Buck. I pray you, who, my lord? Nor. All this was order'd by the good discretion Of the right reverend cardinal of York. Buck. The devil speed him! no man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. What had he To do in these fierce 12 vanities? I wonder, That such a keech 13 can with his very bulk Take o'the beneficial sun, up the rays And keep it from the earth. Nor. Surely, sir, There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends; Out of his self-drawing web,-O! it11 gives us note, A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys Aber. I cannot tell 12 Johnson remarks that fierce is here used, like the French fier, for proud; and Steevens observes that the Puritan, in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, says, the hobby-horse "is a fierce and rank idol." Our ancestors appear to have used the word in the sense of arrogant, outrageous: and the use of the Latin ferox is as likely to have suggested it as the French fier. The word has a different meaning in the passage cited from Timon of Athens, Act iv. Sc. 4. See note there. In the Rape of Lucrece we have:"Thy violent vanities can never last." 13 Keech, i. e. a round lump of fat. The Prince calls Falstaff tallow-keech in the First Part of King Henry IV. Act ii. Sc. 4. It has been thought that there was some allusion here to the Cardinal, being reputed the son of a butcher. We have "Goodwife Keech, the butcher's wife," mentioned by Dame Quickly, in King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1. 14 The first folio has "O give us note." The second folio, "O! gives us note." Steevens and Malone print: "Out of his self-drawing web, he gives us note." But it is much more probable that there was a word omitted after O. What heaven hath given him, let some graver eye Pierce into that; but I can see his pride Peep through each part of him: Whence has he that? Or has given all before; and he begins Buck. Why the devil, Upon this French going-out, took he upon him, Who should attend on him? He makes up the file15 He meant to lay upon; and his own letter, Must fetch him in he Aber. 16 papers 1 I do know Kinsmen of mine, three at the least, that have Buck. 15 File, i. e. list. 16 He papers, a verb; i. e. his own letter, by his own single authority, and without the concurrence of the council, must fetch him in whom he papers down. Wolsey published a list of the several persons whom he had appointed to attend on the king at this interview, and addressed his letters to them. See Hall and Holinshed, or Rymer's Fœdera, vol. xiii. 17 In the ancient Interlude of Nature, blk. 1. no date, apparently printed in the reign of King Henry VIII. a similar stroke is aimed at this expensive expedition : 66 Pryde. I am unhappy, I se it wel, For the expence of myne apparell What in horses and other aray, So in King John, Act ii. Sc. 1: "Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs." But minister communication of A most poor issue? Nor. Grievingly I think, The peace between the French and us not values Buck. Nor. Which is budded out; For France hath flaw'd the league, and hath attach'd Our merchants' goods at Bordeaux. Aber. The ambassador is silenc'd 20? Nor. Is it therefore Marry, is't. Aber. A proper title of a peace 21, and purchas'd At a superfluous rate! Buck. Why, all this business Our reverend cardinal carried. 'Like it your grace, Nor. you And Burton, in his Anatomy of Melancholy, ed. 1634, p. 482 :— ""Tis an ordinary thing to put a thousand okes, or an hundred oxen, into a sute of apparell, to weare a whole manor on his back." 19" Monday the xviii of June was such an hideous storme of winde and weather, that many conjectured it did prognosticate trouble and hatred shortly after to follow between princes."Holinshed. 20 The French ambassador, being refused an audience, may be said to be silenc'd. 21 A proper title of a peace, i. e. a fine name of a peace: this is ironically said. So in Macbeth:-"O proper stuff!” Together to consider further, that What his high hatred would effect, wants not You'll find it wholesome. Lo! where comes that rock, That I advise your shunning. Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY (the purse borne before him), certain of the Guard, and two Secretaries with papers. The CARDINAL in his passage fixeth his eye on BUCKINGHAM, and BUCKINGHAM on him, both full of disdain. Wol. The duke of Buckingham's surveyor? ha! Where's his examination? 1 Secr. Here, so please you. Wol. Is he in person ready? 1 Secr. Ay, please your grace. Wol. Well, we shall then know more; and Buck ingham Shall lessen this big look. [Exeunt WOLSEY and Train. Buck. This butcher's cur 22 is venom-mouth'd, and I Have not the power to muzzle him; therefore, best Not wake him in his slumber. A beggar's book Out-worths a noble's blood 23. Nor. What, are you chaf'd? Ask God for temperance; that's th' appliance only, 22 The common rumour ran that Wolsey was the son of a butcher; but his faithful biographer Cavendish says nothing of his father being in trade: he tells us that he was "an honest poor man's son." 23 A beggar's book out-worths a noble's blood, that is, the literary qualifications of a bookish beggar are more prized than the high descent of hereditary greatness. I read in's looks Which your disease requires. Buck. Matter against me: and his eye revidl❜ Me, as his abject object: at this instant He bores 24 me with some trick: He's gone to the king; Nor. And let your reason with What 'tis you go about. Stay, my lord, your choler question To climb steep hills, pace at first anger is like I'll to the king; And from a mouth of honour quite cry down Be advis'd; Nor. That it do singe yourself. By violent swiftness, that We may outrun, which we run at, Know you not, The fire, that mounts the liquor till't run o'er, In seeming to augment it, wastes it? Be advis'd: More stronger to direct you than yourself; 24 He bores me with some trick, i. e. he stabs or wounds me by some artifice or fiction. 25 Thus in Massinger's Unnatural Combat: "Let passion work, and, like a hotrein'd horse, And Shakespeare again in The Rape of Lucrece :- 26 So in Hamlet: "Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper |