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ACT V SCENE I | London. A gallery in the palace. | |
[ Enter GARDINER, Bishop of Winchester, a Page with a torch before him, met by LOVELL ] | ||
GARDINER | It's one o'clock, boy, is't not? | |
Boy | It hath struck. | |
GARDINER | These should be hours for necessities, | |
Not for delights; times to repair our nature | ||
With comforting repose, and not for us | 5 | |
To waste these times. Good hour of night, Sir Thomas! | ||
Whither so late? | ||
LOVELL | Came you from the king, my lord | |
GARDINER | I did, Sir Thomas: and left him at primero | |
With the Duke of Suffolk. | 10 | |
LOVELL | I must to him too, | |
Before he go to bed. I'll take my leave. | ||
GARDINER | Not yet, Sir Thomas Lovell. What's the matter? | |
It seems you are in haste: an if there be | ||
No great offence belongs to't, give your friend | 15 | |
Some touch of your late business: affairs, that walk, | ||
As they say spirits do, at midnight, have | ||
In them a wilder nature than the business | ||
That seeks dispatch by day. | ||
LOVELL | My lord, I love you; | 20 |
And durst commend a secret to your ear | ||
Much weightier than this work. The queen's in labour, | ||
They say, in great extremity; and fear'd | ||
She'll with the labour end. | ||
GARDINER | The fruit she goes with | 25 |
I pray for heartily, that it may find | ||
Good time, and live: but for the stock, Sir Thomas, | ||
I wish it grubb'd up now. | ||
LOVELL | Methinks I could | |
Cry the amen; and yet my conscience says | 30 | |
She's a good creature, and, sweet lady, does | ||
Deserve our better wishes. | ||
GARDINER | But, sir, sir, | |
Hear me, Sir Thomas: you're a gentleman | ||
Of mine own way; I know you wise, religious; | 35 | |
And, let me tell you, it will ne'er be well, | ||
'Twill not, Sir Thomas Lovell, take't of me, | ||
Till Cranmer, Cromwell, her two hands, and she, | ||
Sleep in their graves. | ||
LOVELL | Now, sir, you speak of two | 40 |
The most remark'd i' the kingdom. As for Cromwell, | ||
Beside that of the jewel house, is made master | ||
O' the rolls, and the king's secretary; further, sir, | ||
Stands in the gap and trade of moe preferments, | ||
With which the time will load him. The archbishop | 45 | |
Is the king's hand and tongue; and who dare speak | ||
One syllable against him? | ||
GARDINER | Yes, yes, Sir Thomas, | |
There are that dare; and I myself have ventured | ||
To speak my mind of him: and indeed this day, | 50 | |
Sir, I may tell it you, I think I have | ||
Incensed the lords o' the council, that he is, | ||
For so I know he is, they know he is, | ||
A most arch heretic, a pestilence | ||
That does infect the land: with which they moved | 55 | |
Have broken with the king; who hath so far | ||
Given ear to our complaint, of his great grace | ||
And princely care foreseeing those fell mischiefs | ||
Our reasons laid before him, hath commanded | ||
To-morrow morning to the council-board | 60 | |
He be convented. He's a rank weed, Sir Thomas, | ||
And we must root him out. From your affairs | ||
I hinder you too long: good night, Sir Thomas. | ||
LOVELL | Many good nights, my lord: I rest your servant. | |
[Exeunt GARDINER and Page] | ||
[Enter KING HENRY VIII and SUFFOLK] | ||
KING HENRY VIII | Charles, I will play no more tonight; | 65 |
My mind's not on't; you are too hard for me. | ||
SUFFOLK | Sir, I did never win of you before. | |
KING HENRY VIII | But little, Charles; | |
Nor shall not, when my fancy's on my play. | ||
Now, Lovell, from the queen what is the news? | 70 | |
LOVELL | I could not personally deliver to her | |
What you commanded me, but by her woman | ||
I sent your message; who return'd her thanks | ||
In the great'st humbleness, and desired your highness | ||
Most heartily to pray for her. | 75 | |
KING HENRY VIII | What say'st thou, ha? | |
To pray for her? what, is she crying out? | ||
LOVELL | So said her woman; and that her sufferance made | |
Almost each pang a death. | ||
KING HENRY VIII | Alas, good lady! | 80 |
SUFFOLK | God safely quit her of her burthen, and | |
With gentle travail, to the gladding of | ||
Your highness with an heir! | ||
KING HENRY VIII | 'Tis midnight, Charles; | |
Prithee, to bed; and in thy prayers remember | 85 | |
The estate of my poor queen. Leave me alone; | ||
For I must think of that which company | ||
Would not be friendly to. | ||
SUFFOLK | I wish your highness | |
A quiet night; and my good mistress will | 90 | |
Remember in my prayers. | ||
KING HENRY VIII | Charles, good night. | |
[Exit SUFFOLK] | ||
[Enter DENNY] | ||
Well, sir, what follows? | ||
DENNY | Sir, I have brought my lord the archbishop, | |
As you commanded me. | 95 | |
KING HENRY VIII | Ha! Canterbury? | |
DENNY | Ay, my good lord. | |
KING HENRY VIII | 'Tis true: where is he, Denny? | |
DENNY | He attends your highness' pleasure. | |
[Exit DENNY] | ||
LOVELL | [Aside] This is about that which the bishop spake: | 100 |
I am happily come hither. | ||
[Re-enter DENNY, with CRANMER] | ||
KING HENRY VIII | Avoid the gallery. | |
[LOVELL seems to stay] | ||
Ha! I have said. Be gone. What! | ||
[Exeunt LOVELL and DENNY] | ||
CRANMER | [Aside] | |
I am fearful: wherefore frowns he thus? | 105 | |
'Tis his aspect of terror. All's not well. | ||
KING HENRY VIII | How now, my lord! you desire to know | |
Wherefore I sent for you. | ||
CRANMER | [Kneeling] It is my duty | |
To attend your highness' pleasure. | 110 | |
KING HENRY VIII | Pray you, arise, | |
My good and gracious Lord of Canterbury. | ||
Come, you and I must walk a turn together; | ||
I have news to tell you: come, come, give me your hand. | ||
Ah, my good lord, I grieve at what I speak, | 115 | |
And am right sorry to repeat what follows | ||
I have, and most unwillingly, of late | ||
Heard many grievous, I do say, my lord, | ||
Grievous complaints of you; which, being consider'd, | ||
Have moved us and our council, that you shall | 120 | |
This morning come before us; where, I know, | ||
You cannot with such freedom purge yourself, | ||
But that, till further trial in those charges | ||
Which will require your answer, you must take | ||
Your patience to you, and be well contented | 125 | |
To make your house our Tower: you a brother of us, | ||
It fits we thus proceed, or else no witness | ||
Would come against you. | ||
CRANMER | [Kneeling] | |
I humbly thank your highness; | 130 | |
And am right glad to catch this good occasion | ||
Most throughly to be winnow'd, where my chaff | ||
And corn shall fly asunder: for, I know, | ||
There's none stands under more calumnious tongues | ||
Than I myself, poor man. | 135 | |
KING HENRY VIII | Stand up, good Canterbury: | |
Thy truth and thy integrity is rooted | ||
In us, thy friend: give me thy hand, stand up: | ||
Prithee, let's walk. Now, by my holidame. | ||
What manner of man are you? My lord, I look'd | 140 | |
You would have given me your petition, that | ||
I should have ta'en some pains to bring together | ||
Yourself and your accusers; and to have heard you, | ||
Without indurance, further. | ||
CRANMER | Most dread liege, | 145 |
The good I stand on is my truth and honesty: | ||
If they shall fail, I, with mine enemies, | ||
Will triumph o'er my person; which I weigh not, | ||
Being of those virtues vacant. I fear nothing | ||
What can be said against me. | 150 | |
KING HENRY VIII | Know you not | |
How your state stands i' the world, with the whole world? | ||
Your enemies are many, and not small; their practises | ||
Must bear the same proportion; and not ever | ||
The justice and the truth o' the question carries | 155 | |
The due o' the verdict with it: at what ease | ||
Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt | ||
To swear against you? such things have been done. | ||
You are potently opposed; and with a malice | ||
Of as great size. Ween you of better luck, | 160 | |
I mean, in perjured witness, than your master, | ||
Whose minister you are, whiles here he lived | ||
Upon this naughty earth? Go to, go to; | ||
You take a precipice for no leap of danger, | ||
And woo your own destruction. | 165 | |
CRANMER | God and your majesty | |
Protect mine innocence, or I fall into | ||
The trap is laid for me! | ||
KING HENRY VIII | Be of good cheer; | |
They shall no more prevail than we give way to. | 170 | |
Keep comfort to you; and this morning see | ||
You do appear before them: if they shall chance, | ||
In charging you with matters, to commit you, | ||
The best persuasions to the contrary | ||
Fail not to use, and with what vehemency | 175 | |
The occasion shall instruct you: if entreaties | ||
Will render you no remedy, this ring | ||
Deliver them, and your appeal to us | ||
There make before them. Look, the good man weeps! | ||
He's honest, on mine honour. God's blest mother! | 180 | |
I swear he is true--hearted; and a soul | ||
None better in my kingdom. Get you gone, | ||
And do as I have bid you. |
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