Prove but our marriage lawful, by my life Cam. So please your Highness, The Queen being abfent, 'tis a needful fitnefs [They rife to depart. The King Speaks to Cranmer. King. I may perceive, Thefe Cardinals trifle with me: I abhor [Exeunt, in manner as they enter'd. • That's paragon'd i'th' world.] Hanmer reads, I think, better, - The primeft creature ACT ACT III. SCENE I. The Queen's Apartment. The Queen and her Women, as at Work. QUEEN. TAKE AKE thy lute, wench, my foul grows fad with Sing, and difperfe 'em, if thou canft: leave working. SONG. Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops, that freeze, Hung their Heads, and then lay by. Fall asleep, or bearing die. Enter a Gentleman. Queen. How now? Gent. An't please your Grace, the two great Car dinals Wait in the presence. Queen. Would they fpeak with me? Queen. Pray their Graces To come near. What can be their business With me, a poor weak woman, fall'n from favour? [Exit Meffenger. I do not like their coming. Now I think on't, I They should be good men, their affairs are righteous, But all hoods make not monks. Enter the Cardinals Wolfey and Campeius. Wol. Peace to your Highness! Queen. Your Graces find me here part of a housewife, I would be all against the worst may happen. Into your private chamber; we fhall give you Queen. Speak it here. There's nothing I have done yet, o' my conscience, Deferves a corner; 'would, all other women Were try'd by ev'ry tongue, ev'ry eye faw 'em, 2 * Envy and bafe opinion fet against 'em; I know my life fo even. If your business I They should be good men, their affairs are righteous,] Affairs for profeffions; and then the fenfe is clear and pertinent. The propofition is, they are priests. The illation, therefore they are good men; for being undertood: But if affairs be interpreted in its common fignification, the fentence is abfurd. WARBURTON. The fentence has no great difficulty; affairs means not their prefent errand, but the business of their calling. 2 Envy and bafe opinion fet against 'em.] I would be glad that my conduct were in fome publick_trial confronted with my enemies, that envy and corrupt judgment might try their utmoft power against me. Do 'Do feek me out, and that way I am wife in, Out with it boldly. Truth loves open dealing. Wol. Tanta eft erga te mentis integritas, Regina Sereniffima, Queen. O, good my Lord, no Latin I am not fuch a truant, fince my coming, A strange tongue makes my cause more ftrange, fufpicious. Pray, fpeak in English; here are fome will thank you, If you speak truth, for their poor mistress' fake. Believe me, she has had much wrong. Lord Cardinal, The willing't fin I ever yet committed, May be abfolv'd in English. Wol. Noble lady, I'm forry my integrity fhould breed, And service to his Majefty and you, So deep fufpicion, where all faith was meant. (You have too much, good lady) but to know Cam. Moft honour'd Madam, My Lord of York, out of his noble nature. Offers, as I do, in a fign of His fervice and his counsel.- peace My Lords, I thank you both for your good wills, In fuch a point of weight, fo near mine honour, In truth I know not. I was fet at work Among my maids; full little, God knows, looking For her fake that I have been, for I feel Wol. Madam, you wrong the King's love with Your hopes and friends are infinite. Queen. In England But little for my profit; can you think, Lords, 5 Or be a known friend 'gainft his Highness' pleasure, 4 Though he be grown fo def prate to be honeft.] Do you think that any Englishman dare advife me; or, if any man fhould venture to advise with ho nefty, that he could live? -weigh out my afflictions.] This phrafe is obfcure. To weigh gut, is, in modern language, to deliver by weight; but this fenfe tion. This may, perhaps, be meant. Or the phrafe, to weigh out, may fignify to counterbal lance, to counteract with equal force. |