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An ante-chamber in the palace.
[Enter Chamberlain, reading a letter]
CHAMBERLAIN
My lord, the horses your lordship sent for, with all the care I had, I saw
well chosen, ridden, and furnished. They were young and handsome, and of the
best breed in the north. When they were ready to set out for London, a man
of my lord cardinal's by commission, and main power took 'em from me, with
this reason: His master would be served before a subject, if not before the
king, which stopped our mouths sir.
I fear he will indeed; well, let
him have them; he will have all I think.
[Enter, to Chamberlain, NORFOLK and SUFFOLK]
NORFOLK
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Well met my lord | chamber|lain.
CHAMBERLAIN
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Good day | to both | your gra|ces.
(tetra with prev)
SUFFOLK
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How is the | king em|ployed?
CHAMBERLAIN
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I | left him | private,
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Full of sad thoughts | and troub|les.
NORFOLK
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What's | the cause?
CHAMBERLAIN
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It seems | the mar|riage with | his broth|er's
wife
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Has crept too near | his con|science.
SUFFOLK
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No,| his con||science
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Has crept | too* near | anoth|er la|dy.
NORFOLK
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'Tis so;
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This is the | cardinal's | doing:| the
king-|cardinal,
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That blind | priest, like the eld|est son | of
for||tune,
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Turns | what he list.| The king | will know | him
one^day.
SUFFOLK
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Pray God he do,| he'll nev|er know | himself |
else.
NORFOLK
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How* hol|ily | he works | in all | his bus|iness,
(hex with prev)
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And with what zeal?| For now | he has cracked |
the league
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Between | us and the | emperor |(the | queen's
great*| nephew)
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He dives | into the | king's soul, and there |
scatters
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Dangers,| doubts, wring/ing of | the con|science,
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Fears, and | despairs,| and all | these for his |
marriage.
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And out | of all | these, to | restore | the king,
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He couns|els a | divorce,| a loss | of her
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That like | a jewel,| has hung | twenty | years
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A||bout his | neck, yet | never | lost her |
luster;
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Of her | that loves | him with | that ex|cellence,
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That ang|els love | good* men | with: even | of
her,
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That when | the great|est stroke | of for|tune
falls
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Will bless | the king:| and is not | this course
| pious?
CHAMBERLAIN
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Heaven keep / me from | such^couns|el: 'Tis /
most true
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These news | are eve|rywhere,|*every tongue |
speaks 'em, ??
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And eve|ry true | heart weeps / for it.| All* that
dare
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Look^in|to these | affairs,| see this | main^end,
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The French king's sis|ter. Heaven | will one |
day^open
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The king's | eyes, that | so* long | have slept |
upon
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This^bold bad man.
SUFFOLK
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And free | us from his | slavery.
NORFOLK
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We had need | pray,
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And | heartily,| for our |
deliv||erance;
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Or | this imper|ious man | will work | us all
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From prin|ces in|to pag|es: all | men's^honors
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Lie like one | lump be|fore him,| to be
fash||ioned
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In|to what pitch | he please.
SUFFOLK
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For me,| my lords,
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I love | him not,| nor fear | him, there's | my
creed:
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As I | am made | without | him, so | I'll stand,
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If the king | please: his | curses | and his |
blessings
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Touch me | alike:| they're* breath | I not
| believe in.
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I knew | him, and I | know him:| so I | leave him
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To him | that made | him proud;| the pope.
NORFOLK
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Let's in;
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And with | some^oth|er bus|iness, put | the king
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From these^sad | thoughts, that | work too | much
u|pon him:
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My lord,| you'll bear us | compa|ny?
CHAMBERLAIN
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Ex|cuse me,
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The king | has sent | me oth|erwhere:| besides
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You'll find | a most | unfit | time to dis|turb
him:
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Health to your | lordships.
NORFOLK
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Thanks my | good lord*| chamberlain.
[Exit Chamberlain; and KING HENRY VIII draws the curtain, and sits reading]
SUFFOLK
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How sad | he looks;| sure he is | much
af|flicted.
KING HENRY VIII
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Who's there?| Ha?
NORFOLK
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Pray God | he be | not^an||gry.
KING HENRY VIII
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Who's^there | I say?| How* dare | you thrust |
yourselves
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Into | my priv|ate med|ita|tions?
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Who am | I? Ha? \\
NORFOLK
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A gra|cious king,| that pard|ons all | offenses
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Malice | nere* meant:| our breach | of du|ty
this way ??
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Is bus|iness of | estate;| in which,| we come
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To know | your roy|al pleas|ure.
KING HENRY VIII
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Ye are / too bold:
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Go to;| I'll make | ye know | your times | of
bus||iness:
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Is | this an hour | for temp|oral af/fairs? Ha?
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Who's^there?| My good | lord^card/inal? O my |
Wolsey, ??
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The qui|et of | my wound|ed con|science;
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Thou art | a cure | fit for a | king: you're |
welcome
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Most^learn|ed reve|rend sir,| into our | kingdom,
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Use^us,| and it:| my good | lord, have* great
care, ??
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I be not | found a | talker.
[Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY and CARDINAL CAMPEIUS, with a commission]
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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Sir, you | cannot;
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I would | your grace | would give | us but | an
hour
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Of priv|ate conf|erence.
KING HENRY VIII
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We | are bu|sy; go.
NORFOLK
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This priest | has no | pride in him?
SUFFOLK [Aside to NORFOLK]
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Not to | speak of:
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I would / not be | so sick though | for his
place:
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But this | cannot | contin|ue.
NORFOLK[Aside to SUFFOLK]
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If | it do,
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I'll vent|ure one;| have^at him.
SUFFOLK [Aside to NORFOLK]
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I a|nother.
[Exeunt NORFOLK and SUFFOLK]
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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Your grace | has given | a pre|cedent | of
wis||dom
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Above | all prin/ces, in com|mitting | freely
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Your scrup|le to | the voice | of Christ|endom:
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Who can be | angry | now? What^|envy | reach you?
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The Span|iard tied | by blood | and fav|or to
her,
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Must^now | confess,| if they have | any |
goodness,
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The tri|al, just | and nob|le. All | the clerks,
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(I mean | the learned | ones in | Christian |
kingdoms)
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Have^their / free voi|ces. Rome |(the nurse | of
judg||ment)
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Invit|ed by | your nob|le self,| hath sent
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One^gene|ral tongue | unto | us. This / good man,
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This just | and learn|ed priest,| Cardinal |
Campeius,
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Whom once | more, I | present | unto your |
highness.
KING HENRY VIII
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And once | more in mine^|arms I | bid him |
welcome,
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And thank | the ho|ly con|clave for | their
loves,
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They have sent | me such | a man,| I would have |
wished for.
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
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Your grace | must^needs | deserve | all*
strang|ers' loves,
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You are / so noble:| To your high|ness' hand
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I tend||er my | commis|sion;| by whose*| virtue*,
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The court | of Rome | command|ing. You | my lord
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Cardinal | of York,| are joined | with me | their
serv||ant,
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In | the unpart|ial judg|ing of this | business.
KING HENRY VIII
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Two equal men:| The queen | shall be ac|quainted
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Forthwith | for what | you come.| Where's
Gard/iner?
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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I know | your maj|esty,| has al|ways loved || her
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So dear | in heart,| not to | deny | her that
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A wom|an of / less place | might^ask | by law;
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Scholars | allowed | freely to | argue | for her.
KING HENRY VIII
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Aye, and the | best she | shall have;/ and my |
favor
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To him | that does^/best, God | forbid^else:|
Cardinal, ??
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Prithee | call Gard/iner | to me,| my new ||
secre|tary.
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I find | him a fit | fellow.
[Exit CARDINAL WOLSEY. Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY with GARDINER]
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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Give me your | hand: much joy | and fav|or to ||
you;
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You | are the king's | now.
GARDINER
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But | to be com|manded
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For ev|er by | your grace,| whose^hand | has
raised || me.
KING HENRY VIII
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Come | hither | Gardi|ner.|
[Walks and whispers]
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
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My Lord | of York,| was^not | one^Doc|tor Pace
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In this man's place | before | him?
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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Yes,| he was.
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
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Was he not | held a | learned man?
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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Yes | surely.
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
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Believe | me, there's an | ill o|pinion | spread
then*,
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Even of your|self lord card|inal.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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How?| Of me?
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
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They will / not stick | to say,| you env|ied him;
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And fear|ing he | would rise |(he was so |
virtuous)
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Kept him a | foreign | man still,| which so | grieved him;
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That he / ran mad,| and died.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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Heaven's | peace be | with him: (tri with prev)
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That's Chris|tian care | enough:| for liv|ing
mur||murers,
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There's | places | of rebuke.| He was | a fool;
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For he would | needs be | virtuous.| That good |
fellow,
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If I com|mand him | follows | my ap|pointment,
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I will have | none so | near^else.| Learn this |
brother,
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We live | not to be | griped by | meaner |
persons.
KING HENRY VIII
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Deliv|er this | with mod|esty | to the queen.
[Exit GARDINER]
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The most | conven|ient place,| that I | can think
|| of
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For such | receipt | of learn|ing, is /
Black-Friars:
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There ye shall | meet a|bout this | weighty |
business.
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My Wol|sey, see | it furn|ished, O | my lord,
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Would it not grieve | an ab|le man | to leave
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So* sweet | a bed|fellow? But | conscience,|
conscience;
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O 'tis a | tender | place, and | I must | leave her.
[Exeunt]