Toward this remedy, whereupon we are
Now prefent here together; that's to fay,
I meant to rectify my confcience,-which
I then did feel full fick, and yet not well,→
By all the reverend fathers of the land,

And doctors learn'd.-First, I began in private
With you, my lord of Lincoln; you remember
How under my oppreffion I did reek,

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,-
Bearing a state of mighty moment in't,
And confequence of dread,-that I committed
The daring'ft counsel which I had, to doubt;
And did entreat your highness to this course,
Which you are running here.

King. I then mov'd you*,

My lord of Canterbury; and got your leave
To make this prefent fummons :-Unfolicited
I left no reverend perfon in this court;
But by particular confent proceeded,

Under your hands and feals. Therefore, go on :
For no diflike i'the world against the perfon
Of the good queen, but the fharp thorny points
Of my alledged reafons, 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,

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
That's paragon'do'the world".
Cam. So please your highness,

The queen being abfent, 'tis a needful fitnefs
That we adjourn this court till further day:
Mean while must be an earnest motion

Made to the queen, to call back her appeal
She intends unto his holiness.

King. I may perceive,

[They rife to depart®.

These cardinals trifle with me: I abhor
This dilatory floth, and tricks of Rome.

My learn'd and well beloved fervant, Cranmer,
Pr'ythee, return! with thy approach, I know,
My comfort comes along. Break up the court:
I fay, fet on.

[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,
Prytbee return!--

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.
SONG.

Orpheus with his lute made trees,
And the mountain-tops, that freeze,
Bow themselves, when he did fing:
To bis mufick, plants, and flowers,
Ever Sprung; as fun, and showers,
There had made a lafting spring.
Every thing that heard him play,
Even the billows of the fea,

Hung their heads, and then lay by.
In fweet mufick is such art;
Killing care, and grief of heart,
Fall afleep, or, bearing, die.

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
With me, a poor weak woman, fallen from favour ?
I do not like their coming, now I think on't.

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 =
But all hoods make not monks +.

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,
Deferves a comer: 'Would, all other women
Could speak this with as free a foul as I do!
My lords, I care not, (fo much I am happy
Above a number,) if my actions

Were try'd by every tongue, every eye faw them,
Envy and bale opinion fet against them 5,

I know my life fo even: If your bufinefs
Seek me out, and that way I am wife in7,
Out with it boldly; Truth loves open dealing.

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;
Pray, fpeak in English: here are fome will thank you,
If you ipeak truth, for their poor mistress' fake;
Believe me, fhe has had much wrong: Lord cardinal,
The willing'ft fin I ever yet committed,
May be abfolv'd in English.

Wol. Noble lady,

I am forry, my integrity fhould breed,
(And service to his majefty and you)?
So deep fufpicion, where all faith was meant,
We come not by the way of accufation,

To taint that honour every good tongue blesses;
Nor to betray you any way to forrow;

You have too much, good lady: but to know
How you ftand minded in the weighty difference
Between the king and you; and to deliver,
Like free and honeft men, our juft opinions,
And comforts to your caufe *.

Cam. Moft honour'd 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 cenfure
Both of his truth and him, (which was too far,)-
Offers, as I do, in a sign of peace,

His fervice, and his counsel.

2. Cath. To betray me.

$ O, good my lord, no Latin ;] So, Holinshed, p. 908:
"Then began the cardinall to fpeake to her in Latine.

[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.