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The same. The council-chamber.
[Cornets. Enter KING HENRY VIII, leaning on CARDINAL WOLSEY's shoulder, the
Nobles, and LOVELL; CARDINAL WOLSEY places himself under KING HENRY VIII's
feet on his right side]
KING HENRY VIII
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My life | itself,| and the / best heart | of it,
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Thanks you | for this great | care: I | stood in
the | level
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Of a full-|charged con|federa|cy, and / give
thanks
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To you | that choked | it. Let | be called |
before us
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That gent|leman | of Buck|ingham's, in | person,
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I'll hear | him his | confes|sions jus|tify,
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And point | by point | the treas|ons of | his
mast||er,
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He | shall again | relate.
VOICE [Within]
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Room for | the queen.
[Enter QUEEN KATHARINE, ushered by NORFOLK, and SUFFOLK: she kneels. KING
HENRY VIII riseth from his state, takes her up, kisses and placeth her by
him]
QUEEN KATHARINE
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Nay, we must | longer | kneel; I / am a | suitor.
KING HENRY VIII
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Arise,| and take place by | us: half | your
suit
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Never | name to | us; you | have half | our
power:
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The oth|er moi|ety ere | you ask | is given,
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Repeat | your will,| and take it.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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Thank your | majesty
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That you | would love | yourself,| and in | that
love
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Not un|consid|ered leave | your hon|or, nor
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The dig|nity | of your of|fice, is | the point
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Of my | peti|tion.
KING HENRY VIII
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La|dy mine | proceed.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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I am | solic|ited | not by | a few,
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And those | of true | condi|tion:| that your
| subjects*
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Are in / great griev|ance: there | have been
| commis|sions (hex with prev)
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Sent down | among |'em, which | hath flawed | the
heart
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Of all | their loy|alties;| wherein,| although
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My good | lord card/inal,| they vent |
reproach||es
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Most | bitterly | on you,| as put|ter-on
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Of these | exac|tions: yet | the king,| our
mast||er
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Whose honor heaven shield from soil; even he
escapes not ????
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Language | unman|nerly*;/ yea, such | which^breaks
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The sides | of loy|alty,| and al|most appears
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In loud | rebel|lion.
NORFOLK
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Not | almost | appears,
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It doth | appear;| for, u|pon these tax|ations,
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The cloth|iers all,| not ab/le to | maintain
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The ma|ny to | them long|ing, have / put off
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The spin|sters, card|ers, ful|lers, weav|ers, who
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Unfit | for oth|er life,| compelled | by hung||er
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And lack | of oth|er means,| in des|perate
manner
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Daring | the event | to the teeth,| are all | in
up||roar,
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And | danger | serves a|mong them.
KING HENRY VIII
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Tax|ation?
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Wherein?| And what | taxa|tion? My / lord
card||inal,
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You | that are blamed | for it | alike | with us,
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Know you | of this | taxa|tion?
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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Please | you sir,
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I know | but of | a sing|le part | in aught
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Pertains | to the state;| and front | but in |
that file
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Where oth|ers tell | steps | with me.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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No,| my lord?
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You know | no more | than oth|ers? But | you
frame
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Things that are | known a|like, which | are not |
wholesome
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To those | which would | not know | them, and |
yet must
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Perforce | be their ac|quaintance.| These
ex|actions
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(Whereof | my sove|reign would / have note)| they
are
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Most pest/ilent | to the hear|ing, and | to bear
'em,
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The back | is sac|rifice | to the load;| they say
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They are de|vised by | you, or | else you |
suffer
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Too hard an ex|clama|tion.
KING HENRY VIII
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Still | exac||tion:
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The na|ture of it,| in what kind | let us know,
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Is this | exac|tion?
QUEEN KATHARINE
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I am / much too | venturous
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In tempt|ing of | your pa|tience, but | am
bold||ened
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Un|der your prom|ised pardon.| The sub|jects'
grief
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Comes through | commis|sions, which | compel |
from each
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The sixth | part of his | substance,| to be |
levied
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Without | delay;| and the pre|tense for | this
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Is || named, your | wars in | France: this |
makes bold mouths,
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Tongues spit | their dut|ies out,| and cold
hearts freeze
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Alleg|iance in | them; their | curses | now
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Live where | their prayers | did: and | it's come
| to pass,
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This trac|table | obed|ience is | a slave
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To each | incens|ed will:| I would | your
high||ness
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Would give | it quick | consid|era|tion; for
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There is | no prim|er bus|iness.
KING HENRY VIII
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By | my life,
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This is | against | our pleas|ure.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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And | for me,
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I have | no furth|er gone | in this,| than by
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A sing|le voice,| and that | not passed | me, but
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By learned | appro|bation of the | judges:| If I
am ??
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Traduced | by ig|norant tongues,| which neith|er
know
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My fac|ulties | nor pers|on, yet | will be
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The chron|icles | of my do|ing: let | me say,
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'Tis but | the fate | of place,| and the / rough
brake
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That vir|tue must / go through:| We must | not
stint
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Our nec|essa|ry ac|tions, in | the fear
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To cope | mali|cious cens|urers,| which ever,
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As rave|nous fish|es do | a ves|sel follow
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That is new-|trimmed; but | bene|fit no
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Than vain|ly long|ing. What | we oft | do best,
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By sick | interp|reters |(once^weak | ones) is
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Not ours, or not | allowed;| what worst,| as oft
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Hitting a | grosser | quali|ty, is / cried up
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For our / best act:| If we | shall stand | still,
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In || fear our | motion | will be | mocked, or
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We should | take root here,| where we sit;
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Or sit State-stat|ues on|ly.
KING HENRY VIII
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Things | done^well,
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And with | a care,| exempt | themselves | from
fear:
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Things^done | without | examp|le, in | there
issue
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Are to | be feared.| Have you | a prec|edent
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Of this | commis|sion? I | believe,| not an||y.
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We | must not rend | our sub|jects* from | our
laws, ??
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And stick | them in | our will.| Sixth part of
each?
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A trem|bling cont|ribu|tion; why | we take
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From eve|ry tree,| lop, bark, and part | of the
tim||ber:
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And | though we leave | it with | a root | thus
hacked,
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The air | will drink | the sap.| To eve|ry
coun||ty
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Where this | is ques|tioned, send | our let|ters,
with
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Free pard/on to | each man / that has | denied
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The force | of this | commis|sion: pray | look to
it;
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I put | it to | your care.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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A word | with you.
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Let there | be let|ters writ | to eve|ry shire,
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Of the king's | grace and | pardon:| The grieved
| commons
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Hardly | conceive | of me.| Let it | be noised,
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That through | our int|erces|sion, this |
revoke||ment
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And pard|on comes:| I shall a|non ad|vise you
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Further | in the | proceed|ing. \\
[Exit Secretary. Enter Surveyor]
QUEEN KATHARINE
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I am | sorry,| that the Duke | of Buck|ingham
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Is run | in your | displeas|ure.
KING HENRY VIII
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It grieves | many:
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The gent|leman is learned,| and a / most rare |
speaker,
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To na|ture none | more* bound;| his train|ing
such,
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That he | may furn|ish and in/struct great |
teachers,
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And nev|er seek | for aid | out of himself:| yet
see, ??
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When these | so nob|le ben|efits | shall prove
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Not well | disposed,| the mind | growing | once
cor|rupt,
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They turn | to vi|cious forms,| ten times more |
ugly (hex with prev)
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Than ev|er they | were fair.| This man | so
complete,
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Who was en|rolled amongst wond|ers; and | when we
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Almost | with rav|ished list|ening, could | not
find
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His hour | of speech,| a min|ute: he,| (my la||dy)
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Hath | into monst|rous hab|its put | the gra||ces
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That once | were his,| and is | become | as
black,
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As if | besmeared | in hell.| Sit by us,| you
shall hear
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(This was | his gent|leman | in trust)| of him
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Things to strike hon|or sad.| Bid him | recount
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The fore-|recit|ed prac|tises,| whereof
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We can|not feel | too* lit|tle, hear | too* much.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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Stand^forth,| and with bold | spirit | relate |
what you,
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Most^like | a care|ful sub|ject*, have | collect||ed
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Out | of the Duke | of Buck|ingham.
KING HENRY VIII
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Speak | freely.
SURVEYOR
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First, it was | usu|al with | him; eve|ry day
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It would | infect | his speech:| that if | the
king
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Should with|out^is|sue die,| he'll car|ry it so
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To make | the scep|ter his.| These ve|ry words
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I've heard | him ut|ter to | his son-|in-law,
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Lord^Ab|ergaven|ny, to | whom^by oath | he
men||aced ??
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Revenge | upon | the card||inal.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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Please | your high|ness note (tri
with prev?)
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This dang|erous | concep|tion in | this point,
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Not friend|ed by | his wish | to your high |
person;
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His will | is most | malig|nant, and | it
stretch||es
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Beyond | you, to | your friends.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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My learned | lord card/inal, (tri with
prev)
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Deliv|er all | with char|ity.
KING HENRY VIII
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Speak^on;
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How ground|ed he | his tit|le to | the crown
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Upon | our fail;| to this point | hast thou |
heard him,
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At an|y time | speak^aught?
SURVEYOR
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He was brought | to this,
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By a vain | prophe|cy of | Nicholas | Hopkins.
KING HENRY VIII
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What was that | Hopkins?
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Sir, a | Chartreux friar,
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His con|fessor,| who fed | him eve|ry min||ute
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With words | of sove|reignty.
KING HENRY VIII
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How knowst | thou this?
SURVEYOR
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Not long | before | your high|ness sped | to
France,
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The duke | being at | the Rose,| within | the
parish
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Saint^Law|rence Poult|ney, did | of me | demand
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What was | the speech | among | the Lon|doners,
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Concern|ing the / French journ|ey. I | replied,
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Men feared the French | would prove | perfid|ious
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To the / king's dang|er: pres|ently,| the duke
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Said, 'twas | the fear | indeed,| and that he |
doubted
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'Twould prove | the ver|ity | of cert|ain words
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Spoke by | a ho|ly monk,| that oft,| says he,
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Hath sent | to me,| wishing | me to | permit
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John de | la Car,| my chap|lain, a / choice hour
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To hear | from him | a matter | of some | moment:
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Whom after under the confession's seal
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He sol|emnly | had sworn,| that what | he spoke
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My chap|lain to / no creat|ure liv|ing, but
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To me,| should utter,| with de/mure con|fidence,
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This pausingly ensued; neither the king,
nor his heirs, ????
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(Tell you | the duke)| shall pros|per, bid | him
strive
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To gain | the love | of the com|monalty,| the
duke ??
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Shall gov|ern Eng|land.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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If | I know | you well,
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You were the | duke's sur|veyor, and | lost your
| office
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On the com|plaint of the | tenants:| take good
heed
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You charge | not in your | spleen a | noble |
person,
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And spoil | your nob|ler soul;| I say,|
take^heed;
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Yes, heart/ily be|seech you.
KING HENRY VIII
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Let him | on: Go | forward. (tri with
prev)
SURVEYOR
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On my
| soul, I'll | speak but | truth.
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I told || my lord | the duke,| by the devil's
| illu|sions
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The monk | might be | deceived,| and that |'twas
dang|erous
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For this | to rum|inate | on this | so far,|
until (hex with prev)
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It forged | him some | design,| which being |
believed,
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It was / much like | to do:| he ans|wered, Tush,
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It can | do me no | damage;| adding | further,
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That had | the king | in his / last sick|ness
failed,
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The card|inal's and | Sir Thom|as Lov|ell's heads
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Should have gone | off.
KING HENRY VIII
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Ha? What,| so rank?| Ah ha,
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There's mis/chief in this | man; canst*| thou say
| further? ??
SURVEYOR
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I can | my liege.
KING HENRY VIII
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Proceed.
SURVEYOR
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Being at | Greenwich,
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After | your high|ness had | reproved | the duke
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About | Sir Wil|liam Blo|mer. \\
KING HENRY VIII
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I remember of such a time, being my sworn servant,
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The duke | retained | him his.| But on:| what
hence?
SURVEYOR
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If (quoth^|he) I for | this had | been com|mitted,
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As to | the Tower,| I thought;| I would | have
played
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The part | my fath|er meant | to act | upon
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The usurp|er Rich|ard, who | being at |
Salisbury,
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Made suit to come | in his pres|ence; which | if
grant||ed,
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(As | he made sem|blance of | his du|ty) would
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Have put | his knife | into him.
KING HENRY VIII
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A | giant | traitor.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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Now mad/am, may his | highness | live in |
freedom,
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And this | man out of | prison.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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God mend all.
KING HENRY VIII
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There's some|thing more | would out | of thee;|
what sayst?
SURVEYOR
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After | the duke | his fath|er, with | the knife
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He stretched | him, and | with one | hand on his
| dagger,
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Anoth|er spread | on his breast,| mounting | his
eyes,
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He did | discharge | a hor|rible oath,| whose
tenor
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Was, were | he ev|il used,| he would | outgo
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His fath|er, by | as much | as a per|formance
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Does an ir|resolute*| purpose.
KING HENRY VIII
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There's his | period,
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To sheathe | his knife | in us:| He is |
attached,
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Call him | to pres|ent trial:| if he may
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Find mer/cy in | the law,| 'tis his;| if none,
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Let him | not seek | it of us:| by day | and
night
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He's trait|or to | the height. \\
[Exeunt]