No friends, no hope, no kindred weep for me. That once was mistress of the field, and flourish'd, I'll hang my head, and perish. If your grace Wol. Could but be brought to know our ends are honest, You'd feel more comfort. Why should we, good lady, Upon what cause, wrong you? Alas! our places, We are to cure such sorrows, not to sow them. Grow from the king's acquaintance, by this carriage. 8 So much they love it; but to stubborn spirits vants. Cam. Madam, you'll find it so. virtues You wrong your With these weak women's fears: a noble spirit, Such doubts, as false coin, from it. The king loves you; Beware you lose it not: For us, if you please 8 It was one of the charges brought against Lord Essex, that in a letter written during his retirement in 1598 to the lord keeper, he had said, "There is no tempest to the passionate indignation of a prince." Kath. Do what ye will, my lords; and, pray, forgive me, If I have us'd myself unmannerly: You know, I am a woman, lacking wit To make a seemly answer to such persons. He has my heart yet, and shall have my prayers, SCENE II. [Exeunt. Antechamber to the King's Apartment. Enter the Duke of NORFOLK, the Duke of SUFFOlk, the Earl of SURREY, and the Lord Chamberlain. Nor. If you will now unite in your complaints, Sur. Suf. Which of the peers Have uncontemn'd gone by him, or at least Force enforce, urge. * Of course, the force of not implied in uncontemn'd extends ver strangely neglected. The stamp of nobleness in any person, Cham. My lords, you speak your pleasures : Any thing on him; for he hath a witchcraft Nor. O! fear him not; His spell in that is out: the king hath found The honey of his language. No, he's settled, Sir, Not to come off, in his displeasure. Sur. I should be glad to hear such news as this Once every hour. Nor. Believe it, this is true. In the divorce his contrary proceedings Are all unfolded; wherein he appears As I could wish mine enemy. pope miscarried, Suf. The cardinal's letter to the And came to the eye o'the king; wherein was read How that the cardinal did intreat his holiness To stay the judgment o'the divorce: for if A creature of the queen's, lady Anne Boleyn.” Suf. Sur Believe it. Will this work? Cham. The king in this perceives him, how he coasts 3 And hedges his own way. But in this point Sur. 'Would he had! Suf. May you be happy in your wish, my lord! For, I profess, you have it. Suf. There's order given for her coronation : 3 To coast is to hover about, to pursue a sidelong course about a thing. To hedge is to creep along by the hedge, not to take the direct and open path, but to steal covertly through circumvolutions. 4 The date commonly assigned for the marriage of Henry and Anne is November 14, 1532; at which time they set sail together from Calais, the king having been on a visit to his royal brother of France. Lingard, following Godwin, Stowe, and Cranmer, says they were privately married the 25th of January, 1533, and that the former date was assigned in order to afford the proper space between their marriage and the birth of Elizabeth, which latter event took place the 7th of September following. The marriage was to have been kept secret till May; but the manifest makingready of Anne to become a mother forced on a public acknowledgment of it early in April. H. 5 To trace is to follow. The original has, -"Now all my joy." The happy emendation is from Collier's newly-discovered folio of 1632. It seems to need no voucher but itself. 6 To memorize is to make memorable. H. Is stolen away to Rome; hath ta'en no leave ; To second all this plot. I do assure you Suf. He is return'd, in his opinions,' which Nor. This same Cranmer's A worthy fellow, and hath ta'en much pain In the king's business. Suf. For it an archbishop. Nor. He has; and we shall see him So I hear. 7 Cranmer, then one of the king's chaplains, had been on 1 special mission to advocate the divorce at Rome, and to collect the opinions of learned canonists and divines in Italy and elsewhere. Doubtless these are the opinions meant in the text. The using of in for with has occasioned some doubt as to what was meant by opinions. II. |