Buck. I read in his looks Matter against me; and his eye king; I'll follow, and out-stare him. Nor. He's gone to the Stay, my lord, As you would to your friend. Buck. I'll to the king; And from a mouth of honour3 quite cry down This Ipswich fellow's insolence; or proclaim, There's difference in no persons. Nor. Be advis'd; More stronger to direct you than yourself; Buck. Sir, I am thankful to you; and I'll go along By your prescription:-but this top-proud fellow, 2 He bores me with some trick:] He stabs or wounds me by some artifice or fiction. 3 —from a mouth of honour-] I will crush this base-born fellow, by the due influence of my rank, or say that all distinction of persons is at an end. JOHNSON. (Whom from the flow of gall I name not, but Nor. Say not, treasonous. Buck. To the king I'll say't; and make my vouch as strong As shore of rock. Attend. This holy fox, That swallow'd so much treasure, and like a glass Nor. 'Faith, and so it did. Buck. Pray, give me favour, sir. This cunning cardinal The articles o'the combination drew, As himself pleas'd; 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 To the old dam, treason,)-Charles the emperor, 5 sincere motions,)] Honest indignation. Peep'd harms that inenac'd him: He privily I am sorry Nor. Buck. 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. Bran. Your office, sergeant; execute it. Buck. The net has fall'n upon me; Sir, Lo you, my lord, I shall perish I am sorry To see you ta'en from liberty, to look on The business present: "Tis his highness' pleasure, he were Something mistaken in't.] That is, that he were something different from what he is taken or supposed by you to be. 7 practice.] i. e. unfair stratagem. It will help me nothing, You shall to the Tower. Buck. To plead mine innocence; for that die 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 Aberga'ny, fare you well. king Bran. Nay, he must bear you company:-The [To ABERGAVENNY. Is pleas'd, you shall to the Tower, till you know How he determines further. As the duke said Aber. The will of heaven be done, and the king's pleasure By me obey'd. Brand. Here is a warrant from The king, to attach lord Montacute; and the bodies . Of the duke's confessor, John de la Court, One Gilbert Peck, his chancellor, So, so; Buck. These are the limbs of the plot: No more, I hope. Bran. A monk o' the Chartreux. Buck. Bran. O, Nicholas Hopkins? He. Buck. My surveyor is false; the o'er-great car dinal Hath show'd him gold: my life is spann'd already: Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on, 8 - [Exeunt. my life is spann'd already:] My time is measured, the length of my life is now determined. SCENE II. The Council-Chamber. Cornets. Enter King HENRY, Cardinal Wo VOLSEY, the Lords of the Council, Sir THOMAS LOVELL, Officers, and Attendants. The King enters leaning on the Cardinal's Shoulder. K. Hen. My life itself, and the best heart of it, And point by point the treasons of his master The King takes his State. The Lords of the Council take their several Places. The Cardinal places himself under the King's Feet, on his right Side. A Noise within, crying, Room for the Queen. Enter the Queen, ushered by the Dukes of NORFOLK and SUFFOLK: she kneels. The King riseth from his State, takes her up, kisses, and placeth her by him. Q. Kath. Nay, we must longer kneel; I am a suitor. K. Hen. Arise, and take place by us:-Half your suit and the best heart of it,] Heart is not here taken for the great organ of circulation and life, but, in a common, and popular sense, for the most valuable or precious part. stood i'the level,] To stand in the level of a gun is to stand in a line with its mouth, so as to be hit by the shot. |