Well worthy the best heir o' the world, should not When I first moved you. LIN. Very well, my liege. 200 KING. I have spoke long: be pleased yourself to say 210 How far you satisfied me. So please your highness, LIN. 196 gladded] gladdened. 66 198 my issue's fail] the failure of my issue; cf. I, ii, 145, our fail." 199-200 hulling in... conscience] drifting like a dismasted hulk in the troubled sea of my conscience. A ship is said to “hull" when she is dismasted and her hull or hulk is at the mercy of the waves. 208 How . . . I did reek] How I sweated, perspired with this weight of anxiety. 209 moved] consulted. 213 bearing a state. . . in 't] engendering a momentous situation of affairs, involving crucial issues. And consequence of dread, that I committed KING. Under your hands and seals: therefore, go on; To wear our mortal state to come with her, 220 231 CAM. So please your highness, The queen being absent, 't is a needful fitness That we adjourn this court till further day: 214-215 I committed . . . to doubt] The bishop's courage allowed him to go no further in offering counsel than to admit that the point was open to grave doubt and required fullest investigation. 228 To wear .. with her] To adapt our life so as to enjoy her companionship. 229-230 the primest. . . o' the world] the most perfect creature that admits of comparison with her in the world. Shakespeare often uses the word "paragon as a verb in the sense of compare or "admit of comparison"; cf. Othello, II, i, 61–62, “a maid That paragons description and wild fame." 66 Meanwhile must be an earnest motion Made to the queen, to call back her appeal KING. [Aside] I may perceive These cardinals trifle with me: I abhor This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. My learn'd and well-beloved servant, Cranmer, My comfort comes along. - Break up the court: [Exeunt in manner as they entered. 238-239 Cranmer, Prithee, return] Cranmer was at the moment absent on a foreign mission. Cf. III, ii, 64, infra. 240 AKE THY LUTE, WENCH: my soul grows sad with troubles; Sing, and disperse 'em, if thou canst leave working. SONG Orpheus with his lute made trees, Every thing that heard him play, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, 10 sea] pronounced to rhyme with "play." 10 KING HENRY VIII Enter a Gentleman Q. KATH. How now! VIII ACT III GENT. An 't please your grace, the two great cardinals Wait in the presence. Q. KATH. Would they speak with me? GENT. They will'd me say so, madam. Pray their graces To come near. [Exit Gent.] What can be their business Enter the two CARDINALS, WOLSEY and CAMPEIUS Peace to your highness! Q. KATH. Your graces find me here part of a house WOL. wife; I would be all, against the worst may happen. The full cause of our coming. Q. KATH. Speak it here; There's nothing I have done yet, o' my conscience, 17 presence] presence-chamber, where a royal personage receives visitors. 23 all hoods make not monks] a familiar proverb, which Shakespeare twice quotes in Latin, viz.: Meas. for Meas., V, i, 261 and Tw. Night, I, v, 50-51; "cucullus non facit monachum." 31 Deserves a corner] Requires privacy. 20 309 |