For goodness' sake, consider what you do;
How you may hurt yourself, ay, utterly
Grow from the king's

carriage.

acquaintance, by this

The hearts of princes kiss obedience,

So much they love it; but to stubborn spirits
They swell, and grow as terrible as storms.
I know you have a gentle, noble temper,
A soul as even as a calm: pray, think us
Those we profess, peace-makers, friends, and

servants.

Cam. Madam, you'll find it so.

your virtues

You wrong

With these weak women's fears. A noble spirit, As yours was put into you, ever casts

Such doubts, as false coin, from it. The king loves you;

Beware you lose it not: for us, if you please
To trust us in your business, we are ready
To use our utmost studies in your service.

2. Kath. Do what ye will, my lords: and, pray, forgive me,

If I have used myself unmannerly;

You know I am a woman, lacking wit

To make a seemly answer to such persons.

Pray, do my service to his majesty :

He has my heart yet; and shall have my prayers, While I shall have my life.

fathers,

Come, reverend

Bestow your counsels on me : she now begs, That little thought, when she set footing here, She should have bought her dignities so dear.

[Exeunt.

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 force them with a constancy, the cardinal
Cannot stand under them: if you omit
The offer of this time, I cannot promise

But that you shall sustain more new disgraces,
With these you bear already.

Sur.
I am joyful
To meet the least occasion that may give me
Remembrance of my father-in-law, the duke,
To be revenged on him.

Suf.
Which of the peers
Have uncontemn'd gone by him, or at least
Strangely neglected? when did he regard
The stamp of nobleness in any person,
Out of himself?

Cham. My lords, 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

Anything on him; for he hath a witchcraft
Over the king in his tongue.

Nor.

O, fear him not;

His spell in that is out; the king hath found
Matter against him, that for ever mars
The honey of his language. No, he's settled,
Not to come off, in his displeasure.

Sur.

Sir,

I should be glad to hear such news as this

Once every hour.

Nor.

Believe it, this is true:

In the divorce, his contrary proceedings
Are all unfolded; wherein he appears,
As I would wish mine enemy.

Sur.

His practices to light?

Suf.

Sur.

How came

Suf. The cardinal's letter to the pope mis

carried,

And came to the eye o' the king: wherein was

read,

How that the cardinal did entreat his holiness
To stay the judgment o' the divorce: for if
It did take place, I do, quoth he, perceive
My king is tangled in affection to

A creature of the queen's, lady Anne Bullen.
Sur. Has the king this?

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 physic
After his patient's death; the king already
Hath married the fair lady.

Marry, this is yet but young, and may be left
To some ears unrecounted.-But, my lords,
She is a gallant creature, and complete

In mind and feature: I persuade me,

from her Will fall some blessing to this land, which shall In it be memorized.

There be more wasps that buzz about his nose, Will make this sting the sooner. Cardinal Campeius

and

Is stolen away to Rome; hath ta'en no leave;
Has left the cause of the king unhandled;
Is posted, as the agent of our cardinal,
To second all his plot. I do assure you,
The king cried Ha! at this.

Suf. He is return'd, in his opinions; which
Have satisfied the king for his divorce,
Together with all famous colleges
Almost in Christendom: shortly, I believe,
His second marriage shall be publish'd, and
Her coronation. Katharine no more
Shall be call'd queen; but princess dowager,
And widow to prince Arthur.

Nor.

This same Cranmer's A worthy fellow, and hath ta'en much pain In the king's business.

Suf.

He has; and we shall see him,

For it, an archbishop.

Observe, observe, he's moody.

Wol. The packet, Cromwell, gave it you the

king?

Crom. To his own hand, in his bedchamber. Wol. Look'd he o' the inside of the paper?

Crom. Presently He did unseal them and the first he view'd.

::

He did it with a serious mind; a heed
Was in his countenance. You, he bade
Attend him here this morning.

Wol.

To come abroad?

Is he ready

I think, by this he is.

Crom.

Wol. Leave me awhile.

[Exit CROMWELL. [Aside.] It shall be to the duchess of Alençon, The French King's sister: he shall marry her.Anne Bullen! No; I'll no Anne Bullen 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 Pembroke !

Lord, for thy justice!

May be, he hears the king

Sharp enough,

Wol. [aside.] The late queen's gentlewoman; a knight's daughter,

To be her mistress' mistress! the queen's queen!— This candle burns not clear; 'tis I must snuff it;