King. By heaven, she is a dainty one.

I were unmannerly, to take you out,

Sweetheart,

And not to kiss you. A health, gentlemen!
Let it go round.

Wol. Sir Thomas Lovell, is the banquet ready
I' the privy chamber?

Lov.

Wol.

Yes, my lord.

Your grace,

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I fear, with dancing is a little heated.
King. I fear, too much.
Wol.

There's fresher air, my lord,

In the next chamber.
King. Lead in your ladies, every one.

ner,

Sweet part

I must not yet forsake you. Let's be merry,

96. "And not to kiss you"; a kiss was anciently the established fee of a lady's partner. Thus in A Dialogue between Custom and Veritie, concerning the Use and Abuse of Dauncing and Minstrelsie:

"But some reply, what foole would daunce,

If that when daunce is doon

He may not have at ladyes lips

That which in daunce he woon."-H. N. H.

102. "in the next chamber"; according to Cavendish, the king, on discovering himself, being desired by Wolsey to take his place under the state or seat of honor, said "that he would go first and shift his apparel, and so departed, and went straight into my lord's bedchamber, where a great fire was made and prepared for him, and there new apparelled him with rich and princely garments. And in the time of the king's absence the dishes of the banquet were cleane taken up, and the tables spread with new and sweet perfumed cloths. -Then the king took his seat under the cloth of estate, commanding no man to remove, but set still as they did before. Then in came a new banquet before the king's majesty, and to all the rest through the tables, wherein, I suppose were served two hundred dishes or above. Thus passed they forth the whole night with banquetting."-H. N. H.

Good my lord cardinal: I have half a dozen

healths

To drink to these fair ladies, and a measure

To lead 'em once again; and then let 's dream Who's best in favor.

Let the music knock it. [Exeunt with trumpets.

Enter two Gentlemen, meeting.

First Gent. Whither away so fast?

Sec. Gent.

O, God save ye!

Even to the hall, to hear what shall become
Of the great Duke of Buckingham.

First Gent.

I'll save you

That labor, sir. All's now done, but the cere

First. Gent. Yes, truly is he, and condemn'd

upon 't.

Sec. Gent. I am sorry for 't.

First Gent.

So are a number more.

Sec. Gent. But, pray, how pass'd it?

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First Gent. I'll tell you in a little. The great

duke

Came to the bar; where to his accusations

He pleaded still not guilty, and alleged
Many sharp reasons to defeat the law.
The king's attorney on the contrary

Urged on the examinations, proofs, confessions
Of divers witnesses; which the duke desired
To have brought viva voce to his face:

At which appear'd against him his surveyor;
Sir Gilbert Peck his chancellor; and John Car,
Confessor to him; with that devil monk,
Hopkins, that made this mischief.

Sec. Gent.

That was he

That fed him with his prophecies? First Gent.

The same.

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All these accused him strongly; which he fain Would have flung from him, but indeed he could not:

And so his peers upon this evidence

Have found him guilty of high treason. Much
He spoke, and learnedly, for life, but all

Was either pitied in him or forgotten.

Sec. Gent. After all this, how did he bear himself? First Gent. When he was brought again to the bar,

to hear

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His knell rung out, his judgment, he was stirr'd
With such an agony, he sweat extremely,
And something spoke in choler, ill and hasty:
But he fell to himself again and sweetly

In all the rest show'd a most noble patience.
Sec. Gent. I do not think he fears death.

First Gent.

Sure, he does not;

29. "was either pitied in him or forgotten"; i. e. "either produced no effect, or only ineffectual pity" (Malone).—I. G.

He never was so womanish; the cause
He may a little grieve at.

Sec. Gent.

Certainly

The cardinal is the end of this.

First Gent.

"Tis likely,

By all conjectures: first, Kildare's attainder,
Then deputy of Ireland; who removed,

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Earl Surrey was sent thither, and in haste too,
Lest he should help his father.

44. "Lest he should help his father"; this was in April, 1520, and was immediately occasioned by the duke's opposition to Wolsey's projected meeting of Henry and Francis. Holinshed's account of it is so illustrative of Wolsey's character, that it may well be given: "The duke could not abide the cardinall, and had of late conceived an inward malice against him for sir William Bulmer's cause. Now such greevous words as the duke uttered came to the cardinals eare; whereupon he cast all waies possible to have him in a trip, that he might cause him to leape headlesse. But bicause he doubted his freends, kinnesmen, and allies, and cheeflie the earle of Surrie lord admerall, which had married the dukes daughter, he thought good first to send him some whither out of the waie. There was great enmitie betwixt the cardinall and the earle, for that on a time, when the Icardinall tooke upon him to checke the earle, he had like to have thrust his dagger into the cardinall. At length there was occasion offered him to compasse his purpose, by the earle of Kildare his comming out of Ireland. For the cardinall, knowing he was well provided with monie, sought occasion to fleece him of part thereof. The earle, being unmarried, was desirous to have an English woman to wife; and for that he was a suter to a widow contrarie to the cardinals mind, he accused him to the king, that he had not borne himselfe uprightlie in his office in Ireland. Such accusations were framed against him, that he was committed to prison, and then by the cardinals good preferment the earle of Surrie was sent into Ireland as the kings deputie, there to remaine rather as an exile than as lieutenant, as he himself well perceived.”—H. N. H.

45. "envious"; malicious.-C. H. H.