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London. QUEEN KATHARINE's apartments.
[Enter QUEEN KATHARINE and her Women, as at work]
QUEEN KATHARINE
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Take thy lute | wench, \\
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My soul | grows^sad | with troub|les, \\
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Sing, and dis|perse 'em | if thou | canst:
leave^|working.
SONG
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Orpheus | with his | lute made^|trees,
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And the | mountain | tops that | freeze,
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Bow them|selves when | he did | sing.
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To his | music | plants and | flowers
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Ever | sprung; as | sun and | showers,
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There had | made a | lasting | spring.
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Every|thing that | heard him | play,
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Even the | billows | of the | sea,
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Hung their | heads, and | then lay by.
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In sweet mus|ic is | such^art,
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Killing | care and | grief of | heart,
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Fall a|sleep, or | hearing | die.
[Enter a Gentleman]
QUEEN KATHARINE
How now?
GENTLEMAN
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And it please | your grace,| the two | great
card/inals
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Wait in | the pres|ence.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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Would | they speak | with me?
GENTLEMAN
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They willed | me say | so madam.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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Pray their | graces
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To come | near: what can | be their | business
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With me,| a poor weak wom|an, fallen | from
favor?
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I do not | like their | coming;| Now I | think ||
on it,
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They | should be good | men, their af|fairs as |
righteous:
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But all hoods, make | not^monks.
[Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY and CARDINAL CAMPEIUS]
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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Peace to your | highness.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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Your grac|es find | me here | part of a | housewife*, ??
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(I would be | all) a|gainst the | worst may |
happen:
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What are | your pleas|ures with | me, reve|rend
lords?
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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May it please | you nob|le mad|am, to | withdraw
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Into | your priv|ate chamb|er; we | shall give ||
you
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The / full cause | of our com|ing.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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Speak | it here.
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There's noth|ing I | have done | yet of my |
conscience
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Deserves | a corn|er: would / all oth|er women
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Could speak | this with as | free a | soul as | I
do.
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My lords,| I care | not (so | much I am | happy
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Above | a num|ber) if | my ac|tions
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Were tried | by eve|ry tongue,| every^/eye saw 'em,
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Envy and | base o|pinion | set a|gainst 'em,
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I know | my life | so even.| If your | business
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Seek me | out, and | that way / I am | wife in;
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Out with it | boldly:| truth loves^|open |
dealing.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Tanta est erga te mentis integritas, regina serenissima.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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O good my | lord, no Lat|in;
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I am not | such a | truant | since my | coming,
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As not | to know | the lang|uage I have | lived
in:
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A strange tongue makes | my cause | more
strange,| suspi|cious:
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Pray speak in Eng|lish; here | are some | will
thank | you, (hex with prev?)
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If you / speak truth,| for their / poor
mist|ress' sake;
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Believe | me, she has | had much^|wrong.
Lord^|cardinal,
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The will|ingst^sin | I ever | yet com|mitted,
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May be ab|solved in | English.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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Noble | lady,
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I am sor|ry my | integ|rity | should breed,
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(And serv|ice to | his maj|esty | and you)
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So deep | suspi|cion, where / all faith | was
meant;
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We come | not by the | way of | accu|sation,
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To taint | that hon|or eve|ry good^tongue |
blesses,
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Nor to be|tray you | any | way to | sorrow;
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You have too | much good la|dy: but | to know
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How you | stand mind/ed in the | weighty
| difference
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Between | the king | and you,| and to de|liver
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(Like free and honest | men) our | just o|pinions,
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And com|forts to | our cause.
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
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Most^hon|ored mad|am, (tri with
prev)
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My Lord | of York,| out of his | noble | nature,
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Zeal and | obed|ience he / still bore | your
grace.
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Forget|ting (like | a good* man)| your late |
censure ??
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Both of | his truth | and him |(which was | too*
far)
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Offers,| as I | do, in | a sign | of peace,
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His serv|ice, and | his couns|el.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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To be/tray me.
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My lords,| I thank | you both | for your / good
wills,
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Ye speak | like honest | men, (pray*| God ye | prove
so)
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But how | to make | ye sud|denly | an ans||wer
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In such | a point | of weight,| so near | mine
honor,
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(More near | my life | I fear)| with my / weak
wit;
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And to such | men of | gravi|ty and | learning;
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In truth | I know | not. I | was set | at work,
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Among | my maids,| full^little |(God^knows)|
looking
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Either | for such | men, or | such business;
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For her | sake that | I have | been, for | I feel
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The last | fit of my | greatness;| good your |
graces
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Let me | have time | and couns|el for | my cause:
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Alas,| I am a | woman | friendless,| hopeless.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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Madam,| you wrong | the king's | love with |
these^fears,
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Your hopes | and friends | are inf|inite.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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In England, ??
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But little | for my | profit | can you / think
lords,
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That an|y Eng|lishman dare | give me | counsel?
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Or be a | known friend, 'gainst | his high|ness'
plea||sure,
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(Though | he be grown | so des/perate to be |
honest)
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And live | a sub|ject*? Nay | forsooth,| my
friends,
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They that | must weigh^|out my | afflict|ions,
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They that | my trust | must grow | to, live | not^here,
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They are |(as all my | other | comforts)|
far^hence ??
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In mine / own count|ry lords.
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
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I would | your grace
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Would leave | your griefs,| and take | my
counsel.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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How | sir? \\
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
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Put your | main cause / into the | king's
pro|tection,
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He's lov|ing and / most gra|cious. 'Twill | be
much,
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Both for | your hon|or bet|ter, and | your cause:
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For if | the trial | of the law | oretake ye,
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You'll part | away | disgraced.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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He tells | you right||ly.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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Ye tell | me what | ye wish | for both,| my ruin:
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Is this | your Chris|tian counsel?| Out u|pon ye.
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Heaven is a|bove all yet;| there sits a
judge,
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That no | king can | corrupt.
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
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Your rage | mistakes us.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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The more | shame for ye;| holy | men I | thought
ye,
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Upon my | soul two*| reverend | cardinal |
virtues:
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But card|inal sins,| and hollow | hearts I | fear
ye: ??
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Mend 'em for | shame my | lords: Is | this your
| comfort?
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The cord|ial that | ye bring | a wretch|ed
la||dy?
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A wom|an lost | among | ye, laughed | at,
scorned?
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I will | not wish | ye half | my mis|eries,
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I have more | chari|ty. But | say I | warned ye;
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Take^heed,| for heaven's sake, take | heed, lest
at once
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The burd|en of | my sor|rows, fall | upon || ye.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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mad|am, this | is a mere | distrac|tion,
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You turn | the good | we offer,| into |
envy.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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Ye turn | me in|to noth|ing. Woe | upon | ye,
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And all | such^false | profes|sors. Would | you
have | me (hex with prev?)
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(If you have | any | justice,| any | pity,
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If ye be | any | thing but | churchmen's |
habits)
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Put my | sick cause in|to his hands,| that hates
|| me?
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Alas,| has ban|ished me | his bed | alrea||dy,
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His love,| too* long | ago.| I am old | my lords,
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And all | the fel|lowship | I hold | now with him
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Is on|ly my | obed|ience. What | can hap||pen
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To me,| above | this wretch|edness? All | your
stud||ies
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Make | me a curse,| like^this.
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
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Your fears | are worse.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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Have I | lived thus long |(let me speak | myself,
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Since^virtue finds no friends)| a wife, a
true one? ????
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A woman |(I dare | say with|out* vain|glory)
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Never | yet brand|ed with | suspi|cion?
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Have I,| with all | my full | affec|tions
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Still* met | the king?| Loved him |
next^heaven?| Obeyed him?
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Been (out^|of fond|ness) sup|ersti|tious to him?
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Almost | forgot | my prayers | to con/tent him?
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And am I thus rewarded? 'tis not well lords.
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Bring me a | constant | woman | to her | husband,
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One that nere | dreamed a | joy, be|yond his |
pleasure;
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And to | that wom|an (when | she has / done most)
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Yet will I | add an | honor;| a great | patience.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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Madam, you | wander | from the | good we | aim
at.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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My lord,
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I dare | not make | myself | so
guil||ty,
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To / give up | willingly | that nob|le title
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Your mast|er wed | me to:| nothing | but death
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Shall^ere | divorce | my dig|nities.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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Pray* hear || me.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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Would | I had nev|er trod | this Eng|lish earth,
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Or felt | the flat|teries | that grow | upon it:
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Ye have ang|els' fac|es, but / heaven knows |
your hearts.
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What will | become | of me now,| wretched | lady?
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I am the | most un|happy | woman | living.
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Alas (poor wench|es) where | are now | your
for||tunes?
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Ship|wrecked upon a | kingdom,| where no | pity,
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No friend,| no hope,| no kind|red weep | for me?
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Almost | no grave | allowed | me? like | the
li||ly
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That once | was mist/ress of the | field, and |
flourished,
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I'll hang | my head,| and per|ish.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
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If | your grace
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Could but | be brought | to know,| our ends | are
hon|est,
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You'd feel | more* com|fort. why | should we
|(good la|dy) (hex with prev?)
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Upon | what cause | wrong you?| Alas,| our
pla|ces,
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The way | of our | profes|sion is | against | it;
(hex with prev?)
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We are to | cure such^|sorrows,| not to | sow
'em.
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For good|ness' sake,| consid|er what | you do,
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How you | may hurt | yourself:| aye, ut/terly
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Grow from the | king's ac|quaintance,| by this |
carriage.
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The hearts | of prin|ces kiss | obed|ience,
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So much | they love it.| But to | stubborn |
spirits,
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They swell | and grow,| as ter|rible | as storms.
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I know | you have a | gentle,| noble | temper,
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A soul | as ev|en as | a calm;| pray think us,
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Those we pro|fess, peace-mak|ers, friends,| and
serv||ants.
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
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madam | you'll find it | so:
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You | wrong your |
virtues
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With these / weak wom|en's fears.| A nob|le
spirit
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As yours | was, put | into | you, ev|er casts
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Such doubts | as false coin from it.| The king |
loves you,
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Beware | you lose | it not:| for us |(if you
please
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To trust | us in your | business)| we are | ready
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To use | our ut|most^stud|ies, in | your
ser||vice.
QUEEN KATHARINE
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Do | what ye will,| my lords:
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And pray | forgive
|| me;
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If | I have used | myself | unman|nerly,
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You know | I am | a wom|an, lack|ing wit
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To make | a seem|ly ans|wer to such | persons.
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Pray* do | my serv|ice to | his maj|esty:
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He has | my heart | yet, and | shall have | my
prayers
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While I shall | have my | life. Come reve|rend
fath||ers,
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Bestow | your couns|els on | me. She / now begs
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That lit|tle thought | when she | set^foot|ing
here,
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She should | have bought | her dig|nities | so
dear.
[Exeunt]