You are potently oppos'd; and with a malice Cran. God, and your majesty, Protect mine innocence, or I fall into The trap is laid for me! Be of good cheer; K. Hen. Fail not to use, and with what vehemency Deliver them, and your appeal to us There make before them.-Look, the good man weeps! He's honest, on mine honour. God's blest mother! I swear, he's true-hearted; and a soul None better in my kingdom.-Get you gone, And do as I have bid you.-[Exit CRANMER.] He has strangled His language in his tears. Enter an old Lady. Gent. [Within.] Come back; What mean you? Lady. I'll not come back; the tidings that I bring Will make my boldness manners.-Now, good angels 7 Ween you of better luck,] To ween is to think, to imaginc. Though now obsolete, the word was common to all our ancient writers. Fly o'er thy royal head, and shade thy person K. Hen, Now, by thy looks I guess thy message. Is the queen deliver'd? Say, ay; and of a boy. Lady. Acquainted with this stranger; 'tis as like you, K. Hen. Lovell, Lov. Enter LovEll. Sir. K. Hen. Give her an hundred marks. I'll to the queen. [Exit King. Lady. An hundred marks! By this light, I'll have more. An ordinary groom is for such payment. [Exeunt. SCENE II. Lobby before the Council-Chamber. Enter CRANMER; Servants, Door-Keeper, &c. attending. Cran. I hope, I am not too late; and yet the gentleman, That was sent to me from the council, pray'd me To make great haste. All fast? what means this? Hoa! Who waits there?-Sure, you know me? D. Keep. But yet I cannot help you. Cran. Yes, my lord; Why? D. Keep. Your grace must wait, till you be call'd Butts. This is a piece of malice. I am glad, I came this way so happily: The king Shall understand it presently. Cran. [Aside.] So. [Exit BUTTS. 'Tis Butts, The king's physician; as he past along, Pray heaven, he sound not my disgrace! For certain, (God turn their hearts! I never sought their malice,) To quench mine honour: they would shame to make me Wait else at door; a fellow counsellor, Among boys, grooms, and lackeys. But their pleasures Must be fulfill'd, and I attend with patience. 8 Enter, at a Window above, the King and BUTTS. K. Hen. Butts. I'll show your grace the strangest sight,What's that, Butts? Butts. I think, your highness saw this many a day. at a window above,] The suspicious vigilance of our ancestors contrived windows which overlooked the insides of chapels, halls, kitchens, passages, &c. Some of these convenient peepholes, may still be found in colleges, and such ancient houses as have not suffered from the reformations of modern architecture. Crom. Nor. Yes. Who waits there? Yes. My lord archbishop; D. Keep. Without, my noble lords? Gar. D. Keep. And has done half an hour, to know your pleasures. Chan. Let him come in. D. Keep. Your grace may enter now. [CRANMER approaches the Council-table. Chan. My good lord archbishop, I am very sorry To sit here at this present, and behold That chair stand empty: But we all are men, In our own natures frail; and capable Of our flesh, few are angels: out of which frailty, (For so we are inform'd,) with new opinions, Gar. Which reformation must be sudden too, Till they obey the manage. If we suffer and capable Of our flesh, few are angels: &c.] If this passage means any g, it may mean, few are perfect, while they remain in their al capacity; i. e. while they are capable [in a condition] of invested with flesh. |