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things now that bear a weighty and a serious brow sad high and working full of state and woe such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow we now present those that can pity here may if they think it well let fall a tear the subject will deserve it such as give their money out of hope they may believe may here find truth too

those that come to see only a show or two and so agree the play may pass if they be still and willing i'll undertake may see away their shilling richly in two short hours only they that come to hear a merry bawdy play a noise of targets or to see a fellow in a long motley coat guarded with yellow will be deceived

for gentle hearers know to rank our chosen truth with such a show as fool and fight is beside forfeiting our own brains and the opinion that we bring to make that only true we now intend will leave us never an understanding friend

therefore for goodness sake and as you are known the first and happiest heroes of the town be sad as we would make ye think ye see the very persons of our noble story as they were living think you see them great and followed with the general throng and sweat of thousand friends

then in a moment see how soon this mightiness meets misery and if you can be merry then i'll say a man may weep upon his wedding-day act i scene i london an antechamber in the palace enter norfolk at one door at the other buckingham and abergavenny

good morrow and well met how have ye done since we last saw in france i thank your grace healthful and ever since a fresh admirer of what i saw there an untimely ague stayed me a prisoner in my chamber when those sons of glory those two lights of men met in the vale of andron

twixt gyne's and ard i was then present saw them salute on horseback beheld them when they lighted how they clung in their embracement as they grew together which had they what four throned ones could have weighed such a compounded one all the whole time i was my chamber's prisoner then you lost the view of earthly glory men might say till this time pompe was single but now married to one above itself each following day became the next day's master till the last made formal wonders its

to day the french all cleekon tall in gold like heathen gods shone down the english and to-morrow they made britain india every man that stood showed like a mine their dwarfish pages were as cherubins all gilt the madams too not used to toil did almost sweat to bear the pride upon them that their very labour was to them as a painting now this mask was cried incomparable and the insuring knight made it a fool and beggar

the two kings equal in lustre were now best now worst as presence did present them him in eye still him in praise and being present both twas said that they saw but one and no discerner durst wag his tongue in censure when these sons for so they phrase em by their heralds challenge the noble spirits to arms they did perform beyond thought's compass that former fabulous story being now seen possible enough got credit that bevis was believed

oh you go far as i belong to worship and effect in honour honesty the tract of every thing would by a good discourse eluse some life which action's self was tongue to all was royal to the disposing of it nought rebelled order gave each thing view the office did distinctly his full function who did guide i mean who set the body and the limbs of this great sport together as you guess one cert that promises no element in such a business

i pray you who my lord all this was ordered by the good discretion of the right reverend cardinal of york the devil speed him no man's pie is freed from his ambitious finger what had he to do in these fierce vanities i wonder that such a keach can with his very bulk take up the raise of a beneficial son and keep it from the earth

surely sir there's in him stuff that puts him to these ends for being not propped by ancestry whose grace chalks successors their way nor called upon for high feats done to the crown neither allied for eminent assistance but spider-like out of his self-drawing web he gives us note the force of his own merit makes his way a gift that heaven gives for him which buys a place next to the king

i cannot tell what heaven hath given him let some graver eye pierce into that but i can see his pride peep through each part of him whence has he that if not from hell the devil is a niggard or has given all before and he begins a new hell in himself

why the devil upon this french going out took he upon him without the privy of the king to appoint who should attend on him he makes up the file of all the gentry for the most part such to whom as great a charge as little honour he meant to lay upon and his own letter the honourable board of council out must fetch him in the papers i do know kinsmen of mine three at the least that have by this so sickened their estates that never they shall abound as formerly

oh many have broke their backs with laying manners on em for this great journey what did this vanity but minister communication of a most poor issue grievingly i think the peace between the french and us not values the cost that did conclude it

every man after the hideous storm that followed was a thing inspired and not consulting broke into a general prophecy that this tempest dashing the garment of this piece aboded the sudden breech on't which is budded out for france hath floored the league and hath attached our merchants good at bordeaux is it therefore the ambassador is silenced marriest a proper title of a piece and purchased at a superfluous rate

Why, all this business our reverend Cardinal carried. FRIAR LAWRENCE. Like it, Your Grace, the State takes notice of the private difference betwixt you and the Cardinal. I advise you, and take it from a heart that wishes towards you honour and plenteous safety, that you read the Cardinal's malice and his potency together, to consider further that what is hatred would affect once not a minister in his power.

you know his nature that he's revengeful and i know his sword hath a sharp edge it's long and may be said it reaches far and well twill not extend thither he darts it put em up thy counsel you'll find it wholesome no where comes that rock that i advise your shunning

enter cardinal wolsey the purse borne before him certain of the guard and two secretaries with papers cardinal wolsey in his passage fixeth his eye on buckingham and buckingham on him both full of disdain the duke of buckingham's surveyor ha where's his examination here so please you is he in person ready ay please your grace

Well, we shall then know more, And Buckingham shall lessen this big look. This butcher's cur is venom-mouthed, And I have not the power to muzzle him; Therefore best not wake him in his slumber. A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood. What, are you chafed? Ask God for temperance; That's the appliance only which your disease requires.

I read in's look matter against me, and his eye reviled me as his abject object. At this instant he bores me with some trick. He's gone to the king. I'll follow and outstare him. Stay, my lord, and let your reason with your collar question what tis you go about. To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. Anger is like a full-hot horse, who being allowed his way self-metal tires him. Not a man in England can advise me like you.

be to yourself as you would to your friend i'll to the king and from a mouth of honour quite cry down this ipswich fellow's insolence or proclaim there's difference in no persons be advised heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself we may outrun by violent swiftness that which we run at and lose by overrunning know ye not the fire that mounts the liquor till ranuah in seeming to augment it wastes it

be advised i say again there is no english soul more stronger to direct you than yourself if with the sap of reason you would quench or but allay the fire of passion

Sir, I am thankful to you, and I'll go along by your prescription, but this top-proud fellow, whom from the flow of Gaul I name not but from sincere motions, by intelligence, and proofs as clear as founts in July when we see each grain of gravel, I do know to be corrupt and treasonous. Say not treasonous. To the king I'll say't, and make my vouchers strong as shore of rock.

attend this holy fox or wolf or both for he is equal ravenous as he is subtle and as prone to mischief as able to perform his mind and place infecting one another yea reciprocally only to show his pomp as well in france as here at home suggests the king our master to this last costly treaty the interview that swallowed so much treasure and like a glass did break ear the rinsing

Faith, and so it did. Pray, give me favour, sir. This cunning cardinal, the articles or the combination drew us himself pleased, and they were ratified as he cried, Thus let be, to as much end as give a crutch to the dead. But our count cardinal has done this, and tis well, for worthy Wolsey, who cannot err, he did it.

now this follows which as i take it is a kind of puppy to the old dam treason charles the emperor under pretence to see the queen his aunt for twas indeed his colour but he came to whisper wolsey here make visitation his fears were that the interview betwixt england and france might through their amity breed him some prejudice for from this league peeped harms that menaced him

he privily deals with our cardinal and as i trow which i do well for i am sure the emperor paid ere he promised whereby his suit was granted ere it was asked but when the way was made and paved with gold the emperor thus desired that he would please to alter the king's course and break the forsaid peace

let the king know as soon as he shall by me that thus the cardinal does buy and sell his honour as he pleases and for his own advantage i am sorry to hear this of him and could wish you were something mistaken in't no not a syllable i do pronounce him in that very shape he shall appear in proof enter brandon a sergeant-at-arms before him and two or three of the guard your office sergeant executed sir

my lord the duke of buckingham and earl of hereford stafford and northampton i arrest thee of high treason in the name of our most sovereign king lo you my lord the net hath fallen upon me i shall perish under device and practice i am sorry to see you ta'en from liberty to look on the business present tis his highness pleasure you shall to the tower

it will help me nothing to plead mine innocence for that dye is on me which makes my whitest part black the will of heaven be done in this and all things i obey o my lord abergavenny fare you well nay he must bear you company to abergavenny the king is pleased you shall for the tower till you know how he determines further as the duke said the will of heaven be done and the king's pleasure by me obeyed

here is a warrant from the king to attach lord montacute and the bodies of the duke's confessor john de la car one gilbert peck his chancellor so so these are the limbs of the plot no more i hope a monk of the chartres oh nicholas hopkins my surveyor is false the old great cardinal hath showed him gold my life is spanned already

I am the shadow of poor Buckingham whose figure even this instant cloud puts on by darkening my clear sun. My lord, farewell. Accent. Scene 2. The same. The council chamber. Coronets. Enter King Henry VIII. leaning on Cardinal Wolsey's shoulder. The nobles and Lavelle. Cardinal Wolsey places himself under King Henry VIII's feet on his right side.

my life itself and the best heart of it thanks you for this great care i stood in the level of a full-charged confederacy and give thanks to you that choked it let be called before us that gentleman of buckingham in person i'll hear him his confessions justify and point by point the treasons of his master he shall again relate

a noise within crying room for the queen enter queen catherine ushered by norfolk and suffolk she kneels king henry the eighth riseth from his state takes her up kisses and placeth her by him nay we must longer kneel i am a suitor

Arise, and take place by us. Half your suit never name to us. You have half our power. The other moiety, e'er you ask, is given. Repeat your will, and take it. Thank your majesty. That you would love yourself, and in that love not unconsidered leave your honour, nor the dignity of your office, is the point of my petition. Lady mine, proceed.

i am solicited not by a few and those of true condition that your subjects are in great grievance there have been commissions sent down among em which hath flawed the heart of all their loyalties

wherein although my good lord cardinal they vent reproaches most bitterly on you as putter on of these exactions yet the king our master whose honour heaven shield from soil even he escapes not language unmannerly yea such which breaks the sides of loyalty and almost appears in loud rebellion

not almost appears it doth appear for upon these taxations the clothiers all not able to maintain the many to them longing have put off the spinsters carders fullers weavers who unfit for other life compelled by hunger and lack of other means in desperate manner daring the event to the teeth are all in uproar and danger serves among them

taxation wherein and what taxation my lord cardinal you that are blamed for it alike with us know you of this taxation please you sir i know but of a single part in aught pertains to the state and front but in that file where others tell steps with me

no my lord you know no more than others but you frame things that are known alike which are not wholesome to those which would not know them and yet must perforce be their acquaintance these exactions whereof my sovereign would have note they are most pestilent to the bearing and to bear em the back is sacrifice to the load

They say they are devised by you, or else you suffer too hard an exclamation. STUDIUS. Still exaction, the nature of it. In what kind, let's know, is this exaction? LUCY. I am much too venturous in tempting of your patience, but am boldened under your promised pardon. The subject's grief comes through commissions, which compel from each the sixth part of his substance to be levied without delay.

and the pretence for this is named your wars in france this makes bold mouths tongues spit their duties out and cold hearts freeze allegiance in them their curses now live where their prayers did and it's come to pass this tractable obedience is a slave to each incensed will i would your highness would give it quick consideration for there is no primer business

by my life this is against our pleasure and for me i have no further gone in this than by a single voice and that not past me but by learned approbation of the judges if i am traduced by ignorant tongues which neither know my faculties nor person yet will be the chronicles of my doing let me say tis but the fate of place and the rough break that virtue must go through

we must not stint our necessary actions in the fear to cope malicious censurers which ever as ravenous fishes do a vessel follow that is new-trimmed but benefit no further than vainly longing what we oft do best by sick interpreters once weak ones is not ours or not allowed what worst as oft hitting a grosser quality is cried up for our best act

if we shall stand still in fear our motion will be mock'd or carp'd at we should take root here where we sit or sit state statues only things well done and with a care exempt themselves from fear things done without example in their issue are to be feared have you a precedent of this commission i believe not any we must not rend our subjects from our laws and stick them in our will

Sixth part of each, a trembling contribution, why we take from every tree, lop, bark, and part of the timber, and though we leave it with a root thus hacked, the air will drink the sap. To every county where this is questioned, send our letters, with free pardon to each man that hath denied the force of this commission. Pray look to it. I put it to your care. A word with you. To the Secretary.

let there be letters writ to every shire of the king's grace and pardon the grieved commons hardly conceive of me let it be noised that through our intercession this revokement and pardon comes i shall anon advise you further in the proceeding exit secretary enter surveyor i am sorry that the duke of buckingham is run in your displeasure duke it grieves many

THE GENTLEMAN IS LEARNED, AND A MOST RARE SPEAKER, TO NATURE NONE MORE BOUND HIS TRAINING SUCH THAT HE MAY FURNISH AND INSTRUCT GREAT TEACHERS, AND NEVER SEEK AID OUT OF HIMSELF. YET SEE, WHEN THESE SO NOBLE BENEFITS SHALL PROVE NOT WELL DISPOSED, THE MIND GROWING ONCE CORRUPT, THEY TURN TO VICIOUS FORMS, TEN TIMES MORE UGLY THAN EVER THEY WERE FAIR.

this man so complete who is enrolled amongst wonders and when we almost with ravished listening could not find his hour of speech a minute he my lady hath into monstrous habits put the graces that once were his and is become as black as if besmeared in hell you shall hear this was his gentleman in trust of him things to strike honour

bid him recount the fore recited practises whereof we cannot feel too little hear too much b b stand forth and with bold spirit relate what you most like a careful subject have collected out of the duke of buckingham speak freely first it was usual with him every day would infect his speech that if the king should without issue die he'll carry it so to make the sceptre his

These very words I've heard him utter to his son-in-law, Lord Abergavenny, to whom by oath he menaced revenge upon the Cardinal. Please, Your Highness, note this dangerous conception in this point. Not friended by his wish, to your high person his will is most malignant, and it stretches beyond you to your friends. My learned Lord Cardinal, deliver all with charity.

Speak on. How grounded he is titled to the crown upon our fail! To this point hast thou heard him at any time speak aught? He was brought to this by a vain prophecy of Nicholas Hopkins. What was that Hopkins? Sir, a chartreuse friar, his confessor, who fed him every minute with words of sovereignty. How know'st thou this?

Not long before Your Highness sped to France, the Duke being at the Rose, within the parish St. Lawrence Pulteney, did of me demand what was the speech among the Londoners concerning the French journey. I replied, men feared the French would prove perfidious to the King's danger. Presently, the Duke said, "'Twas the fear, indeed, and that he doubted to had proved the verity of certain words spoke by a holy monk."

that oft says he hath sent to me wishing me to permit john de la car my chaplain a choice hour to hear from him a matter of some moment whom after under the confession's seal he solemnly had sworn that what he spoke my chaplain to no creature living but to me should utter with demure confidence that pausingly ensued neither the king nor his heirs tell you the duke shall prosper bid him strive to gain the love o the commonalty the duke shall govern england

if i know you well you were the duke's surveyor and lost your office on the complaint of the tenants take good heed you charge not in your spleen a noble person and spoil your nobler soul i say take heed yes heartily beseech you let him on go forward on my soul i'll speak but truth

I told my lord the duke, by the devil's illusions, the monk might be deceived, and that twas dangerous for him to ruminate on this so far, until it forged him some design, which, being believed, it was much like to do. He answered, "'Tush, it can do me no damage,' adding further, that, had the king in his last sickness failed, the cardinals and Sir Thomas Lavelle's heads should have gone off. "'What? So rank? Aha! There's mischief in this man. Canst thou say further?'

i can my liege proceed being at greenwich after your highness had reproved the duke about sir william blomer i remember of such a time being my sworn servant the duke retained him his but on what hence

if quoth he i for this had been committed as to the tower i thought i would have played the part my father meant to act upon the usurper richard who being at salisbury made suit to come in's presence which if granted as he made semblance of his duty would have put his knife to him a giant traitor now madam may his highness live in freedom and this man out of prison god mend all

There's something more wood out of thee. What say'st? After the duke his father, with the knife, he stretched him, and, with one hand on his dagger, another spread on his breast, mounting his eyes, he did discharge a horrible oath, whose tenor was, where he evil used, he would outgo his father by as much as a performance does an irresolute purpose. There's his period to sheath his knife in us.

he is attach'd call him to present trial if he may find mercy in the law tis his if none let him not seek it of us by day and night he's traitor to the height scene three an antechamber in the palace enter chamberlain and sands

is it possible the spells of france should juggle men into such strange mysteries new customs though they be never so ridiculous nay let em be unmanly yet are followed as far as i see all the good our english have got by the late voyage is but merely a fit or two of the face but they are shrewd ones for when they hold em you would swear directly their very noses had been counsellors to pepin or clotharius they keep state so

"'They have all new legs, and lame ones, one would take it, "'that never saw them pace before the Spavon or Springholt reigned among them.' "'Death. My lord, their clothes are after such a pagan cut, too, "'that, sure, they've worn out Christendom.' "'Enter Laval.' "'How now? What news, Sir Thomas Lovell?' "'Faith, my lord, I hear of none but the new proclamation "'that's clapped upon the court-gate.' "'What is it for?'

the reformation of our travelled gallants that fill the court with quarrels talk and tailors i'm glad tis there now i would pray our messieurs to think an english courtier may be wise and never see the louvre

they must either for so run the conditions leave those remnants of fall and feather that they've got in france with all their honourable point of ignorance pertaining thereunto as fights and fireworks abusing better men than they can be out of a foreign wisdom renouncing clean the faith they have in tennis and tall stockings short blistered breeches and those types of travel

and understand again like honest men or pack to their old playfellows there i take it they may cum privilegio wear away the lag end of their lewdness and be laughed at

"'Tis time to give them physic. Their diseases are grown so catching.' "'What a loss our ladies will have of these trim vanities!' "'Ay, marry! There will be woe indeed, lords! The sly whore-sons have got a speeding trick to lay down ladies. A French song and a fiddle has no fellow.' "'The devil fiddle them! I am glad they are going for—sure. There's no converting of them.'

now an honest country lord as i am beaten a long time out of play may bring his plain song and have an hour of hearing and by our lady hold current music too well said lord sands your colt's tooth is not cast yet no my lord nor shall not while i have a stump sir thomas whither were you a-going to the cardinal's your lordship is a guest too

"'Oh, tis true. This night he makes a supper and a great one, to many lords and ladies. There will be the beauty of this kingdom, I'll assure you.' "'That churchman bears a bounteous mind indeed. A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us. His Jews fall everywhere.' "'No doubt he's noble. He had a black mouth that said other of him.'

he may my lord has wherewithal in him sparing would show a worse sin than ill doctrine men of his way should be most liberal they are set here for examples true they are so but few now give so great ones my barge stays your lordship shall along come good sir thomas we shall be late else which i would not be for i was spoke to with sir henry guildford this night to be comptrollers i am your lordship's

scene four a hall in york palace hot boys a small table under a state for cardinal wolsey a longer table for the guests then enter anne and divers other ladies and gentlemen as guests at one door at another door enter guildford

ladies a general welcome from his grace salutes ye all this night he dedicates to fair content and you none here he hopes in all this noble bevy has brought with her one care abroad he would have all as merry as first good company good wine good welcome can make good people

O my lord, you're tardy. Enter Chamberlain, Sands, and Lavelle. The very thought of this fair company clapped wings to me. You are young, Sir Henry Guildford. Sir Thomas Lovell, had the Cardinal but half my lay thoughts in him, some of these should find a running banquet ere they rested, I think would better please him. By my life they are a sweet society of fair ones.

"'Oh, that your lordship were but now confessor to one or two of these!' "'I would I were. They should find easy penance.' "'Faith, how easy?' "'As easy as a down-bed would afford it.' "'Sweet ladies, will it please you sit? Sir Harry, place you that side. I'll take charge of this. His grace is entering. Nay, you must not freeze. Two women placed together makes cold weather.'

"'My lord Sands, you are one will keep him waking. Pray, sit between these ladies.' "'By my faith and thank your lordship, by your leave, sweet ladies, if I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me. I had it from my father.' "'Was he mad, sir?' "'Very mad, exceeding mad. In love, too. But he would bite none, just as I do now. He would kiss you twenty with a breath.' "'Kisses her.' "'Well said, my lord.'

so now you're fairly seated gentlemen the penance lies on you if these fair ladies pass away frowning for my little cure let me alone hot boys enter cardinal wolsey and takes his state you're welcome my fair guests that noble lady or gentleman that is not freely merry is not my friend this to confirm my welcome and to you all good health

your grace is noble let me have such a bowl may hold my thanks and save me so much talking my lord sands i am beholding to you cheer your neighbours ladies you are not merry gentlemen whose fault is this the red wine first must rise in their fair cheeks my lord then we shall have em talk us to silence you are a merry gamester my lord sands

yes if i make my play here's to your ladyship and pledget madam for tis such a thing lady you cannot show me lord i told your grace they would talk anon drum and trumpet chambers discharged what's that lord look out there some of ye exit servant lord what warlike voice and to what end is this nay ladies fear not by all the laws of war you're privileged re-enter servant

how now what is it a noble troop of strangers for so they seem they've left the barge and landed and heathen make as great ambassadors from foreign princes good lord chamberlain go give him welcome you can speak the french tongue and pray receive him nobly and conduct him into our presence where this heaven of beauty shall shine at full upon them some attend him

exit chamberlain attended all rise and tables removed you have now a broken banquet but we'll mend it a good digestion to you all and once more i shower a welcome on ye welcome all hot boys enter king henry the eighth and others as maskers habited like shepherds ushered by the chamberlain they pass directly before cardinal wolsey and gracefully salute him

a noble company what are their pleasures because they speak no english thus they prayed to tell your grace that having heard by fame of this so noble and so fair assembly this night to meet here they could do no less out of the great respect they bear to beauty but leave their flocks and under your fair conduct crave leave to view these ladies and entreat an hour of revels with them

say lord chamberlain they have done my poor house grace for which i pay em a thousand thanks and pray em take their pleasures they choose ladies for the dance king henry the eighth chooses anne the fairest hand i've a touch'd o beauty till thou i never knew thee music dance my lord

your grace sir john pray tell him thus much from me there should be one amongst em by his person more worthy this place than myself to whom if i but knew him with my love and duty i would surrender it sir john i will my lord

whispers the maskers what say they such a one they all confess there is indeed which they would have your grace find out and he will take it let me see then

by all your good lees gentlemen here i'll make my royal choice he have found him cardinal you hold a fair assembly you do well lord you are a churchman or i'll tell you cardinal i should judge now unhappily i am glad your grace is grown so pleasant my lord chamberlain prithee come hither what fair lady's that

In it please, Your Grace, Sir Thomas Bullen's daughter. The Viscount Richmond. One of Her Highness's women. By heaven, she is a dainty one. Sweetheart, I were unmanly to take you out and not to kiss you. A health, gentlemen, let it go round. Sir Thomas Lovell, is the banquet ready in the privy chamber? Yes, my lord. Your Grace, I fear with dancing is a little heated. I fear too much.

There's fresher air, my lord, in the next chamber. Lead in your ladies, every one. Sweet partner, I must not yet forsake you. Let's be merry. Good, my lord cardinal, I have half a dozen health to drink to these fair ladies, and a measure to lead them once again. And then let's dream who's best in favour. Let the music knock it. Exunt with trumpets. End of Act 1

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Wither away so fast?

oh god save ye even to the hall to hear what shall become of the great duke of buckingham duke i'll save you that labour sir all's now done but the ceremony of bringing back the prisoner mrs dubedat were you there duke yes indeed was i mrs dubedat pray speak what has happened duke you may guess quickly what mrs dubedat is he found guilty duke yes truly is he and condemned apart

i am sorry for it so are a number more but pray how past it i'll tell you in a little the great duke came to the bar where to his accusations he pleaded still not guilty and alleged many sharp reasons to defeat the law the king's attorney on the contrary urged on the examinations proofs confessions of divers witnesses which the duke desired to have brought viva voce to his face

at which appeared against him his surveyor sir gilbert peck his chancellor and john carr confessor to him with that devil monk hopkins that made this mischief that was he that fed him with his prophecies the same all these accused him strongly which he feigned would have flung from him but indeed he could not and so his peers upon this evidence have found him guilty of high treason

Much he spoke and learnedly for life, but all was either pitied in him or forgotten. After all this, how did he bear himself? When he was brought again to the bar, to hear his nail wrung out as judgment, he was stirred with such an agony, his sweat extremely, and something spoke in choler, ill and hasty. But he fell to himself again, and sweetly and all the rest showed him most noble patience. I do not think he fears death. Sure he does not. He never was so womanish. The cause he may a little grieve at.

certainly the cardinal is the end of this tis likely by all conjectures first kildare's attainder then deputy of ireland who removed earl surrey was sent thither and in haste too lest he should help his father that trick of state was a deep envious one

at his return no doubt he will requite it this is noted and generally whoever the king favours the cardinal instantly will find employment and far from court too all the commons hate him perniciously and o my conscience wish him ten fathom deep this duke as much they love in dodon call him bounteous buckingham the mirror of all courtesy

stay there sir and see the noble ruined man you speak of enter buckingham from his arraignment tipstaves before him the axe with the edge towards him halberds on each side accompanied with lavelle vaux sans and common people let's stand close and behold him all good people you that thus far have come to pity me hear what i say and then go home and lose me

I have this day received the traitor's judgment, and by that name must die. Yet heaven bear witness, and if I have a conscience, let it sink me, even as the axe falls if I be not faithful. The law I bear no malice for my death. T'has done, upon the premises, but justice, but those that sought it I could wish more Christians. Be what they will, I heartily forgive them.

yet let em look they glory not in mischief nor build their evils on the graves of great men for then my guiltless blood must cry against em for further life in this world i ne'er hope nor will i sue although the king have mercies more than i dare make faults you few that love me and dare be bold to weep for buckingham

his noble friends and fellows whom to leave is only bitter to him only dying go with me like good angels to my end and as the long divorce of steel falls on me make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice and lift my soul to heaven lead on o god's name

I do beseech your grace for charity, if ever any malice in your heart were hid against me, now to forgive me frankly.

Sir Thomas Lovell, as I free forgive you as I would be forgiven, I forgive all. There cannot be those numberless offences gainst me that I cannot take peace with. No black envy shall mark my grave. Commend me to his grace, and if he speak of Buckingham, pray, tell him you met him half in heaven. My vows and prayers yet are the king's, and till my soul forsake shall cry for blessings on him.

may he live longer than i have time to tell his years ever beloved and loving may his rule be and when old time shall lead him to his end goodness and he fill up one monument to the water-side i must conduct your grace then give my charge up to sir nicholas vaux who undertakes you to your end prepare there the duke is coming

see the barge be ready and fit in with such furniture as suits the greatness of his person nay sir nicholas let it alone my state now will but mock me when i came hither i was lord high constable and duke of buckingham now poor edward bohun

Yet I am richer than my base accusers, that never knew what truth meant. I now seal it, and with the blood that make em one day groan for't. My noble father, Henry of Buckingham, who first raised head against usurping Richard, flying for succour to his servant Bannister, being distressed, was by that wretch betrayed, and without trial fell. God's peace be with him.

Henry VII succeeding, truly pitying my father's loss, like a most royal prince, restored me to my honours, and, out of ruins, made my name once more noble. Now his son, Henry VIII, life, honour, name, and all that made me happy at one stroke has taken for ever from the world. I had my trial, and, must needs say, a noble one, which makes me a little happier than my wretched father.

yet thus far we are one in fortunes both fell by our servants by those men we loved most a most unnatural and faithless service

Heaven has an end in all, yet you that hear me, this from a dying man receive as certain, where you are liberal of your loves and counsels, be sure you be not loose, for those you would make friends and give your hearts to, when they once perceived the least rub in your fortunes, fall away like water from ye, never found again but where they mean to sink ye.

all good people pray for me i must now forsake ye the last hour of my long weary life is come upon me farewell and when you would say something that is sad speak how i fell i have done and god forgive me exunt buckingham and train oh this is full of pity sir it calls i fear too many curses on their beads that were the author's if the duke be guiltless tis full of woe

yet i can give you inkling of an ensuing evil if it fall greater than this good angels keep it from us what may it be you do not doubt my faith sir this secret is so weighty twill require a strong faith to conceal it let me have it i do not talk much i am confident you shall sir did you not of late days hear a buzzing of a separation between the king and catherine

yes but it held not for when the king once heard it out of anger he sent command to the lord mayor straight to stop the rumour and allay those tongues that durst disperse it but that slander sir is found a truth now for it grows again fresher than e'er it was and held for certain the king will venture at it either the cardinal or some about him near have out of malice to the good queen possessed him with a scruple that will undo her

to confirm this too cardinal campeus is arrived and lately as all think for this business ad tis the cardinal and merely to revenge him on the emperor for not bestowing on him add is asking the archbishopric of toledo this is purposed i think you have hit the mark but tis not cruel that she should feel the smart of this the cardinal will have his will and she must fall ad tis woeful we are too open here to argue this let's think in private more

Exunt. Scene 2. An antechamber in the palace. Enter Chamberlain reading a letter. My lord, the horses your lordship sent for, with all the care I had, I saw well chosen, ridden, and furnished. They were young and handsome, and of the best breed in the north. When they were ready to set out for London, a man of my lord cardinal's, by commission and main power, took them from me. With this reason—

his master would be served before a subject if not before the king which stopped our mouths sir i fear he will indeed well let them have him he will have all i think enter to chamberlain norfolk and suffolk well met my lord chamberlain chamberlain good day to both your graces

how is the king employed i left him private full of sad thoughts and troubles what's the cause it seems the marriage with his brother's wife has crept too near his conscience no his conscience has crept too near another lady to sew this is the cardinal's doing the king cardinal that blind priest like the eldest son of fortune turns what he lists the king will know him one day

pray god he do he'll never know himself else how holily he works in all his business and with what zeal for now he has cracked the league between us and the emperor the queen's great nephew he dives into the king's soul and there scatters dangers doubts ringing of the conscience fears and despairs and all these for his marriage

and out of all these to restore the king he counsels a divorce a loss of her that like a jewel has hung twenty years about his neck yet never lost her lustre of her that loves him with that excellence that angels love good men with even of her that when the greatest stroke of fortune falls will bless the king and is not this coarse pious

heaven keep me from such counsel tis most true these news are everywhere every tongue speaks em and every true heart weeps for it all that dare look into these affairs see this main end the french king's sister heaven will one day open the king's eyes that so long have slept upon this bold bad man

and free us from his slavery we had need pray and heartily for our deliverance or this imperious man will work us all from princes into page all men's honours lie like one lump before him to be fashioned into what pitch he please

for me my lords i love him not nor fear him there's my creed as i am made without him so i'll stand if the king please his curses and his blessings touch me alike their breath i not believe in i knew him and i know him so i leave him to him that made him proud the pope let's in and with some other business put the king from these sad thoughts that work too much upon him

my lord you'll bear us company king the king has sent me otherwhere besides you'll find a most unfit time to disturb him health to your lordships king thanks my good lord chamberlain exit chamberlain and king henry the eighth draws the curtain and sits reading pensively chamberlain how sad he looks sure he is much afflicted king who's there chamberlain pray god he be not angry

who's there i say how dare you thrust yourselves into my private meditations who am i a gracious king that pardons all offences malice ne'er meant our breach of duty this way is business of estate in which we come to know your royal pleasure ye are too bold go to or make ye know your times of business as this an hour for temporal affairs ha enter cardinal wolsey and cardinal campeius with a commission

Who's there? My good lord Cardinal. O my Wolsey, the quiet of my wounded conscience, thou art a cure fit for a king. To Cardinal Campeas. You're welcome, most learned reverend sir, into our kingdom. Use it and ask. To Cardinal Wolsey. My good lord, have great care I be not found a talker.

sir you cannot i would your grace would give us but an hour of private conference to norfolk and suffolk we are busy go aside to suffolk this priest has no pride in him aside to norfolk not to speak of i would not be so sick though for his place but this cannot continue aside to suffolk if it do i'll venture one half at him aside to norfolk

i another exunt norfolk and suffolk your grace has given a precedent of wisdom above all princes in committing freely your scruple to the voice of christendom who can be angry now what envy reach you

the spaniard tied by blood and favor to her must now confess if they have any goodness the trial just and noble all the clerks i mean the learned ones in christian kingdoms have their free voices rome the nurse of judgment invited by your noble self hath sent one general tongue unto us this good man this just and learned priest

cardinal campeus whom once more i present unto your highness and once more in mine arms i bid him welcome and thank the holy conclave for their love they have sent me such a man i would have wished for your grace must needs deserve all strangers loves you are so noble

to your highness hand i tender my commission by whose virtue the court of rome commanding you my lord cardinal of york are joined with me their servant in the impartial judging of this business two equal men the queen shall be acquainted forthwith for what you come where's a gardener

i know your majesty has always loved her so dear in heart not to deny her that a woman of less place might ask by law scholars allowed freely to argue for her

I and the best she shall have, and my favour to him that does best. God forbid else, Cardinal. Prithee, call Gardiner to me, my new secretary. I find him a fit fellow. Exit Cardinal Woolsey. Re-enter Cardinal Woolsey with Gardiner. Aside to Gardiner. Give me your hand. Much joy and favour to you. You are the kings now. Aside to Cardinal Woolsey.

but to be commanded for ever by your grace whose hand has raised me come hither gardener walks and whispers my lord of york was not one dr parche in this man's place before him yes he was was he not held a learned man yes surely

believe me there's an ill opinion spread then even of yourself lord cardinal how of me they will not stick to say you envied him and fearing he would rise he was so virtuous kept him a foreign man still which so grieved him that he ran mad and died heavens peace be with him that's christian care enough

for living murmurers there's places of rebuke he was a fool for he would needs be virtuous that good fellow if i command him follows my appointment i will have none so near else learn this brother we live not to be griped by meaner persons

Deliver this with modesty to the queen. Exit Gardiner. The most convenient place I can think of for such a receipt of learning is Blackfriars. There you shall meet about this weighty business. My Woolsey, see it furnished. O my lord, would it not grieve an able man to live so sweet a bedfellow! But conscience, conscience! Oh, tis but a tender place, and I must leave her.

exunt scene three an antechamber of the queen's apartments enter anne and an old lady anne not for that neither here's the pang that pinches his highness having lived so long with her and she so good a lady that no tongue could ever pronounce dishonour of her by my life she never knew harm doing

o now after so many courses of the sun enthron'd still growing in a majesty in pomp the which to leave a thousandfold more bitter than tis sweet at first to acquire

After this process, to give her the avaunt, It is a pity would move a monster. Hearts of most hard temper melt and lament for her. O God's will! much better she ne'er had known pomp. Though't be temporal, yet, if that quarrel fortune Do divorce it from the bearer, Tis a sufferance panging as soul and body severing. Alas! poor lady! she's a stranger now again.

so much the more must pity drop upon her verily i swear tis better to be lowly born and range with humble livers in content then to be perk'd up in a glistering grief and wear a golden sorrow our content is our best having by my troth and maidenhead i would not be a queen

Nay, good truth.

"'Yes, Troth and Troth, you would not be a queen?'

"'No, not for all the riches under heaven.' "'Tis strange. A three-pence bode would hire me, Old as I am, to queen it. But I pray you, what think you of the Duchess? Have you limbs to bear that load of title?' "'No, in truth.' "'Then you are weakly made. Pluck off little. I would not be a young count in your way, For more than blushing comes to if your back Cannot vouchsafe this burden. Tis too weak ever to get a boy.' "'How you do talk!'

i swear again i would not be a queen for all the world in faith for little england you'll venture an emballing i myself would for carnarvonshire although there longed no more to the crown but that lo who comes here enter chamberlain chamberlain good morrow ladies what were it worth to know the secret of your conference chamberlain my good lord not your demand it values not your asking

Our mistress sorrows we were pitying. It was a gentle business, and becoming the action of good women. There is hope. All will be well. Now I pray God. Amen.

"'You bear a gentle mind, and heavenly blessings follow such creatures. That you may, fair lady, perceive I speak sincerely, and high notes ta'en of your many virtues. The King's Majesty commends his good opinion of you, and does propose honour to you no less flowing than Marchioness of Pembroke, to which title a thousand pound a year annual support, out of his grace he adds.'

"'I do not know what kind of my obedience I should tender. More than my all is nothing. Nor my prayers are not words duly hallowed, nor my wishes more worth than empty vanities. Yet prayers and wishes are all I can return. Beseech your lordship, vouchsafe to speak my thanks and my obedience, as from a blushing handmaid to his highness, whose health and royalty I pray for.'

lady i shall not fail to approve the fair conceit the king hath of you i have perused her well beauty and honour in her are so mingled that they have caught the king and who knows yet but from this lady may proceed a gem to lighten all this isle

I'll to the king, and say I spoke with you. EXIT CHAMBERLIN. My honoured lord. Why, this is it! See, see! I have been begging sixteen years in court, And yet a courtier beggarly, Nor could come Pat betwixt too early and too late For any suit of pounds. And you! O fate! A very fresh fish here! Fie, fie, fie upon! This compelled fortune! Have your mouth filled up before you open it!'

This is strange to me. How tastes it? Is it bitter? Forty pence? No. There was a lady once, tis an old story, That would not be a queen. That would she not? For all the mud in Egypt. Have you heard it? Come, you are pleasant. With your theme I could o'ermount the lark. The matroness of Pembroke,

a thousand pounds a year for pure respect no other obligation but my life that promises mo thousands honour's train is longer than his foreskirt by this time i know your back will bear it duchess say are you not stronger than you were good lady make yourself mirth with your particular fancy and leave me out on't would i had no being if this salute my blood a jot it faints me to think what follows

the queen is comfortless and we forgetful in our long absence pray do not deliver what here you've heard to her what do you think me exunt scene for a hall in black friars

trumpets senate and cornets enter two vergers with short silver wands next them two scribes in the habit of doctors after them canterbury alone after him lincoln eli rochester and st asaph next them with some small distance follows a gentleman bearing the purse with the great seal and a cardinal's hat

then two priests bearing each a silver cross then a gentleman usher bareheaded accompanied with a sergeant at arms bearing a silver mace then two gentlemen bearing two great silver pillars after them side by side cardinal wolsey and cardinal campeus two noblemen with the sword and mace king henry the eighth takes place under the cloth of state cardinal wolsey and cardinal campeus sit under him as judges

Queen Catherine takes place some distance from King Henry VIII. The bishops place themselves on each side the court in manner of a consistory. Below them the scribes. The lords sit next the bishops. The rest of the attendants stand in convenient order about the stage. Whilst our commission from Rome is read, let silence be commanded. What's the need?

it hath already publicly been read and on all sides the authority allow'd you may then spare that time be it so proceed say henry king of england come into the court henry king of england come into the court here say catherine queen of england come into the court

catherine queen of england come into the court queen catherine makes no answer rises out of her chair goes about the court comes to king henry the eighth and kneels at his feet then speaks queen catherine sir i desire you do me right and justice and to bestow your pity on me

for i am a most poor woman and a stranger born out of your dominions having here no judge indifferent nor no more assurance of equal friendship and proceeding alas sir in what have i offended you what cause hath my behaviour given to your displeasure that thus you should proceed to put me off and take your good grace from me

Heaven, witness, I have been to you a true and humble wife, at all times to your will conformable, ever in fear to kindle your dislike, yea, a subject to your countenance, glad or sorry as I saw it inclined. When was the hour I ever contradicted your desire, or made it not mine too? Or which of your friends have I not strove to love, although I knew he were mine enemy?'

what friend of mine that had to him derived your anger did i continue in my liking nay gave notice he was from thence discharged sir call to mind that i have been your wife in this obedience upward of twenty years and have been blessed with many children by you

if in the course and process of this time you can report and prove it too against mine honour aught my bond to wedlock or my love and duty against your sacred person in god's name turn me away and let the foulest contempt shut door upon me and so give me up to the sharpest kind of justice

please you sir the king your father was reputed for a prince most prudent of an excellent and unmatched wit and judgment ferdinand my father king of spain was reckoned one the wisest prince that there had reigned by many a year before it is not to be questioned that they had gathered a wise council to them of every realm that did debate this business who deemed our marriage lawful

wherefore i humbly beseech you sir to spare me till i may be by my friends in spain advised whose counsel i will implore if not i the name of god your pleasure be fulfilled

you have here lady and of your choice these reverend fathers men of singular integrity and learning yea the elect of the land who are assembled to plead your cause it shall be therefore bootless that longer you desire the court as well for your own quiet as to rectify what is unsettled in the king

his grace has spoken well and justly therefore madam its fit this royal session do proceed and that without delay their arguments be now produced and heard lord cardinal to you i speak your pleasure madam sir i am about to weep but thinking that we are a queen or long have dream'd so certain the daughter of a king

My drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire. Be patient yet. I will when you are humble, Nay before, or God will punish me. I do believe, induced by potent circumstances, That you are mine enemy, And make my challenge you shall not be my judge. For it is you have blown this call betwixt my lord and me, Which gods do quench.

therefore i say again i utterly abhor yea from my soul refuse you for my judge whom yet once more i hold my most malicious foe and think not at all a friend to truth i do profess you speak not like yourself who ever yet have stood to charity and displayed the effects of disposition gentle and of wisdom overtopping woman's power

madam you do me wrong i have no spleen against you nor injustice for you or any how far i have proceeded or how far further shall is warranted by a commission from the consistory yea the whole consistory of rome

you charge me that i have blown this coal i do deny it the king is present if it be known to him that i gainsay my deed how may he wound and worthily my falsehood yea as much as you have done my truth if he knows that i am free of your report he knows i am not of your wrong

therefore in him it lies to cure me and the cure is to remove these thoughts from you the which before his highness shall speak in i do beseech you gracious madam to unthink your speaking and to say so no more my lord my lord i am a simple woman much too weak to oppose your cunning

your meek and humble mouth'd you sign your place and calling in full seeming with meekness and humility but your heart is cramm'd with arrogance spleen and pride you have by fortune and his highness favours gone slightly o'er low steps and now are mounted where powers are your retainers and your words domestics to you serve your will as't please yourself pronounce their office

i must tell you you tender more your person's honour than your high profession spiritual that again i do refuse you for my judge and here before you all appeal unto the pope to bring my whole cause for his holiness and to be judged by him she curtseys to king henry the eighth and offers to depart

the queen is obstinate stubborn to justice apt to accuse it and disdainful to be tried by't tis not well she's going away call her again katharine queen of england come into the court madame you are called back what need you note it pray you keep your way when you are called return now the lord help they vex me past my patience

Pray you, pass on. I will not tarry. No, nor ever more upon this business my appearance make in any of their courts. Exhunt Queen Catherine and her attendants. Go thy ways, Kate, that man in the world who shall report he has a better wife. Let him in naught be trusted, for speaking false in that, thou art alone.

if thy rare qualities sweet gentleness thy meekness saint-like wife-like government obeying in commanding and thy parts sovereign and pious else could speak thee out the queen of earthly queen she's noble-born and like her true nobility she has carried herself towards me

most gracious sir in humblest manner i require your highness that it shall please you to declare in hearing of all these ears for where i am robbed and bound there must i be unloosed although not there at once and fully satisfied whether ever i did broach this business to your highness or laid any scruple in your way which might induce you to the question on it

or ever have to you but with thanks to god for such a royal lady spake one the least word that might be to the prejudice of her present state or touch of her good person my lord cardinal i do excuse you yea upon mine honour i free you from you are not to be taught that you have many enemies that know not why they are so but like the village curs bark when their fellows do

by some of these the queen is put in anger you're excused but will you be more justified you ever have wished the sleeping of this business never desired it to be stirred but oft have hindered oft the passage is made toward it on my honour i speak my good lord cardinal to this point and thus far clear him now what move me to it i will be bold with time and your attention then mark the inducement

thus it came give heed to it my conscience first received a tenderness scruple and prick on certain speeches uttered by the bishop of bayonne then french ambassador who had been hither sent on the debating a marriage twixt the duke of orleans and our daughter mary in the progress of this business ere a determinate resolution he i mean the bishop did require a respite

wherein he might the king his lord advertise whether our daughter were legitimate respecting this our marriage with the dowager sometimes our brother's wife this respite shook the bosom of my conscience entered me yea with a splitting and made to tremble the region of my breast which falls such way that many may's considerings did throng and pressed in with this caution

first methought i stood not in the smile of heaven who had commanded nature that my lady's womb if it conceived a male child by me should do no more office of life to it than the grave does to the dead for her male issue or died whether they had been made or shortly after this world had heir'd them hence i took a thought this was a judgment on me that my kingdom well worthy the best heir of the world should not be gladded in't by me

then follows that i weighed the danger in which my realm stood in by this my issues fail and that gave to me many a groaning throe thus hulling in the wild sea of my conscience i did steer toward this remedy whereupon we are now present here together that's to say i meant to rectify my conscience which i then did feel full sick and yet not well

by all the reverend fathers of the land and doctors learned first i began in private with you my lord of lincoln you remember how under my oppression i did reek when i first moved you very well my liege i have spoke long be pleased yourself to say how far you satisfied me so please your highness the question did at first so stagger me bearing a state of mighty moment in it

and consequence of dread that i committed the daringst counsel which i had to doubt and did entreat your highness to this course which you are running here i then moved you my lord of canterbury and got your leave to make this present summon unsolicited i left no reverend person in this court but by particular consent proceeded under your hands and seals

therefore go on for no dislike of the world against the person of the good queen but the sharp thorny points in my alleged reasons drive this forward prove but our marriage lawful by my life and kingly dignity we are contented to wear our mortal state to come with her catharine our queen before the primest creature that's paragon'd to the world

So, please, your highness, the queen being absent, tis a needful fitness that we adjourn this court till further day. Meanwhile must be an earnest motion made to the queen to call back her appeal she intends unto his holiness. Aside. I may perceive these cardinals trifle with me. I abhor this dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. My learned and well-beloved servant Cranmer, prithee, return.

with thy approach i know my comfort comes along break up the court i say set on exunt in manner as they entered end of act two out here there's no one way of doing things no unwritten rules and no shortage of adventure because out here the only requirement is having fun

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ACT III. SCENE I. LONDON. QUEEN CATHERINE'S APARTMENTS. ENTER QUEEN CATHERINE AND HER WOMEN AS AT WORK.

take thy lute wench my soul grows sad with troubles sing and disperse em if thou canst leave working

and the mountain tops that freeze bow themselves when he did sing to his music plants and flowers ever sprung as sun and showers that made a lasting spring everything that heard him play even the billows of the sea hung their heads

in sweet music is such a killing care and grief of heart enter a gentleman

How now? And please your grace, the two great cardinals wait in the presence. Would they speak with me? They will, me say so, madam. Pray their graces to come near. Exit, gentlemen. What can be their business with me? A poor weak woman fallen from favour. I do not like their coming. Now I think on it they should be good men, their affairs as righteous. But all hoods make not monks.

enter cardinal wolsey and cardinal compeyas cardinal peace to your highness your graces find me here part of a housewife i would be all againt the worst may happen what are your pleasures with me reverend lords

may it please you noble madam to withdraw into your private chamber we shall give you the full cause of our coming lady utterword speak it here there's nothing i have done yet and my conscience deserves a corner would all other women could speak this with as free a soul as i do

my lords i care not so much i am happy above a number if my actions were tried by every tongue every eye sorum envy and base opinion set against em i know my life so even if your business seek me out and that way i am wife in out with it boldly truth loves open dealing

Tenta est erga te mentis integritas, Regina serenissima. TENTA. O good my lord, no Latin! I am not such a truant since my coming as not to know the language I have lived in. A strange tongue makes my cause more strange, suspicious. Pray speak in English. Here are some will thank you if you speak truth for their poor mistress' sake.

Believe me, she has had much wrong. Lord Cardinal, the willingest sin I ever yet committed may be absolved in English."

noble lady i am sorry my integrity should breed and service to his majesty and you so deep suspicion where all faith was meant we come not by the way of accusation to taint that honor every good tongue blesses nor to betray you any way to sorrow you have too much good lady but to know how you stand minded in the weighty difference between the king and you

and to deliver like free and honest men our just opinions and comforts to your cause

most honoured madam my lord of york out of his noble nature zeal and obedience he still bore your grace forgetting like a good man your late censor both of his truth and him which was too far offers as i do in a sign of peace his service and his counsel lorna aside to betray me

my lords i thank you both for your good wills ye speak like honest men pray god ye prove so but how to make ye suddenly an answer in such a point of weight so near mine honour more ne'er my life i fear with my weak wit and to such men of gravity and learning in truth i know not i was set at work among my maids full little god knows looking either for such men or such business

for her sake that i have been for i fear the last fit of my greatness good your graces let me have time and counsel for my cause alas i am a woman friendless hopeless captain madame you wrong the king's love with these fears your hopes and friends are infinite lady in england but little for my profit

Can you think, lords, that any Englishman dare give me counsel? Or be a known friend gainst his highness' pleasure, though he be grown so desperate to be honest and live a subject? Nay, forsooth, my friends, they that must weigh out my afflictions, they that my trust must grow to, live not here. They are, as all my other comforts, far hence, in mine own country, lords.'

i would your grace would leave your griefs and take my counsel how sir put your main cause into the king's protection he's loving and most gracious twill be much both for your honour better and your cause for if the trial of the law overtake ye you'll part away disgraced he tells you rightly ye tell me what ye wish for both my ruin

is this your christian counsel out upon ye heaven is above all yet there sits a judge that no king can corrupt your rage mistakes us the more shame for ye holy men i thought ye upon my soul two reverent cardinal virtues but cardinal sins and hollow hearts i fear ye

mend them for shame my lords is this your comfort the cordial that ye bring a wretched lady a woman lost among ye laugh that scorn i will not wish ye half my miseries i have more charity

but say i warned ye take heed for heaven's sake take heed lest at once the burden of my sorrows fall upon ye captain madame this is a mere distraction you turn the good we offer into envy lady ye turn me into nothing woe upon ye and all such false professors

Would you have me, if you have any justice, any pity, if ye be anything but churchmen's habits? Put my sick cause into his hands that hates me. Alas, has banished me his bed already, his love too long ago. I am old, my lords, and all the fellowship I hold now with him is only my obedience. What can happen to me above this wretchedness?'

all your studies make me a curse like this your fears are worse have i lived thus long let me speak myself since virtue finds no friends a wife a true one a woman i dare say without vain glory never yet branded with suspicion

Have I with all my full affection still met the King, loved him next heaven, obeyed him, been out of fondness superstitious to him, almost forgot my prayers to content him, and am I thus rewarded? 'Tis not well, lords.

"'Bring me a constant woman to her husband, one that ne'er dreamed a joy beyond his pleasure, and do that woman when she has done most, yet will I add an honour, a great patience.' "'Madam, you wander from the good we aim at.' "'My lord, I dare not make myself so guilty to give up willingly that noble title your master wed me to. Nothing but death shall e'er divorce my dignities.'

Pray hear me. Would I had never trod this English earth, or felt the flatteries that grow upon it. Ye have angels' faces, but heaven knows your hearts. What will become of me now, wretched lady? I am the most unhappy woman living. Alas, poor wenches, where are now your fortunes?

shipwrecked upon a kingdom where no pity nor friend nor hope nor kindred weep for me almost no grave allowed me like the lily that once was mistress of the field and flourished i'll hang my head and perish

if your grace could but be brought to know our ends are honest you'd feel more comfort why should we good lady upon what cause wrong you alas our places the way of our profession is against it we are to cure such sorrows not to sow em for goodness sake consider what you do how you may hurt yourself i utterly grow from the king's acquaintance by this carriage

The hearts of princes kiss obedience, so much they love it, but to stubborn spirits they swell and grow as terrible as storms. I know you have a gentle noble temper, a soul as even as a calm. Pray, think us those we profess, peacemakers, friends, and servants. Madam, you'll find it so. You wrong your virtues with these weak women's fears.

a noble spirit as yours was put into you ever cast such doubts as false coin from it the king loves you beware you lose it not for us if you please to trust us in your business we are ready to use our utmost studies in your service do what ye will my lords and pray forgive me if i have used myself unmannerly

you know i am a woman lacking wit to make a seemly answer to such persons pray do my service to his majesty he has my heart yet and shall have my prayers while i shall have my life come reverend fathers bestow your counsels on me she now begs that little thought when she set footing here she should have bought her dignities so dear

scene two ante-chamber to king henry the eighth apartment enter norfolk suffolk surrey and chamberlain if you will now unite in your complaints and force them with a constancy the cardinal cannot stand under them

if you omit the offer of this time i cannot promise but that you shall sustain more new disgraces with these you bear already lady i am joyful to meet the least occasion that may give me remembrance of my father-in-law the duke to be revenged on him which of the peers have uncondemned gone by him or at least strangely neglected when did he regard the stamp of nobleness in any person out of himself

my lords you speak your pleasures what he deserves of you and me i know what we can do to him though now the time gives way to us i much fear if you cannot bar his access to the king never attempt anything on him for he hath a witchcraft over the king in his tongue

O fear him not, his spell in that is out. The king hath found matter against him, That for ever mars the honey of his language. No, he's settled, not to come off in his displeasure. LADY MACBETH: Sir, I should be glad to hear such news as this once every hour. MR. Believe it, this is true.

in the divorce his contrary proceedings are all unfolded wherein he appears as i would wish mine enemy how came his practices to light most strangely

oh how how the cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried and came to the eye of the king wherein was read how that the cardinal did entreat his holiness to stay the judgment of the divorce for if it did take place i do quoth he perceive my king is tangled in affection to a creature of the queen's lady anne boleyn

Has the king this? Believe it. Will this work? The king in this perceives him, How he coasts and hedges his own way. But in this point all his tricks founder, And he brings his physic after his patient's death. The king already hath married the fair lady. Would he had! May you be happy in your wish, my lord, For I profess you have it. Now all my joy trace the conjunction. My amen to it!

all mens there's order given for her coronation marry this is yet but young and may be left to some ears unrecounted but my lords she is a gallant creature and complete in mind and feature i persuade me from her will fall some blessing to this land which shall in it be memoris'd but will the king digest this letter of the cardinal's the lord forbid

No, no, there be more wasps that buzz about his nose will make this sting the sooner. Cardinal Campeius has stolen away to Rome, hath ta'en no leave, has left the cause of the king unhandled, and is posted as the agent of our cardinal to second all his plot. I do assure you the king cried ha at this. Now God incense him, and let him cry ha louder. But, my lord, when returns Cramner?

he is returned in his opinions which have satisfied the king for his divorce together with all famous colleges almost in christendom shortly i believe his second marriage shall be published and her coronation catherine no more shall be called queen but princess dowager and widow to prince arthur

this same cranmer's a worthy fellow and hath ta'en much pain in the king's business he has and we shall see him for it an archbishop so i hear tis so the cardinal enter cardinal wolsey and cromwell observe observe he's moody the packet cromwell giveth you the king to his own hand in his bedchamber

looked he o the inside of the paper captain presently he did unseal them and the first he viewed he did it with a serious mind a heed was in his countenance you he bade attend him here this morning captain is he ready to come abroad captain i think by this he is captain leave me awhile

Exit Cromwell. Aside. It shall be to the Duchess of Alençon, the French king's sister. He shall marry her. Anne Bullen. No, I'll know Anne Bullen's for him. There's more in it than fair visage. Bullen. Now we'll know Bullen's. Speedily, I wish to hear from Rome, the Marchioness of Pembroke. He's discontented.

Maybe he hears the king does wet his anger to him. LADY MACBETH: Sharp enough, lord, for thy justice.

aside the late queen's gentlewoman a knight's daughter to be her mistress mistress the queen's queen this candle burns not clear tis i must snuff it then out it goes what though i know her virtuous and well deserving yet i know her for a spleeny lutheran and not wholesome to our cause that she should lie o the bosom of our hard ruled king

again there is sprung up an heretic an arch one cranmer one hath crawled into the favour of the king and is his oracle he is vexed at something i would twere something that would fret the string the master court on's heart enter king henry the eighth reading of a schedule and laval the king the king what piles of wealth hath he accumulated to his own portion

and what expense by the hour seems to flow from him in the name of thrift does he rake this together now my lords saw you the cardinal

my lord we have stood here observing him some strange commotion is in his brain he bites his lip and starts stops on a sudden looks upon the ground then lays his finger on his temple straight springs out into fast gait then stops again strikes his breast hard anon he casts his eye against the moon in most strange postures we have seen him set himself it may well be there is a mutiny in'ts mind

this morning papers of state he sent me to peruse as i required and watch you what i found there on my conscience put unwittingly forsooth an inventory thus importing the several parcels of his plate his treasure rich stuffs and ornaments of household which i find at such proud rate that it out-speaks possession of a subject

It's heaven's will. Some spirit put this paper in the packet to bless your eye with awe. If we did think his contemplation were above the earth and fixed on spiritual object, he should still dwell in his musing. But I'm afraid his thinkings are below the moon, not worth his serious considering. King Henry VIII takes his seat, whispers Lavelle, who goes to Cardinal Wolsey. Heaven forgive me. Ever God bless your highness. Good my lord.

you are full of heavenly stuff and bear the inventory of your best graces in your mind the which you are now running o'er you have scarce time to steal from spiritual leisure a brief span to keep your earthly audit sure in that i deem you an ill husband and am glad to have you there in my companion

sir for holy offices i have a time a time to think upon the part of business which i bear i the state and nature does require her times of preservation which perforce i her frail son amongst my brethren mortal must give my tendance to you have said well and ever may your highness yoke together as i will lend you cause my doing well with my well saying

tis well said again and tis a kind of good deed to say well yet words are no deed my father loved you he said he did and with his deed did crown his word upon you since i had my office i have kept you next my have not alone employed you where high prophets might come home but paid my present havings to bestow my bounties upon you aside what should this mean aside

the lord increase this business have i not made you the prime man of the state i pray you tell me if what i now pronounce you have found true and if you may confess it say withal if you are bound to us or no what say you

my sovereign i confess your royal graces showered on me daily have been more than could my studied purposes requite which went beyond all man's endeavors my endeavors have ever come too short of my desires yet filed with my abilities mine own ends have been mine so that evermore they pointed to the good of your most sacred person and the prophet of the state

for your great graces heap'd upon me poor undeserver i can nothing render but allegiant thanks my prayers to heaven for you my loyalty which ever has and ever shall be growing till death that winter kill it fairly answer'd a loyal and obedient subject is therein illustrated the honour of it does pay the act of it as in the contrary the foulness is the punishment

i presume that as my hand has opened bounty to you my heart dropped love my power rained honour more on you than any so your hand and heart your brain and every function of your power should notwithstanding that your bond of duty as twere in love's particular be more to me your friend than any

i do profess that for your highness good i ever labored more than mine own that am have and will be though all the world should crack their duty to you and throw it from their soul though perils did abound as thick as thought could make em and appear in forms more horrid

yet my duty as doth a rock against the chiding flood should the approach of this wild river break and stand unshaken yours tis nobly spoken take notice lords he has a loyal breast for you have seen him open it read o'er this giving him papers and after this and then to breakfast with what appetite you have

exit king henry the eighth frowning upon cardinal wolsey the nobles throng after him smiling and whispering what should this mean what sudden anger's this how have i reaped it he parted frowning from me as if ruin leaped from his eyes so looks the chafed lion upon the daring huntsman that has galled him then makes him nothing i must read this paper i fear the story of his anger

tis so this paper has undone me tis the account of all that world of wealth i have drawn together for mine own ends indeed to gain the popedom and fee my friends in rome oh negligence fit for a fool to fall by what cross devil made me put this main secret in the packet i sent the king

is there no way to cure this no new device to beat this from his brains i know twill stir him strongly yet i know a way if i take right in spite of fortune will bring me off again what's this to the pope the letter as i live with all the business i writ to his holiness

nay then farewell i have touched the highest point of all my greatness and from that full meridian of my glory i haste now to my setting i shall fall like a bright exhalation in the evening and no man see me more re-enter to cardinal wolsey norfolk and suffolk surrey and the chamberlain

hear the king's pleasure cardinal who commands you to render up the great seal presently into our hands and to confine yourself to asher house my lord of winchester's till you hear further from his highness stay where's your commission lords words cannot carry authority so weighty lady albany who dare cross em bearing the king's will from his mouth expressly

till i find more than will or words to do it i mean your malice no officious lords i dare and must deny it now i feel of what coarse metal ye are moulded envy how eagerly ye follow my disgraces as if it fed ye and how sleek and wanton ye appear in every thing may bring my ruin

Follow your envious courses, men of malice. You have Christian warrant for them, and no doubt in time will find their fit rewards.

that seal you ask with such a violence the king mine and your master with his own hand gave me bade me enjoy it with the place and honours during my life and to confirm his goodness tied it by letters patents now who will take it the king that gave it

it must be himself then thou art a proud traitor priest proud lord thou liest within these forty hours surrey durst better have burnt that tongue than said so thy ambition thou scarlet sin robbed this bewailing land of noble buckingham my father-in-law the heads of all thy brother cardinals with thee and all thy best parts bound together weighed not a hair of his

Plague of your policy! You sent me deputy for Ireland, Far from his succour, from the King, From all that might have mercy on the fault thou gavest him, Whilst your great goodness out of holy pity absolved him with an axe. This and all else this talking lord can lay upon my credit, I answer, is most false.

the duke by law found his deserts how innocent i was from any private malice in his end his noble jury and foul cause can witness if i loved many words lord i should tell you you have as little honesty as honor that in the way of loyalty and truth toward the king my ever royal master dare mate a sounder man than surrey can be and all that love his follies

By my soul your long coat, priest, protects you; Thou shouldst feel my sword i' the life-blood of thee else. My lords, can ye endure to hear this arrogance? And from this fellow, if we live thus tamely, To be thus jaded by a piece of scarlet, farewell nobility! Let his grace go forward and dare us with his cap like larks. All goodness is poison to thy stomach.

yes that goodness of gleaning all the land's wealth into one into your own hands cardinal by extortion the goodness of your intercepted packets you writ to the pope against the king your goodness since you provoke me shall be most notorious my lord of norfolk as you are truly noble as you respect the common good the state of our despised nobility our issues

who if he live will scarce be gentleman produced the grand sum of his sins the articles collected from his life i'll startle you worse than the scaring bell when the brown wench lay kissing in your arms lord cardinal how much methinks i could despise this man but that i am bound in charity against it those articles my lord are in the king's hand but thus much they are foul ones

so much fairer and spotless shall mine innocence arise when the king knows my truth this cannot save you i thank my memory i yet remember some of these articles and out they shall now if you can blush and cry guilty cardinal you'll show a little honesty

speak on sir i dare your worst objections if i blush it is to see a nobleman want manners i had rather want those than my head have at you first that without the king's assent or knowledge you wrought to be a legate by which power you maimed the jurisdiction of all bishops

then that in all you writ to rome or else to foreign princes ergo et rexmius was still inscribed in which you brought the king to be your servant then that without the knowledge either of king or council when you went ambassador to the emperor you made bold to carry into flanders the great seal

item you sent a large commission to gregory de cassado to conclude without the king's will or the state's allowance a league between his highness and ferrara that out of mere ambition you have caused your holy hat to be stamped on the king's coin

than that you have sent innumerable substance by what means got i leave to your own conscience to furnish rome and to prepare the ways you have for dignities to the mere undoing of all the kingdom many more there are which since they are of you and odious i will not taint my mouth with od oh my lord press not a falling man too far tis virtue

his faults lie open to the laws let them not you correct him my heart weeps to see him so little of his great self i forgive him lord cardinal the king's further pleasure is because all those things you have done of late by your power legatine within this kingdom fall into the compass of a prmuneer that therefore such a writ be sued against you

to forfeit all your goods lands tenements chattels and whatsoever and to be out of the king's protection this is my charge and so we'll leave you to your meditations how to live better for your stubborn answer about the giving back the great seal to us the king shall know it and no doubt shall thank you so fare you well my little good lord cardinal

eggsunt all but cardinal wolsey so farewell to the little good you bear me farewell a long farewell to all my greatness

this is the state of man to-day he puts forth the tender leaves of hopes to-morrow blossoms and bears his blushing honors thick upon him the third day comes a frost a killing frost and when he thinks good easy man full surely his greatness is a ripening nips his root and then he falls as i do

i have ventured like little wanton boys that swim on bladders this many summers in a sea of glory but far beyond my depth my high-blown pride at length broke under me and now has left me weary and old with service to the mercy of a rude stream that must for ever hide me vain pomp and glory of this world i hate ye

i feel my heart new opened oh how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors there is betwixt that smile we would aspire to that sweet aspect of princes and their ruin more pangs and fears than wars or women have and when he falls he falls like lucifer never to hope again

enter cromwell and stands amazed cromwell why how now cromwell cromwell i have no power to speak sir cromwell what amazed at my misfortunes can thy spirit wonder a great man should decline nay and you weep i am fallen indeed cromwell how does your grace

why well never so truly happy my good cromwell i know myself now and i feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities a still and quiet conscience the king has cured me i humbly thank his grace and from these shoulders these ruined pillars out of pity taken a load would sink a navy too much honour

oh tis a burthen cromwell tis a burthen too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven cromwell i am glad your grace has made that right use of it lear i hope i have i am able now methinks out of a fortitude of soul i feel to endure more miseries and greater far than my weak-hearted enemies dare offer what news abroad cromwell the heaviest and the worst is your displeasure with the king lear god bless him

the next is that sir thomas more is chosen lord chancellor in your place that's somewhat sudden but he's a learned man may he continue long in his highness favour and do justice for truth's sake and his conscience that his bones when he has run his course and sleeps in blessings may have a tomb of orphans tears wept on him what more

that cranmer is returned with welcome installed lord archbishop of canterbury that's news indeed last that the lady anne whom the king hath in secrecy long married this day was viewed in open as his queen going to chapel and the voices now only about her coronation

There was the weight that pulled me down. O Cromwell, the king has gone beyond me. All my glories in that one woman I have lost forever. No son shall ever usher forth mine honors, Or gild again the noble troops that waited upon my smiles. Go, get thee from me, Cromwell. I am a poor fallen man, Unworthy now to be thy lord and master.

seek the king that sun i pray may never set i have told him what and how true thou art he will advance thee some little memory of me will stir him i know his noble nature not to let thy hopeful service perish too good cromwell neglect him not make use now and provide for thine own future safety

o lord must then i leave you must i needs forego so good so noble and so true a master bear witness all that have not hearts of iron with what a sorrow cromwell leaves his lord the king shall have my service but my prayers for ever and for ever shall be yours

cromwell i did not think to shed a tear in all my miseries but thou hast forced me out of thy honest truth to play the woman let's dry our eyes and thus far hear me cromwell and when i am forgotten as i shall be and sleep in dull cold marble where no mention of me more must be heard of say i taught thee

say wolsey that once trod the ways of glory and sounded all the depths and shoals of honor found thee a way out of his wreck to rise in a sure and safe one though thy master missed it mark but my fall and that that ruined me cromwell i charge thee

Sling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels. How can man then, the image of his maker, Hope to win by it? Love thyself last. Cherish those hearts that hate thee. Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace To silence envious tongues. Be just and fear not.

let all the ends thou aimest at be thy countries thy gods and truths then if thou fallest o cromwell thou fallest a blessed martyr serve the king and prithee lead me in there take an inventory of all i have to the last penny tis the king's my robe and my integrity to heaven is all i dare now call mine own

O Cromwell, Cromwell, had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies. Good sir, have patience. So I have. Farewell the hopes of court. My hopes in heaven do dwell. Exunt. End of Act 3.

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ACT IV SCENE I. A STREET IN WESTMINSTER. ENTER TWO GENTLEMEN MEETING ONE ANOTHER.

your well met once again so are you you come to take your stand here and behold the lady anne pass from her coronation tis all my business at our last encounter the duke of buckingham came from his trial tis very true but that time offered sorrow this general joy tis well the citizens i am sure have shown at full their royal minds

as let em have their rights they are ever forward in celebration of this day with shows pageants and sights of honour captain never greater nor i'll assure you better taken sir mair be bold to ask at what that contains that paper in your hand captain yes tis the list of those that claim their offices this day by custom of the coronation the duke of selfoak is the first and claims to be high steward next the duke of norfolk

he to be earl marshal you may read the rest i thank you sir had i not known those customs i should have been beholding to your paper but i beseech you what's become of catherine the princess dowager how goes her business that i can tell you too the archbishop of canterbury accompanied with other learned and reverend fathers of his order held a late court at dunstable six miles off from anthel where the princess lay

to which she was often cited by them but appeared not and to be short for not appearance in the king's late scruple by the mainest sin of all these learned men she was divorced and the late marriage made of none effect since which she was removed to kimbleton where she remains now sick alas good lady trumpets the trumpet sounds stand close the queen is coming

hot boys the order of the coronation one a lively flourish of trumpets two then two judges three lord chancellor with the purse and mace before him four choristers singing music five mayor of london bearing the mace then garter in his coat of arms and on his head a gilt copper crown

six marquess dorset bearing a sceptre of gold on his head a demi coronal of gold with him surrey bearing the rod of silver with the dove crowned with an earl's coronet collars of ss

seven suffolk in his robe of estate his coronet on his head bearing a long white wand as high steward with him norfolk with the rod of marshalship a coronet on his head collars of s s eight a canopy borne by four of the cinque ports under it queen anne in her robe in her hair richly adorned with pearl crowned on each side her the bishops of london and winchester

nine the old duchess of norfolk in a coronal of gold wrought with flowers bearing queen anne's train ten certain ladies or countesses with plain circlets of gold without flowers they pass over the stage in order and state a royal train believe me these i know who's that that bears the sceptre marquis dorset and that the earl of surrey with the rod a bold brave gentleman

that should be the duke of suffolk duke of suffolk tis the same high steward and that my lord of norfolk duke of suffolk yes duke of suffolk heaven bless thee looking on queen anne thou hast the sweetest face i ever looked on sir as i have a soul she is an angel our king has all the indies in his arms and more the richer when he strains that lady i cannot blame his conscience

they that bear the cloth of honour over her are four barons of the cinque ports those men are happy and so are all are near her i take it she that carries up the train is that old noble lady duchess of norfolk it is and all the rest are countesses their coronets say so these are stars indeed and sometimes falling ones no more of that

exit procession and then a great flourish of trumpets enter a third gentleman god save you sir where have you been broiling among the crowd i the abbey where a finger could not be wedged in more i am stifled with the mere rankness of their joy you saw the ceremony that i did how was it well worth the seeing good sir speak it to us as well as i am able

the rich stream of lords and ladies having brought the queen to a prepared place in the choir fell off a distance from her while her grace sat down to rest awhile some half an hour or so in a rich chair of state opposing freely the beauty of her person to the people believe me sir she is the goodliest woman that ever lay by man

which when the people had the full view of such a noise arose as the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest as loud and to as many tunes hats cloaks doublets i think flew up and had their faces been loose this day they had been lost

such joy i never saw before great bellied women that had not half a week to go like rams in the old time of war would shake the press and make em reel before em no man living could say this is my wife there all were woven so strangely in one piece

but what followed at length her grace rose and with modest paces came to the altar where she kneeled and saint-like cast her fair eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly then rose again and bowed her to the people when by the archbishop of canterbury she had all the royal makings of a queen as holy oil edward confessor's crown the rod and bird of peace and all such emblems laid nobly on her

which performed the choir with all the choicest music of the kingdom together sung te deum so she parted and with the same full state paced back again to york place where the feast is held sir you must no more call it york place that's past for since the cardinal fell that title's lost tis now the king's and called whitehall

i know it but tis so lately altered that the old name is fresh about me what two reverend bishops were those that went on each side of the queen stokesley and gardiner the one of winchester newly preferred from the king's secretary the other london he of winchester has held no great good lover of the archbishops the virtuous cranmer all the land knows that however yet there is no great breach

when it comes cranmer will find a friend will not shrink from him who may that be i pray you thomas cromwell a man in much esteem with the king and truly a worthy friend the king has made him master of the jewel house and one already of the privy council he will deserve more yes without all doubt come gentlemen ye shall go my way which is to the court and there ye shall be my guests something i can command

As I walk thither, I'll tell ye more. You may command us, sir. Exunt. Scene 2. Kim Bolton. Enter Catherine, dowager, sick, Led between Griffith, her gentleman usher, And Patience, her woman. How does your grace? O Griffith, sick to death, My legs like loaden branches Bow to the earth, Willing to leave their burden. Reach a chair.

so now methinks i feel a little ease didst thou not tell me griffith as thou ledst me that the great child of honour cardinal wolsey was dead yes madam but i think your grace out of the pain you suffered gave no ear to it pretty good griffith tell me how he died if well he stepped before me happily for my example

well the voice goes madam for after the stout earl northumberland arrested him at york he brought him forward as a man sorely tainted to his answer he fell sick suddenly and grew so ill he could not sit his mule alas poor man

at last with easy roads he came to leicester lodged in the abbey where the reverend abbot with all his covent honourably received him to whom he gave these words oh father abbot an old man broken with the storms of state is come to lay his weary bones among ye give him a little earth for charity

so went to bed where eagerly his sickness pursued him still and three nights after this about the hour of eight which he himself foretold should be his last full of repentance continual meditations tears and sorrows he gave his honors to the world again his blessed part to heaven and slept in peace so may he rest his faults lie gently on him

yet thus far griffith give me lie to speak him and yet with charity he was a man of an unbounded stomach ever ranking himself with princes one that by suggestion tied all the kingdom simony was fair play his own opinion was his law i the presence he would say untruths and be ever double both in his words and meaning he was never but where he meant to rue and pitiful

His promises were as he was then mighty, but his performance as he is now, nothing. Of his own body he was ill, and gave the clergy in example. Noble madam, men's evil manners live in brass. Their virtues we write in water. May it please your highness to hear me speak his good now? Yes, good Griffith. I were malicious else.

this cardinal though from an humble stock undoubtedly was fashioned to much honour from his cradle he was a scholar and a ripe and good one exceeding wise fair-spoken and persuading lofty and sour to them that loved him not but to those men that sought him sweet as summer

and though he was unsatisfied in getting which was a sin yet in bestowing madam he was most princely ever witness for him those twins of learning that he raised in you ipswich and oxford one of which fell with him unwilling to outlive the good that it did the other though unfinished yet so famous so excellent in art and still so rising that christendom shall ever speak his virtue

his overthrow heaped happiness upon him for then and not till then he felt himself and found the blessedness of being little and to add greater honors to his age than man could give him he died fearing God after my death I wish no other Herald no other speaker of my living actions to keep mine honor from corruption but such an honest chronicler as Griffith

whom i most hated living thou hast made me with thy religious truth and modesty now in his ashes honour peace be with him patience be near me still and set me lower i have not long to trouble thee good griffith cause the musicians play me that sad note i named my nell whilst i sit meditating on that celestial harmony i go to sad and solemn music

She is asleep. Good wench, let's sit down quiet, For fear we wake her. Softly, gentle Patience,

the vision enter solemnly tripping one after another six personages clad in white robes wearing on their heads garlands of bays and golden vizards on their faces branches of bays or palm in their hands they first conge unto her then dance and at certain changes the first two hold a spare garland over her head at which the other four make reverent curtsies

then the two that held the garland deliver the same to the other next two who observe the same order in their changes and holding the garland over her head which done they deliver the same garland to the last two who likewise observe the same order at which as it were by inspiration she makes in her sleep signs of rejoicing and holdeth up her hands to heaven

and so in their dancing vanish carrying the garland with them the music continues spirits of peace where are ye are ye all gone and leave me here in wretchedness behind ye madam we are here it is not you i call for saw ye none enter since i slept none madam no

"'So you not even now a blessed troop invite me to a banquet, "'whose bright faces cast thousand beams upon me like the sun? "'They promised me eternal happiness, "'and brought me garlands, Griffith, "'which I feel I am not worthy yet to wear. "'I shall assuredly.' "'I am most joyful, madam. "'Such good dreams possess your fancy.' "'Bid the music leave. "'They are harsh and heavy to me.'

music ceases do you note how much her grace is altered on the sudden how long her face is drawn how pale she looks and of an earthy cold mark her eyes she is going wench pray pray and comfort her enter a messenger and like your grace you are a saucy fellow deserve we no more reverence

You are to blame, knowing she will not lose her wonted greatness, To use so rude behaviour. Go to, kneel. I humbly do entreat your highness pardon. My haste made me unmannerly. There is staying a gentleman sent from the king to see you. Admit him entrance, Griffith, but this fellow let me ne'er see again. Exunt Griffith and messenger. Re-enter Griffith with Capucius.

if my sight fail not you should be lord ambassador from the emperor my royal nephew and your name capuchis capuchin madame the same your servant oh my lord the times and titles now are altered strangely with me since first you knew me but i pray you what is your pleasure with me

"Noble lady, first mine own service to your grace, the next the king's request that I would visit you, who grieves much for your weakness, and by me sends you his princely commendations, and heartily entreats you take good comfort." "O my good lord, that comfort comes too late. 'Tis like a pardon after execution. That gentle physic given in time had cured me.

but now i am past the comfort here but prayers how does his highness madame in good health so may he ever do and ever flourish when i shall dwell with worms and my poor name banish to the kingdom

patience is that letter i caused you write yet sent away no madam giving it to catherine sir i most humbly pray you to deliver this to my lord the king most willing madam in which i have commended to his goodness the model of our chaste loves his young daughter the dews of heaven fall thick in blessings on her beseeching him to give her virtuous breeding

she is young and of a noble modest nature i hope she will deserve well and a little to love her for her mother's sake that loved him heaven knows how dearly my next poor petition is that his noble grace would have some pity upon my wretched women that so long have followed both my fortunes faithfully

of which there is not one i dare avow and now i should not lie but will deserve for virtue and true beauty of the soul for honesty and decent carriage a right good husband let him be a noble and sure those men are happy that shall have em the last is for my men they are the poorest but poverty could never draw em from me that they may have their wages duly paid them and something over to remember me by

If heaven had pleased to have given me longer life and able means, we had not parted thus. These are the whole contents. And good, my lord, by that you love the dearest in this world, as you wish Christian peace to souls departed, stand these poor people's friend, and urge the king to do me this last rite.

by heaven i will or let me lose the fashion of a man i thank you honest lord remember me in all humility unto his highness say his long trouble now is passing out of this world tell him e'en death i blessed him for so i will mine eyes grow dim farewell my lord griffith farewell nay patience you must not leave me yet

i must to bed call in more women when i am dead good wench let me be used with honor strew me over with maiden flowers that all the world may know i was a chaste wife to my grave embalm me then lay me forth although unqueened yet like a queen and daughter to a king inter me i can no more exunt leading catherine

End of Act 4

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Act V of Henry VIII by William Shakespeare. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. History of Henry VIII. Act V. Scene 1. London. A gallery in the palace. Enter Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, a page with a torch before him, met by Lavelle.

it's one o'clock boy is it not it hath struck these should be hours for necessities not for delights times to repair our nature with comforting repose and not for us to waste these times good hour of the night sir thomas whitherso late came you from the king my lord i did sir thomas and left him at primero with the duke of suffolk i must to him too before he goes to bed i'll take my leave

not yet sir thomas lovel what's the matter it seems you are in haste and if there be no great offence belongs to it give your friends some touch of your late business affairs that walk as they say spirits do at midnight have in them a wilder nature than the business that seeks dispatch by day

My lord, I love you, and durst commend a secret to your ear, much weightier than this work. The queen's in labour, they say, in great extremity, and feared she'll with the labour—end. The fruit she goes with I pray for heartily, that it may find good time and live. But for the stock, Sir Thomas, I wish it grubbed up now.

Methinks I could cry the Amen, and yet my conscience says she's a good creature, and, sweet lady, does deserve our better wishes. But, sir, sir, hear me, Sir Thomas. You're a gentleman of mine own way. I know you wise, religious, and let me tell you, it will ne'er be well—' "'Twill not, Sir Thomas Lovell, take it of me, till Cranmer, Cromwell, her two hands, and she, sleep in their graves.'

"'Now, sir, you speak of two the most remarked in the kingdom. As for Cromwell, beside that of the jewel-house, is made master of the rolls, and the king's secretary. Further, sir, stands in the gap and trade of Moe Preferments, with which the time will load him. The archbishop is the king's hand and tongue, and who dare speak one syllable against him?'

yes sir thomas there are that dare and i myself have ventured to speak my mind of him and indeed this day sir i may tell it you i think i have incensed the lords of the council that he is for so i know he is they know he is a most arch heretic a pestilence that does infect the land

with which they moved have broken with the king who hath so far given ear to our complaint of his great grace and princely care foreseeing those fell mischiefs our reasons laid before him hath commanded to-morrow morning to the council board he be convented he's a rank weed sir thomas and we must root him out from your affairs i hinder you too long good night sir thomas many good nights my lord i rest your servant

exunt gardiner and page enter king henry the eighth and suffolk charles i will play no more to-night my mind's not on't you are too hard for me charles sir i did never win of you before lear but little charles nor shall not when my fancy's on my play now lovel from the queen what is the news

i could not personally deliver to her what you commanded me but by her woman i sent your message who returned her thanks in the greatest humbleness and desired your highness most heartily to pray for her what sayest thou ha to pray for her what is she crying out so said her woman and that her sufferance made almost each pang a death alas good lady

God safely quit her of her burden, and with gentle travail to the gladding of your highness with an air. It is midnight, Charles. Pray thee to bed, and in thy prayers remember the estate of my poor queen. Leave me alone, for I must think of that which company would not be friendly to. I wish your highness a quiet night, and my good mistress will remember in my prayers. Charles, good night. Exit Suffolk. Enter Denny.

Well, sir, what follows? Sir, I have brought my lord the archbishop, as you commanded me. Canterbury? Ay, my good lord. 'Tis true. Where is he, Denny? He attends your highness pleasure. Exit Denny. Aside. This is about that which the bishop spake. I am happily come hither. Re-enter Denny with Cranmer. Avoid the gallery. Lavelle seems to stay. I have said, begone.

what exunt lavelle and denys i am fearful wherefore frowns he thus tis his aspect of terror all's not well lear how now my lord you desire to know wherefore i sent for you it is my duty to attend your highness pleasure lear pray you arise my good and gracious lord of canterbury come you and i must walk a turn together i have news to tell you

Come, come, give me your hand. Ah, my good lord, I grieve at what I speak, and am right sorry to repeat what follows. I have, and most unwillingly, of late heard many grievous, I do say, my lord, grievous complaints of you, which, being considered, have moved us and our council, that you shall this morning come before us.

where i know you cannot with such freedom purge yourself but that till further trial in those charges which will require your answer you must take your patience to you and be well contented to make your house our tower you a brother of us it fits we thus proceed or else no witness would come against you

I humbly thank your highness, and am right glad to catch this good occasion, most throughly to be winnowed, where my chaff and corn shall fly asunder, for I know there's none stands under more calumnious tongues than I myself. Poor man! Stand up, good Canterbury. Thy truth and thy integrity is rooted in us, thy friend. Give me thy hand. Stand up.

prithee let's walk now by my holodom what manner of man are you my lord i looked you would have given me your petition that i should obtain some pains to bring together yourself and your accusers and to have heard you without endurance further

most dread liege the good i stand on is my truth and honesty if they shall fail i with mine enemies will triumph for my person which i weigh not being of those virtues vacant i fear nothing what can be said against me lear know you not how your state stands i the world with the whole world your enemies are many and not small

their practices must bear the same proportion and not ever the justice and the truth of the question carries the due of the verdict with it at what ease might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt to swear against you such things have been done you are prudently opposed and with a malice as of great size when you have better luck i mean in perjured witness than your master whose minister you are whiles here he lived upon this naughty earth

go to go to you take a precipice for no leap of danger and woo your own destruction god and your majesty protect mine innocence or i fall into the trap is laid for me be of good cheer they shall no more prevail than we give way to keep comfort to you and this morning see you do appear before them

if they shall chance in charging you with matters to commit you the best persuasions to the contrary fail not to use and with what vehemency the occasion shall instruct you if entreaties will render you no remedy this ring deliver them and your appeal to us there make before them look the good man weeps he's honest upon mine honour god's blest mother i swear he is true-hearted and a soul none better in my kingdom

get you gone and do as i bid you exit cranmer he has strangled his language in his tears enter old lady lavelle following within come back what mean you i'll not come back the tidings that i bring will make my boldness manners now good angels fly o'er thy royal head and shade thy person under their blessed wings now by thy looks i guess thy message is the queen delivered say aye and of a boy

ay ay my liege and of a lovely boy the god of heaven both now and ever bless her tis a girl promises boy hereafter sir your queen desires your visitation and to be acquainted with this stranger tis as like you as cherry is to cherry laval sir give her a hundred marks all to the queen

An hundred marks! By this light I'll ha more. An ordinary groom is for such payment. I will have more, or scold it out of him. Said I for this the girl was like to him? I will have more, or else unsay it. And now, while it is hot, I'll put it to the issue. Exunt. Scene 2. Before the Council Chamber. Prisuvians, Pages, etc. attending. Enter Cranmer.

i hope i am not too late and yet the gentleman that was sent to me from the council prayed me to make great haste all fast what means this ho who waits there sure you know me enter keeper yes my lord but yet i cannot help you why enter dr butts your grace must wait till you be called for so

ASIDE. This is a piece of malice. I am glad I came this way so happily. The king shall understand it presently. EXIT. ASIDE. 'Tis but the king's physician. As he passed along, how earnestly he cast his eyes upon me! Pray heaven he sound not my disgrace, For certain this is of purpose laid by some that hate me.

God turn their hearts, I never sought their malice, To quench mine honour. They would shame to make me wait Else at door, a fellow counsellor, 'Mong boys, grooms, and lackeys. But their pleasures must be fulfilled, And I attend with patience. Enter King Henry VIII. and Dr. Butts at a window above. I'll show your grace, the strangest sight.

what's that buts i think your highness saw this many a day body of me where is it there my lord the high promotion of his grace of canterbury who holds his state at door mongst pursuivants pages and foot-boys tis he indeed is this the honour they do one another tis well as one above em yet

i thought they had parted so much honesty among em at least good manners as not thus to suffer a man of his place and so near our favour to dance attendance on their lordship's pleasures and the door too like a post with packets by holy mary buts there's knavery let em alone and draw the curtain close we shall hear more anon scene three the council chamber

Enter Chancellor, places himself at the upper end of the table on the left hand, a seat being left and void above him, as for Cranmer's seat. Suffolk, Norfolk, Surrey, Chamberlain and Gardiner seat themselves in order on each side, Cromwell at lower end as secretary, Keeper at the door. Speak to the business, Master Secretary. Why are we met in Council?

please your honours the chief cause concern his grace of canterbury has he had knowledge of it yes who waits there without my noble lords yes my lord archbishop and has done half an hour to know your pleasures let him come in your grace may enter now cranmer enters and approaches the council table

my good lord archbishop i'm very sorry to sit here at this present and behold that chair stand empty but we all are men in our own natures frail and capable of our flesh

few are angels out of which frailty and want of wisdom you that best should teach us have misdemeaned yourself and not a little toward the king first then his laws in filling the whole realm by your teaching and your chaplains for so we are informed with new opinions diverse and dangerous which are heresies and not reformed may prove pernicious

"'Which reformation must be sudden, too, my noble lords! For those that tame wild horses, pace them not in their hands to make them gentle, but stop their mouths with stubborn bits, and spur them till they obey the manage. If we suffer, out of our easiness and childish pity, to one man's honor this contagious sickness, farewell, all physic, and what follows then?'

commotions, uproars with a general taint of the whole State, as of late days our neighbours, the upper Germany, can dearly witness, yet freshly pitied in our memories. My good lords, hitherto, in all the progress both of my life and office, I have laboured, and with no little study, that my teaching and the strong course of my authority might go one way, and safely.

and the end was ever to do well, nor is there living, I speak it with a single heart, my lords, a man that more detests, more stirs against, both in his private conscience and his place, defaces of a public peace than I do, pray heaven, the king may never find a heart with less allegiance in it,

men that make envy and crooked malice nourishment dare bite the best i to beseech your lordships that in this case of justice my accusers be what they will may stand forth face to face and freely urge against me lady utterword nay my lord that cannot be you are a counsellor and by that virtue no man dare accuse you

my lord because we have business of more moments we will be short with you tis his highness pleasure and our consent for better trial of you from hence ye be committed to the tower where being but a private man again you shall know many dare accuse you boldly more than i fear you are provided for ah my good lord of winchester i thank you you are always my good friend

if your will pass i shall both find your lordship judge and juror you are so merciful i see your end tis my undoing love and meekness lord become a churchman better than ambition winstraying souls with modesty again cast none away

that i shall clear myself lay all the weight ye can upon my patience i make as little doubt as you do conscience in doing daily wrongs i could say more but reverence to your calling makes me modest adolph my lord my lord you are a secretary that's the plain truth

Your painted gloss discovers to men that understand you words and weakness. My lord of Winchester, you are a little, by your good favour, too sharp. Men so noble, however faulty, yet should find respect for what they have been. Tis a cruelty to load a falling man. Good master secretary, I cry your honour mercy. You may, worst of all, this table say so.

why my lord do not i know you for a favor of this new sect ye are not sound not sound not sound i say would you were half so honest men's prayers then would seek you not their fears i shall remember this bold language do remember your bold life too this is too much forbear for shame my lords i have done and i

then thus for you my lord it stands agreed i take it by all voices that forthwith you be conveyed to the tower a prisoner there to remain till the king's further pleasure be known unto us are you all agreed lords we are is there no other way of mercy but i must needs to the tower my lords what other would you expect you are strangely troublesome let some of the guard be ready there

Enter guard. For me must I go like a traitor thither. Receive him, and see him safe in the tower. Stay good, my lords, I have a little yet to say. Look there, my lords, by virtue of that ring I take my cause out of the gripes of cruel men, And give it to a most noble judge, the King my master.

This is the king's ring. Tis no counterfeit. Tis the right ring by heaven. I told ye all when ye first put this dangerous stone a-rolling, t'would fall upon ourselves. Do you think, my lords, the king will suffer but the little finger of this man to be vexed? Tis now too certain. How much more is his life in value with him? Would I were fairly out on't.

my mind gave me in seeking tales and informations against this man whose honesty the devil and his disciples only envy at ye blew the fires that burn ye now have at ye enter king frowning on them takes his seat dred sovereign how much we are bound to heaven in daily thanks that gave us such a prince

not only good and wise but most religious one that in all obedience makes the church the chief aim of his honour and to strengthen that holy duty out of dear respect his royal self in judgment comes to hear the cause betwixt her and this great offender you are ever good at sudden commendations bishop of winchester but no i come not to hear such flattery now and in my presence they are too thin and bare to hide offences

to me you cannot reach you play the spaniel and think with wagging of your tongue to win me but whatsoever thou tak'st me for i'm sure thou hast a cruel nature and a bloody to cranmer good man sit down now let me see the proudest he that dares most but wag his finger at thee by all that's holy he had better starve than but once think this place becomes thee not

may it please your grace no sir it does not please me i thought i had had men of some understanding and wisdom of my counsel but i find none was it discretion lords to let this man this good man few of you deserve that title this honest man wait like a lousy foot-boy at chamber door and one as great as you are why what a shame was this

did my commission bid ye so far forget yourselves i gave ye power as he was a counsellor to try him not as a groom the sum of ye i see more out of malice than integrity would try him to the utmost had ye mean which ye shall never have while i live thus far my most dread sovereign may it like your grace to let my tongue excuse all

what was purposed concerning his imprisonment was rather if there be faith in men meant for his trial and fair purgation to the world than malice i'm sure in me well well my lords respect him take him and use him well he's worthy of it

I will say thus much for him. If a prince may be beholding to a subject, I am for his love and service so to him. Make me no more ado, but all embrace him. Be friends for shame, my lord, my lord of Canterbury. I have a suit which you must not deny me, that is, a fair young maid that yet wants baptism. You must be godfather and answer for her.

the greatest monarch now alive may glory in such an honour how may i deserve it that i'm a poor and humble subject to you come come my lord you'd spare your spoons you shall have two noble partners with you the old duchess of norfolk and the marquis dorset will these please you once more my lord of winchester i charge you embrace and love this man with a true heart and brother love i do it

and let heaven witness how dear i hold this confirmation good man those joyful tears show thy true heart the common voice i see is verified of thee which says thus do my lord of canterbury a shrewd turn and he is your friend for ever come lords we trifle time away i long to have this young one made a christian

as i've made ye one lords one remain so i grow stronger you more honour gain scene for the palace yard noise and tumult within enter porter and his man you leave your noise alone you rascals do you take the court for paris garden ye rude slaves leave your gaping good master porter i belong to the larder

you long to the gallows and be hanged ye rogue is this a place to roar in fetch me a dozen crabtree staves and strawins these are but switchers to em i'll scratch your heads ye must be seeing christenings do you look for ale and cakes here you rude rascals sir be patient tis as much impossible

unless we sweep em from the door with cannons to scatter em as tis to make em sleep on may-day morning which will never be we may as well push against powells as stir em he'll got they in and be hanged alas i know not how gets the tide in as much as one sound cudgel of four foot you see the poor remainder could distribute i make no spare sir

you did nothing sir i am not samson nor sir guy nor colbrand to mow him down before me but if i spared any that had a head to hit either young or old he or she cuckold or cuckold maker let me ne'er hope to see a chine again and that i would not for a cow god save her do you hear master porter

i shall be with you presently good master puppy keep the door closed sitter what would you have me do what should you do but knock em down by the dozens is this more fields to muster in or have we some strange indian with a great tool come to court the women so

bless me what a fry of fornication is at door on my christian conscience this one christening will beget a thousand here will be mother godfather and all together the spoons will be the bigger sir there is a fellow somewhat near the door he should be a brazier by his face for o my conscience twenty of the dog-days now reign in snows all that stand about him are under the line

they need no other penance that fire drake did i hit three times on the head and three times was his nose discharged against me he stands there like a mortar-piece to blow us there was a haberdasher's wife of small wit near him that railed upon me till her pink porringer fell off her head for kindling such a combustion in the state

i missed the meteor once and hit that woman who cried out clubs when i might see from far some forty truncheners draw to her succor which were the hope of the strand where she was quartered

they fell on i made good my place at length they came to the broom-staff to me i defied em still when suddenly a file of boys behind em loose shot delivered such a shower of pebbles that i was fain to draw mine honour in and let em win the work the devil was amongst em i think surely

these are the ewes that thunder at a playhouse and fight for bitten apples that no audience but the tribulation of tower hill or the limbs of limehouse their dear brothers are able to endure i have some of them in limbo partram and there they are like to dance these three days besides the running banquet of two beetles is to come enter chamberlain

mercy a me what a multitude are here they grow still too from all parts they are coming as if we kept a fair here where are these porters these lazy knaves you have made a fine hand fellows there's a trim rabble let in are all these your faithful friends of the suburbs

we shall have great store of room no doubt left for the ladies when they pass back from the christening and please your honour we are but men and what so many may do not being torn to pieces we have done an army cannot rule em as i live if the king blame me for it i'll lay ye all by the heels and suddenly and on your heads clap round fines for neglect ye are lazy knaves

and here ye lie baiting of bombards when ye should do service hark the trumpets sound there come all ready from the christening go break among the press and find a way out to let the troop pass fairly or i'll find a marshalsea shall hold ye play these two months make way there for the princess you great fellow stand close up or i'll make your head ache you in the camlet get up o'er rail i'll pick you all the piles else

scene five the palace enter trumpets sounding then two aldermen lord mayor garter cranmer norfolk with his marshal's staff suffolk two noblemen bearing great standing bowls for the christening gifts then four noblemen bearing a canopy under which the duchess of norfolk godmother bearing the child richly habited in a mantle c train borne by a lady

then follows the marchioness dorset the other godmother and ladies the troop pass once about the stage and garter speaks heaven from thy endless goodness send prosperous life long and ever happy to the high and mighty princess of england elizabeth flourish enter king henry the eighth and guard kneeling

and to your royal grace and the good queen my noble partners and myself thus pray all comfort joy in this most gracious lady heaven ever laid up to make parents happy may hourly fall upon ye thank you good lord archbishop what is her name eliz stand up lord

King Henry VIII kisses the child. With this kiss take my blessing. God protect thee, into whose hand I give thy life. Amen. My noble gossips ye have been too prodigal. I thank ye heartily. So shall this lady, when she has so much English. Let me speak, sir, for heaven now bids me. And the words I utter let none think fluttery, for they'll find them truth.

this royal infant, heaven still move about her, though in her cradle, yet now promises upon this land a thousand, thousand blessings, which time shall bring to ripeness, she shall be, few now living can behold that goodness, a pattern to all princes living with her, and all that shall succeed,

Sabah was never more covetous of wisdom and fair virtue than this pure soul shall be. All princely graces that mould up such a mighty peace as this is, with all the virtues that attend the good, shall still be doubled on her. Truth shall nurse her.

holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her she shall be loved and feared her own shall bless her her foes shake like a field of beaten corn and hang their heads with sorrow good grows with her

in her days every man shall eat in safety under his own vine what he plants and sing the merry songs of peace to all his neighbours god shall be truly known and those about her from her shall read the perfect ways of honour and by those claim their greatness not by blood

nor shall this peace sleep with her, but as when the bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, her ashes new create another heir, as great in admiration as herself, so shall she leave her blessedness to one, when heaven shall call her from this cloud of darkness.

who from the sacred ashes of her honour shall starlike rise, as great in fame as she was, and so stand fixed, peace, plenty, love, truth, terror, that where the servants to this chosen infant shall then be his, and like a vine grow to him,

wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine his honour and the greatness of his name shall be and make new nations he shall flourish and like a mountain cedar reach his branches to all the plains about him our children's children shall see this and bless heaven the

she shall be to the happiness of england an aged princess many days shall see her and yet no day without a deed to crown it would i had known no more but she must die she must the saints must have her yet a virgin a most unspotted lily shall she pass to the ground

and all the world shall mourn her o lord archbishop thou hast made me now a man never before this happy child did i get anything this oracle of comfort has so pleased me that when i am in heaven i shall desire to see what this child does and praise my maker

i thank ye all to you my good lord mayor and your good brethren i am much beholding i have received much honour by your presence and ye shall find me thankful lead the way lords ye must all see the queen and she must thank ye she will be sick else this day no man think has business at his house for all shall stay this little one shall make it holiday epilogue

'Tis ten to one this play can never please all that are here. Some come to take their ease and sleep an act or two. But those we fear we have frighted with our trumpets, so 'tis clear they'll say 'tis naught. Others to hear the city abused extremely, and to cry, "That's witty!" which we have not done neither.

that i fear all the expected good we're like to hear for this play at this time is onely in the merciful construction of good women for such a one we showed em if they smile and say twill do i know within a while all the best men are ours for tis ill hap if they hold when their ladies bid em clap act v

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