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London. An ante-chamber in the KING'S palace.
[Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the BISHOP OF ELY]
CANTERBURY
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My lord,| I'll tell | you, that / self bill | is
urged,
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Which in the e|leventh | year of the | last
king's reign
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Was like,| and had | indeed | against | us
passed,
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But that | the scamb|ling and | unqui|et time
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Did push | it out | of farth|er ques|tion.
ELY
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But how | my lord | shall we | resist | it now?
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It must | be thought | on: If | it pass | against
us,
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We lose | the better | half of | our
pos|session:
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For all | the temp|oral lands,| which men |
devout
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By test|ament | have giv|en to | the church,
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Would they | strip from |us; be|ing val|ued thus,
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As much | as would | maintain,| to the king's |
honor,
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Full* fif|teen^earls,| and fif|teen^hund|red
knights,
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Six thous/and and | two hund/red good | esquires:
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And to | relief | of laz|ars, and / weak age
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Of ind|igent / faint souls,| past^cor|poral toil.
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A hund|red alms|houses, right well | supplied:
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And to | the cof|fers of | the king | beside,
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A thous|and pounds | by the year.| Thus^runs |
the bill.
ELY
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This would / drink deep.
CANTERBURY
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'Twould drink | the cup | and all.
ELY
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But what | prevent|ion? \\
CANTERBURY
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The king | is full | of grace,| and fair |
regard.
ELY
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And a / true lov|er of | the ho|ly church.
CANTERBURY
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The cours|es of | his youth | promised | it not.
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The breath | no soon|er left | his fath|er's
bo||dy,
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But | that his wild|ness, mort|ified | in him,
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Seemed to die too:| yea, at that | very | moment,
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consid|era|tion like | an ang|el came,
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And whipped | the offend|ing Ad|am out | of him;
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Leaving | his bo|dy as | a par|adise,
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To envel|op and | contain | celest|ial spirits.
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Never | was such | a sud|den schol|ar made:
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Never | came re|forma|tion in | a flood,
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With such | a hea|dy cur|rance scour|ing faults:
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Nor* nev|er Hy|dra-head|ed will|fulness
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So soon | did lose | his seat;| and all | at once;
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As in | this king.
ELY
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We are | blessed in | the change.
CANTERBURY
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Hear him | but reas|on in | divin|ity;
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And all-|admir|ing, with | an in|ward wish
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You would de|sire the | king were | made a |
prelate:
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Hear him | debate | of com|monwealth | affairs;
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You would | say, it hath | been all in^all | his
stu||dy:
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List | his discourse | of war;| and you | shall
hear
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A fear|ful bat|tle rend|ered you | in mus||ic.
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Turn | him to an|y cause | of pol|icy,
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The Gord|ian knot | of it | he will | unloose,
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Famil|iar as | his gart|er: that | when he
speaks,
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The air,| a chart|ered lib|ertine,| is still,
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And the / mute wond|er lurk|eth in / men's ears,
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To steal | his sweet | and hon|eyed sent|ences:
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So that | the art | and prac|tic part | of life,
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Must* be | the mist|ress to | this the|oric.
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Which is a | wonder | how his | grace should |
glean it,
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Since his | addic|tion was | to cours|es vain,
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His com|panies^un|lettered,| rude, and |
shallow,
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His hours | filled^up | with ri|ots, ban|quets,
sports;
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And nev|er not|ed in | him an|y stu||dy,
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an|y retire|ment, an|y se|questra||tion,
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From op|en haunts | and pop|ular|ity.
ELY
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The straw|berry grows | under|neath the | nettle,
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And whole|some ber|ries thrive | and rip|en best,
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Neighbored | by fruit | of bas|er qual|ity:
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And so | the prince | obscured | his
con|templa||tion
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und|er the veil | of wild|ness, which |(no doubt)
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Grew like the sum|mer grass,| fastest | by night,
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Unseen,| yet cres|cive in | his fac|ulty.
CANTERBURY
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It must | be so;| for mir|acles | are ceased:
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And there|fore we / must needs | admit | the
means,
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How things / are per|fected.
ELY
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But my | good* lord:
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How now | for mit|iga|tion of | this^bill,
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Urged by | the com|mons? Doth | his maj|esty
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Incline | to it, or | no?
CANTERBURY
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He | seems in|different,
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Or rath|er sway|ing more | upon | our part,
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Than cher|ishing | the exhib|iters | against us:
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For I | have made | an offer | to his maj|esty,
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Upon | our spir/itual | convo|cation,
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And in | regard | of caus|es now | in hand,
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Which I | have op|ened to | his grace | at large,
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As touch|ing France,| to give | a great|er sum,
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Than ev|er at / one time | the cler|gy yet
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Did to | his pred|eces|sors part | withal.
ELY
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How did | this of|fer seem | received,| my lord?
CANTERBURY
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With good | accept|ance of | his maj|esty:
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Save that | there* was / not time | enough | to hear,
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As I | perceived | his grace | would fain | have
done,
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The sev|erals and / unhid|den pas|sages
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Of his true | titles | to some | certain |
dukedoms,
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And gene|rally,| to the crown | and seat | of
France,
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Derived | from Ed|ward, his / great-grand|father.
ELY
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What was | the imped|iment | that broke | this^off?
CANTERBURY
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The French | ambas|sador | upon | that inst||ant
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Craved | audience;| and the hour | I think | is
come,
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To give | him hear|ing: is | it four | o'clock?
ELY
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It is. \\
CANTERBURY
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Then go | we in,| to know | his em|bassy:
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Which I | could with | a rea|dy guess | declare,
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Before | the French|man speak | a word | of it.
ELY
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I'll wait | upon | you, and | I long | to hear
it.
[Exeunt]