His fpell in that is out: the king hath found
Matter against him, that for ever mars
The honey of his language. No, he's fettled,
Not to come off, in his difpleasure.

Suf. The cardinal's letter to the pope miscarried, And came to the eye o' the king: wherein was read, How that the cardinal did entreat his holiness

To stay the judgment o' 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 Bullen,
Sur. Has the king this?

Suf. Believe it.

Sur. Will this work?

Cham. The king in this perceives him, how he coafts,

And hedges, his own way. But in this point

All his tricks founder, and he brings his phyfick

After his patient's death; the king already

Hath married the fair lady.

Sur. 'Would he had!

Suf. May you be happy in your wifh, my lord For, I profefs, you have it.

Sur. Now all my joy

1 - contrary proceedings-] Private practices oppofite to his publick procedure. JOHNSON.

2 And hedges, bis own way.] To bedge, is to creep along by the hedge: not to take the direct and open path, but to steal covertly through circumvolutions. JOHNSON.

Trace

Trace the conjunction3!
Suf. My amen to't!
Nor. All men's.

Suf. There's order given for her coronation :
Marry, this is yet but young, and may be left
To fome ears unrecounted.-But, my lords,
She is a gallant creature, and complete

In mind and feature: I perfuade me, from her
Will fall fome bleffing to this land, which shall
In it be memoriz'd+

Sur. But, will the king

Digeft this letter of the cardinal's ?

The lord forbid !

Nor. Marry, Amen!

Suf. No, no;

There be more wafps that buz about his nose,
Will make this fting the fooner. Cardinal Campeius
Is ftolen away to Rome; hath ta'en no leave;
Has left the caufe o' the king unhandled; and

Is pofted, as the agent of our cardinal,

To fecond all his plot. I do affure

The king cry'd, ha! at this.

Cham. Now, God incense him,

And let him cry, ha, louder!
Nor. But, my lord,

When returns Cranmer ?

you,

Suf. He is return'd, in his opinions; which Have fatisfy'd the king for his divorce, Together with all famous colleges

Almoft in Christendom: fhortly, I believe,

3 Trace the conjunction!] To trace, is to follow. JOHNSON. So, in Macbeth:

Hia

4 In it be memoriz'd.] To memorize is to make memorable. The word has been already ufed in Macbeth, A& I. fc. ii. STEEVENS.

5 He is return'd, in his opinions; which

Have fatisfy'd the king for bis divorce,

Together with all famous colleges

Almost in Chriftendom:] Thus the old play. The meaning is

His fecond marriage fhall be publish'd, and
Her coronation. Catharine no more
Shall be call'd, queen; but princess dowager
And widow to prince Arthur.

Nor. This fame Cranmer's

A worthy fellow, and hath ta'en much pain.
In the king's bufinefs.

Suf. He has; and we fhall fee him
For it, an archbishop.

Nor. So I hear.

Suf. 'Tis fo.

The cardinal

Enter WOLSEY and CROMWELL.

Nor. Obferve, obferve, he's moody.

Wol. The packet, Cromwell,

Gave't you the king?

Crom. To his own hand, in his bed-chamber.
Wol. Look'd he o'the infide of the paper?
Crom. Presently

He did unfeal them: and the firft he view'd,
He did it with a serious mind; a heed
Was in his countenance: You, he bade
Attend him here this morning.

Wol. Is he ready

To come abroad?

Crom. I think, by this he is.

Wol. Leave me a while.

It shall be to the dutchefs of Alençon,

[Exit CROMWELL.

this: Cranmer, fays Suffolk, is returned in bis opinions, i. e. with the fame fentiments, which he entertained before he went abroad, which (fentiments) have fatisfied the king, together with all the famous colleges referred to on the occafion.-Or, perhaps, the paffage (as Mr. Tyrwhitt obferves,) may mean-He is return'd in effect, having fent bis opinions, i. e. the opinions of divines, &c. collected by him. Mr. Rowe altered thefe lines as follows, and all fucceeding editors have filently adopted his unnecessary change:

He is return'd with bis opinions, which
Have fatisfy'd the king for bis divorce,
Gather'd from all the famous colleges
Almoft in Christendom.

STEEVENS.

The

The French king's fifter: he shall marry her.
Anne Bullen! No; I'll no Anne Bullens for him :
There's more in't than fair visage.-Bullen!
No, we'll no Bullens!-Speedily I wish

To hear from Rome.-The marchionefs of Pembroke!
Nor. He's discontented.

Suf. May be, he hears the king

Does whet his anger to him.
Sur. Sharp enough,

Lord, for thy juftice!

Wol. The late queen's gentlewoman; a knight's daughter,

To be her miftrefs' miftrefs! the queen's queen!-
This candle burns not clear: 'tis I muft fnuff it;
Then, out it goes.-What though I know her virtuous,
And well-deferving? yet I know her for

A fpleeny Lutheran; and not wholefome to

Our caufe, that she should lie i' the bofom of

Our hard-rul'd king. Again, there is fprung up
An heretick, an arch one, Cranmer; one

Hath crawl'd into the favour of the king,

And is his oracle.

Nor. He is vex'd at fomething.

Sur. I would, 'twere fomething that would fret the string, The mafter-cord of his heart!

Enter the King, reading a schedule; and LOVEL. Suf. The king, the king.

King. What piles of wealth hath he accumulated

To

Enter the King, reading a schedule;] That the cardinal gave the king an inventory of his own private wealth, by mistake, and thereby ruined himself, is a known variation from the truth of hiftory. Shakfpeare, however, has not injudiously reprefented the fall of that great man, as owing to an incident which he had once improved to the deAtruction of another. See Holinfbed, Vol. II. p. 796 and 797.

"Thomas Ruthall, bishop of Durham, was, after the death of king Henry VII. one of the privy council to Henry VIII. to whom the king gave in charge to write a book of the whole eftate of the kingdom, &c. Afterwards, the king commanded cardinal Wolfey to go to this bishop, and to bring the book away with him.-This bishop having written two books (the one to answer the king's command, and the other intreating

of

To his own portion! and what expence by the hour
Seems to flow from him! How, i'the name of thrift,
Does he rake this together!-Now, my lords;
Saw you the cardinal?

Nor. My lord, we have

Stood here obferving him: Some ftrange commotion
Is in his brain: he bites his lip, and starts;
Stops on a fudden, looks upon the ground,
Then, lays his finger on his temple; ftraight,
Springs out into faft gait; then, ftops again',
Strikes his breaft hard; and anon, he cafts

His eye against the moon: in moft ftrange postures
We have seen him fet himself.

King. It may well be;

There is a mutiny in his mind. This morning
Papers of ftate he fent me to peruse,

As I requir'd; And, wot you, what I found
There; on my confcience, put unwittingly?
Forfooth, an inventory, thus importing,

The feveral parcels of his plate, his treasure,

of his own private affairs) did bind them both after one fort in vellum, &c. Now, when the cardinal came to demand the book due to the king, the bishop unadvisedly commanded his fervant to bring him the book bound in white vellum, lying in his study, in fuch a place. The fervant accordingly brought forth one of the books fo bound, being the book intreating of the ftate of the bishop, &c. The cardinal having the book, went from the bishop, and after, (in his study by himself) understanding the contents thereof, he greatly rejoiced, having now occafion (which he long fought for) offered unto him, to bring the bishop into the king's difgrace.

"Wherefore he went forthwith to the king, delivered the book into his hands, and briefly informed him of the contents thereof; putting further into the king's head, that if at any time he were deftitute of a mass of money, he fhould not need to feek further therefore than to the coffers of the bishop. Of all which when the bishop had intelligence, &c. he was ftricken with fuch grief of the fame, that he fhortly, through extreme forrow, ended his life at London, in the year of Chrift 1523. After which, the cardinal, who had long before gaped after his bishoprick, in fingular hope to attain thereunto, had now his with in effect." &c. STEEVENS.

7-tben, Atops again,] Salluft defcribing the difturbed ftate of Cataline's mind, takes notice of the fame circumstance.-" citus modo, modo tardus inceffus." STEEVENS.

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