3. Chorifters finging.

[Mufick.

4 Mayor of London, bearing the mace. Then Garter, in his coat of arms, and on his head a gilt copper crown. 5. Marquis Dorfet, bearing a Scepter of gold, on his head demi-coronal of gold. With him, the Earl of Surrey, bearing the rod of filver with the dove, crown'd with an earl's coronet. Gollars of SS.

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Duke of Suffolk, in his robe of eftate, his coronet on his bead, bearing a long white wand, as high fteward. With him, the Duke of Norfolk, with the rod of marshalship, a coronet on his head. Collars of SS. 7. A canopy borne by four of the cinque-ports; under it, the Queen in her robe; in ber hair richly adorned with pearl, crowned. On each fide of her, the bishops of London and Winchefter.

8. The old Dutchess of Norfolk, in a coronal of gold, wrought with flowers, bearing the Queen's train.

9. Certain Ladies or Counteffes, with plain circlets of geld without flowers.

2. Gen. A royal train, believe me.-These I know ;Who's that, that bears the fcepter?

1. Gen. Marquis Dorset:

And that the earl of Surrey, with the rod.

2. Gen. A bold brave gentleman. That should be The duke of Suffolk.

1. Gen. 'Tis the fame; high-fteward.

2. Gen. And that my lord of Norfolk ?

1. Gen. Yes.

2. Gen. Heaven bless thee!

[Looking on the queen

Thou haft the sweetest face I ever look'd on.

Sir, as I have a foul, fhe is an angel;

Our king has all the Indies in his arms,

And more, and richer, when he strains that lady :

I cannot blame his confcience.

1. Gen. They, that bear

The cloth of honour over her, are four barons

Of the Cinque-ports.

2. Gen. Those men are happy; and fo are all, are near her. I take it, the that carries up the train,

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Is that old noble lady, dutchess of Norfolk.

1. Gen. It is; and all the reft are counteffes.

2. Gen. Their coronets fay fo. These are stars, indeed; And, fometimes, falling ones.

1. Gen. No more of that.

[Exit Proceffion, with a great flourish of trumpets.
Enter a third Gentleman.

God fave you, fir! Where have you been broiling?
3. Gen. Among the croud i' the abbey; where a finger
Could not be wedg'd in more: I am stifled
With the mere rankness of their joy.

2. Gen. You faw the ceremony?

3. Gen. That I did.

1. Gen. How was it?

3. Gen. Well worth the feeing.

2. Gen. Good fir, fpeak it to us.

3. Gen. As well as I am able. The rich ftream
Of lords, and ladies, having brought the queen
To a prepar'd place in the choir, fell off
A distance from her; while her grace fat down
To reft awhile, fome half an hour, or so,
In a rich chair of ftate, oppofing freely
The beauty of her perfon to the people.
Believe me, fir, fhe is the goodliest woman
That ever lay by man: which when the people
Had the full view of, fuch a noise arose
As the fhrouds make at sea in a stiff tempeft,

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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 loft. Such joy
I never faw before. Great-belly'd women,
That had not half a week to go, like ramst
In the old time of war, would shake the press,
And make them reel before them. No man living
Could fay, This is my wife, there; all were woven
5 The rich stream &c.]

"-ingentem foribus domus alta fuperbis

"Mane falutantum totis vomit ædibus undam.”

VIRG. GEOR. II. 461. MALONE. -like rams-] That is, like battering rams. JOHNSON.

So ftrangely in one piece.

2. Gen. But, what follow'd?

3. Gen. At length her grace rofe, and with modeft paces
Came to the altar; where the kneel'd, and, faint-like,
Caft her fair eyes to heaven, and pray'd devoutly.
Then rofe again, and bow'd her to the people:
When by the archbishop of Canterbury
She had all the royal makings of a queen ;
As holy oil, Edward Confeffor's crown,

The rod, and bird of peace, and all fuch emblems
Lay'd nobly on her: which perform'd, the choir,
With all the choiceft mufick of the kingdom,
Together fung Te Deum. So the parted,
And with the fame full ftate pac'd back again
To York place, where the feast is held.

I. Gen. Sir,

You must no more call it York place, that's paft:
For, fince the cardinal fell, that title's loft;
'Tis now the king's, and call'd-Whitehall,

3. Gen. I know it;

But 'tis fo lately alter'd, that the old name
Is fresh about me.

2. Gen. What two reverend bishops

Were thofe that went on each fide of the queen?

3. Gen. Stokefly, and Gardiner; the one, of Winchester, (Newly preferr'd from the king's fecretary,)

The other, London.

2. Gen. He of Winchester

Is held no great good lover of the archbishop's,
The virtuous Cranmer.

3. Gen. All the land knows that:

However, yet there's no great breach; when it comes, Cranmer will find a friend will not shrink from him. 2. Gen. Who may that be, I pray you?

3. Gen. Thomas Cromwell; a man in much esteem With the king, and truly a worthy friend.

The king has made him master o' the jewel-house,
And one, already, of the privy-council.

2. Gen. He will deferve more.
3. Gen. Yes, without all doubt,

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Come,

Come, gentlemen, ye fhall go my way, which
Is to the court, and there ye fhall be my guefts;
Something I can command. As I walk thither,
I'll tell ye more.

Both. You may command us, fir.

SCENE II.

Kimbolton.

[Exeunts

Enter CATHARINE, Dowager, fick; led between GRIF FITH and Patience.

Grif. How does your grace?

Cath. O, Griffith, fick 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 cafe.

Didft thou not tell me, Griffith, as thou led'ft me,
That the great child of honour, cardinal Wolfey,
Was dead?

Grif. Yes, madam; but, I think, your grace,
Out of the pain you fuffer'd, gave no ear to't.

Cath. Pry'thee, good Griffith, tell me how he dy'd: If well, he stepp'd before me, happily,

For my example.

Grif. Well, the voice goes, madam :

7 SCENE II.] This scene is above any other part of Shakspeare's tragedies, and perhaps above any fcene of any other poet, tender and pathetick, without gods, or furies, or poifons, or precipices, without the help of romantick circumstances, without improbable fallies of poetical lamentation, and without any throes of tumultuous mifery.

JOHNSON.

8 I think-] Old Copy-I thank. Corrected in the fecond folio. MALONE.

be fepp'd before me, happily,

For my example.] Happily feems to mean on this occafion-peradventure, baply. I have been more than once of this opinion, when I have met with the fame word thus fpelt in other paffages. STEEVENS. Mr. Mafon is of opinion that bappily here means fortunately. Mr. Steevens's interpretation is, I think, right. So, in K. Henry VI. P. П. "Thy fortune, York, hadft thou been regent there, Might beppily have prov'd far worse than his." MALONE.

For

For after the ftout earl Northumberland' Arrested him at York, and brought him forward. (As a man forely tainted) to his answer,

He fell fick fuddenly, and grew fo ill,

He could not fit his mule 2.

Cath. Alas, poor man!

Grif. At last, with easy roads 3, he came to Leicester,
Lodg'd in the abbey; where the reverend abbot,
With all his convent, honourably receiv'd him;
To whom he gave thefe words,-O father abbot,
An old man, broken with the ftorms of state,
Is come to lay his

weary bones among ye;
Give bim a little earth for charity!"
So went to bed: where eagerly his fickness
Purfu'd him ftill; and, three nights after this,
About the hour of eight, (which he himself
Foretold, should be his laft,) full of repentance,
Continual meditations, tears, and forrows,

He

gave his honours to the world again,

'His bleffed part to heaven, and flept in peace.

Cath. So may he reft; his faults lie gently on him!
Yet thus far, Griffith, give me leave to speak him,
And yet with charity,-He was a man

Of an unbounded ftomach, ever ranking
Himself with princes; one, that by suggestion
Ty'd all the kingdoms: fimony was fair play;

the flout earl Northumberland-] So, in Chevy Chace:
"The ftout earl of Northumberland

"A vow to God did make-. STEEVENS.

His

2 He could not fit bis mule.] In Cavendish's Life of Wolfey, 1641, it is faid that Wolfey poisoned himself; but the words at which time it was apparent that he had poisoned himself," which appear in p. 108 of that work, were an interpolation, inferted by the publisher for fome finifter purpose; not being found in the two manufcripts now preferved in the Museum. See a former note, p. 93. MALONE.

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with eafy roads,] i. e. by fhort ftages. STEEVENS.

4 Of an unbounded ftomach,] i. c. of unbounded pride, or baughtinefs. So, Holinfhed, fpeaking of king Richard III: "Such a great audacitie and fuch a ftomach reigned in his bodie." STEEVENS,

5 -one, that by fuggeftion

Ty'd all the kingdom:] The word fuggeftion, fays the critick, [Dr.

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Warburton,]