angels to my end,
<L 918> And as the long divorce of Steele fals on me,
<L 919> Make of your Prayers one sweet Sacrifice,
<L 920> And lift my Soule to Heaven.
<L 921> Lead on a Gods name.
<L 922><V 79><Q Lovell.><S Lov.> I doe beseech your Grace, for charity
<L 923> If ever any malice in your heart
<L 924> Were hid against me, now to forgive me frankly.
<L 925><V 82><Q Buck.><S Buck.> Sir Thomas Lovell, I as free to forgive you
<L 926> As I would be forgiven: I forgive all.
<L 927> There cannot be those numberlesse offences
<L 928> Gainst me, that I cannot take peace with:
<L 929> No blacke Envy shall make my Grave.
<L 930> Commend mee to his Grace:
<L 931> And if he speake of Buckingham; pray tell him,
<L 932> You met him halfe in Heaven: my vowes and prayers
<L 933> Yet are the Kings; and till my Soule forsake,
<L 934> Shall cry for blessings on him.  May he live
<L 935> Longer then I have time to tell his years;
<L 936> Ever beloved and loving, may his Rule be;
<L 937> And when old Time shall lead him to his end,
<L 938> Goodnesse and he, fill up one one Monument.
<L 939><V 95><Q Lov.><S Lov.> To th' water side I must conduct your Grace;
<L 940> Then give my Charge up to Sir Nicholas Vaux,
<L 941> Who undertakes you to your end.
<L 942><V 97><Q Vaux.><S Vaux.> Prepare there,
<L 943> The Duke is comming: See the Barge be ready;
<L 944> And fit it with such furniture as suites
<L 945> The Greatnesse of his Person.
<L 946><V 100><Q Buck.><S Buck.> Nay, Sir Nicholas,
<L 947> Let it alone; my State now will but mocke me.
<L 948> When I came hither, I was Lord High Constable,
<L 949> And Duke of Buckinghaam: now poore Edward Bohun;
<L 950> Yet I am richer then my base Accusers,
<L 951> That never knew what Truth meant: I now seale it;
<L 952> And with that bloud will make 'em one day groane for 't.
<L 953> My noble Father Henry of Buckingham,
<L 954> Who first rais'd head against Usurping Richard,
<L 955> Flying for succour to his Servant Banister,
<L 956> Being distrest; was by that wretch betraid,
<L 957> And without Tryall, fell; Gods peace be with him.
<L 958> Henry the Seaventh succeding, truly pittying
<L 959> My Fathers losse; like a most Royall Prince
<L 960> Restor'd me to my Honours: and out of ruines
<L 961> Made my Name once more Noble.  Now his Sonne,
<L 962> Henry the Eight, Life, Honour, Name and all
<L 963> That made me happy; at one stroake ha's taken
<L 964> For ever from the World.  I had my Tryall,
<L 965> And must needs say a Noble one; which makes me
<L 966> A little happier then my wretched Father:
<L 967> Yet thus farre we are one in Fortunes; both
<L 968> Fell by our Servants, by those Men we lov'd most:
<L 969> A most unnaturall and faithlesse Service.
<L 970> Heaven ha's an end in all: yet, you that heare me,
<L 971> This from a dying man receive as certaine:
<L 972> Where you are liberall of your loves and Councels,
<L 973> Be sure you be not loose; for those you make friends,
<L 974> And give your hearts to; when they once perceive
<L 975> The least rub in your fortunes, fall away
<L 976> Like water from ye, never found againe
<L 977> But where they meane to sinke ye: all good people
<L 978> Pray for me, I must now forsake ye; the last houre
<L 979> Of my long weary life is come upon me:
<L 980> Farewell; and when you would say somthing that is sad,
<L 981> Speake how I fell.
<L 982> I have done; and God forgive me.
<L 983><D Exeunt Duke and Traine.>
<L 984><V 137><Q 1.><S 1 Gent.> O, this is full of pity; Sir, it cals
<L 985> I feare, too many curses on their heads
<L 986> That were the Authors.
<L 987><V 139><Q 2.><S 2 Gent.> If the Duke be guiltlesse,
<L 988> 'Tis full of woe: yet I can give you inckling
<L 989> Of an ensuing evill, if it fall,
<L 990> Greater then this.
<L 991><V 142><Q 1.><S 1 Gent.> Good Angels keepe it from us:
<L 992> What may it be?  you doe not doubt my faith Sir?
<L 993><V 144><Q 2.><S 2 Gent.> This Secret is so weighty, 'twill require
<L 994> A strong faith to conceale it.
<L 995><V 145><Q 1.><S 1 Gent.> Let me have it:
<L 996> I doe not talke much.
<L 997><V 146><Q 2.><S 2 Gent.> I am confident;
<L 998> You shall Sir: Did you not of late dayes heare
<L 999> A buzzing of a Separation
<L 1000> Betweene the King and Katherine?
<L 1001><V 149><Q 1.><S 1 Gent.> Yes, but it held not:
<L 1002> For when the King once heard it out of anger
<L 1003> He sent command to the Lord Mayor straight
<L 1004> To stop the rumor; and allay those tongues
<L 1005> That durst disperse it.
<L 1006><V 153><Q 2.><S 2 Gent.> But that slander Sir,
<L 1007> Is found a truth now: for it growes agen
<L 1008> Fresher then e're it was; and held for certaine
<L 1009> The King will venture at it.  Either the Cardinall,
<L 1010> Or some about him neere, have out of malice
<L 1011> To the good Queene, possest him with a scruple
<L 1012> That will undoe her: To confirme this too,
<L 1013> Cardinall Campeus is arriv'd, and lately,
<L 1014> As all thinke for this busines.
<L 1015><V 161><Q 1.><S 1 Gent.> Tis the Cardinall;
<L 1016> And meerely to revenge him on the Emperour,
<L 1017> For not bestowing on him at his asking,
<L 1018> The Archbishopricke of Toledo, this is purpos'd.
<L 1019><V 165><Q 2.><S 2 Gent.> I thinke
<L 1020> You have hit the marke; but is't not cruell,
<L 1021> That she should feele the smart of this: The Cardinall
<L 1022> Will have his will, and she must fall.
<L 1023><V 167><Q 1.><S 1 Gent.> 'Tis wofull.
<L 1024> Wee are too open heere to argue this :
<L 1025>Let's thinke in private more.      <D Exeunt.>
<I 2.2><L 1026><Z  Scena Secunda.>
<L 1027><D Enter Lord Chamberlaine, reading this Letter.>
<L 1028> My Lord, the Horses your Lordship sent for, with the
<L 1029> care I had, I saw well chosen, ridden, and furnish'd.
<L 1030> They were young and handsome, and of the best breed in the
<L 1031> North.  When they were ready to set out for London, a man
<L 1032> of my Lord Cardinalls, by Commission, and maine power tooke
<L 1033> 'em from me, with this reason: his maister would bee serv'd be%fore
<L 1034> a Subiect, if not before the King, which stop'd our mouthes
<L 1035> Sir.
<L 1036> I feare he will indeed; well, let him have them; hee
<L 1037> will have all I thinke.
<L 1038><D  Enter to the Lord Chamberlaine, the Dukes of Nor->
<L 1039><D folke and Suffolke.>
<L 1040><V 12><Q Norf.><S Nor.> Well met my Lord Chamberlaine.
<L 1041><V 13><Q Cham.><S Cham.> Good day to both your Graces.
<L 1042><V 14><Q Suff.><S Suf.> How is the King imployd?
<L 1043><V 14><Q Cham.><S Cham.> I left him private,
<L 1044> Full of sad thoughts and troubles.
<L 1045><V 15><Q Norf.><S Nor.> What's the cause?
<L 1046><V 16><Q Cham.><S Cham.> It seemes the Marriage with his Brothers Wife
<L 1047> Ha's crept too neere his Conscience.
<L 1048><V 17><Q Suff.><S Suf.> No, his Conscience
<L 1049> Ha's crept too neere another Ladie.
<L 1050><V 18><Q Norf.><S Nor.> Tis so;
<L 1051> This is the Cardinals doing: The King-Cardinall,
<L 1052> That blinde Priest, like the eldest Sonne of Fortune,
<L 1053> Turnes what he list.  The King will know him one day.
<L 1054><V 22><Q Suff.><S Suf.> Pray God he doe,
<L 1055> Hee'l never know himselfe else.
<L 1056><V 23><Q Norf.><S Nor.> How holily he workes in all his businesse,
<L 1057> And with what zeale?  For now he has crackt the League
<L 1058> Between us & the Emperor (The Queens great Nephew)
<L 1059> He dives into the Kings Soule, and there scatters
<L 1060> Dangers, doubts, wringing of the Conscience,
<L 1061> Feares, and Despaires, and all these for his Marriage.
<L 1062> And out of all these, to restore the King,
<L 1063> He counsels a Divorce, a losse of her
<L 1064> That like a Jewell, ha's hung twenty yeares
<L 1065> About his necke, yet never lost her lustre;
<L 1066> Of her that loves him with that excellence,
<L 1067> That Angels love good men with: Even of her
<L 1068> That when the greatest stroake of Fortune falls
<L 1069> Will blesse the King: and is not this course pious?
<L 1070><V 37><Q Cham.><S Cham.> Heaven keep me from such councel: tis most true
<L 1071> These newes are every where every tongue speaks 'em,
<L 1072> And every true heart weepes for 't.  All that dare
<L 1073> Looke into these affaires, see this maine end,
<L 1074> The French Kings Sister.  Heaven will one day open
<L 1075> The Kings eyes, that so long have slept upon
<L 1076> This bold bad man.
<L 1077><V 43><Q Suff.><S Suf.> And free us from his slavery.
<L 1078><V 44><Q Norf.><S Nor.> We had need pray,
<L 1079> And heartily, for our deliverance;
<L 1080> Or this imperious man will worke us all
<L 1081> From Princes into Pages: all mens honours
<L 1082> Lie like one lumpe before him, to be fashion'd
<L 1083> Into what pitch he please.
<L 1084><V 49><Q Suff.><S Suf.> For me, my Lords,
<L 1085> I love him not, nor feare him, there's my Creede:
<L 1086> As I am made without him, so Ile stand,
<L 1087> If the King please: his Curses and his blessings
<L 1088> Touch me alike: th' are breath I not beleeve in.
<L 1089> I knew him and I know him: so I leave him
<L 1090> To him that made him proud; the Pope.
<L 1091><V 55><Q Norf.><S Nor.> Let's in;
<L 1092> And with some other busines, put the King
<L 1093> From these sad thoughts, that work too much upon him:
<L 1094> My Lord, youle beare us company?
<L 1095><V 58><Q Cham.><S Cham.> Excuse me,
<L 1096> The King ha's sent me otherwhere: Besides
<L 1097> You'l finde a most unfit time to disturbe him:
<L 1098> Health to your Lordships.
<L 1099><V 61><Q Norfolke.><S Nor.> Thankes my good Lord Chamberlaine.
<L 1100><D  Exit Lord Chamberlaine, and the King drawes the Curtaine>
<L 1101><D  and sits reading pensively.>
<L 1102><V 62><Q Suff.><S Suf.> How sad he lookes; sure he is much afflicted.
<L 1103><Q Kin.><S King.> Who's there? Ha?
<L 1104><V 63><Q Norff.><S Nor.> Pray God he be not angry.
<L 1105><V 64><Q Kin.><S King.> Who's there I say?  How dare you thrust
 yourselves
<L 1106> Into my private Meditations?
<L 1107> Who am I?  Ha?
<L 1108><V 67><Q Norff.><S Nor.> A gracious King, that pardons all offences
<L 1109> Malice ne're meant:  Our breach of Duty this way.
<L 1110> Is bussinesse of Estate; in which, we come
<L 1111> To know your Royall pleasure.
<L 1112><V 70><Q Kin.><S King.> Ye are too bold:
<L 1113> Go too; Ile make ye know your times of businesse:
<L 1114> Is this an houre for temporall affaires?  Ha?
<L 1115><D  Enter Wolsey and Campeius with a Commission.>
<L 1116> Who's there?  my good Lord Cardinall?  O my Wolsey,
<L 1117> The quiet of my wounded Conscience;
<L 1118> Thou art a cure fit for a King; you'r welcome
<L 1119> Most learned Reverend Sir, into our Kingdome,
<L 1120> Use us, and it:  My good Lord, have great care,
<L 1121> I be not found a Talker.
<L 1122><V 78><Q Wol.><S Wol.> Sir, you cannot;
<L 1123> I would your Grace would give us but an houre
<L 1124> Of private conference.
<L 1125><V 80><Q Kin.><S King.> We are busie; goe.
<L 1126><V 81><Q Norff.><S Nor.> This Priest ha's no pride in him?
<L 1127><V 81><Q Suff.><S Suf.> Not to speake of:
<L 1128> I would not be so sicke though for his place:
<L 1129> But this cannot continue.
<L 1130><V 999><Q Norffe.><S Nor.> If it doe, Ile venture one; have at him.
<L 1131><V 999><Q Suff.><S Suf.> I another.
<L 1132><D  Exeunt Norfolke and Suffolke.>
<L 1133><V 85><Q Wol.><S Wol.> Your Grace ha's given a President of wisedome
<L 1134> Above all Princes, in committing freely
<L 1135> Your scruple to the voyce of Christendome:
<L 1136> Who can be angry now?  What Envy reach you?
<L 1137> The Spaniard tide by blood and favour to her,
<L 1138> Must now confesse, if they have any goodnesse,
<L 1139> The Tryall, just and Noble.  All the Clerkes,
<L 1140> (I meane the learned ones in Christian Kingdomes)
<L 1141> Have their free voyces.  Rome (the Nurse of Judgement)
<L 1142> Invited by your Noble selfe, hath sent
<L 1143> One generall Tongue unto us.  This good man
<L 1144> This just and learned Priest, Cardnall Campeius,
<L 1145> Whom once more, I present unto your Highnesse.
<L 1146><V 98><Q Kin.><S King.> And once more in mine armes I bid him welcome,
<L 1147> And thanke the holy Conclave for their loves,
<L 1148> They have sent me such a Man, I would have wish'd for.
<L 1149><V 101><Q Cam.><S Cam.> Your Grace must needs deserve all strangers
 loves,
<L 1150> You are so Noble:  To your Highnesse hand
<L 1151> I tender my Commision; by whose vertue,
<L 1152> The Court of Rome commanding.  You my Lord
<L 1153> Cardinall of Yorke, are joyn'd with me their Servant,
<L 1154> In the unpartiall judging of this Businesse.
<L 1155><V 107><Q Kin.><S King.> Two equall men:  The Queene shall be acquainted
<L 1156> Forthwith for what you come.  Where's Gardiner?
<L 1157><V 109><Q Wol.><S Wol.> I know your Majesty, ha's alwayes lov'd her
<L 1158> So deare in heart, not to deny her that
<L 1159> A Woman of lesse Place might aske by Law;
<L 1160> Schollers allow'd freely to argue for her.
<L 1161><V 113><Q Kin.><S King.> I and the best she shalle have; and my favour
<L 1162> To him that does best, God forbid els;  Cardinall,
<L 1163> Prethee call Gardiner to me, my new Secretary.
<L 1164> I find him a fit fellow.
<L 1165><D  Enter Gardiner.>
<L 1166><V 117><Q Wol.><S Wol.> Give me your hand: much joy & favour to you;
<L 1167> You are the Kings now.
<L 1168><V 118><Q Gard.><S Gard.> But to be commanded
<L 1169> For ever by your Grace, whose hand ha's rais'd me.
<L 1170><V 120><Q Kin.><S King.> Come hither Gardiner.
<L 1171><D  Walkes and whispers.>
<L 1172><V 121><Q Camp.><S Cam.> My Lord of Yorke, was not one Doctor Pase
<L 1173> In this mans place before him?
<L 1174><V 122><Q Wol.><S Wol.> Yes, he was.
<L 1175><V 123><Q Camp.><S Cam.> Was he not held a learned man?
<L 1176><V 123><Q Wol.><S Wol.> Yes surely.
<L 1177><V 124><Q Camp.><S Cam.> Beleeve me, there's an ill opinion spread then,
<L 1178> Even of your selfe Lord Cardinall.
<L 1179><V 125><Q Wol.><S Wol.> How? of me?
<L 1180><V 126><Q Camp.><S Cam.> They will sticke to say, you envide him;
<L 1181> And fearing he would rise (he was so vertuous)
<L 1182> Kept him a forraigne man still, which so greev'd him,
<L 1183> That he ran mad, and dide.
<L 1184><V 129><Q Wol.><S Wol.> Heav'ns peace be with him:
<L 1185> That's Christian care enough:  for living Murmurers,
<L 1186> There's places of rebuke.  He was a Foole;
<L 1187> For he would needs be vertuous.  That good Fellow,
<L 1188> If I command him followes my appointment,
<L 1189> I will have none so neere els.  Learne this Brother,
<L 1190> We live not to be grip'd dy meaner persons.
<L 1191><V 136><Q Kin.><S King.> Deliver this with modesty to th' Queene.
<L 1192><D  Exit Gardiner.>
<L 1193> The most convenient place, that I can thinke of
<L 1194> For such receipt of Learning, is Black-Fryers:
<L 1195> There ye shall meete about this waighty busines.
<L 1196> My Wolsey, see it furnish'd, O my Lord,
<L 1197> Would it not grieve an able man to leave
<L 1198> So Sweet a Bedfellow?  But Conscience, Conscience;
<L 1199>O 'tis a tender place, and I must leave her.   <D Exeunt.>
<I 2.3><L 1200><Z  Scena Tertia.>
<L 1201><D  Enter Anne Bullen, and an old Lady.>
<L 1202><V 1><Q An.><S Anne.> Not for that neither; here's the pang that
 pinches.
<L 1203> His Highnesse, having liv'd so long with her, and she
<L 1204> So good a Lady, that no Tongue could ever
<L 1205> Pronounce dishonour of her; by my life,
<L 1206> She never knew harme-doing; Oh, now after
<L 1207> So many courses of the Sun enthroaned,
<L 1208> Still growing in a Majesty and pompe, the which
<L 1209> To leave a thousand fold more bitter, then
<L 1210> 'Tis sweet at first t' acquire  After this Processe.
<L 1211> To give her the avaunt, it is a pitty
<L 1212> Would move a Monster.
<L 1213><V 11><Q Old La.><S Old L.> Hearts of most hard temper
<L 1214> Melt and lament for her.
<L 1215><V 12><Q An.><S Anne.> Oh Gods will, much better
<L 1216> She ne're had knowne pompe; though 't be temporall,
<L 1217> Yet if that quarrell.  Fortune, do divorce
<L 1218> It from the bearer, 'tis a sufferance, panging
<L 1219> As soule and bodies severing.
<L 1220><V 16><Q Old L.><S Old L.> Alas poore Lady,
<L 1221> Shee's a stranger now againe.
<L 1222><V 17><Q An.><S Anne.> So much the more
<L 1223> Must pitty drop upon her; verily
<L 1224> I sweare, tis better to be lowly borne,
<L 1225> And range with humble livers in Content,
<L 1226> Then to be perk'd up in a glistring griefe,
<L 1227> And weare a golden sorrow.
<L 1228><V 22><Q Old L.><S Old L.> Our content
<L 1229> Is our best having.
<L 1230><V 23><Q Anne.><S Anne.> By my troth, and Maidenhead,
<L 1231> I would not be a Queene.
<L 1232><V 24><Q Old. L.><S Old L.> Beshrew me, I would,
<L 1233> And venture Maidenhead for 't, and so would you
<L 1234> For all this spice of your Hipocrisie:
<L 1235> You that have so faire parts of Woman on you,
<L 1236> Have (too) a Womans heart, which ever yet
<L 1237> Affected Eminence, Wealth, Soveraignty;
<L 1238> Which to say sooth, are Blessings; and which guifts
<L 1239> (Saving your mincing) the capacity
<L 1240> Of your soft Chiverell Conscience, would receive,
<L 1241> If you might please to strech it.
<L 1242><V 33><Q Anne.><S Anne.> Nay, good troth.
<L 1243><V 34><Q Old L.><S Old L.> Yes troth, & troth; you would not be a Queen?
<L 1244><V 35><Q Anne.><S Anne.> No, not for all the riches under Heaven.
<L 1245><V 36><Q Old. L.><S Old L.> Tis strange; a threepence bow'd would hire
 me
<L 1246> Old as I am, to Queene it:  but I pray you,
<L 1247> What thinke you of a Dutchesse?  Have you limbs
<L 1248> To beare that load of Title?
<L 1249><V 39><Q An.><S Anne.> No in truth.
<L 1250><V 40><Q Old. L.><S Old L.> Then you are weakly made; plucke off a
 little,
<L 1251> I would not be a young Count in your way,
<L 1252> For more then blushing comes to:  If your backe
<L 1253> Cannot vouchsafe this burthen, tis too weake
<L 1254> Ever to get a Boy.
<L 1255><V 44><Q An.><S Anne.> How you doe talke;
<L 1256> I sweare againe, I would not be a Queene,
<L 1257> For all the world:
<L 1258><V 46><Q Old. L.><S Old L.> In faith, for little England
<L 1259> You'ld venture an emballing: I my selfe
<L 1260> Would for Carnarvanshire, although there long'd
<L 1261> No more to th' Crowne but that:  Lo, who comes here?
<L 1262><D  Enter Lord Chamberlaine.>
<L 1263><V 50><Q L. Cham.><S Cham.> Good morrow Ladies; what wer't worth to know
<L 1264> The secret of your conference?
<L 1265><V 51><Q An.><S Anne.> My good Lord,
<L 1266> Not your demand; it values not your asking:
<L 1267> Our Mistris Sorrowes we were pittying.
<L 1268><V 54><Q Cham.><S Cham.> It was a gentle businesse, and becomming
<L 1269> The action of good women, there is hope
<L 1270> All will be well.
<L 1271><V 56><Q An.><S Anne.> Now I pray God, Amen.
<L 1272><V 57><Q Cham.><S Cham.> You beare a gentle minde, & heav'nly blessings
<L 1273> Follow such Creatures.  That you may, faire Lady
<L 1274> Perceive I speake sincerely, and high notes
<L 1275> Tane of your many vertues; the Kings Majesty
<L 1276> Commends his good opinion of you, to you; and
<L 1277> Doe's purpose honour to you no lesse flowing,
<L 1278> Then Marchionesse of Pembrooke; to which Title,
<L 1279> A Thousand pound a yeare, Annuall support,
<L 1280> Out of his Grace, he addes.
<L 1281><V 65><Q An.><S Anne.> I doe not know
<L 1282> What kinde of my obedience, I should tender;
<L 1283> More then my All, is Nothing:  Nor my Prayers
<L 1284> Are not words duely hallowed; not my Wishes
<L 1285> More worth, then empty vanities:  yet Prayers & Wishes
<L 1286> Are all I can returne.  'Beseech your Lordship,
<L 1287> Vouchsafe to speake my thankes, and my obedience,
<L 1288> As from a blushing Handmaid, to his Highnesse;
<L 1289> Whose health and Royalty I pray for.
<L 1290><V 73><Q Cham.><S Cham.> Lady;
<L 1291> I shall not faile t' approve the faire conceit
<L 1292> The King hath of you.  I have perus'd her well,
<L 1293> Beauty and Honour in her are so mingled,
<L 1294> That they have caught the King:  and who knowes yet
<L 1295> But from this Lady, may proceed a Jemme,
<L 1296> To lighten all this Ile. I'le to the King,
<L 1297> And say I spoke with you.
<L 1298><D  Exit Lord Chamberlaine.>
<L 1299><Q An.><S Anne.> My honour'd Lord.
<L 1300><V 81><Q Old. L.><S Old L.> Why this it is:  See, see,
<L 1301> I have beene begging sixteene yeares in Court
<L 1302> (Am yet a Courtier beggerly) not could
<L 1303> Come pat betwixt too early, and too late
<L 1304> For any suit of pounds:  and you, (oh fate)
<L 1305> A very fresh Fish heere; fye, fye, fye upon
<L 1306> This compel'd fortune:  have your mouth fild up,
<L 1307> Before you open it.
<L 1308><V 88><Q An.><S Anne.> This is strange to me.
<L 1309><V 89><Q Old L.><S Old L.> How tasts it?  Is it bitter?  Forty pence,
 no:
<L 1310> There was a Lady once (tis an old Story)
<L 1311> That would not be a Queene, that would she not
<L 1312> For all the mud in Egypt; have you heard it?
<L 1313><V 93><Q An.><S Anne.> Come you are pleasant.
<L 1314><V 93><Q Old. L.><S Old L.> With your Theame, I could
<L 1315> O're-mount the Larke:  The Marchionesse of Pembrooke?
<L 1316> A thousand pounds a yeare, for pure respect?
<L 1317> No other obligation?  By my Life,
<L 1318> That promises mo thousands:  Honours traine
<L 1319> Is longer then his fore-skirt; by this time
<L 1320> I know your backe will beare a Dutchesse.  Say,
<L 1321> Are you not stronger then you were?
<L 1322><V 100><Q An.><S Anne.> Good Lady,
<L 1323> Make your selfe mirth with your particular fancy,
<L 1324> And leave me out on 't.  Would I had no being
<L 1325> If this salute my blood a jot; it faints me
<L 1326> To thinke what followes.
<L 1327> The Queene is comfortlesse, and wee forgetfull
<L 1328> In our long absence:  pray doe not deliver,
<L 1329> What heere y' have heard to her.
<L 1330><V 107><Q Old L.><S Old L.> What doe you thinke me =          <D
 Exeunt.>
<I 2.4><L 1331><Z  Scena Quarta.>
<L 1332><D  Trumpets, Sennet, and Cornets.>
<L 1333><D  Enter two Vergers, with short silver wands; next them two>
<L 1334><D  Scribes in the habite of Doctors; after them, the Bishop of>
<L 1335><D  Canterbury alone; after him, the Bishops of Lincolne, Ely,>
<L 1336><D  Rochester, and S. Asaph:  Next them with some small>
<L 1337><D  distance, followes a Gentleman bearing the Purse, with the>
<L 1338><D  great Seale, and a Cardinals Hat: Then two Priests, bea->
<L 1339><D  ring each a Silver Crosse:  Then a Gentleman Usher bare->
<L 1340><D  headed, accompanyed with a Sergeant at Armes, bearing a>
<L 1341><D  Silver Mace:  Then two Gentlemen bearing two great>
<L 1342><D  Silver Pillers:  After them, side by side, the two Cardinals,>
<L 1343><D  two Noblemen, with the Sword and Mace.  The King takes>
<L 1344><D  place under the Cloth of State.  The two Cardinalls sit>
<L 1345><D  under him as Judges.  The Queene takes place some di->
<L 1346><D  stance from the King.  The Bishops place themselves on>
<L 1347><D  each side the Court in manner of a Consistory:  Below them>
<L 1348><D  the Scribes.  The Lords sit next the Bishops.  The rest of the>
<L 1349><D  Attendants stand in convenient order about the Stage.>
<L 1350><V 1><Q Car.><S Wol.> Whil'st our Commission from Rome is read,
<L 1351> Let silence be commanded.
<L 1352><V 2><Q King.><S King.> What's the need?
<L 1353> It hath already publiquely bene read,
<L 1354> And on all sides th' Authority allow'd,
<L 1355> You may then spare that time.
<L 1356><V 5><Q Car.><S Wol.> Bee 't so, proceed.
<L 1357><V 6><Q Scri.><S Scribe.> Say, Henry K. of England, come into the Court.
<L 1358><V 7><Q Crier.><S Crier.> Henry King of England, &c.
<L 1359><V 8><Q King.><S King.> Heere.
<L 1360><V 9><Q Scribe.><S Scribe.> Say, Katherine Queene of England,
<L 1361> Come into the Court.
<L 1362><V 10><Q Crier.><S Crier.> Katherine Queene of England, &c.
<L 1363><D  The Queene makes no answer, rises out of her Chaire,>
<L 1364><D  goes about the Court, comes to the King, and kneeles at>
<L 1365><D  his Feete.  Then speakes.>
<L 1366> Sir, I desire you do me Right and Justice,
<L 1367> And to bestow your pitty on me;  for
<L 1368> I am a most poore Woman, and a Stranger,
<L 1369> Borne out of your Dominions: having heere
<L 1370> No Judge indifferent, nor no more assurance
<L 1371> Of equall Friendship and Proceeding.  Alas Sir:
<L 1372> In what have I offended you?  What cause
<L 1373> Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure,
<L 1374> That thus you should proceede to put me off,
<L 1375> And take your good Grace from me? Heaven witnesse,
<L 1376> I have bene to you, a true and humble Wife,
<L 1377> At all times to your will conformable:
<L 1378> Ever in feare to kindle your Dislike,
<L 1379> Yea, subject to your Countenance:  Glad, or sorry
<L 1380> As I saw it inclin'd?  When was the houre
<L 1381> I ever contradicted your Desire?
<L 1382> Or made it not mine too?  Of which of your Friends
<L 1383> Have I not strove to love, although I knew
<L 1384> He were mine Eneny?  What Friend of mine,
<L 1385> That had to him deriv'd your Anger, did I
<L 1386> Continue in my Liking?  Nay, gave notice
<L 1387> He was from thence discharg'd?  Sir, call to minde,
<L 1388> That I have beene your Wife, in this Obedience,
<L 1389> Upward of twenty yeares, and have bene blest
<L 1390> With many Children by you.  If in the course
<L 1391> And processe of this time, you can report,
<L 1392> And prove it too, against mine Honor, aught;
<L 1393> My bond to Wedlocke, or my Love and Dutie
<L 1394> Against your Sacred Person; in Gods name
<L 1395> Turne me away: and let the fowl'st Contempt
<L 1396> Shut doore upon me, and so give me up
<L 1397> To the sharp'st kinde of Justice.  Please you, Sir,
<L 1398> The King your Father, was reputed for
<L 1399> A Prince most Prudent; of an excellent
<L 1400> And unmatch'd Wit, and Judgement.  Ferdinand
<L 1401> My Father, King of Spaine, was reckon'd one
<L 1402> The wisest Prince, that there had reign'd, by many
<L 1403> A yeare before.  It is not to be question'd,
<L 1404> That they had gather'd a wise Councell to them
<L 1405> Of every Realme, that did debate this Businesse,
<L 1406> Who deem'd our Marriage lawful.  Wherefore I humbly
<L 1407> Beseech you Sir, to spare me, till I may
<L 1408> Be by my Friends in Spaine, advis'd;  whose Counsaile
<L 1409> I will implore.  If not, i' th' name of God
<L 1410> Your pleasure be fulfill'd.
<L 1411><V 55><Q Wol.><S Wol.> You have heere Lady,
<L 1412> (And of your choice) these Reverend Fathers, men
<L 1413> Of singular Integrity, and Learning;
<L 1414> Yea, the elect o' th' Land, who are assembled
<L 1415> To pleade your Cause.  It shall be therefore bootlesse,
<L 1416> That longer you desire the Court, as well
<L 1417> For your owne quiet, as to rectifie
<L 1418> What is unsetled in the King.
<L 1419><V 62><Q Camp.><S Cam.> His Grace
<L 1420> Hath spoken well, and justly:  Therefore Madam,
<L 1421> It's fit this Royall Session do proceed,
<L 1422> And that (without delay) their Arguments
<L 1423> Be now produc'd, and heard.
<L 1424><V 999><Q Qu.><S Kath.> Lord Cardinall, to you I speake.
<L 1425><V 999><Q Wol.><S Wol.> Your pleasure, Madam.
<L 1426><V 999><Q Qu.><S Kath.> Sir, I am about to weep; but thinking that
<L 1427> We are a Queene (or long have dream'd so) certaine
<L 1428> The daughter of a King, my drops of teares,
<L 1429> Ile turne to sparkes of fire.
<L 1430><V 71><Q Wol.><S Wol.> Be patient yet.
<L 1431><V 72><Q Qu.><S Kath.> I will, when you are humble; Nay before,
<L 1432> Or God will punish me.  I do beleeve
<L 1433> (Induc'd by potent Circumstances) that
<L 1434> You are mine Enemy, and make my Challenge,
<L 1435> You shall not be my Judge.  For it is you
<L 1436> Have blowne this Coale, betwixt my Lord, and me;
<L 1437> (Which Gods dew quench) therefore, I say againe,
<L 1438> I utterly abhorre; yea, from my Soule
<L 1439> Refuse you for my Judge, whom yet once more
<L 1440> I hold my most malicious Foe, and thinke not
<L 1441> At all a Friend to truth.
<L 1442><V 82><Q Wol.><S Wol.> I do professe
<L 1443> You speak not like your selfe: who ever yet
<L 1444> Have stood to Charity, and displayd th' effects
<L 1445> Of disposition gentle, and of wisedome,
<L 1446> Ore-topping womans powre.  Madam, you do me wrong
<L 1447> I have no Spleene against you, no injustice
<L 1448> For you, or any: How farre I have proceeded,
<L 1449> Or how farre further (Shall) is warranted
<L 1450> By a Commission from the Consistorie,
<L 1451> Yea, the whole Consistorie of Rome.  You charge me,
<L 1452> That I have blowne this Coale: I do deny it,
<L 1453> The King is present:  If it be knowne to him,
<L 1454> That I gainsay my Deed, how may he wound,
<L 1455> And worthily my Falsehood, yea, as much
<L 1456> As you have done my Truth.  If he know
<L 1457> That I am free of your Report, he knowes
<L 1458> I am not of your wrong.  Therefore in him
<L 1459> It lies to cure me, and the Cure is to
<L 1460> Remove these Thoughts from you.  The which before
<L 1461> His Highnesse shall speake in, I do beseech
<L 1462> You (gracious Madam) to unthinke your speaking,
<L 1463> And to say so no more.
<L 1464><V 103><Q Queen.><S Kath.> My Lord, my Lord,
<L 1465> I am a simple woman, much too weake
<L 1466> T' oppose your cunning.  Y' are meek, & humble-mouth'd
<L 1467> You signe your Place, and Calling, in full seeming,
<L 1468> With Meekenesse and Humilitie: but your Heart
<L 1469> Is cramm'd with Arrogancie, Spleene, and Pride.
<L 1470> You have by Fortune, and his Highnesse favors,
<L 1471> Gone slightly o're lowe steppes, and now are mounted
<L 1472> Where Powres are your Retainers, and your words
<L 1473> (Domestickes to you) serve your will, as 't please
<L 1474> Your selfe pronounce their Office.  I must tell you,
<L 1475> You tender more your persons Honor, then
<L 1476> Your high profession Spirituall.  That agen
<L 1477> I do refuse you for my Judge, and heere
<L 1478> Before you all, Appeale unto the Pope,
<L 1479> To bring my whole Cause 'fore his Holinesse,
<L 1480> And to be judg'd by him.
<L 1481><D  She Curtsies to the King, and offers to depart.>
<L 1482><V 119><Q Camp.><S Cam.> The Queene is obstinate,
<L 1483> Stubborne to Justice, apt to accuse it, and
<L 1484> Disdainfull to be tride by 't; tis not well.
<L 1485> Shee's going away.
<L 1486><V 123><Q Kin.><S King.> Call her againe.
<L 1487><V 124><Q Crier.><S Crier.> Katherine Q of England, come into the Court.
<L 1488><V 125><Q Gent. Ush.><S Gent. Ush.> Madam, you are cald backe.
<L 1489><V 126><Q Que.><S Kath.> What need you note it? pray you keep your way,
<L 1490> When you are cald returne.  Now the Lord helpe,
<L 1491> They vexe me past my patience. pray you passe on;
<L 1492> I will not tarry: no, nor ever more
<L 1493> Upon this businesse my appearance make.
<L 1494> In any of their Courts.
<L 1495><D  Exit Queene, and her Attendants.>
<L 1496><V 131><Q Kin.><S King.> Goe thy wayes Kate,
<L 1497> That man i' th' world, who shall report ha's
<L 1498> A better Wife, let him in naught be trusted,
<L 1499> For speaking false in that; thou art alone
<L 1500> (If thy rare qualities, sweet gentlenesse,
<L 1501> Thy meeknesse Saint-like, Wife-like Government,
<L 1502> Obeying in commanding, and thy parts
<L 1503> Soveraigne and Pious els, could speake thee out)
<L 1504> The Queene of earthly Queenes: Shee's Noble borne;
<L 1505> And like her true Nobility, she ha's
<L 1506> Carried her selfe towards me.
<L 1507><V 141><Q Wol.><S Wol.> Most gracious Sir,
<L 1508> In humblest manner I require you Highnes,
<L 1509> That it shall please you to declare in hearing
<L 1510> Of all these eares (for where I am rob'd and bound,
<L 1511> There must I be unloos'd, although not there
<L 1512> At once, and fully satisfide) whether ever I
<L 1513> Did broach this busines to your Highnes, or
<L 1514> Laid any scruple in your way which might
<L 1515> Induce you to the question on 't: or ever
<L 1516> Have to you, but with thankes to God for such
<L 1517> A Royall Lady, spake one, the least word that might
<L 1518> Be to the prejudice of her present State,
<L 1519> Or touch of her good Person?
<L 1520><V 153><Q Kin.><S King.> My Lord Cardinall,
<L 1521> I doe excuse you; yea, upon mine Honour,
<L 1522> I free you from 't: You are not to be taught
<L 1523> That you have many enemies, that know not
<L 1524> Why they are so; but like to Village Curres,
<L 1525> Bark when their fellowes doe.  By some of these
<L 1526> The Queene is put in anger; y' are excus'd
<L 1527> But will you be more justifi'de? You ever
<L 1528> Have wish'd the sleeping of this busines, never desir'd
<L 1529> It to be stir'd; but oft have hindred, oft
<L 1530> The passages made toward it; on my Honour,
<L 1531> I speake my good Lord Cardnall, to this point;
<L 1532> And thus farre cleare him.
<L 1533> Now, what mov'd me too 't,
<L 1534> I will be bold with time and your attention:
<L 1535> Then marke th' inducement.  Thus it came; give heede too 't:
<L 1536> My Conscience first receiv'd a tendernes,
<L 1537> Scruple, and pricke, on certaine Speeches utter'd
<L 1538> By th' Bishop of Bayon, then French Embassador,
<L 1539> Who had beene hither sent on the debating
<L 1540> And Marriage 'twixt the Duke of Orleance, and
<L 1541> Our Daughter Mary:  I' th' Progresse of this busines,
<L 1542> Ere a determinate resolution, hee
<L 1543> (I meane the Bishop) did require a respite,
<L 1544> Wherein he might the King his Lord advertise
<L 1545> Whether our Daughter were legitimate,
<L 1546> Respecting this our Marriage with the Dowager,
<L 1547> Sometimes our Brothers Wife.  This respite shooke
<L 1548> The bosome of my Conscience, enter'd me;
<L 1549> Yea, with a spitting power, and made to tremble
<L 1550> The region of my Breast, which forc'd such way,
<L 1551> That many maz'd considerings, did throng
<L 1552> And prest in with this Caution.  First, me thought
<L 1553> I stood not in the smile of heaven, who had
<L 1554> Commanded Nature, that my Ladies wombe
<L 1555> If it conceiv'd a male-child by me, should
<L 1556> Doe no more Offices of life too 't; then
<L 1557> The Grave does to th' dead:  For her Male Issue,
<L 1558> Or di'de where they were made, or shortly after
<L 1559> This world had ayr'd them.  Hence I tooke a thought,
<L 1560> This was a Judgement on me, that my Kingdome
<L 1561> (Well worthy the best Heyre o' th' World) should not
<L 1562> Be gladded in 't by me.  Then followes, that
<L 1563> I weigh'd the danger which my Realme stood in
<L 1564> By this my Issues faile, and that gave to me
<L 1565> Many a groaning throw: thus hulling in
<L 1566> The wild Sea of my Conscience, I did steere
<L 1567> Toward this remedy, whereupon we are
<L 1568> Now present heere together: that's to say,
<L 1569> I meant to rectifie my Conscience, which
<L 1570> I then did feele full sicke, and yet not well,
<L 1571> By all the reverend Fathers of the Land,
<L 1572> And Doctors learn'd.  First I began in private,
<L 1573> With you my Lord of Lincolne; you remember
<L 1574> How under my oppression I did reeke
<L 1575> When I first mov'd you.
<L 1576><V 207><Q B. Lin.><S Linc.> Very well my Liedge.
<L 1577><V 208><Q Kin.><S King.> I have spoke long, be pleas'd your selfe to say
<L 1578> How farre you satisfide me.
<L 1579><V 209><Q Lin.><S Linc.> So please your Highnes,
<L 1580> The question did at first to stagger me,
<L 1581> Bearing a State of mighty moment in 't,
<L 1582> And consequence of dread, that I committed
<L 1583> The daringst Counsaile which I had to doubt,
<L 1584> And did entreate your Highnes to this course,
<L 1585> Which you are running heere.
<L 1586><V 215><Q Kin.><S King.> I then mov'd you,
<L 1587> My Lord of Canterbury, and got your leave
<L 1588> To make this present Summons unsolicited.
<L 1589> I left no Reverend Person in this Court;
<L 1590> But by particular consent proceeded
<L 1591> Under your hands and Seales; therefore goe on,
<L 1592> For no dislike i' th' world against the person
<L 1593> Of the good Queene; but the sharpe thorny points
<L 1594> Of my alleadged reasons, drives this forward:
<L 1595> Prove but our Marriage lawfull, by my Life
<L 1596> And Kingly Dignity, we are contented
<L 1597> To weare our mortall State to come, with her,
<L 1598> (Katherine our Queene) before the primest Creature
<L 1599> That's Parragon' o' th' World.
<L 1600><V 228><Q Camp.><S Cam.> So please your Highnes,
<L 1601> The Queene being absent, 'tis a needfull fitnesse,
<L 1602> That we adjourne this Court till further day;
<L 1603> Meane while, must be an earnest motion
<L 1604> Made to the Queene to call backe her Appeale
<L 1605> She intends unto his Holinesse.
<L 1606><V 233><Q Kin.><S King.> I may perceive
<L 1607> These Cardinals trifle with me:  I abhorre
<L 1608> This dilatory sloth, and trickes of Rome.
<L 1609> My learn'd and welbeloved Servant Cranmer,
<L 1610> Prethee returne, with thy approch:  I know,
<L 1611> My comfort comes along:  breake up the Court;
<L 1612> I say, set on.
<L 1613><D  Exeunt, in manner as they enter'd.>
<I 3.1><L 1614><Z  Actus Tertius.  Scena Prima.>
<L 1615><D  Enter Queene and her Women as at worke.>
<L 1616><V 1><Q Queene.><S Kath.>  Take thy Lute wench,
<L 1617> My soule growes sad with troubles,
<L 1618> Sing, and disperse 'em if thou canst: leave working:
<L 1619><D  Song.>
<L 1620> Orpheus with his Lute made Trees,
<L 1621> And the Mountaine tops that freeze,
<L 1622> Bow themselves when he did sing.
<L 1623> To his Musicke, Plants and Flowers
<L 1624> Ever sprung; as Sunne and Showers,
<L 1625> There had made a lasting Spring.
<L 1626> Every thing that heard him play,
<L 1627> Even the Billowes of the Sea,
<L 1628> Hung their heads, & then lay by.
<L 1629> In sweet Musicke is such Art,
<L 1630> Killing care, & griefe of heart,
<L 1631> Fall asleepe, or hearing dye.
<L 1632><D  Enter a Gentleman.>
<L 1633><V 15><Q Queen.><S Kath.> How now?
<L 1634><V 16><Q Gent.><S Gent.> And 't please your Grace, the two great
 Cardinals
<L 1635> Wait in the presence.
<L 1636><V 17><Q Queen.><S Kath.> Would they speake with me?
<L 1637><V 18><Q Gent.><S Gent.> They wil'd me say so Madam.
<L 1638><V 18><Q Queen.><S Kath.> Pray their Graces
<L 1639> To come neere: what can be their busines
<L 1640> With me, a poore weake woman, falne from favour?
<L 1641> I doe not like their comming; now I thinke on 't
<L 1642> They should bee good men, their affaires as righteous:
<L 1643> But all Hoods, make not Monkes.
<L 1644><D  Enter the two Cardinalls, Wolsey & Campian.>
<L 1645><Q Wols.><S Wol.> Peace to your Highnesse.
<L 1646><V 24><Q Queen.><S Kath.> Your Graces find me heere part of a Houswife,
<L 1647> (I would be all) against the worst may happen:
<L 1648> What are your pleasures with me, reverent Lords?
<L 1649><V 27><Q Wol.><S Wol.> May it please you Noble Madam, to withdraw
<L 1650> Into your private Chamber; we shall give you
<L 1651> The full cause of our comming.
<L 1652><V 29><Q Queen.><S Kath.> Speake it heere.
<L 1653> There's nothing I have done yet o' my Conscience
<L 1654> Deserves a Corner: would all other Women
<L 1655> Could speake this with as free a Soule as I doe.
<L 1656> My Lords, I care not (so much I am happy
<L 1657> Above a number) if my actions
<L 1658> Were tri'de by ev'ry tongue, ev'ry eye saw 'em,
<L 1659> Envy and base opinion set against 'em,
<L 1660> I know my life so even.  If your busines
<L 1661> Seeke me out, and that way I am Wife in;
<L 1662> Out with it boldly: Truth loves open dealing.
<L 1663><V 40><Q Card.><S Wol.> Tanta est erga te mentis integritas Regina
 serenissima.
<L 1664><V 42><Q Queen.><S Kath.> O good my Lord, no Latin;
<L 1665> I am not such a Truant since my comming,
<L 1666> As not to know the Language I have liv'd in:
<L 1667> A strange Tongue makes my cause more strange, suspitious:
<L 1668> Pray speake in English; heere are some will thanke you,
<L 1669> If you speake truth, for their poore Mistris sake;
<L 1670> Beleeve me she ha's had much wrong.  Lord Cardinall,
<L 1671> The willing'st sinne I ever yet committed,
<L 1672> May be absolv'd in English.
<L 1673><V 50><Q Card.><S Wol.> Noble Lady,
<L 1674> I am sorry my integrity shoul breed,
<L 1675> (And service to his Majesty and you)
<L 1676> So deepe suspition, where all faith was meant;
<L 1677> We come not by the way of Accusation,
<L 1678> To taint that honour every good Tongue blesses;
<L 1679> Nor to betray you any way to sorrow;
<L 1680> You have too much good Lady:  But to know
<L 1681> How you stand minded in the waighty difference
<L 1682> Betweene the King and you, and to deliver
<L 1683> (Like free and honest men) our just opinions,
<L 1684> And comforts to our cause.
<L 1685><V 61><Q Camp.><S Cam.> Most honour'd Madam,
<L 1686> My Lord of Yorke, out of his Noble nature,
<L 1687> Zeale and obedience he still bore your Grace,
<L 1688> Forgetting (like a good man) your late Censure
<L 1689> Both of his truth and him (which was too farre)
<L 1690> Offers, as I doe, in a signe of peace,
<L 1691> His Service, and Counsell.
<L 1692><V 67><Q Queen.><S Kath.> To betray me.
<L 1693> My Lords, I thanke you both for your good wills,
<L 1694> Ye speake like honest men, (pray God ye prove so)
<L 1695> But how to make ye sodainly an Answere
<L 1696> In such a poynt of weight, so neere mine Honour,
<L 1697> (More neere my Life I feare) with my weake wit;
<L 1698> And to such men of gravity and learning;
<L 1699> In truth I know not.  I was set at worke,
<L 1700> Among my Maids, full little (God knowes) looking
<L 1701> Either for such men, or such businesse;
<L 1702> For her sake that I have beene, for I feele
<L 1703> The last fit of my Greatnesse; good your Graces
<L 1704> Let me have time and Councell for my Cause:
<L 1705> Alas, I am a Woman frendlesse, hopelesse.
<L 1706><V 81><Q Wol.><S Wol.> Madam,
<L 1707> You wrong the Kings love with these feares,
<L 1708> Your hopes and friends are infinite.
<L 1709><V 82><Q Queen.><S Kath.> In England,
<L 1710> But little for my profit can you thinke Lords,
<L 1711> That any English man dare give me Councell?
<L 1712> Or be a knowne friend 'gainst his Highnes pleasure,
<L 1713> (Though he be growne so desperate to be honest)
<L 1714> And live a Subject?  Nay forsooth, my Friends,
<L 1715> They that must weigh out my afflictions,
<L 1716> They that my trust must grow to, live not heere,
<L 1717> They are (as all my other comforts) far hence
<L 1718> In mine owne Countrey Lords.
<L 1719><V 91><Q Camp.><S Cam.> I would your Grace
<L 1720> Would leave your greefes, and take my Counsell.
<L 1721><V 92><Q Queen.><S Kath.> How Sir?
<L 1722><V 93><Q Camp.><S Cam.> Put your maine cause into the Kings protection,
<L 1723> Hee's loving and most gracious.  'Twill be much,
<L 1724> Both for your Honour better, and your Cause:
<L 1725> For if the tryall of the Law o'retake ye,
<L 1726> You'l part away disgrac'd.
<L 1727><V 97><Q Wol.><S Wol.> He tels you rightly.
<L 1728><V 98><Q Queen.><S Kath.> Ye tell me what ye wish for both, my ruine:
<L 1729> Is this your Christian Councell?  Out upon ye.
<L 1730> Heaven is above all yet;  there sits a Judge.
<L 1731> That no King can corrupt.
<L 1732><V 101><Q Camp.><S Cam.> Your rage mistakes us.
<L 1733><V 102><Q Queen.><S Kath.> The more shame for ye; holy men I thought ye,
<L 1734> Upon my Soule two reverend Cardinall Vertues:
<L 1735> But Cardinall Sins, and hollow hearts I feare ye:
<L 1736> Mend 'em for shame my Lords:  Is this your comfort?
<L 1737> The Cordiall that ye bring a wretched Lady?
<L 1738> A woman lost among ye, laugh't at, scornd?
<L 1739> I will not with ye halfe my miseries,
<L 1740> I have more Charity.  But say I warn'd ye;
<L 1741> Take heed, for heavens sake take heed, least at once
<L 1742> The burthen of my sorrowes, fall upon ye.
<L 1743><V 112><Q Car.><S Wol.> Madam, this is a meere distraction,
<L 1744> You turne the good we offer, into envy.
<L 1745><V 114><Q Quee.><S Kath.>  Ye turne me into nothing.  Woe upon ye,
<L 1746> And all such false Professors.  Would you have me
<L 1747> (If you have any Justice, any Pitty,
<L 1748> If ye be any thing but Churchmens habits)
<L 1749> Put my sicke cause into his hands, that hates me?
<L 1750> Alas, ha's banish'd me his Bed already,
<L 1751> His Love, too long ago.  I am old my Lords,
<L 1752> And all the Fellowship I hold now with him
<L 1753> Is onely my Obedience.  What can happen
<L 1754> To me, above this wretchednesse?  All your Studies
<L 1755> Make me a Curse, like this.
<L 1756><V 124><Q Camp.><S Cam.> Your feares are worse.
<L 1757><V 125><Q Qu.><S Kath.> Have I liv'd thus long (let me speake my selfe,
<L 1758> Since Vertue findes no friends) a Wife, a true one?
<L 1759> A Woman (I dare say without Vainglory)
<L 1760> Never yet branded with Suspition?
<L 1761> Have I, with all my full Affections
<L 1762> Still met the King?  Lov'd him next Heav'n?  Obey'd him?
<L 1763> Bin (out of fondnesse) superstitious to him?
<L 1764> Almost forgot my Prayres to content him:
<L 1765> And am I thus rewarded?  'Tis not well Lords.
<L 1766> Bring me a constant woman to her Husband,
<L 1767> One that ne're dream'd a Joy, beyond his pleasure;
<L 1768> And to that Woman (when she has done most)
<L 1769> Yet will I adde an Honor; a great Patience.
<L 1770><V 138><Q Car.><S Wol.> Madam, you wander from the good
<L 1771> We ayme at.
<L 1772><V 139><Q Qu.><S Kath.> My Lord,
<L 1773> I dare not make my selfe so guiltie,
<L 1774> To give up willingly that Noble Title
<L 1775> Your master wed me to:  nothing but death
<L 1776> Shall e're divorce my Dignities.
<L 1777><V 142><Q Car.><S Wol.>  Pray heare me.
<L 1778><V 143><Q Qu.><S Kath.> Would I had never trod this English Earth,
<L 1779> Or felt the Flatteries that grow upon it:
<L 1780> Ye have Angels Faces; but Heaven knowes your hearts.
<L 1781> What will become of me now, wretched Lady?
<L 1782> I am the most unhappy Woman living.
<L 1783> Alas (poore Wenches) where are now your Fortunes?
<L 1784> Shipwrack'd upon a Kingdome, where no Pitty,
<L 1785> No Friends, no Hope, no Kindred weepe for me?
<L 1786> Almost no Grave allow'd me? Like the Lilly
<L 1787> That once was Mistris of the Field, and flourish'd
<L 1788> Ile hang my head, and perish.
<L 1789><V 153><Q Car.><S Wol.> If your Grace
<L 1790> Could but be brought to know, our Ends are honest,
<L 1791> Youl'd feele more comfort.  Why shold we (good Lady)
<L 1792> Upon what cause wrong you?  Alas, our Places,
<L 1793> The way of our Professions is against it;
<L 1794> We are to Cure such sorrowes, not sowe 'em.
<L 1795> For Goodnesse sake, consider what you do,
<L 1796> How you may hurt your selfe:  I, utterly
<L 1797> Grow from the Kings Acquaintance, by this Carriage.
<L 1798> The hearts of Princes kisse Obedience,
<L 1799> So much they love it.  But to stubborne Spirits,
<L 1800> They swell and grow, as terrible as stormes.
<L 1801> I know you have a Gentle, Noble temper,
<L 1802> A Soule as even as a Calme; Pray thinke us,
<L 1803> Those we professe, Peace-makers, Friends, and Servants.
<L 1804><V 168><Q Camp.><S Cam.>  Madam you'l finde it so:
<L 1805> You wrong your Vertues
<L 1806> With these weake Womens feares.  A Noble Spirit
<L 1807> As yours was, put into you, ever casts
<L 1808> Such doubts as false Coine from it.  The King loves you,
<L 1809> Beware you loose it not:  For us (if you please
<L 1810> To trust us in your businesse) we are ready
<L 1811> To use our utmost Studies, in your service.
<L 1812><V 175><Q Qu.><S Kath.> Do what ye will, my Lords:
<L 1813> And pray forgive me;
<L 1814> If I have us'd my selfe unmannerly,
<L 1815> You know I am a Woman, lacking wit
<L 1816> To make a seemely answer to such persons.
<L 1817> Pray do my service to his Majestie,
<L 1818> He ha's my heart yet, and shall have my Prayers
<L 1819> While I shall have my life.  Come reverend Fathers,
<L 1820> Bestow your Councels on me.  She now begges
<L 1821> That little thought when she set footing heere,
<L 1822>She should have bought her Dignities so deere.  <D Exeunt>
<I 3.2><L 1823><Z  Scena Secunda.>
<L 1824><D  Enter the Duke of Norfolke, Duke of Suffolke, Lord Surrey,>
<L 1825><D  and Lord Chamberlaine.>
<L 1826><V 1><Q Norf.><S Nor.> If you will now unite in your Complaints,
<L 1827> And force them with a Constancy, the Cardinall
<L 1828> Cannot stand under them.  If you omit
<L 1829> The offer of this time, I cannot promise,
<L 1830> But that you shall sustaine moe new disgraces,
<L 1831> With these you beare alreadie.
<L 1832><V 6><Q Sur.><S Sur.> I am joyfull
<L 1833> To meete the least occasion, that may give me
<L 1834> Remembrance of my Father-in-Law, the Duke,
<L 1835> To be reveng'd on him.
<L 1836><V 9><Q Suf.><S Suf.> Which of the Peeres
<L 1837> Have uncontemn'd gone by him, or at least
<L 1838> Strangely neglected?  When did he regard
<L 1839> The stampe of Noblenesse in any person
<L 1840> Out of himselfe?
<L 1841><V 13><Q Cham.><S Cham.> My Lords, you speake your pleasures:
<L 1842> What he deserves of you and me, I know:
<L 1843> What we can do to him (though now the time
<L 1844> Gives way to us) I much feare.  If you cannot
<L 1845> Barre his accesse to' th' King, never attempt
<L 1846> Any thing on him:  for he hath a Witchcraft
<L 1847> Over the King in's Tongue.
<L 1848><V 19><Q Nor.><S Nor.> O feare him not,
<L 1849> His spell in that is out:  the King hath found
<L 1850> Matter against him, that for ever marres
<L 1851> The Hony of his Language.  No, he's setled
<L 1852> (Not to come off) in his displeasure.
<L 1853><V 23><Q Sur.><S Sur.> Sir,
<L 1854> I should be glad to heare such Newes as this
<L 1855> Once every houre.
<L 1856><V 25><Q Nor.><S Nor.> Beleeve it, this is true.
<L 1857> In the Divorce, his contrarie proceedings
<L 1858> Are all unfolded:  wherein he appeares,
<L 1859> As I would wish mine Enemy.
<L 1860><V 28><Q Sur.><S Sur.> How came
<L 1861> His practices to light?
<L 1862><V 29><Q Suf.><S Suf.> Most strangely.
<L 1863><V 29><Q Sur.><S Sur.> O how? how?
<L 1864><V 30><Q Suf.><S Suf.> The Cardinals Letters to the Pope miscarried,
<L 1865> And came to th' eye o' th' King, wherein was read
<L 1866> How that the Cardinall did intreat his Holinesse
<L 1867> To stay the Judgement o' th' Divorce; for if
<L 1868> It did take place, I do (quoth he) perceive
<L 1869> My King is tangled in affection, to
<L 1870> A Creature of the Queenes, Lady Anne Bullen.
<L 1871><V 37><Q Sur.><S Sur.> Ha's the King this?
<L 1872><V 37><Q Suf.><S Suf.> Beleeve it.
<L 1873><V 37><Q Sur.><S Sur.> Will this worke?
<L 1874><V 38><Q Cham.><S Cham.> The King in this perceives him, how he coasts
<L 1875> And hedges his owne way.  But in this point,
<L 1876> All his trickes founder, and he brings his Physicke
<L 1877> After his Patients death; the King already
<L 1878> Hath married the faire Lady.
<L 1879><V 42><Q Sur.><S Sur.> Would he had.
<L 1880><V 43><Q Suf.><S Suf.> May you be happy in your wish my Lord,
<L 1881> For I professe you have it.
<L 1882><V 44><Q Sur.><S Sur.> Now all my joy
<L 1883> Trace the Conjunction.
<L 1884><V 45><Q Suf.><S Suf.> My Amen too 't.
<L 1885><V 45><Q Nor.><S Nor.> All mens.
<L 1886><V 46><Q Suf.><S Suf.> There's order given for her Coronation:
<L 1887> Marry this is yet but yong, and may be left
<L 1888> To some eares unrecounted.  But my Lords
<L 1889> She is a gallant Creature, and compleate
<L 1890> In minde and feature.  I perswade me, from her
<L 1891> Will fall some blessing to this Land, which shall
<L 1892> In it be memoriz'd.
<L 1893><V 52><Q Sur.><S Sur.> But will the King
<L 1894> Digest this Letter of the Cardinals?
<L 1895> The Lord forbid.
<L 1896><V 54><Q Nor.><S Nor.> Marry Amen.
<L 1897><V 54><Q Suf.><S Suf.> No, no:
<L 1898> There be moe Waspes that buz about his Nose
<L 1899> Will make this sting the sooner.  Cardinall Campeius,
<L 1900> Is stolne away to Rome, hath 'tane no leave,
<L 1901> Ha's left the cause o' th' King unhandled, and
<L 1902> Is posted as the Agent of our Cardinall,
<L 1903> To second all his plot.  I do assure you,
<L 1904> The King cry'de Ha, at this.
<L 1905><V 61><Q Cham.><S Cham.> Now God incense him,
<L 1906> And let him cry Ha, lowder.
<L 1907><V 62><Q Norf.><S Nor.> But my Lord
<L 1908> When returnes Cranmer?
<L 1909><V 64><Q Suf.><S Suf.> He is return'd in his Opinions, which
<L 1910> Have satisfied the King for his Divorce,
<L 1911> Together with all famous Colledges
<L 1912> Almost in Christendome: shortly (I beleeve)
<L 1913> His second Marriage shall be publishd, and
<L 1914> Her Coronation.  Katherine no more
<L 1915> Shall be call'd Queene, but Princesse Dowager,
<L 1916> And Widdow to Prince Arthur.
<L 1917><V 71><Q Nor.><S Nor.> This same Cranmer's
<L 1918> A worthy Fellow, and hath tane much paine
<L 1919> In the Kings businesse.
<L 1920><V 73><Q Suf.><S Suf.> He ha's, and we shall see him
<L 1921> For it and Arch-byshop.
<L 1922><V 74><Q Nor.><S Nor.> So I heare.
<L 1923><V 74><Q Suf.><S Suf.> 'Tis so.
<L 1924><D  Enter Wolsey and Cromwell.>
<L 1925> The Cardinall.
<L 1926><V 75><Q Nor.><S Nor.> Observe, observe, hee's moody.
<L 1927><V 76><Q Car.><S Wol.> The Packet Cromwell,
<L 1928> Gav't you the King?
<L 1929><V 77><Q Crom.><S Crom.> To his owne hand, in's Bed-chamber.
<L 1930><V ><Q Card.><S Wol.> Look'd he o' th' inside of the Paper?
<L 1931><V ><Q Crom.><S Crom.> Presently
<L 1932> He did unseale them, and the first he view'd
<L 1933> He did it with a Serious minde: a heede
<L 1934> Was in his countenance.  You he bad
<L 1935> Attend him heere this Morning.
<L 1936><V ><Q Card.><S Wol.> Is he ready to come abroad?
<L 1937><V ><Q Crom.><S Crom.> I thinke by this he is.
<L 1938><V 84><Q Card.><S Wol.> Leave me a while.  <D  Exit Cromwell.>
<L 1939> It shall be to the Dutches of Alanson,
<L 1940> The French Kings Sister;  He shall marry her.
<L 1941> Anne Bullen? No:  Ile no Anne Bullens for him,
<L 1942> There's more in 't then faire Visage. Bullen?
<L 1943> No, wee'l no Bullens:  Speedily I wish
<L 1944> To heare from Rome.  The Marchionesse of Penbroke?
<L 1945><V 91><Q Nor.><S Nor.> He's discontented.
<L 1946><V 91><Q Suf.><S Suf.> Maybe he heares the King
<L 1947> Does whet his Anger to him.
<L 1948><V 92><Q Sur.><S Sur.> Sharpe enough,
<L 1949> Lord for thy Justice.
<L 1950><V 94><Q Card.><S Wol.> The late Queenes Gentlewoman?
<L 1951> A Knights Daughter
<L 1952> To be her Mistris Mistris?  The Queenes, Queene?
<L 1953> This Candle burnes not cleere, 'tis I must snuffe it,
<L 1954> Then out it goes.  What though I know her vertuous
<L 1955> And well deserving?  yet I know her for
<L 1956> A spleeny Lutheran, and not wholsome to
<L 1957> Our cause, that she should lye i' th' bosome of
<L 1958> Our hard rul'd King.  Againe, there is sprung up
<L 1959> An Heretique, an Arch-one; Cranmer, one
<L 1960> Hath crawl'd into the favour of the King,
<L 1961> And is his Oracle.
<L 1962><V 104><Q Nor.><S Nor.> He is vex'd at something.
<L 1963><D  Enter King, reading of a Scedule.>
<L 1964><V 105><Q Sur.><S Sur.> I would 'twer somthing that would fret the
 string,
<L 1965> The Master-cord on's heart.
<L 1966><V 106><Q Suf.><S Suf.> The King, the King.
<L 1967><V 107><Q King.><S King.> What piles of wealth hath he accumulated
<L 1968> To his owne portion? And what expence by' th' houre
<L 1969> Seemes to flow from him?  How, i' th' name of Thrift
<L 1970> Does he rake this together?  Now my Lords,
<L 1971> Saw you the Cardinall?
<L 1972><V 111><Q Nor.><S Nor.> My Lord, we have
<L 1973> Stood heere observing him.  Some strange Commotion
<L 1974> Is in his braine:  He bites his lip, and starts,
<L 1975> Stops on a sodaine, lookes upon the ground,
<L 1976> Then layes his finger on his Temple:  straight
<L 1977> Springs out into fast gate, then stops againe,
<L 1978> Strikes his brest hard, and anon, he casts
<L 1979> His eye against the Moone:  in most strange Postures
<L 1980> We have seene him set himselfe.
<L 1981><V 119><Q King.><S King.> It may well be,
<L 1982> There is a mutiny in's minde.  This morning,
<L 1983> Papers of State he sent me, to peruse
<L 1984> As I requir'd: and wot you what I found
<L 1985> There (on my Conscience put unwittingly)
<L 1986> Forsooth an Inventory, thus importing
<L 1987> The severall parcels of his Plate, his Treasure,
<L 1988> Rich Stuffes and Ornaments of Houshold, which
<L 1989> I finde at such proud Rate, that it out-speakes
<L 1990> Possession of a Subject.
<L 1991><V 128><Q Nor.><S Nor.> It's Heavens will,
<L 1992> Some Spirit put this paper in the Packet,
<L 1993> To blesse your eye withall.
<L 1994><V 130><Q King.><S King.>  If we did thinke
<L 1995> His Contemplation were above the earth,
<L 1996> And fixt on Spirituall object, he should still
<L 1997> Dwell in his Musings, but I am affraid
<L 1998> His Thinkings are below the Moone, not worth
<L 1999> His serious considering.
<L 2000><D  King takes his Seat, whispers Lovell, who goes>
<L 2001><D  to the Cardinall.>
<L 2002><V 135><Q Car.><S Wol.> Heaven forgive me,
<L 2003> Ever God blesse your Highnesse.
<L 2004><V 136><Q King.><S King.> Good my Lord,
<L 2005> You are full of Heavenly stuffe, and beare the Inventory
<L 2006> Of your best Graces, in your minde; the which
<L 2007> You were now running o're:  you have scarse time
<L 2008> To steale from Spirituall leysure, a briefe span
<L 2009> To keep your earthly Audit, sure in that
<L 2010> I deeme you an ill Husband, and am gald
<L 2011> To have you therein my Companion.
<L 2012><V 143><Q Car.><S Wol.> Sir,
<L 2013> For Holy Offices I have a time; a time
<L 2014> To thinke upon the part of business, which
<L 2015> I beare i' th' State:  and Nature does require
<L 2016> Her times of preservation, which perforce
<L 2017> I her fraile sonne, among'st my Brethren mortall,
<L 2018> Must give my tendance to.
<L 2019><V 149><Q King.><S King.> You have said well.
<L 2020><V 150><Q Car.><S Wol.> And ever may your Highnesse yoake together,
<L 2021> (As I will lend you cause) my doing well,
<L 2022> With my well saying.
<L 2023><V 152><Q King.><S King.> 'Tis well said agen,
<L 2024> And 'tis a kinde of good deede to say well,
<L 2025> And yet words are no deeds.  My Father lov'd you,
<L 2026> He said he did, and with his deed did Crowne
<L 2027> His word upon you.  Since I had my Office,
<L 2028> I have kept you next my Heart, have not alone
<L 2029> Imploy'd you where high Profits might come home,
<L 2030> But par'd my present Havings, to bestow
<L 2031> My Bounties upon you.
<L 2032><V 160><Q Car.><S Wol.> What should this meane?
<L 2033><V 161><Q Sur.><S Sur.> The Lord increase this businesse.
<L 2034><V 161><Q King.><S King.> Have I not made you
<L 2035> The prime man of the State?  I pray you tell me,
<L 2036> If what I now pronounce, you have found true:
<L 2037> And if you may confesse it, say withall
<L 2038> If you are bound to us, or no.  What say you?
<L 2039><V 166><Q Car.><S Wol.> My Soveraigne, I confesse your Royall graces
<L 2040> Showr'd on me daily, have bene more then could
<L 2041> My studied purposes requite, which went
<L 2042> Beyond all mans endeavors.  My endeavors,
<L 2043> Have ever come too short of my Desires,
<L 2044> Yet fill'd with my Abilities:  Mine owne ends
<L 2045> Have beene mine so, that evermore they pointed
<L 2046> To' th' good of your most Sacred Person, and
<L 2047> The profit of the State.  For your great Graces
<L 2048> Heap'd upon me (poore Undeserver) I
<L 2049> Can nothing render but Allegiant thankes,
<L 2050> My Prayres to heaven for you; my Loyaltie
<L 2051> Which ever ha's, and ever shall be growing,
<L 2052> Till death (that Winter) kill it.
<L 2053><V 179><Q King.><S King.> Fairely answer'd:
<L 2054> A Loyall, and obedient Subject is
<L 2055> Therein illustrated, the Honor of it
<L 2056> Does pay the Act of it, as i' th' contrary
<L 2057> The fowlenesse is the punishment.  I presume,
<L 2058> That as my hand ha's open'd Bounty to you,
<L 2059> My heart drop'd Love, my powre rain'd Honor, more
<L 2060> On you, then any:  So your Hand, and Heart,
<L 2061> Your Braine, and every Function of your power,
<L 2062> Should, notwithstanding that your bond of duty,
<L 2063> As 'twer in Loves particular, be more
<L 2064> To me your Friend, then any.
<L 2065><V 190><Q Car.><S Wol.> I do professe,
<L 2066> That for your Highnesse good, I ever labour'd
<L 2067> More then mine owne:  that am, have, and will be
<L 2068> (Though all the world should cracke their duty to you,
<L 2069> And throw it from their Soule, though perils did
<L 2070> Abound, as thicke as thought could make 'em, and
<L 2071> Appeare in formes more horrid) yet my Duty,
<L 2072> As doth a Rocke against the chiding Flood,
<L 2073> Should the approach of this wilde River breake,
<L 2074> And stand unshaken yours.
<L 2075><V 199><Q King.><S King.> 'Tis Nobly spoken:
<L 2076> Take notice Lords, he ha's a Loyall brest,
<L 2077> For you have seene him open't.  Read o're this,
<L 2078> And after this, and then to Breakfast with
<L 2079> What appetite you have.
<L 2080><D  Exit King, frowning upon the Cardinall, the Nobles>
<L 2081><D  throng after him smiling, and whispering.>
<L 2082><V 203><Q Car.><S Wol.> What should this meane?
<L 2083> What sodaine Anger's this?  How have I reap'd it?
<L 2084> He parted Frowning from me, as if Ruine
<L 2085> Leap'd from his Eyes.  So lookes the chafed Lyon
<L 2086> Upon the daring Huntsman that has gall'd him:
<L 2087> Then makes him nothing.  I must reade this paper:
<L 2088> I feare the Story of his Anger.  'Tis so:
<L 2089> This paper ha's undone me:  'Tis th' Accompt
<L 2090> Of all that world of Wealth I have drawne together
<L 2091> For mine owne ends, (Indeed to gaine the Popedome,
<L 2092> And fee my Friends in Rome.)  O Negligence!
<L 2093> Fit for a Foole to fall by:  What crosse Divell
<L 2094> Made me put this maine Secret in the Packet
<L 2095> I sent the King?  Is there no way to cure this?
<L 2096> No new device to beate this from his Braines?
<L 2097> I know 'twill stirre him strongly; yet I know
<L 2098> A way, if it take right, in spight of Fortune
<L 2099> Will bring me off againe.  What's this?  To th' Pope?
<L 2100> The Letter (as I live) with all the Businesse
<L 2101> I writ too's Holinesse.  Nay then, farewell:
<L 2102> I have touch'd the highest point of all my Greatnesse,
<L 2103> And from that full Meridian of my Glory,
<L 2104> I haste now to my Setting.  I shall fall
<L 2105> Like a bright exhalation in the Evening,
<L 2106> And no man see me more.
<L 2107><D  Enter to Woolsey, the Dukes of Norfolke and Suffolke, the>
<L 2108><D  Earle of Surrey, and the Lord Chamberlaine.>
<L 2109><V 228><Q Nor.><S Nor.> Heare the Kings pleasure Cardinall,
<L 2110> Who commands you
<L 2111> To render up the Great Seale presently
<L 2112> Into our hands, and to Confine your selfe
<L 2113> To Asher-house, my Lord of Winchesters,
<L 2114> Till you heare further from his Highnesse.
<L 2115><V 232><Q Car.><S Wol.> Stay:
<L 2116> Where's your Commission?  Lords, words cannot carrie
<L 2117> Authority so weighty.
<L 2118><V 234><Q Suf.><S Suf.> Who dare crosse 'em,
<L 2119> Bearing the Kings will from his mouth expressely?
<L 2120><V 236><Q Car.><S Wol.> Till I finde more then will, or words to do it,
<L 2121> (I meane your malice) know, Officious Lords,
<L 2122> I dare, and must deny it.  Now I feele
<L 2123> Of what course Mettle ye are molded, Envy,
<L 2124> How eagerly ye follow my Disgraces
<L 2125> As it fed ye, and how sleeke and wanton
<L 2126> Ye appeare in every thing may bring my ruine?
<L 2127> Follow your envious courses, men of Malice;
<L 2128> You have Christian warrant for 'em, and no doubt
<L 2129> In time will finde their fit Rewards.  That Seale
<L 2130> You aske with such a Violence, the King
<L 2131> (Mine, and your Master) with his owne hand, gave me:
<L 2132> Bad me enjoy it, with the Place, and Honors
<L 2133> During my life; and to confirme his Goodnesse,
<L 2134> Ti'de it by Letters Patents.  Now, who'll take it?
<L 2135><V 251><Q Sur.><S Sur.> The King that gave it.
<L 2136><V 251><Q Car.><S Wol.> It must be himselfe then.
<L 2137><V 252><Q Sur.><S Sur.> Thou are a proud Traitor, Priest.
<L 2138><V 252><Q Car.><S Wol.> Proud Lord, thou lyest:
<L 2139> Within these fortie houres, Surrey durst better
<L 2140> Have burnt that Tongue, then saide so.
<L 2141><V 254><Q Sur.><S Sur.> Thy Ambition
<L 2142> (Thou Scarlet sinne) robb'd this bewailing Land
<L 2143> Of Noble Buckingham, my Father-in-Law,
<L 2144> The heads of all thy Brother-Cardinals,
<L 2145> (With thee, and all thy best parts bound together)
<L 2146> Weigh'd not a haire of his.  Plague of your policie,
<L 2147> You sent me Deputie for Ireland,
<L 2148> Farre from his succour; from the King, from all
<L 2149> That might have mercie on the fault, thou gav'st him:
<L 2150> Whil'st your great Goodnesse, out of holy pitty,
<L 2151> Absolv'd him with an Axe.
<L 2152><V 264><Q Wol.><S Wol.> This, and all else
<L 2153> This talking Lord can lay upon my credit,
<L 2154> I answer, is most false.  The Duke by Law
<L 2155> Found his deserts.  How innocent I was
<L 2156> From any private malice in his end,
<L 2157> His noble Jurie, and foule Cause can witnesse.
<L 2158> If I lov'd many words, Lord, I should tell you,
<L 2159> You have as little Honestie, as Honor,
<L 2160> That in the way of Loyaltie, and Truth,
<L 2161> Toward the King, my ever Roiall Master,
<L 2162> Dare mate a sounder man then Surrie can be,
<L 2163> And all that love his follies.
<L 2164><V 275><Q Sur.><S Sur.> By my Soule,
<L 2165> Your long Coat (Priest) protects you,
<L 2166> Thou should'st feele
<L 2167> My Sword i' th' life blood of thee else.  My Lords,
<L 2168> Can ye endure to heare this Arrogance?
<L 2169> And from this Fellow?  If we live thus tamely,
<L 2170> To be thus Jaded by a peece of Scarlet,
<L 2171> Farewell Nobilitie:  let his Grace go forward,
<L 2172> And dare us with his Cap, like Larkes.
<L 2173><V 282><Q Card.><S Wol.> All Goodnesse
<L 2174> Is poyson to thy Stomacke.
<L 2175><V 283><Q Sur.><S Sur.> Yes, that goodnesse
<L 2176> Of gleaning all the Lands wealth into one,
<L 2177> Into your owne hands (Card'nall) by Extortion:
<L 2178> The goodnesse of your intercepted Packets
<L 2179> You writ to' th' Pope, against the King:  your goodnesse
<L 2180> Since you provoke me, shall be most notorious.
<L 2181> My Lord of Norfolke, as you are truly Noble,
<L 2182> As you respect the common good, the State
<L 2183> Of our despis'd Nobilitie, our Issues,
<L 2184> (Whom if he live, will scarse be Gentlemen)
<L 2185> Produce the grand summe of his sinnes, the Articles
<L 2186> Collected from his life.  Ile startle you
<L 2187> Worse then the Sacring Bell, when the browne Wench
<L 2188> Lay kissing in your Armes, Lord Cardinall.
<L 2189><V 297><Q Car.><S Wol.> How much me thinkes, I could despise this man,
<L 2190> But that I am bound in Charitie against it.
<L 2191><V 299><Q Nor.><S Nor.> Those Articles, my Lord, are in the Kings hand:
<L 2192> But thus much, they are foule ones.
<L 2193><V 300><Q Wol.><S Wol.> So much fairer
<L 2194> And spotlesse, shall mine Innocence arise,
<L 2195> When the King knowes my Truth.
<L 2196><V 302><Q Sur.><S Sur.> This cannot save you:
<L 2197> I thanke my Memorie, I yet remember
<L 2198> Some of these Articles, and out they shall.
<L 2199> Now, if you can blush, and crie guiltie Cardinall,
<L 2200> You'l shew a little Honestie.
<L 2201><V 306><Q Wol.><S Wol.> Speake on Sir,
<L 2202> I dare your worst Objections:  If I blush,
<L 2203> It is to see a Nobleman want manners.
<L 2204><V 309><Q Sur.><S Sur.>  I had rather want those, then my head;
<L 2205> Have at you;
<L 2206> First, that without the Kings assent or knowledge,
<L 2207> You wrought to be a Legate, by which power
<L 2208> You maim'd the Jurisdiction of all Bishops.
<L 2209><V 313><Q Nor.><S Nor.> Then, That in all you writ to Rome, or else
<L 2210> To Forraigne Princes, Ego & Rex meus
<L 2211> Was still inscrib'd:  in which you brought the King
<L 2212> To be your Servant.
<L 2213><V 316><Q Suf.><S Suf.> Then, that without the knowledge
<L 2214> Either of King or Councell, when you went
<L 2215> Ambassador to the Emperor, you made bold
<L 2216> To carry into Flanders, the Great Seale.
<L 2217><V 320><Q Sur.><S Sur.> Item, You sent a large Commission
<L 2218> To Gregory de Cassado, to conclude
<L 2219> Without the Kings will, or the States allowance,
<L 2220> A League betweene his Highnesse, and Ferrara.
<L 2221><V 324><Q Suf.><S Suf.> That out of meere Ambition, you have caus'd
<L 2222> Your holy-Hat to be stampt on the Kings Coine.
<L 2223><V 326><Q Sur.><S Sur.> Then, That you have sent inumerable substance,
<L 2224> (By what meanes got, I leave to your owne conscience)
<L 2225> To furnish Rome, and to prepare the wayes
<L 2226> You have for Dignities, to the meere undooing
<L 2227> Of all the Kingdome.  Many more there are,
<L 2228> Which since they are of you, and odious,
<L 2229> I will not taint my mouth with.
<L 2230><V 332><Q Cham.><S Cham.> O my Lord,
<L 2231> Presse not a falling man too farre:  'tis Vertue:
<L 2232> His faults lye open to the Lawes, let them
<L 2233> (Not you) correct him.  My heart weepes to see him
<L 2234> So little, of his great Selfe.
<L 2235><V 336><Q Sur.><S Sur.> I forgive him.
<L 2236><V 337><Q Suf.><S Suf.> Lord Cardinall, the Kings further pleasure is,
<L 2237> Because all those things you have done of late
<L 2238> By your power Legative within this Kingdome,
<L 2239> Fall into' th' compasse of a Premunire;
<L 2240> That therefore such a Writ be sued against you,
<L 2241> To forfeit all your Goods, Lands, Tenenents,
<L 2242> Castles, and whatsoever, and to be
<L 2243> Out of the Kings protection.  This is my Charge.
<L 2244><V 345><Q Nor.><S Nor.> And so wee'l leave you to your Meditations
<L 2245> How to live better.  For your stubborne answer
<L 2246> About the giving backe the Great Seale to us,
<L 2247> The King shall know it, and (no doubt) shal thanke you.
<L 2248> So fare you well, my little good Lord Cardinall.
<L 2249><D  Exeunt all but Wolsey.>
<L 2250><V 350><Q Wol.><S Wol.> So farewell, to the little good you beare me.
<L 2251> Farewell?  A long farewell to all my Greatnesse.
<L 2252> This is the state of Man; to day he puts forth
<L 2253> The tender Leaves of hopes, to morrow Blossomes,
<L 2254> And beares his blushing Honors thicke upon him:
<L 2255> The third day, comes a Frost; a killing Frost,
<L 2256> And when he thinkes, good easie man, full surely
<L 2257> His Greatnesse is a ripening, nippes his roote,
<L 2258> And then he fals as I do.  I have ventur'd
<L 2259> Like little wanton Boyes that swim on bladders:
<L 2260> This many Summers in a Sea of Glory,
<L 2261> Buf farre beyond my depth: my high-blowne Pride
<L 2262> At length broke under me, and now ha's left me
<L 2263> Weary, and old with Service, to the mercy
<L 2264> Of a rude streame, that must for ever hide me.
<L 2265> Vaine pompe, and glory of this World, I hate ye,
<L 2266> I feele my heart new open'd.  Oh how wretched
<L 2267> Is that poore man, that hangs on Princes favours?
<L 2268> There is betwixt that smile we would aspire too,
<L 2269> That sweet Aspect of Princes, and their ruine,
<L 2270> More pangs, and feares then warres, or women have;
<L 2271> And when he falles, he falles like Lucifer,
<L 2272> Never to hope againe.
<L 2273><D  Enter Cromwell, standing amazed.>
<L 2274> Why how now Cromwell?
<L 2275><V 373><Q Crom.><S Crom.> I have no power to speake Sir.
<L 2276><V 373><Q Car.><S Wol.> What, amaz'd
<L 2277> At my misfortunes?  Can thy Spirit wonder
<L 2278> A great man should decline.  Nay, and you weep
<L 2279> I am falne indeed.
<L 2280><V 376><Q Crom.><S Crom.> How does your Grace.
<L 2281><V 376><Q Card.><S Wol.> Why well:
<L 2282> Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell,
<L 2283> I know my selfe now, and I feele within me,
<L 2284> A peace above all earthly Dignities,
<L 2285> A still, and quiet Conscience.  The King ha's cur'd me,
<L 2286> I humbly thanke his Grace:  and from these Shoulders
<L 2287> These ruin'd Pillers, out of pitty, taken
<L 2288> A loade, would sinke a Navy, (too much Honor.)
<L 2289> O 'tis a burden Cromwel, 'tis a burden
<L 2290> Too heavy for a man, that hopes for Heaven.
<L 2291><V 386><Q Crom.><S Crom.> I am glad your Grace,
<L 2292> Ha's made that right use of it.
<L 2293><V 387><Q Card.><S Wol.> I hope I have:
<L 2294> I am able now (me thinkes)
<L 2295> (Out of a Fortitude of Soule, I feele)
<L 2296> To endure more Miseries, and greater farre
<L 2297> Then my Weake-hearted Enemies, dare offer.
<L 2298> What Newes abroad?
<L 2299><V 391><Q Crom.><S Crom.> The heaviest, and the worst,
<L 2300> Is your displeasure with the King.
<L 2301><V 392><Q Card.><S Wol.> God blesse him.
<L 2302><V 393><Q Crom.><S Crom.> The next is, that Sir Thomas Moore is chosen
<L 2303> Lord Chancellor, in your place.
<L 2304><V 394><Q Card.><S Wol.> That's somewhat sodain.
<L 2305> But he's a Learned man.  May he continue
<L 2306> Long in his Highnesse favour, and do Justice
<L 2307> For Truths-sake, and his Conscience; that his bones,
<L 2308> When he ha's run his course, and sleepes in Blessings,
<L 2309> May have a Tombe of Orphants teares wept on him.
<L 2310> What more?
<L 2311><V 400><Q Crom.><S Crom.> That Cranmer is return'd with welcome;
<L 2312> Install'd Lord Arch-byshop of Canterbury.
<L 2313><V 402><Q Card.><S Wol.> That's Newes indeed.
<L 2314><V 402><Q Crom.><S Crom.> Last, that the Lady Anne,
<L 2315> Whom the King hath in secrecie long married,
<L 2316> This day was view'd in open, as his Queene,
<L 2317> Going to Chappell:  and the voyce is now
<L 2318> Onely about her Corronation.
<L 2319><V 407><Q Card.><S Wol.> There was the waight that pull'd me downe.
<L 2320> O Cromwell,
<L 2321> The King ha's gone beyond me:  All my Glories
<L 2322> In that one woman, I have lost for ever.
<L 2323> No Sun, shall ever usher forth mine Honors,
<L 2324> Or gilde againe the Noble Troopes that waighted
<L 2325> Upon my smiles.  Go get thee from me Cromwel,
<L 2326> I am a poore falne man, unworthy now
<L 2327> To be thy Lord, and Master.  Seeke the King
<L 2328> (That Sun, I pray may never set) I have told him,
<L 2329> What, and how thou art; he will advance thee:
<L 2330> Some little memory of me, will stirre him
<L 2331> (I know his Noble Nature) not to let
<L 2332> Thy hopefull service perish too.  Good Cromwell
<L 2333> Neglect him not; make use now, and provide
<L 2334> For thine owne future safety.
<L 2335><V 421><Q Crom.><S Crom.> O my Lord,
<L 2336> Must I then leave you?  Must I needes forgo
<L 2337> So good, so Noble, and so true a Master?
<L 2338> Beare witnesse, all that have not hearts of Iron,
<L 2339> With what a sorrow Cromwel leaves his Lord.
<L 2340> The King shall have my service; but my prayres
<L 2341> For ever, and for ever shall be yours.
<L 2342><V 428><Q Card.><S Wol.>  Cromwel, I did not thinke to shed a teare
<L 2343> In all my Miseries:  But thou hast forc'd me
<L 2344> (Out of thy honest truth) to play the Woman.
<L 2345> Let's dry our eyes:  And thus farre heare me Cromwel,
<L 2346> And when I am forgotten, as I shall be,
<L 2347> And sleepe in dull cold Marble, where no mention
<L 2348> Of me, more must be heard of:  Say I taught thee;
<L 2349> Say Wolsey, that once trod the wayes of Glory,
<L 2350> And sounded all the Depths, and Shoales of Honor,
<L 2351> Found thee a way (out of his wracke) to rise in:
<L 2352> A sure, and safe one, though thy Master mist it.
<L 2353> Marke but my Fall, and that that Ruin'd me:
<L 2354> Cromwel, I charge thee, fling away Ambition,
<L 2355> By that sinne fell the Angels:  how can man then
<L 2356> (The Image of his Maker) hope to win by it?
<L 2357> Love thy selfe last, cherish those hearts that hate thee;
<L 2358> Corruption wins not more then Honesty.
<L 2359> Still in thy right hand, carry gentle Peace
<L 2360> To silence envious Tongues.  Be just, and feare not;
<L 2361> Let all the ends thou aym'st at, be thy Countries,
<L 2362> Thy Gods, and Truths.  Then if thou fall'st (O Cromwell)
<L 2363> Thou fall'st a blessed Martyr.
<L 2364> Serve the King:  And prythee leade me in:
<L 2365> There take an Inventory of all I have,
<L 2366> To the last peny, 'tis the Kings.  My Robe,
<L 2367> And my Integrity to Heaven, is all,
<L 2368> I dare now call mine owne.  O Cromwel, Cromwel,
<L 2369> Had I but serv'd my God, with halfe the Zeale
<L 2370> I serv'd my King:  he would not in mine Age
<L 2371> Have left me naked to mine Enemies.
<L 2372><V 458><Q Crom.><S Crom.> Good Sir, have patience.
<L 2373><V 458><Q Card.><S Wol.> So I have.  Farewell
<L 2374> The Hopes of Court, my Hopes in Heaven do dwell.
<L 2375><D  Exeunt.>
<I 4.1><L 2376><Z  Actus Quartus.  Scena Prima.>
<L 2377><D  Enter two Gentlemen, meeting one another.>
<L 2378><V 1><Q 1><S 1 Gent.> Y'are well met once againe.
<L 2379><V 1><Q 2><S 2 Gent.> So are you.
<L 2380><V 2><Q 1><S 1 Gent.> You come to take your stand heere, and behold
<L 2381> The Lady Anne, passe from her Corronation.
<L 2382><V 4><Q 2><S 2 Gent.> 'Tis all my business.  At our last encounter,
<L 2383> The Duke of Buckingham came from his Triall.
<L 2384><V 6><Q 1><S 1 Gent.> 'Tis very true.  But that time offer'd sorrow,
<L 2385> This generall joy.
<L 2386><V 7><Q 2><S 2 Gent.> 'Tis well:  The Citizens
<L 2387> I am sure have shewne at full their Royall minds,
<L 2388> As let 'em have their rights, they are ever forward
<L 2389> In Celebration of this day with Shewes,
<L 2390> Pageants, and Sights of Honor.
<L 2391><V 11><Q 1><S 1 Gent.> Never greater,
<L 2392> Nor Ile assure you better taken Sir.
<L 2393><V 13><Q 2><S 2 Gent.> May I be bold to aske what that containes,
<L 2394> That Paper in your hand.
<L 2395><V 14><Q 1><S 1 Gent.> Yes, 'tis the List
<L 2396> Of those that claime their Offices this day,
<L 2397> By custome of the Coronation.
<L 2398> The Duke of Suffolke is the first, and claimes
<L 2399> To be high Steward;  Next the Duke of Norfolke,
<L 2400> He to be Earle Marshall:  you may reade the rest.
<L 2401><V 20><Q 1><S 2 Gent.> I thanke you Sir:  Had I not known those customs,
<L 2402> I should have beene beholding to your Paper:
<L 2403> But I beseech you, what's become of Katherine
<L 2404> The Princesse Dowager?  How goes her businesse?
<L 2405><V 24><Q 1><S 1 Gent.> That I can tell you too.  The Archbishop
<L 2406> Of Canterbury, accompanied with other
<L 2407> Learned, and Reverend Fathers of his Order,
<L 2408> Held a late Court at Dunstable; sixe miles off
<L 2409> From Ampthill, where the Princesse lay, to which
<L 2410> She was often cyted by them, but appear'd not:
<L 2411> And to be short, for not Appearance, and
<L 2412> The Kings late Scruple, by the maine assent
<L 2413> Of all these Learned men, she was divorc'd,
<L 2414> And the late Marriage made of none effect:
<L 2415> Since which, she was remov'd to Kymmalton,
<L 2416> Where she remaines now sicke.
<L 2417><V 35><Q 2><S 2 Gent.>  Alas good Lady.
<L 2418> The Trumpets sound:  Stand close,
<L 2419>The Queene is comming.   <D  Ho-boyes.>
<L 2420><D  The Order of the Coronation.>
<L 2421><D  1  A lively Flourish of Trumpets.>
<L 2422><D  2  Then, two Judges.>
<L 2423><D  3  Lord Chancellor, with Purse and Mace before him.>
<L 2424><D  4  Quirristers singing.    Musicke.>
<L 2425><D  5  Maior of London, bearing the Mace.  Then Garter, in>
<L 2426><D     his Coate of Armes, and on his head he wore a Gilt Copper>
<L 2427><D     Crowne.>
<L 2428><D  6  Marquesse Dorset, bearing a Scepter of Gold, on his head,>
<L 2429><D     a Demy Coronall of Gold.  With him, the Earle of Surrey,>
<L 2430><D     bearing the Rod of silver with the Dove, Crowned with an>
<L 2431><D     Earles Coronet.  Collars of Esses.>
<L 2432><D  7  Duke of Suffolke, in his Robe of Estate, his Coronet on his>
<L 2433><D     head, bearing a long white Wand, as High Steward.  With>
<L 2434><D     him, the Duke of Norfolke, with the Rod of Marshalship,>
<L 2435><D     a Coronet on his head.  Collars of Esses.>
<L 2436><D  8  A Canopy, borne by foure of the Cinque-Ports, under it>
<L 2437><D     the Queene in her Robe, in her haire, richly adorned with>
<L 2438><D     Pearle Crowned.  On each side her, the Bishops of London,>
<L 2439><D     and Winchester.>
<L 2440><D  9  The Olde Dutchesse of Norfolke, in a Coronall of Gold,>
<L 2441><D     wrought with Flowers bearing the Queenes Traine.>
<L 2442><D  10  Certaine Ladies or Countesses, with plaine Circlets of>
<L 2443><D      Gold, without Flowers.>
<L 2444><D  Exeunt, first passing over the Stage in Order and State, and>
<L 2445><D  then, A great Flourish of Trumpets.>
<L 2446><V 37><Q 2><S 2 Gent.> A Royall Traine beleeve me:  These I know:
<L 2447> Who's that that beares the Scepter?
<L 2448><V 38><Q 1><S 1 Gent.> Marquesse Dorset,
<L 2449> And that the Earle of Surrey, with the Rod.
<L 2450><V 40><Q 2><S 2 Gent.> A bold brave Gentleman.  That should bee
<L 2451> The Duke of Suffolke.
<L 2452><V 41><Q 1><S 1 Gent.> 'Tis the same:  high Steward.
<L 2453><V 42><Q 2><S 2 Gent.> And that my Lord of Norfolke?
<L 2454><V 42><Q 1><S 1 Gent.> Yes.
<L 2455><V 42><Q 2><S 2 Gent.> Heaven blesse thee,
<L 2456> Thou hast the sweetest face I ever look'd on.
<L 2457> Sir, as I have a Soule, she is an Angell;
<L 2458> Our King ha's all the Indies in his Armes,
<L 2459> And more, and richer, when he straines that Lady,
<L 2460> I cannot blame his Conscience.
<L 2461><V 47><Q 1><S 1 Gent.> They that beare
<L 2462> The Cloath of Honour over her, are foure Barons
<L 2463> Of the Cinque-Ports.
<L 2464><V 50><Q 2><S 2 Gent.> Those men are happy,
<L 2465> And so are all, are neere her.
<L 2466> I take it, she that carries up the Traine,
<L 2467> Is that old Noble Lady, Dutchesse of Norfolke.
<L 2468><V 53><Q 1><S 1 Gent.> It is, and all the rest are Countesses.
<L 2469><V 54><Q 2><S 2 Gent.> Their Coronets say so.  These are Starres indeed,
<L 2470> And sometimes falling ones.
<L 2471><V 55><Q 2><S 2 Gent.> No more of that.
<L 2472><D  Enter a third Gentleman.>
<L 2473><V 56><Q 1><S 1 Gent.> God save you Sir. Where have you bin broiling?
<L 2474><V 57><Q 3><S 3 Gent.> Among the crow'd i' th' Abbey, where a finger
<L 2475> Could not be wedg'd in more:  I am stifled
<L 2476> With the meere ranknesse of their joy.
<L 2477><V 999><Q 2><S 2 Gent.> You saw the Ceremony?
<L 2478><V 999><Q 3><S 3 Gent.> That I did.
<L 2479><V 999><Q 1><S 1 Gent.> How was it?
<L 2480><V 61><Q 3><S 3 Gent.> Well worth the seeing.
<L 2481><V 61><Q 2><S 2 Gent.> Good Sir, speake it to us?
<L 2482><V 62><Q 3><S 3 Gent.> As well as I am able.  The rich streame
<L 2483> Of Lords, and Ladies, having brought the Queene
<L 2484> To a prepar'd place in the Quire, fell off
<L 2485> A distance from her; while her Grace sate downe
<L 2486> To rest a while, some halfe an houre, or so,
<L 2487> In a rich Chaire of State, opposing freely
<L 2488> The Beauty of her Person to the People.
<L 2489> Beleeve me Sir, she is the goodliest Woman
<L 2490> That ever lay by man:  which when the people
<L 2491> Had the full view of, such a noyse arose,
<L 2492> As the shrowdes make at Sea, in a stiffe Tempest,
<L 2493> As lowd, and to as many Tunes.  Hats, Cloakes,
<L 2494> (Doublets, I thinke) flew up, and had their Faces
<L 2495> Bin loose, this day they had beene lost.  Such joy
<L 2496> I never saw before.  Great belly'd women,
<L 2497> That had not halfe a weeke to go, like Rammes
<L 2498> In the old time of Warre, would shake the prease
<L 2499> And make 'em reele before 'em.  No man living
<L 2500> Could say this is my wife there, all were woven
<L 2501> So strangely in one peece.
<L 2502><V 81><Q 2><S 2 Gent.> But what follow'd?
<L 2503><V 82><Q 3><S 2 Gent.> At length, her Grace rose, and with modest paces
<L 2504> Came to the Altar, where she kneel'd, and Saint-like
<L 2505> Cast her faire eyes to Heaven, and pray'd devoutly.
<L 2506> Then rose againe, and bow'd her to the people:
<L 2507> When by the Arch-byshop of Canterbury,
<L 2508> She had all the Royall makings of a Queene;
<L 2509> As holy Oyle, Edward Confessors Crowne,
<L 2510> The Rod, and Bird of Peace, and all such Emblemes
<L 2511> Laid Nobly on her:  which perform'd, the Quire
<L 2512> With all the choysest Musicke of the Kingdome,
<L 2513> Together sung Te Deum.  So she parted,
<L 2514> And with the same full State pac'd backe againe
<L 2515> To Yorke-Place, where the Feast is held.
<L 2516><V 94><Q 1><S 1 Gent.> Sir,
<L 2517> You must no more call it Yorke-place, that's past:
<L 2518> For since the Cardinall fell, that Titles lost,
<L 2519> 'Tis now the Kings, and call'd White-Hall.
<L 2520><V 97><Q 3><S 3 Gent.> I know it:
<L 2521> But 'tis so lately alter'd, that the old name
<L 2522> Is fresh about me.
<L 2523><V 99><Q 2><S 2 Gent.> What two Reverend Byshops
<L 2524> Were those that went on each side of the Queene?
<L 2525><V 101><Q 3><S 3 Gent.> Stokely and Gardiner, the one of Winchester,
<L 2526> Newly preferr'd from the Kings Secretary:
<L 2527> The other London.
<L 2528><V 103><Q 2><S 2 Gent.> He of Winchester
<L 2529> Is held no great good lover the Archbishops,
<L 2530> The vertuous Cranmer.
<L 2531><V 105><Q 3><S 3 Gent.> All the Land knowes that:
<L 2532> How ever, yet there is no great breach, when it comes
<L 2533> Cranmer will finde a Friend will not shrinke from him.
<L 2534><V 108><Q 2><S 2 Gent.> Who may that be, I pray you.
<L 2535><V 108><Q 3><S 3 Gent.> Thomas Cromwell,
<L 2536> A man in much esteeme with th' King, and truly
<L 2537> A worthy Friend.  The King ha's made him
<L 2538> Master o' th' Jewell House,
<L 2539> And one already of the Privy Councell.
<L 2540><V 113><Q 2><S 2 Gent.> He will deserve more.
<L 2541><V 113><Q 3><S 3 Gent.> Yes without all doubt.
<L 2542> Come Gentlemen ye shall go my way,
<L 2543> Which is to' th Court, and there ye shall be my Guests:
<L 2544> Something I can command.  As I walke thither,
<L 2545> Ile tell ye more.
<L 2546><V 117><Q Both.><S Both.> You may command us Sir.   <D  Exeunt.>
<I 4.2><L 2547><Z  Scena Secunda.>
<L 2548><D  Enter Katherine Dowager, sicke, lead betweene Griffith,>
<L 2549><D  her Gentleman Usher, and Patience>
<L 2550><D  her Woman.>
<L 2551><V 1><Q Grif.><S Grif.> How do's your Grace?
<L 2552><V 1><Q Kath.><S Kath.> O Griffith, sicke to death:
<L 2553> My Legges like loaden Branches bow to' th' Earth,
<L 2554> Willing to leave their burthen:  Reach a Chaire,
<L 2555> So now (me thinkes) I feele a little ease.
<L 2556> Did'st thou not tell me Griffith, as thou lead'st mee,
<L 2557> That the great Childe of Honor, Cardinall Wolsey
<L 2558> Was dead:
<L 2559><V 7><Q Grif.><S Grif.> Yes Madam:  but I thanke your Grace
<L 2560> Out of the paine you suffer'd, gave no eare too 't.
<L 2561><V 9><Q Kath.><S Kath.> Pre'thee good Griffith, tell me how he dy'de.
<L 2562> If well, he slept before me happily
<L 2563> For my example.
<L 2564><V 11><Q Grif.><S Grif.> Well, the voyce goes Madam,
<L 2565> For after the stout Earle Northumberland
<L 2566> Arrested him at Yorke, and brought him forward
<L 2567> As a man sorely tainted, to his Answer,
<L 2568> He fell sicke sodainly, and grew so ill
<L 2569> He could not sit his Mule.
<L 2570><V 16><Q Kath.><S Kath.> Alas poore man.
<L 2571><V 17><Q Grif.><S Grif.> At last, with easie Rodes, he came to
 Leicester,
<L 2572> Lodg'd in the Abbey; where the reverend Abbot
<L 2573> With all his Covent, honourably reciv'd him;
<L 2574> To whom he gave these words.  O Father Abbot,
<L 2575> An old man, broken with the stormes of State,
<L 2576> Is come to lay his weary bones among ye:
<L 2577> Give him a little earth for Charity.
<L 2578> So went to bed; where eagerly his sicknesse
<L 2579> Pursu'd him still, and three nights after this,
<L 2580> About the houre of eight, which he himselfe
<L 2581> Foretold should be his last, full of Repentance,
<L 2582> Continuall Meditations, Teares, and Sorrowes,
<L 2583> He gave his Honors to the world agen,
<L 2584> His blessed part to Heaven, and slept in peace.
<L 2585><V 31><Q Kath.><S Kath.> So may he rest,
<L 2586> His Faults lye gently on him:
<L 2587> Yet thus farre Griffith, give me leave to speake him,
<L 2588> And yet with Charity.  He was a man
<L 2589> Of an unbounded stomacke, ever ranking
<L 2590> Himselfe with Princes.  One that by suggestion
<L 2591> Ty'de all the Kingdome.  Symonie, was faire play,
<L 2592> His owne Opinion was his Law.  I' th' presence
<L 2593> He would say untruths, and be ever double
<L 2594> Both in his words, and meaning.  He was never
<L 2595> (But where he meant to Ruine) pittifull.
<L 2596> His Promises, were as he then was, Mighty:
<L 2597> But his performance, as he is now, Nothing:
<L 2598> Of his owne body he was ill, and gave
<L 2599> The Clergy ill example.
<L 2600><V 44><Q Grif.><S Grif.> Noble Madam:
<L 2601> Mens evill manners, live in Brasse, their Vertues
<L 2602> We write in Water.  May it please your Highnesse
<L 2603> To heare me speake his good now?
<L 2604><V 47><Q Kath.><S Kath.> Yes good Griffith,
<L 2605> I were malicious else.
<L 2606><V 48><Q Grif.><S Grif.> This Cardinall,
<L 2607> Though from an humble Stocke, undoubtedly
<L 2608> Was fashion'd to much Honor.  From his Cradle
<L 2609> He was a Scholler, and a ripe, and good one:
<L 2610> Exceeding wise, faire spoken, and perswading:
<L 2611> Lofty, and sowre to them that lov'd him not:
<L 2612> But, to those men that sought him, sweet as Summer.
<L 2613> And thought he were unsatisfied in getting,
<L 2614> (Which was a sinne) yet in bestowing, Madam,
<L 2615> He was most Princely:  Ever witnesse for him
<L 2616> Those twinnes of Learning, that he rais'd in you,
<L 2617> Ipswich and Oxford:  one of which, fell with him,
<L 2618> Unwilling to out-live the good that did it.
<L 2619> The other (though unfinish'd) yet so Famous,
<L 2620> So excellent in Art, and still so rising,
<L 2621> That Christendome shall ever speake his Vertue.
<L 2622> His Overthrow, heap'd Happinesse upon him:
<L 2623> For then, and not till then, he felt himselfe,
<L 2624> And found the Blessednesse of being little.
<L 2625> And to adde greater Honors to his Age
<L 2626> Then man could give him; he dy'de, fearing God.
<L 2627><V 69><Q Kath.><S Kath.> After my death, I wish no other Herald,
<L 2628> No other speaker of my living Actions,
<L 2629> To keepe mine Honor, from Corruption,
<L 2630> But such an honest Chronicler as Griffith.
<L 2631> Whom I most hated Living, thou hast made mee
<L 2632> With thy Religious Truth, and Modestie,
<L 2633> (Now in his Ashes) Honor:  Peace be with him.
<L 2634> Patience, be neere me still, and set me lower,
<L 2635> I have not long to trouble thee.  Good Griffith,
<L 2636> Cause the Musitians play me that sad note
<L 2637> I nam'd my Knell; whil'st I sit meditating
<L 2638> On that Coelestiall Harmony I go too.
<L 2639><D  Sad and solemne Muscike.>
<L 2640><V 81><Q Grif.><S Grif.> She is asleep:  Good wench, let's sit down
 quiet,
<L 2641> For feare we wake her.  Softly, gentle Patience.
<L 2642><D  The Vision.>
<L 2643><D  Enter solemnely tripping one after another, sixe Personages,>
<L 2644><D  clad in white Robes, wearing on their heades Garlands of>
<L 2645><D  Bayes, and golden Vizards on their faces, Branches of Bayes>
<L 2646><D  or Palme in their hands.  They first Conge unto her, then>
<L 2647><D  Dance:  and at certaine Changes, the first two hold a spare>
<L 2648><D  Garland over her Head, at whcih the other foure make re->
<L 2649><D  verend Curtsies.  Then the two that held the Garland, deli->
<L 2650><D  ver the same to the other two, who observe the same or->
<L 2651><D  der in their Changes, and holding the Garland over her>
<L 2652><D  head.  Which done, they deliver the same Garland to the>
<L 2653><D  last two:  who likewise observe the same Order.  At which>
<L 2654><D  (as it were by inspiration) she makes (in her sleepe) signes of>
<L 2655><D  rejoycing, and holdeth up her hands to heaven.  And so, in>
<L 2656><D  their Dancing vanish, carrying the Garland with them.>
<L 2657><D  The Musicke continues.>
<L 2658><V 83><Q Kath.><S Kath.> Spirits of peace, where are ye?  Are ye all
 gone?
<L 2659> And leave me heere in wretchednesse, behinde ye?
<L 2660><V 85><Q Grif.><S Grif.> Madam, we are heere.
<L 2661><V 85><Q Kath.><S Kath.> It is not you I call for,
<L 2662> Saw ye none enter since I slept?
<L 2663><V 86><Q Grif.><S Grif.> None Madam.
<L 2664><V 87><Q Kath.><S Kath.> No? Saw you not even now a blessed Troope
<L 2665> Invite me to a Banquet, whose bright faces
<L 2666> Cast thousand beames upon me like the Sun?
<L 2667> They promis'd me eternall Happinesse,
<L 2668> And brought me Garlands (Griffith) which I feele
<L 2669> I am not worthy yet to weare:  I shall assuredly.
<L 2670><V 93><Q Grif.><S Grif.> I am most joyfull Madam, such good dreames
<L 2671> Possesse your Fancy.
<L 2672><V 94><Q Kath.><S Kath.> Bid the Musicke leave,
<L 2673>They are harsh and heavy to me.   <D  Musicke ceases.>
<L 2674><V 95><Q Pati.><S Pat.> Do you note
<L 2675> How much her Grace is alter'd on the sodaine?
<L 2676> How long her face is drawne?  How pale she lookes,
<L 2677> And of an earthy cold?  Marke her eyes?
<L 2678><V 99><Q Grif.><S Grif.> She is going Wench.  Pray, pray.
<L 2679><V 99><Q Pati.><S Pat.> Heaven comfort her.
<L 2680><D  Enter a Messenger.>
<L 2681><V 100><Q Mes.><S Mess.> And 't like your Grace =
<L 2682><V 100><Q Kath.><S Kath.> You are a sawcy Fellow,
<L 2683> Deserve we no more Reverence?
<L 2684><V 101><Q Grif.><S Grif.> You are too blame,
<L 2685> Knowing she will not loose her wonted Greatnesse
<L 2686> To use so rude behaviour.  Go too, kneele.
<L 2687><V 104><Q Mes.><S Mess.> I humbly do entreat your Highnesse pardon,
<L 2688> My hast made me unmannerly.  There is staying
<L 2689> A Gentleman sent from the King, to see you.
<L 2690><V 107><Q Kath.><S Kath.> Admit him entrance Griffith.  But this Fellow
<L 2691>Let me ne're see againe.  <D  Exit Messeng.>
<L 2692><D  Enter Lord Capuchius.>
<L 2693> If my sight faile not,
<L 2694> You should be Lord Ambassador from the Emperor,
<L 2695> My Royall Nephew, and your name Capuchius.
<L 2696><V 111><Q Cap.><S Cap.> Madam the same.  Your Servant.
<L 2697><V 111><Q Kath.><S Kath.> O my Lord,
<L 2698> The Times and Titles now are alter'd strangely
<L 2699> With me, since first you knew me.
<L 2700> But I pray you,
<L 2701> What is your pleasure with me?
<L 2702><V 114><Q Cap.><S Cap.> Noble Lady,
<L 2703> First mine owne service to your Grace, the next
<L 2704> The Kings request, that I would visit you,
<L 2705> Who greeves much for your weaknesse, and by me
<L 2706> Sends you his Princely Commendations,
<L 2707> And heartily entreats you take good comfort.
<L 2708><V 120><Q Kath.><S Kath.> O my good Lord, that comfort comes too late,
<L 2709> 'Tis like a Pardon after Execution;
<L 2710> That gentle Physicke given in time, had cur'd me:
<L 2711> But now I am past all Comforts heere, but Prayers.
<L 2712> How does his Highnesse:
<L 2713><V 124><Q Cap.><S Cap.> Madam, in good health.
<L 2714><V 125><Q Kath.><S Kath.> So may he ever do, and ever flourish,
<L 2715> When I shall dwell with Wormes, and my poore name
<L 2716> Banish'd the Kingdome.  Patience, is that Letter
<L 2717> I cause'd you write, yet sent away?
<L 2718><V 128><Q Pat.><S Pat.>  No Madam.
<L 2719><V 129><Q Kath.><S Kath.> Sir, I most humbly pray you to deliver
<L 2720> This to my Lord the King.
<L 2721><V 130><Q Cap.><S Cap.> Most willing Madam.
<L 2722><V 131><Q Kath.><S Kath.> In which I have commended to his goodnesse
<L 2723> The Modell of our chaste loves:  his yong daughter,
<L 2724> The dewes of Heaven fall thicke in Blessings on her,
<L 2725> Beseeching him to give her vertuous breeding.
<L 2726> She is yong, and of a Noble modest Nature,
<L 2727> I hope she will deserve well; and a little
<L 2728> To love her for her Mothers sake, that lov'd him,
<L 2729> Heaven knowes how deerely.
<L 2730> My next poore Petition,
<L 2731> Is that his Noble Grace would have some pittie
<L 2732> Upon my wretched women, that so long
<L 2733> Have follow'd both my Fortunes, faithfully,
<L 2734> Of which there is not one, I dare avow
<L 2735> (And now I should not lye) but will deserve
<L 2736> For Vertue, and true Beautie of the Soule,
<L 2737> For honestie, and decent Carriage
<L 2738> A right good Husband (let him be a Noble)
<L 2739> And sure those men are happy that shall have 'em.
<L 2740> The last is for my men, they are the poorest,
<L 2741> (But poverty could never draw 'em from me)
<L 2742> That they may have their wages, duly paid 'em,
<L 2743> And something over to remember me by.
<L 2744> If Heaven had pleas'd to have given me longer life
<L 2745> And able meanes, we had not parted thus.
<L 2746> These are the whole Contents, and good my Lord,
<L 2747> By that you love the deerest in this world,
<L 2748> As you with Christian peace to soules departed,
<L 2749> Stand these poore peoples Friend, and urge the King
<L 2750> To do me this last right.
<L 2751><V 158><Q Cap.><S Cap.> By Heaven I will,
<L 2752> Or let me loose the fashion of a man.
<L 2753><V 160><Q Kath.><S Kath.> I thanke you honest Lord.  Remember me
<L 2754> In all humilitie unto his Highnesse:
<L 2755> Say his long trouble now is passing
<L 2756> Out of this world.  Tell him in death I blest him
<L 2757> (For so I will) mine eyes grow dimme.  Farewell
<L 2758> My Lord.  Griffith farewell.  Nay Patience,
<L 2759> You must not leave me yet.  I must to bed,
<L 2760> Call in more women.  When I am dead, good Wench,
<L 2761> Let me be us'd with Honor; strew me over
<L 2762> With Maiden Flowers, that all the world may know
<L 2763> I was a chaste Wife, to my Grave:  Embalme me,
<L 2764> Then lay me forth (although unqueen'd) yet like
<L 2765> A Queene, and a Daughter to a King enterre me.
<L 2766> I can no more.
<L 2767><D  Exeunt leading Katherine.>
<I 5.1><L 2768><Z  Actus Quintus.  Scena Prima.>
<L 2769><D  Enter Gardiner Bishop of Winchester, a Page with a Torch>
<L 2770><D  before him, met by Sir Thomas Lovell.>
<L 2771><V 1><Q Gard.><S Gar.> It's one a clocke Boy, is 't not.
<L 2772><V 1><Q Boy.><S Boy.> It hath strooke.
<L 2773><V 2><Q Gard.><S Gar.> These should be houres for necessities,
<L 2774> Not for delights:  Times to repayre our Nature
<L 2775> With comforting repose, and not for us
<L 2776> To waste these times.  Good houre of night Sir Thomas:
<L 2777> Whether so late?
<L 2778><V 6><Q Lov.><S Lov.> Came you from the King, my Lord?
<L 2779><V 7><Q Gar.><S Gar.> I did Sir Thomas, and left him at Primero
<L 2780> With the Duke of Suffolke.
<L 2781><V 8><Q Lov.><S Lov.> I must to him too
<L 2782> Before he go to bed.  Ile take my leave.
<L 2783><V 10><Q Gard.><S Gar.> Not yet Sir Thomas Lovell:  what's the matter?
<L 2784> It seemes you are in hast:  and if there be
<L 2785> No great offence belongs too 't, give your Friend
<L 2786> Some touch of your late businesse:  Affaires that walke
<L 2787> (As they say Spirits do) at midnight, have
<L 2788> In them a wilder Nature, then the businesse
<L 2789> That seekes dispatch by day.
<L 2790><V 16><Q Lov.><S Lov.> My Lord, I love you;
<L 2791> And durst commend a secret to your eare
<L 2792> Much waightier then this worke.  The Queens in Labor
<L 2793> They say in great Extremity, and fear'd
<L 2794> Shee'l with the Labour, end.
<L 2795><V 20><Q Gard.><S Gar.> The fruite she goes with
<L 2796> I pray for heartily, that it may finde
<L 2797> Good time, and live:  but for the Stocke Sir Thomas,
<L 2798> I wish it grubb'd up now.
<L 2799><V 23><Q Lov.><S Lov.> Me thinkes I could
<L 2800> Cry the Amen, and yet my Conscience sayes
<L 2801> Shee's a good Creature, and sweet-Ladie do's
<L 2802> Deserve our better wishes.
<L 2803><V 26><Q Gard.><S Gar.> But Sir, Sir,
<L 2804> Heare me Sir Thomas, y' are a Gentleman
<L 2805> Of mine owne way.  I know you Wise, Religious,
<L 2806> And let me tell you, it will ne're be well,
<L 2807> 'T will not Sir Thomas Lovell, tak 't of me,
<L 2808> Till Cranmer, Cromwel, her two hands, and shee
<L 2809> Sleepe in their Graves.
<L 2810><V 32><Q Lovell.><S Lov.> Now Sir, you speake of two
<L 2811> The most remark'd i' th' Kingdome:  as for Cromwell,
<L 2812> Beside that of the Jewell-House, is made Master
<L 2813> O' th' Rolles, and the Kings Secretary.  Further Sir,
<L 2814> Stands in the gap and Trade of moe Preferments,
<L 2815> With which the Lime will loade him.  Th' Archbyshop
<L 2816> Is the Kings hand, and tongue, and who dare speak
<L 2817> One syllable against him?
<L 2818><V 39><Q Gard.><S Gar.> Yes, yes, Sir Thomas,
<L 2819> There are that Dare, and I my selfe have ventur'd
<L 2820> To speake my minde of him:  and indeed this day,
<L 2821> Sir (I may tell it you) I thinke I have
<L 2822> Incenst the Lords o' th' Councell, that he is
<L 2823> (For so I know he is, they know he is)
<L 2824> A most Arch-Heretique, a Pestilence
<L 2825> That does infect the Land:  with which, they moved
<L 2826> Have broken with the King, who hath so farre
<L 2827> Given eare to our Complaint, of his great Grace,
<L 2828> And Princely Care, fore-seeing those fell Mischiefes,
<L 2829> Our Reasons, layd before him, hath commanded
<L 2830> To morrow Morning to the Councell Boord
<L 2831> He be convented.  He's a ranke weed Sir Thomas,
<L 2832> And we must root him out.  From your Affaires
<L 2833> I hinder you too long:  Good night, Sir Thomas.
<L 2834><D  Exit Gardiner and Page.>
<L 2835><V 55><Q Lov.><S Lov.> Many good nights, my Lord, I rest your servant.
<L 2836><D  Enter King and Suffolke.>
<L 2837><V 56><Q King.><S King.> Charles, I will play no more to night,
<L 2838> My mindes not on 't, you are too hard for me.
<L 2839><V 58><Q Suff.><S Suf.> Sir, I did never win of you before.
<L 2840><V 59><Q King.><S King.> But little Charles,
<L 2841> Nor shall not when my Fancies on my play.
<L 2842> Now Lovel, from the Queene what is the Newes.
<L 2843><V 62><Q Lov.><S Lov.> I could not personally deliver to her
<L 2844> What you commanded me, but by her woman,
<L 2845> I sent your Message, who return'd her thankes
<L 2846> In the great'st humblenesse, and desir'd your Highnesse
<L 2847> Most heartily to pray for her.
<L 2848><V 66><Q King.><S King.> Whay say'st thou?  Ha?
<L 2849> To pray for her?  What, is she crying out?
<L 2850><V 68><Q Lov.><S Lov.> So said her woman, and that her suffrance made
<L 2851> Almost each pang, a death.
<L 2852><V 69><Q King.><S King.> Alas good Lady.
<L 2853><V 70><Q Suf.><S Suf.> God safely quit her of her Burthen, and
<L 2854> With gentle Travaile, to the gladding of
<L 2855> Your Highnesse with an Heire.
<L 2856><V 72><Q King.><S King.> 'Tis midnight Charles,
<L 2857> Prythee to bed, and in thy Prayres remember
<L 2858> Th' estate of my poore Queene.  Leave me alone,
<L 2859> For I must thinke of that, which company
<L 2860> Would not be friendly too.
<L 2861><V 76><Q Suf.><S Suf.> I wish your Highnesse
<L 2862> A quiet night, and my good Mistris will
<L 2863> Remember in my Prayers.
<L 2864><V 78><Q King.><S King.> Charles good night.   <D  Exit Suffolke.>
<L 2865> Well Sir, what followes?
<L 2866><D  Enter Sir Anthony Denny.>
<L 2867><V 80><Q Den.><S Den.> Sir, I have brought the Lord the Arch-byshop,
<L 2868> As you commanded me.
<L 2869><V 81><Q King.><S King.> Ha?  Canterbury?
<L 2870><V 82><Q Den.><S Den.> I my good Lord.
<L 2871><V 82><Q King.><S King.> 'Tis true:  where is he Denny?
<L 2872><V 83><Q Den.><S Den.> He attends your Highnesse pleasure.
<L 2873><V 83><Q King.><S King.> Bring him to Us.
<L 2874><V 84><Q Lov.><S Lov.> This is about that, which the Byshop spake,
<L 2875> I am happily come hither.
<L 2876><D  Enter Cranmer and Denny.>
<L 2877><V 86><Q King.><S King.> Avoyd the Gallery.    <D  Lovel seemes to
 stay.>
<L 2878> Ha?  I have said.  Be gone.
<L 2879>What?   <D  Exeunt Lovell and Denny.>
<L 2880><V 87><Q Cran.><S Cran.> I am fearefull:  Wherefore frownes he thus?
<L 2881> 'Tis his Aspect of Terror.  All's not well.
<L 2882><V 999><Q King.><S King.> How now my Lord?
<L 2883> You do desire to know wherefore
<L 2884> I sent for you.
<L 2885><V 999><Q Cran.><S Cran.>  It is my dutie
<L 2886> T' attend your Highnesse pleasure.
<L 2887><V 91><Q King.><S King.> Pray you arise
<L 2888> My good and gracious Lord of Canterburie:
<L 2889> Come, you and I must walke a turne together:
<L 2890> I have Newes to tell you.
<L 2891> Come, come, give me your hand.
<L 2892> Ah my good Lord, I greeve at what I speake,
<L 2893> And am right sorrie to repeat what followes.
<L 2894> I have, and most unwillingly of late
<L 2895> Heard many greevous, I do say my Lord
<L 2896> Greevous complaints of you;  which being consider'd,
<L 2897> Have mov'd Us, and our Councell, that you shall
<L 2898> This Morning come before us, where I know
<L 2899> You cannot with such freedome purge your selfe,
<L 2900> But that till further Triall, in those Charges
<L 2901> Which will require your Answer, you must take
<L 2902> Your patience to you, and be well contented
<L 2903> To make your house our Towre:  you, a Brother of us
<L 2904> It fits we thus proceed, or else no witnesse
<L 2905> Would come against you.
<L 2906><V 108><Q Cran.><S Cran.> I humbly thanke your Highnesse,
<L 2907> And am right glad to catch this good occasion
<L 2908> Most throughly to be winnowed, where my Chaffe
<L 2909> And Corne shall flye asunder.  For I know
<L 2910> There's none stands under more calumnious tongues,
<L 2911> Then I my selfe, poore man.
<L 2912><V 113><Q King.><S King.>  Stand up, good Canterbury,
<L 2913> Thy Truth, and thy Integrity is rooted
<L 2914> In us thy Friend.  Give me thy hand, stand up,
<L 2915> Prythee let's walke.  Now by my Holydame,
<L 2916> What manner of man are you?  My Lord, I look'd
<L 2917> You would have given me your Petition, that
<L 2918> I should have tane some paines, to bring together
<L 2919> Your selfe, and your Accusers, and to have heard you
<L 2920> Without indurance further.
<L 2921><V 121><Q Cran.><S Cran.> Most dread Liege,
<L 2922> The good I stand on, is my Truth and Honestie:
<L 2923> If they shall faile, I with mine Enemies
<L 2924> Will triumph o're my person, which I waigh not,
<L 2925> Being of those Vertues vacant.  I feare nothing
<L 2926> What can be said against me.
<L 2927><V 126><Q King.><S King.> Know you not
<L 2928> How your state stands i' th' world, with the whole world?
<L 2929> Your Enemies are many, and not small; their practises
<L 2930> Must beare the same proportion, and not ever
<L 2931> The Justice and the Truth o' th' question carries
<L 2932> The dew o' th' Verdict with it; at what ease
<L 2933> Might corrupt mindes procure, Knaves as corrupt
<L 2934> To sweare against you:  Such things have bene done.
<L 2935> You are Potently oppos'd, and with a Malice
<L 2936> Of as great Size.  Weene you of better lucke,
<L 2937> I meane in perjur'd witnesse, then your Master,
<L 2938> Whose Minister you are, whiles heere he liv'd
<L 2939> Upon this naughty Earth?  Go too, go too,
<L 2940> You take a Precepit for no leape of danger,
<L 2941> And woe your owne destruction.
<L 2942><V 140><Q Cran.><S Cran.>  God, and your Majesty
<L 2943> Protect mine innocence, or I fall into
<L 2944> The trap is laid for me.
<L 2945><V 142><Q King.><S King.> Be of good cheere,
<L 2946> They shall no more prevaile, then we give way too:
<L 2947> Keepe comfort to you, and this Morning see
<L 2948> You do appeare before them.  If they shall chance
<L 2949> In charging you with matters, to commit you:
<L 2950> The best perswasions to the contrary
<L 2951> Faile not to use, and with what vehemencie
<L 2952> Th' occasion shall instruct you.  If intreaties
<L 2953> Will render you no remedy, this Ring
<L 2954> Deliver them, and your Appeale to us
<L 2955> There make before them.  Looke, the goodman weeps:
<L 2956> He's honest on mine Honor.  Gods blest Mother,
<L 2957> I sweare he is true-hearted, and a soule
<L 2958> None better in my Kingdome.  Get you gone,
<L 2959>And do as I have bid you.   <D  Exit Cranmer.>
<L 2960> He ha's strangled his Language in his teares.
<L 2961><D  Enter Olde Lady.>
<L 2962><V 999><Q Gent. within.><S Gent.> Come backe:  what meane you?
<L 2963><V 158><Q Lady.><S Old L.> Ile not come backe, the tydings that I bring
<L 2964> Will make my boldnesse, manners.  Now good Angels
<L 2965> Fly o're thy Royall head, and shade thy person
<L 2966> Under their blessed wings.
<L 2967><V 161><Q King.><S King.> Now by thy lookes
<L 2968> I gesse thy Message.  Is the Queene deliver'd?
<L 2969> Say I, and of a boy.
<L 2970><V 163><Q Lady.><S Old L.> I, I my Liege,
<L 2971> And of a lovely Boy:  the God of heaven
<L 2972> Both now, and ever blesse her:  'Tis a Gyrle
<L 2973> Promises Boyes heerafter.  Sir, your Queen
<L 2974> Desires your Visitation, and to be
<L 2975> Acquainted with this stranger; 'tis as like you,
<L 2976> As Cherry, is to Cherry.
<L 2977><V 169><Q King.><S King.> Lovell.
<L 2978><V 169><Q Lov.><S Lov.> Sir.
<L 2979><V 170><Q King.><S King.> Give her an hundred Markes.
<L 2980>Ile to the Queene.       <D  Exit King.>
<L 2981><V 171><Q Lady.><S Old L.> An hundred Markes?  By this light, Ile ha
 more.
<L 2982> An ordinary Groome is for such payment.
<L 2983> I will have more, or scold it out of him.
<L 2984> Said I for this, the Gyrle was like to him?  Ile
<L 2985> Have more, or else unsay 't:  and now, while 'tis hot,
<L 2986>Ile put it to the issue.     <D  Exit Ladie.>
<I 5.2><L 2987><Z  Scena Secunda.>
<L 2988><D  Enter Cranmer, Archbyshop of Canterbury.>
<L 2989><V 1><Q Cran.><S Cran.> I hope I am not too late, and yet the Gentleman
<L 2990> That was sent to me from the Councell, pray'd me
<L 2991> To make great hast.  All fast?  What meanes this?  Hoa?
<L 2992> Who waites there?  Sure you know me?
<L 2993><D  Enter Keeper.>
<L 2994><V 4><Q Keep.><S Keep.> Yes, my Lord:
<L 2995> But yet I cannot helpe you.
<L 2996><V 999><Q Cran.><S Cran.> Why?
<L 2997><V 999><Q Keep.><S Keep.> Your Grace must waight till you be call'd for.
<L 2998><D  Enter Doctor Buts.>
<L 2999><V 999><Q Cran.><S Cran.> So.
<L 3000><V 7><Q Buts.><S Butts.> This is a Peere of Malice:  I am glad
<L 3001> I came this way so happily.  The King
<L 3002>Shall understand it presently.      <D  Exit Buts.>
<L 3003><V 9><Q Cran.><S Cran.> 'Tis Buts.
<L 3004> The Kings Physitian, as he past along
<L 3005> How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me:
<L 3006> Pray heaven he found not my disgrace:  for certaine
<L 3007> This is of purpose laid by some that hate me,
<L 3008> (God turne their hearts, I never sought their malice)
<L 3009> To quench mine Honor; they would shame to make me
<L 3010> Wait else at doore:  a fellow Councellor
<L 3011> 'Mong Boyes, Groomes, and Lackeyes.
<L 3012> But their pleasures
<L 3013> Must be fulfill'd, and I attend with patience.
<L 3014><D  Enter the King, and Buts, at a Windowe>
<L 3015><D  above.>
<L 3016><V 19><Q Buts.><S Butts.> Ile shew your Grace the strangest sight.
<L 3017><Q King.><S King.> What's that Buts?
<L 3018><V 20><Q Butts.><S Butts.> I thinke your Highnesse saw this many a day.
<L 3019><Q Kin.><S King.> Body a me:  where is it?
<L 3020><V 21><Q Butts.><S Butts.> There my Lord:
<L 3021> The high promotion of his Grace of Canterbury,
<L 3022> Who holds his State at dore 'mongst Pursevants,
<L 3023> Pages, and Foot-boyes.
<L 3024><V 24><Q Kin.><S King.> Ha?  'Tis he indeed.
<L 3025> Is this the Honour they doe one another?
<L 3026> 'Tis well there's one above 'em yet;  I had thought
<L 3027> They had parted so much honesty among 'em,
<L 3028> At least good manners;  as not thus to suffer
<L 3029> A man of his Place, and so neere our favour
<L 3030> To dance attendance on their Lordships pleasures.
<L 3031> And at the dore too, like a Post with Packets:
<L 3032> By holy Mary (Butts) there's knavery;
<L 3033> Let 'em alone, and draw the Curtaine close:
<L 3034> We shall heare more anon.
<L 3035><D  A Councell Table brought in with Chayres and Stooles, and>
<L 3036><D  placed under the State.  Enter Lord Chancellour, places>
<L 3037><D  himselfe at the upper end of the Table, on the left hand:  A>
<L 3038><D  Seate being left void above him, as for Canterburies Seate.>
<L 3039><D  Duke of Suffolke, Duke of Norfolke, Surrey, Lord Cham->
<L 3040><D  berlaine, Gardiner, seat themselves in Order on each side.>
<L 3041><D  Cromwell at lower end, as Secretary.>
<L 3042><V 35><Q Chan.><S Chan.> Speake to the businesse, M. Secretary;
<L 3043> Why are we met in Councell?
<L 3044><V 36><Q Crom.><S Crom.> Please your Honours,
<L 3045> The chiefe cause concernes his Grace of Canterbury.
<L 3046><V 38><Q Gard.><S Gar.> Ha's he had knowledge of it?
<L 3047><V 38><Q Crom.><S Crom.> Yes.
<L 3048><V 38><Q Norf.><S Nor.> Who waits there?
<L 3049><V 39><Q Keep.><S Keep.> Without my Noble Lords?
<L 3050><V 39><Q Gard.><S Gar.> Yes.
<L 3051><V 39><Q Keep.><S Keep.> My Lord Archbishop:
<L 3052> And ha's done halfe an houre to know your pleasures.
<L 3053><V 41><Q Chan.><S Chan.> Let him come in.
<L 3054><V 41><Q Keep.><S Keep.> Your Grace may enter now.
<L 3055><D  Cranmer approches the Councell Table.>
<L 3056><V 42><Q Chan.><S Chan.> My good Lord Archbishop, I'm very sorry
<L 3057> To sit heere at this present, and behold
<L 3058> That Chayre stand empty:  But we all are men
<L 3059> In our owne natures fraile, and capable
<L 3060> Of our flesh, few are Angels; out of which frailty
<L 3061> And want of wisedome, you that best should teach us,
<L 3062> Have misdemean'd your selfe, and not a little:
<L 3063> Toward the King first, then his Lawes, in filling
<L 3064> The whole Realme, by your teaching & your Chaplaines
<L 3065> (For so we are inform'd) with new opinions,
<L 3066> Divers and dangerous; which are Heresies;
<L 3067> And not reform'd, may prove pernicious.
<L 3068><V 54><Q Gard.><S Gar.> Which Reformation must be sodaine too
<L 3069> My Noble Lords; for those that tame wild Horses,
<L 3070> Pace 'em not in their hands to make 'em gentle;
<L 3071> But stop their mouthes with stubborn Bits & spurre 'em,
<L 3072> Till they obey the mannage.  If we suffer
<L 3073> Out of our easinesse and childish pitty
<L 3074> To one mans Honour, this contagious sicknesse;
<L 3075> Farewell all Physicke:  and what followes then?
<L 3076> Commotions, uprores, with a generall Taint
<L 3077> Of the whole State; as of late dayes our neighbours,
<L 3078> The upper Germany can deerely witnesse:
<L 3079> Yet freshly pittied in our memories.
<L 3080><V 66><Q Cran.><S Cran.> My good Lords; Hitherto, in all the Progresse
<L 3081> Both of my Life and Office, I have labour'd,
<L 3082> And with no little study, that my teaching
<L 3083> And the strong course of my Authority,
<L 3084> Might goe one way, and safely; and the end
<L 3085> Was ever to doe well:  nor is there living,
<L 3086> (I speake it with a single heart, my Lords)
<L 3087> A man that more detests, more stirres against,
<L 3088> Both in his private Conscience, and his place,
<L 3089> Defacers of a publique peace then I doe:
<L 3090> Pray Heaven the King may never find a heart
<L 3091> With lesse Allegeance in it.  Men that make
<L 3092> Envy, and crooked malice, nourishment;
<L 3093> Dare bite the best.  I doe beseech your Lordships,
<L 3094> That in this case of Justice, my Accusers,
<L 3095> Be what they will, may stand forth face to face,
<L 3096> And freely urge against me.
<L 3097><V 82><Q Suff.><S Suf.> Nay, my Lord,
<L 3098> That cannot be; you are a Counsellor,
<L 3099> And by that vertue no man dare accuse you.
<L 3100><V 85><Q Gard.><S Gar.> My Lord, because we have busines of more moment
<L 3101> We shall be short with you.  'Tis his Highnesse pleasure
<L 3102> And our consent, for better tryall of you,
<L 3103> From hence you be committed to the Tower,
<L 3104> Where being but a private man againe,
<L 3105> You shall know many dare accuse you boldly,
<L 3106> More then (I feare) you are provided for.
<L 3107><V 92><Q Cran.><S Cran.> Ah my good Lord of Winchester:  I thanke you,
<L 3108> You are alwayes my good Friend, if your will passe,
<L 3109> I shall both finde your Lordship, Judge and Juror,
<L 3110> You are so mercifull.  I see your end,
<L 3111> 'Tis my undoing.  Love and meekenesse, Lord
<L 3112> Become a Churchman, better than Ambition:
<L 3113> Win straying soules with modesty againe,
<L 3114> Cast none away:  That I shall cleere my selfe,
<L 3115> Lay all the weight ye can upon my patience,
<L 3116> I make as little doubt as you doe conscience,
<L 3117> In doing dayly wrongs.  I could say more,
<L 3118> But reverence to your calling, makes me modest.
<L 3119><V 104><Q Gard.><S Gar.> My Lord, my Lord, you are a Sectary,
<L 3120> That's the plaine truth; your painted glosse discovers
<L 3121> To men that understand you, words and weakness.
<L 3122><V 107><Q Crom.><S Crom.> My Lord of Winchester, y' are a little,
<L 3123> By your good favour, too sharpe; Men so Noble,
<L 3124> How ever faulty, yet should finde respect
<L 3125> For what they have beene:  'tis a cruelty,
<L 3126> To load a falling man.
<L 3127><V 111><Q Gard.><S Gar.> Good M. Secretary,
<L 3128> I cry your Honour mercie; you may worst
<L 3129> Of all this Table say so.
<L 3130><V 113><Q Crom.><S Crom.> Why my Lord?
<L 3131><V 114><Q Gard.><S Gar.> Doe not I know your for a Favourer
<L 3132> Of this new Sect?  ye are not sound.
<L 3133><V 115><Q Crom.><S Crom.> Not sound?
<L 3134><V 116><Q Gard.><S Gar.> Not sound I say.
<L 3135><V 116><Q Crom.><S Crom.> Would you were halfe so honest:
<L 3136> Mens prayers then would seeke you, not their feares.
<L 3137><V 118><Q Gard.><S Gar.> I shall remember this bold Language.
<L 3138><V 118><Q Crom.><S Crom.> Doe.
<L 3139> Remember your bold life too.
<L 3140><V 119><Q Cham.><S Chan.> This is too much;
<L 3141> Forbeare for shame my Lords.
<L 3142><V 120><Q Gard.><S Gar.> I have done.
<L 3143><V 120><Q Crom.><S Crom.> And I.
<L 3144><V 121><Q Cham.><S Chan.> Then thus for you my Lord, it stands agreed
<L 3145> I take it, by all voyces:  That forthwith,
<L 3146> You be convaid to th' Tower a Prisoner;
<L 3147> There to remaine till the Kings further pleasure
<L 3148> Be knowne unto us:  are you all agreed Lords.
<L 3149><V 126><Q All.><S All.> We are.
<L 3150><V 126><Q Cran.><S Cran.> Is there no other way of mercy,
<L 3151> But I must needs to th' Tower my Lords?
<L 3152><V 127><Q Gard.><S Gar.> What other,
<L 3153> Would you expect?  You are strangely troublesome:
<L 3154> Let some o' th' Guard be ready there.
<L 3155><D  Enter the Guard.>
<L 3156><V 129><Q Cran.><S Cran.> For me?
<L 3157> Must I goe like a Traytor thither?
<L 3158><V 130><Q Gard.><S Gar.> Receive him,
<L 3159> And see him safe i' th' Tower,
<L 3160><V 131><Q Cran.><S Cran.> Stay good my Lords,
<L 3161> I have a little yet to say.  Looke there my Lords,
<L 3162> By vertue of that Ring, I take my cause
<L 3163> Out of the gripes of cruell men, and give it
<L 3164> To a most Noble Judge, the King my Maister.
<L 3165><V 136><Q Cham.><S Cham.> This is the Kings Ring.
<L 3166><V 136><Q Sur.><S Sur.> 'Tis no counterfeit.
<L 3167><V 137><Q Suff.><S Suf.> 'Ts the right Ring, by Heav'n:  I told ye all,
<L 3168> When we first put this dangerous stone a rowling,
<L 3169> 'Twould fall upon our selves.
<L 3170><V 139><Q Norf.><S Nor.> Doe you thinke my Lords
<L 3171> The King will suffer but the little finger
<L 3172> Of this man to be vex'd?
<L 3173><V 141><Q Cham.><S Cham.> Tis now too ceraine;
<L 3174> How much more is his Life in value with him?
<L 3175> Would I were fairely out on 't.
<L 3176><V 143><Q Crom.><S Crom.> My mind gave me,
<L 3177> In seeking tales and Information
<L 3178> Against this man, whose honesty the Divell
<L 3179> And his Disciples onely envy at,
<L 3180> Ye blew the fire that burnes ye:  now have at ye.
<L 3181><D  Enter King frowning on them, takes his Seate.>
<L 3182><V 148><Q Gard.><S Gar.> Dread Soveraigne,
<L 3183> How much are we bound to Heaven,
<L 3184> In dayly thankes; that gave us such a Prince;
<L 3185> Not onely good and wise, but most religious:
<L 3186> One that in all obedience, makes the Church
<L 3187> The cheefe ayme of his Honour, and to strengthen
<L 3188> That holy duty out of deare respect,
<L 3189> His Royalll selfe in Judgement comes to heare
<L 3190> The cause betwixt her, and this great offender.
<L 3191><V 156><Q Kin.><S King.> You were ever good at sodaine Commendations,
<L 3192> Bishop of Winchester.  But know I come not
<L 3193> To heare such flattery now, and in my presence
<L 3194> They are too thin, and base to hide offences,
<L 3195> To me you cannot reach.  You play the Spaniell,
<L 3196> And thinke with wagging of your tongue to win me:
<L 3197> But whatfoere thou tak'st me for; I'm sure
<L 3198> Thou hast a cruell Nature and a bloody.
<L 3199> Good man sit downe:  Now let me see the proudest
<L 3200> Hee, that dares most, but wag his finger at thee.
<L 3201> By all that's holy, he had better starve,
<L 3202> Then but once thinke his place becomes thee not.
<L 3203><V 168><Q Sur.><S Sur.> May it please your Grace; =
<L 3204><V 168><Q Kin.><S King.> No Sir, it doe's not please me,
<L 3205> I had thought, I had had men of some understanding,
<L 3206> And wisedome of my Councell; but I finde none:
<L 3207> Was it discretion Lords, to let this man,
<L 3208> This good man (few of you deserve that Title)
<L 3209> This honest man, wait like a lowsie Foot-boy
<L 3210> At Chamber dore?  and one, as great as you are?
<L 3211> Why, what a shame was this?  Did my Commission
<L 3212> Bid ye so farre forget your selves?  I gave ye
<L 3213> Power, as he was a Counsellour to try him,
<L 3214> Not as a Groome:  There's some of ye, I see,
<L 3215> More out of Malice then Integrity,
<L 3216> Would trye him to the utmost, had ye meane,
<L 3217> Which ye shall never have while I live.
<L 3218><V 181><Q Chan.><S Chan.> Thus farre
<L 3219> My most dread Soveraigne, may it like your Grace,
<L 3220> To let my tongue excuse all.  What was purpos'd
<L 3221> Concerning his Imprisonment, was rather
<L 3222> (If there be faith in men) meant for his Tryall,
<L 3223> And faire purgation to the world then malice,
<L 3224> I'm sure in me.
<L 3225><V 187><Q Kin.><S King.> Well, well my Lords respect him,
<L 3226> Take him, and use him well; hee's worthy of it.
<L 3227> I will say thus much for him, if a Prince
<L 3228> May be beholding to a Subject; I
<L 3229> Am for his love and service, so to him.
<L 3230> Make me no more adoe, but all embrace him;
<L 3231> Be friends for shame my Lords:  My Lord of Canterbury
<L 3232> I have a Suite which you must not deny mee.
<L 3233> That is, a faire young Maid that yet wants Baptisme,
<L 3234> You must be Godfather, and answere for her.
<L 3235><V 197><Q Cran.><S Cran.> The greatest Monarch now alive may glory
<L 3236> In such an honour:  how may I deserve it,
<L 3237> That am a poore and humble Subject to you?
<L 3238><V 200><Q Kin.><S King.> Come, come my Lord, you'd spare your spoones;
<L 3239> You shall have two noble Partners with you:  the old
<L 3240> Duchesse of Norfolke, and Lady Marquesse Dorset?  will
<L 3241> these plese you?
<L 3242> Once more my Lord of Winchester, I charge you
<L 3243> Embrace, and love this man.
<L 3244><V 205><Q Gard.><S Gar.> With a true heart,
<L 3245> And Brother; love I doe it.
<L 3246><V 206><Q Cran.><S Cran.> And let Heaven
<L 3247> Witnesse how deare, I hold this Confirmation.
<L 3248><V 208><Q Kin.><S King.> Good Man, those joyfull teares shew thy true
 hearts,
<L 3249> Thy common voyce I see is verified
<L 3250> Of thee, which sayes thus:  Doe my Lord of Canterbury
<L 3251> A shrewd turne, and hee's your friend for ever:
<L 3252> Come Lords, we trifle time away:  I long
<L 3253> To have this young one made a Christian.
<L 3254> As I have made ye one Lords, one remaine:
<L 3255>So I grow stronger, you more Honour gaine.  <D  Exeunt.>
<I 5.3><L 3256><Z  Scena Tertia.>
<L 3257><D  Noyse and Tummult within:  Enter Porter and>
<L 3258><D  his man.>
<L 3259><V 1><Q Port.><S Port.> You'l leave your noyse anon ye Rascals:  doe
<L 3260> you take the Court for Parish Garden:  ye rude Slaves,
<L 3261> leave your gaping.
<L 3262><V 4><Q Within.><S (One) Within.> Good M. Porter I belong to th' Larder.
<L 3263><V 5><Q Port.><S Port.> Belong to th' Gallowes, and be hang'd ye Rogue:
<L 3264> Is this a place to roare in?  Fetch me a dozen Crab-tree
<L 3265> staves, and strong ones; these are but switches to 'em:
<L 3266> Ile scratch your heads; you must be seeing Christenings?
<L 3267> Do you looke for Ale, and Cakes heere, you rude
<L 3268> Raskalls?
<L 3269><V 11><Q Man.><S Man.> Pray Sir be patient; 'tis as much impossible,
<L 3270> Unlesse wee sweepe 'em from the dore with Cannons,
<L 3271> To scatter 'em, as 'tis to make 'em sleepe
<L 3272> On May-day Morning which will never be:
<L 3273> We may as well push against Powles as stirre 'em.
<L 3274><V 16><Q Por.><S Port.> How got they in, and be hang'd?
<L 3275><V 17><Q Man.><S Man.> Alas I know not, how gets the Tide in?
<L 3276> As much as one found Cudgell of foure foote,
<L 3277> (You see the poore remainder) could distribute,
<L 3278> I made no spare Sir.
<L 3279><V 20><Q Port.><S Port.> You did nothing Sir.
<L 3280><V 21><Q Man.><S Man.> I am not Sampson, nor Sir Guy, nor Colebrand,
<L 3281> To mow 'em downe before me:  but if I spar'd any
<L 3282> That had a head to hit, either young or old,
<L 3283> He or shee, Cuckold or Cuckold-maker:
<L 3284> Let me ne're hope to see a Chine againe,
<L 3285> And that I would not for a Cow, God save her.
<L 3286><V 27><Q Within.><S (One) Within.> Do you heare M. Porter?
<L 3287><V 28><Q Port.><S Port.> I shall be with you presently, good M. Puppy,
<L 3288> Keepe the dore close Sirha.
<L 3289><V 30><Q Man.><S Man.> What would you have me doe?
<L 3290><V 999><Q Port.><S Port.> What should you doe,
<L 3291> But knock 'em downe by th' dozens?  Is this More fields
<L 3292> to muster in?  Or have wee some strange Indian with the
<L 3293> great Toole, come to Court, the women so besiege us?
<L 3294> Blesse me, what a fry of Fornication is at dore?  On my
<L 3295> Christian Conscience this one Christening will beget a
<L 3296> thousand, here will bee Father, God-father, and all to%gether.
<L 3297> _
<L 3298><V 39><Q Man.><S Man.> The Spoones will be the bigger Sir:  There is
<L 3299> a fellow somewhat neere the doore, he should be a Brasi%er
<L 3300> er by his face, for o' my conscience twenty of the Dog-%dayes
<L 3301> now reigne in 's Nose; all that stand about him are
<L 3302> under the Line, they need no other pennance:  that Fire-%Drake
<L 3303> did I hit three times on the head, and three times
<L 3304> was his Nose discharged against mee; hee stands there
<L 3305> like a Morter-piece to blow us. There was a Habberda%shers
<L 3306> Wife of small wit, neere him, that rail'd upon me,
<L 3307> till her pinck'd porrenger fell off her head, for kindling
<L 3308> such a combustion in the State.  I mist the Meteor once,
<L 3309> and hit that Woman, who cryed out Clubbes, when I
<L 3310> might see from farre, some forty Truncheoners draw to
<L 3311> her succour, which were the hope o' th' Strond where she
<L 3312> was quartered; they fell on, I made good my place; at
<L 3313> length they came to th' broome staffe to me, I defide 'em
<L 3314> stil, when sodainly a File of Boyes behind 'em, loose shot,
<L 3315> deliver'd such a showre of Pibbles, that I was faine to
<L 3316> draw mine Honour in, and let 'em win the Worke, the
<L 3317> Divell was amongst 'em I thinke surely.
<L 3318><V 59><Q Por.><S Port.> These are the youths that thunder at a
 Playhouse,
<L 3319> and fight for bitten Apples, that no Audience but the
<L 3320> tribulation of Tower Hill, or the Limbes of Limehouse,
<L 3321> their deare Brothers are able to endure.  I have some of
<L 3322> 'em in Limbo Patrum, and there they are like to dance
<L 3323> these three dayes; besides the running Banquet of two
<L 3324> Beadles, that is to come.
<L 3325><D  Enter Lord Chamberlaine.>
<L 3326><V 66><Q Cham.><S Cham.> Mercy o' me:  what a Multitude are heere?
<L 3327> They grow still too; from all Parts they are comming,
<L 3328> As if we kept a Faire heere?  Where are these Porters?
<L 3329> These lazy knaves?  Y' have made a fine hand fellowes?
<L 3330> Theres a trim rabble let in:  are all these
<L 3331> Your faithfull friends o' th' Suburbs?  We shall have
<L 3332> Great store of roome no doubt, left for the Ladies,
<L 3333> When they passe backe from the Christening?
<L 3334><V 73><Q Por.><S Port.> And 't please your Honour,
<L 3335> We are but men; and what so many may doe,
<L 3336> Not being torne a pieces, we have done:
<L 3337> An army cannot rule 'em.
<L 3338><V 76><Q Cham.><S Cham.> As I live,
<L 3339> If the King blame me for 't; Ile lay ye all
<L 3340> By th' heeles, and sodainly:  and on your heads
<L 3341> Clap round Fines for neglect:  Y' are lazy knaves,
<L 3342> And heere ye lye baiting of Bombards, when
<L 3343> Ye should doe Service.  Harke the Trumpets sound,
<L 3344> Th' are come already from the Christening,
<L 3345> Go breake among the preasse, and finde away out
<L 3346> To let the Troope passe fairely; or Ile finde
<L 3347> A Marshallsey, shall hold ye play these two Monthes.
<L 3348><V 86><Q Por.><S Port.> Make way there, for the Princesse.
<L 3349><V 86><Q Man.><S Man.> You great fellow,
<L 3350> Stand close up, or Ile make your head ake.
<L 3351><V 88><Q Por.><S Port.> You i' th' Chamblet, get up o' th' raile,
<L 3352>Ile pecke you o're the pales else.      <D  Exeunt.>
<I 5.4><L 3353><Z  Scena Quarta.>
<L 3354><D  Enter Trumpets sounding:  Then two Aldermean, L. Maior,>
<L 3355><D  Garter, Cranmer, Duke of Norfolke with his Marshals>
<L 3356><D  Staffe, Duke of Suffolke, two Noblemen, bearing great>
<L 3357><D  standing Bowles for the Christening Guifts:  Then foure>
<L 3358><D  Noblemen bearing a Canopy, under which the Dutchesse of>
<L 3359><D  Norfolke, Godmother, bearing the Childe richly habited in>
<L 3360><D  a Mantle, &c.  Traine borne by a Lady:  Then followes>
<L 3361><D  the Marchionesse Dorset, the other Godmother, and La->
<L 3362><D  dies.  The Troope passe once about the Stage, and Gar->
<L 3363><D  ter speakes.>
<L 3364><V 1><Q Gart.><S Gart.> Heaven
<L 3365> From thy endlesse goodnesse, send prosperous life,
<L 3366> Long and ever happie, to the high and Mighty
<L 3367> Princesse of England Elizabeth.
<L 3368><D  Flourish.  Enter King and Guard.>
<L 3369><V 4><Q Cran.><S Cran.> And to your Royall Grace, & the good Queen,
<L 3370> My Noble Partners, and my selfe thus pray
<L 3371> All comfort, joy in this most gracious Lady,
<L 3372> Heaven ever laid up to make Parents happy,
<L 3373> May hourely fall upon ye.
<L 3374><V 8><Q Kin.><S King.> Thanke you good Lord Archbishop:
<L 3375> What is her Name?
<L 3376><V 9><Q Cran.><S Cran.> Elizabeth.
<L 3377><V 9><Q Kin.><S King.> Stand up Lord,
<L 3378> With this Kisse, take my Blessing:  God protect thee,
<L 3379> Into whose hand, I give thy Life.
<L 3380><V 11><Q Cran.><S Cran.> Amen.
<L 3381><V 12><Q Kin.><S King.> My Noble Gossips, y' have beene too Prodigall;
<L 3382> I thanke ye heartily:  So shall this Lady,
<L 3383> When she ha's so much English.
<L 3384><V 14><Q Cran.><S Cran.> Let me speake Sir,
<L 3385> For Heaven now bids me; and the words I utter,
<L 3386> Let none thinke Flattery; for they'l finde 'em Truth.
<L 3387> This Royall Infant, Heaven stil move about her;
<L 3388> Though in her Cradle; yet now promises
<L 3389> Upon this Land a thousand thousand Blessings,
<L 3390> Which Time shall bring to ripenesse:  She shall be,
<L 3391> (But few now living can behold that goodnesse)
<L 3392> A Patterne to all Princes living with her,
<L 3393> And all that shall succeed:  Saba was never
<L 3394> More covetous of Wisedome, and faire Vertue
<L 3395> Then this pure Soule shall be.  All Princely Graces
<L 3396> That mould up such a mighty Piece as this is,
<L 3397> With all the Vertues that attend the good,
<L 3398> Shall still be doubled on her.  Truth shll Nurse her,
<L 3399> Holy and Heavenly thoughts still Counsell her:
<L 3400> She shall be lov'd and fear'd.  Her owne shall blesse her;
<L 3401> Her Foes shake like a Field of beaten Corne,
<L 3402> And hang their heads with sorrow:
<L 3403> Good growes with her.
<L 3404> In her dayes, Every Man shall eate in safety,
<L 3405> Under his owne Vine what he plants; and sing
<L 3406> The merry Songs of Peace to all his Neighbours.
<L 3407> God shall be truely knowne, and those about her,
<L 3408> From her shall read the perfect way of Honour,
<L 3409> And by those claime their greatnesse; not by Blood.
<L 3410> Nor shall this peace sleepe with her:  But as when
<L 3411> The Bird of Wonder dyes, the Mayden Phoenix,
<L 3412> Her Ashes new create another Heyre,
<L 3413> As great in admiration as her selfe.
<L 3414> So shall she leave her Blessednesse to One,
<L 3415> (When Heaven shal call her from this clowd of darknes)
<L 3416> Who, from the sacred Ashes of her Honour
<L 3417> Shall Star-like rise, as great in fame as she was,
<L 3418> And so stand fix'd.  Peace, Plenty, Love, Truth, Terror,
<L 3419> That were the Servants to this chosen Infant,
<L 3420> Shall then be his, and like a Vine grow to him;
<L 3421> Where ever the bright Sunne of Heaven shall shine,
<L 3422> His Honour, and the greatnesse of his Name,
<L 3423> Shall be, and make new Nations.  He shall flourish,
<L 3424> And like a Mountaine Cedar, reach his branches,
<L 3425> To all the Plaines about him:  Our Childrens Children
<L 3426> Shall see this, and blesse Heaven.
<L 3427><V 55><Q Kin.><S King.> Thou speakest wonders.
<L 3428><V 56><Q Cran.><S Cran.> She shall be to the happinesse of England,
<L 3429> An aged Princesse; many dayes shall see her,
<L 3430> And yet no day without a deed to Crowne it.
<L 3431> Would I had knowne no more:  But she must dye,
<L 3432> She must, the Saints have her; yet a Virgin,
<L 3433> A most unspotted Lilly shall she passe
<L 3434> To th' ground, and all the World shall mourne her.
<L 3435><V 63><Q Kin.><S King.> O Lord Archbishop
<L 3436> Thou hast made me now a man, never before
<L 3437> This happy Child, did I get anything.
<L 3438> This Oracle of comfort, ha's so pleas'd me,
<L 3439> That when I am in Heaven, I shall desire
<L 3440> To see what this Child does, and praise my Maker.
<L 3441> I thanke ye all.  To you my good Lord Maior,
<L 3442> And you good Brethren, I am much beholding:
<L 3443> I have receiv'd much Honour by your presence,
<L 3444> And ye shall find me thankfull.  Lead the way Lords,
<L 3445> Ye must all see the Queene, and she must thanke ye,
<L 3446> She will be sicke els.  This day, no man thinke
<L 3447> 'Has businesse at his house; for all shall stay:
<L 3448>This Little-One shall make it Holy-day.    <D  Exeunt.>
<I Epi><L 3449><Z  The Epilogue.>
<L 3450> Tis ten to one, this Play can never please
<L 3451> All that are heere:  Some come to take their ease,
<L 3452> And sleepe an Act or two; but those we feare
<L 3453> W' have frighted with our Trumpets:  so 'tis cleare,
<L 3454> They'l say tis naught.  Others to heare the City
<L 3455> Abus'd extreamly, and to cry that's witty,
<L 3456> Which wee have not done neither; that I feare
<L 3457> All the expected good w' are like to heare.
<L 3458> For this Play at this time, is onely in
<L 3459> The mercifull construction of good women,
<L 3460> For such a one we shew'd 'em:  If they smile,
<L 3461> And say twill doe; I know within a while,
<L 3462> All the best men are ours; for 'tis ill hap,
<L 3463> If they hold, when their Ladies bid 'em clap.
<L 3464><Z  FINIS.>


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