K. Hen. I doubt not that; since we are well persuaded We carry not a heart with us from hence That grows not in a fair consent with ours, Cam. Never was monarch better fear'd and Than is your majesty: there's not, I think, a subject That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness Under the sweet shade of your government. Grey. True: those that were your father's enemies Have steep'd their galls in honey, and do serve you With hearts create of duty and of zeal. K. Hen. We therefore have great cause of thankfulness; And shall forget the office of our hand, Sooner than quittance of desert and merit Scroop. So service shall with steeled sinews toil, K. Hen. We judge no less. Uncle of Exeter, That rail'd against our person: we consider Scroop. That's mercy, but too much security: 22. consent, accord. 33. office, use. 20 30 40 43. his more advice, his think. ing better of it. Cam. So may your highness, and yet punish too. Grey. Sir, You show great mercy, if you give him life, After the taste of much correction. K. Hen. Alas, your too much love and care of me Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch ! If little faults, proceeding on distemper, Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd and di gested, Appear before us? We'll yet enlarge that man, Though Cambridge, Scroop and Grey, in their dear care And tender preservation of our person, Would have him punish'd. And now to our Who are the late commissioners? Cam. I one, my lord: Your highness bade me ask for it to-day. Scroop. So did you me, my liege. Grey. And I, my royal sovereign. K. Hen. Then, Richard Earl of Cambridge, there is yours; There yours, Lord Scroop of Masham; and, sir knight, Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours: Read them; and know, I know your worthiness. What see you in those papers that you lose 54. proceeding on distemper, proceeding from a mental disturbance due to a physical cause. 61. late, lately appointed. 63. it, viz. his commission. 50 60 70 So much complexion? Look ye, how they change! That hath so cowarded and chased your blood Cam. I do confess my fault; And do submit me to your highness' mercy. } Grey. To which we all appeal. K. Hen. The mercy that was quick in us but By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd: You know how apt our love was to accord But, O, What shall I say to thee, Lord Scroop? thou cruel, Ingrateful, savage and inhuman creature! Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels, Could out of thee extract one spark of evil 90. practices, plots. 91. Hampton, Southampton. 80 90 100 That might annoy my finger? 'tis so strange, With patches, colours, and with forms being fetch'd From glistering semblances of piety; But he that temper'd thee bade thee stand up, treason, Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor. If that same demon that hath gull'd thee thus Show men dutiful? Why, so didst thou: seem they grave and learned ? 103. stands off, stands out. 108. That admiration, etc., that wonder did not cry out at them; they excited no surprise. 114. suggest, tempt. 119. instance, ground. Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger, Another fall of man. Their faults are open: Arrest them to the answer of the law; Exe. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Richard Earl of Cambridge. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Henry Lord Scroop of Masham. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland. Scroop. Our purposes God justly hath discover'd; And I repent my fault more than my death; Which I beseech your highness to forgive, Although my body pay the price of it. Cam. For me, the gold of France did not seduce; Although I did admit it as a motive The sooner to effect what I intended: 133. blood, impulse of passion. 134. compiement, outward demeanour, manners. 135. Not working with the eye without the ear, not judging by the looks of men without having had intercourse with them. 137. bolted, sifted, purified from dross. 139. mark the, Theobald's correction for Ff make thee.' 140 150 |