First, mine own service to your grace; the next, And heartily entreats you take good comfort. "Tis like a pardon after execution. That gentle physic, given in time, had cur'd me; But now I am past all comforts here, but prayers. How does his highness? Cap. Madam, in good health. Kath. So may he ever do! and ever flourish, When I shall dwell with worms, and my poor name Banish'd the kingdom! — Patience, is that letter, I caus'd you write, yet sent away? Pat. [Giving it to her.] No, madam. Kath. Sir, I most humbly pray you to deliver This to my lord the king. Cap. Most willing, madam. Kath. In which I have commended to his good ness The model 10 of our chaste loves, his young daugh The dews of heaven fall thick in blessings on her! 10 Model signified, in the language of our ancestors, a repre sentation or image. Have follow'd both my fortunes faithfully: A right good husband, let him be" a noble ; If Heaven had pleas'd to have given me longer life, Cap. By Heaven, I will; Or let me lose the fashion of a man! Kath. I thank you, honest lord. In all humility unto his highness: Say, his long trouble now is passing Remember me Out of this world: tell him, in death I bless'd him, Let me be us'd with honour: strew me over 11 Even if he should be. A queen, and daughter to a king, inter me. I can no more. [Exeunt, leading KATHARINE ACT V. SCENE I. A Gallery in the Palace Enter GARDINER, Bishop of Winchester, a Page with a Torch before him. Gar. It's one o'clock, boy, is't not? It hath struck. Gar. These should be hours for necessities, Not for delights;' times to repair our nature With comforting repose, and not for us Gar. I did, Sir Thomas; and left him at primero❜ With the duke of Suffolk. Lov. I must to him too, Before he go to bed. I'll take my leave. Gar. Not yet, Sir Thomas Lovell. What's the matter? 1 Gardiner himself is not much delighted. The delights at which he hints seem to be the king's diversions, which keep him in attendance. 2 Primero, prime, or primavista. A game at cards, said by some writers to be one of the oldest known in England. It seems you are in haste: and if there be No great offence belongs to't, give your friend Some touch of your late business. Affairs that walk (As they say spirits do) at midnight have In them a wilder nature, than the business That seeks despatch by day. Lov. My lord, I love you, And durst commend a secret to your ear Much weightier than this work. The queen's in labour, They say, in great extremity; and fear'd, She'll with the labour end. Gar. The fruit she goes with I pray for heartily, that it may find Good time, and live; but for the stock, Sir Thomas, I wish it grubb'd up now. Lov. Methinks, I could Cry the amen; and yet my conscience says Gar. But, sir, sir, Hear me, Sir Thomas: Y' are a gentleman "Twill not, Sir Thomas Lovell, take't of me, Till Cranmer, Cromwell, her two hands, and she, Sleep in their Lov. graves. Now, sir, you speak of two The most remark'd i'the kingdom. As for Crom well,. Beside that of the jewel-house, he's made master O'the rolls, and the king's secretary; further, sir, Stands in the gap and trade of more preferments, Of mine own opinion in religion. That is, course or way. "Iter pro incepto et instituto, a way With which the time will load him: The archbishop Is the king's hand and tongue; and who dare speak One syllable against him? Gar. Yes, yes, Sir Thomas, There are that dare; and I myself have ventur'd To speak my mind of him: and, indeed, this day, Sir, (I may tell it you,). I think I have 5 Incens'd the lords o'the council, that he is (For so I know he is, they know he is) A most arch heretic, a pestilence That does infect the land: with which they mov'u̸ He be convented.' He's a rank weed, Sir Thomas, vant. As LOVELL is going out, enter the King, and the Duke of SUFFOlk. King. Charles, I will play no more to-night: My mind's not on't; you are too hard for me. Suf. Sir, I did never win of you before. trade, or course." COOPER. Again, in Udal's Apothegms: "althoughe it repent them of the trade or way that they have chosen." Incens'd or insensed in this instance, and in some others, only means instructed, informed: still in use in Staffordshire. It properly signifies to infuse into the mind, to prompt or instigate. "Invidiæ stimulo mentes Patrum fodit Saturnia: Juno incenseth the senators' minds with secret envy against." COOPER. 6 That is, have broken or opened the subject with him.. See The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act i. sc. 3, note 4. That is, summoned, convened. H. |