SCENE II. 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 And force1 them with a constancy, the cardinal Cannot stand under them: If you omit The offer of this time, I cannot promise, Sur. I am joyful To meet the least occasion, that may give me Remembrance of my father-in-law, the duke, To be reveng'd on him. Which of the peers Suf. Cham. My lord, you speak your pleasures: What he deserves of you and me, I know; What we can do to him (though now the time Gives way to us), I much fear. If you cannot Bar his access to the king, never attempt Any thing on him; for he hath a witchcraft Over the king in his tongue. 1 Force is enforce, urge. So in Measure for Measure : That thus can make him bite the law by the nose When he would force it.' 2. Which of the peers has not gone by him contemned or neglected?' When did he regard the stamp of nobleness in any person, though attentive to his own dignity? VOL. VII. Y Nor. O, fear him not; His spell in that is out: the king hath found Sur. Sir, I should be glad to hear such news as this Nor. Believe it, this is true. In the divorce, his contrary proceedings 3 As I could wish mine enemy. Sur. How came His practices to light? Suf. Most strangely. Sur. O, how, how? Suf. The cardinal's letter to the And came to the eye o' the king: wherein was read, A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen. Suf. Sur. Believe it. Will this work? Cham. The king in this perceives him, how he coasts, And hedges, his own way. But in this point All his tricks founder, and he brings his physick After his patient's death; the king already Hath married the fair lady. 3 i. e. his secret endeavours to counteract the divorce. 4 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. Sur. 'Would he had! Suf. May you be happy in your wish, my lord! For, I profess, you have it. Sur. Trace the conjunction! Suf. Nor. Now all my joy My amen to't! All men's. Suf. There's order given for her coronation: In mind and feature: I persuade me, from her Sur. But, will the king Digest this letter of the cardinal's? The Lord forbid! Nor. Marry, amen! No, no; There be more wasps that buz about his nose, 5 To trace is to follow. Thus in Macbeth: all unfortunate souls That trace him in his line.' The form of Surrey's wish had been anticipated by Richmond in King Richard III. sc. ult.:— Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction! 6 This same phrase occurs again in Romeo and Juliet, Act i. Sc. 1: 'Good morrow, cousin. 7 To memorize is to make memorable. Thus in Macbeth, Act i. Sc. 2: 'Or memorize another Golgotha.' To second all this plot. I do assure you Cham. And let him cry ha, louder! Nor. When returns Cranmer? Now, God incense him, But, my lord, Suf. He is return'd, in his opinions; which Almost in Christendom: shortly, I believe, Nor. This same Cranmer's A worthy fellow, and hath ta’en much pain In the king's business. Nor. He has and we shall see him So I hear. "Tis so. Enter WOLSEY and CROMWell. Observe, observe, he's moody. Wol. The packet, Cromwell, gave it you the king? Crom. Presently Suffolk means to say Cranmer is returned in his opinions, i. e. with the same sentiments which he entertained before he went abroad, which (sentiments) have satisfied the king, together with all the famous colleges referred to on the occasion. Or perhaps the passage (as Mr. Tyrwhitt observes) may mean, He is returned in effect, having sent his opinions, i. e. the opinions of divines, &c. collected by him. He did unseal them; and the first he view'd, Wol. To come abroad? Crom. Is he ready I think, by this he is. Wol. Leave me a while.- [Exit CROMWell. It shall be to the duchess of Alençon, The French king's sister: he shall marry her. Anne Bullen! No; I'll no Anne Bullens for him: There is more in it than fair visage.-Bullen! No, we'll no Bullens.-Speedily I wish To hear from Rome.-The marchioness of Pem Lord, for thy justice! Wol. The late queen's gentlewoman; a knight's daughter, To be her mistress' mistress! the queen's queen!- A spleeny Lutheran; and not wholesome to Nor. He is vex'd at something. the string, The master-cord of his heart! |