Toward this remedy, whereupon we are And doctors learn'd.-First, I began in private When I first mov'd you. Lin. Very well, my liege.. King. I have fpoke long; be pleas'd yourself to say How far you fatisfy'd me. Lin. So please your highness, The queftion did at firft fo ftagger me,- King. I then mov'd you*, My lord of Canterbury; and got your leave Under your hands and feals. Therefore, go on : To wear our mortal state to come, with her, is difmafted, and only her bull or bulk, is left at the direction and mercy of the waves. So, in the Alarum for London, 1602: "And they lye bulling up and down the ftream." STEEVENS. 4 I then mov'd you,] "I moved it in confeffion to you, my lord of Lincoln, then my ghoftly father. And forafmuch as then yourself were in fome doubt, you moved me to afk the counsel of all these my lords. Whereupon I moved you, my lord of Canterbury, first to have your licence, in as much as you were metropolitan, to put this matter in queftion; and fo I did all of you, my lords," Holinfhed's Life of Henry VIII. p. 908. THEOBALD. F 2 Catharine Catharine our queen, before the primeft creature The queen being abfent, 'tis a needful fitnefs Made to the queen, to call back her appeal King. I may perceive, [They rife to depart®. These cardinals trifle with me: I abhor My learn'd and well beloved fervant, Cranmer, [Afide. [Exeunt, in manner as they enter'd. 5 That's paragon'd o'the world.] Hanmer reads, I think, better: the primeft creature That's paragon o'the world. JOHNSON. So, in the Two Gentlemen of Verona: No: but he is an earthly paragon. To paragon, however, is a verb used by Shakspeare both in Antony and Cleopatra, and Othello: "If thou with Cæfar paragon again "My man of men. 66 -a maid "That paragons defcription and wild fame." STEEVENS. 6 They rife to depart.] Here the modern editors add: [the king fpeaks to Cranmer. This marginal direction is not found in the old folio, and was wrongly introduced by fome fubfequent editor. Cranmer was now abfent from court on an embaffy, as appears from the laft fcene of this act, where Cromwell informs Wolfey, that he is return'd and install'd archbishop of Canterbury: My learn'd and well-beloved fervant, Cranmer, is no more than an apoftrophe to the absent bishop of that name. RIDLEY. ACT ACT III. SCENE I. A Room in the Queen's Apartment. The Queen, and Jome of her Women, at work". 2. Cath. Take thy lute, wench: my foul grows fad with troubles; Sing, and disperse them, if thou canft: leave working. Orpheus with his lute made trees, Hung their heads, and then lay by. Enter a Gentleman. 2. Cath. How now? Gent. An't please your grace, the two great cardinals Wait in the prefence 2. 2. Cath. Would they speak with me? Gent. They will'd me fay fo, madam, 2. Cath. Pray their graces To come near. [Exit Gent.] What can be their business 1 at work.] Her majefty (fays Cavendish,) on being informed that the cardinals were coming to vifit her, "rofe up, having a fkein of red filke about ber neck, being at work with her maidens." Cavendifh attended Wolfey in this vifit; and the queen's anfwer in p. 72, is exactly conformable to that which he has recorded, and which he appears to have heard her pronounce. MALONE. 2 Wait in the prefence.] i. e. in the prefence-chamber. STEEVENS. F 3 They They fhould be good men; their affairs as righteous 3 = Enter WOLSEY, and CAMPEIUS. Wol. Peace to your highness! 2. Cath. Your graces find me here part of a housewife I would be all, against the worst may happen. What are your pleasures with me, reverend lords? Wol. May it please you, noble madam, to withdraw Into your private chamber, we shall give you The full cause 2. Cath. There's noth coming. it here; I have done yet, o' my confcience, Were try'd by every tongue, every eye faw them, I know my life fo even: If your bufinefs 3 They fhould be good men; their affairs as righteous:] Being church men, they fhould be virtuous, and every bulinefs they undertake as righteous as their facred office: but all hoods, &c.-The ignorant editor of the second folio, not understanding the line, fubftituted are for as; and this capricious alteration (with many others introduced by the fame hand,) has been adopted by all the modern editors. MALONE. 4 All boods make not monks.] Cucullus non facit monachum. STEEV. sEnvy and bafe opinion fet against them,] I would be glad that my conduct were in fome publick trial confronted with mine enemies, that envy and corrupt judgment might try their utmost power against me. JOHNSON. Envy in Shakspeare's age, often fignified, malice. So afterwards: "Ye turn the good we offer into envy." MALONE. Seek me out,] I believe that a word has dropt out here, and that we should read-if your bufinefs feek me, speak out, and that way. I am wife in. i. e. in the way that I can underftand. TYRWHITT. Sir W. Blackstone would read--If 'tis your bufinefs to feek me, &c. MALONE. 1- and that way I am wife in,] That is, if you come to examine the title by which I am the king's wife; or, if you come to know how I have behaved as a wife. The meaning, whatever it be, is fo coarfely and unfkilfully expreffed, that the latter editors have liked nonfente better, and contrarily to the ancient and only copy, have published: And that way I am wife in. JOHNSON. Wol. Wol. Tanta eft ergà te mentis integritas, regina fere niffima, 2. Cath. O, good my lord, no Latin ; I am not fuch a truant fince my coming, As not to know the language I have liv'd in: Aftrange tongue makes my caufe more ftrange, fufpicious; Wol. Noble lady, I am forry, my integrity fhould breed, To taint that honour every good tongue blesses; You have too much, good lady: but to know Cam. Moft honour'd madam, My lord of York,-out of his noble nature, His fervice, and his counsel. 2. Cath. To betray me. $ O, good my lord, no Latin ;] So, Holinshed, p. 908: [Afide Naie, good my lord, (quoth fhe) speake to me in English." STEEVENS. 9 And fervice to bis majesty and you] This line stands so very aukwardly, that I am inclined to think it out of its place. The author perhaps wrote, as Mr. Edwards has suggested: "I am forry my integrity should breed "So deep fufpicion, where all faith was meant, "And service to his majesty and you." MALONE. to your caufe.] Old Copy-our caufe. Corrected by the editor of the fecond folio. MALONE. |