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Whilft WOLSEY, leaning on his Throne of State,
Through this unhappy Change forefees bis Fate;
Contemplates wifely on worldly Things,
The Cheat of Grandeur, and the Faith of Kings.

The King arrives at Graf

ton with Anna Bulleyn, and the two Cardinals fol

The King was now upon a Tour into the Country, accompanied by his most loveby She. Being arrived at Grafton in Northamptonshire, the two Cardinals foon followed the Court, when it quickly appeared the Scene was changed;* for here they found a very cold Reception, tho' fome Marks of Diftinction were fhewn to Campeius as a Stranger,

* Shakespear has finely touched these Matters.

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Enter Duke of Norfolk, Duke of Suffolk, Lord Surry, and Lord Chamberlain,

Nor. If you will now unite in your Complaints, And force them with a Conftancy, the Cardinal Cannot stand under them: If you omit

The Offer of this Time, I cannot promise

But that you fhall fuftain more new Difgraces,
With these you bear already.

Sur. I am joyful

To meet the leaft Occafion that may give me
Remembrance of my Father-in-law, the Duke,
To be reveng'd on him.

Suff. 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 Perfon
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 (tho' now the Time
Gives way to us) I much fear. If you cannot
Bar his Accefs to th' King, never attempt
Any thing on him; for he hath a Witchcraft
Over the King in's Tongue.

Nor. O fear him not,

His Spell in that is out; the King hath found
Matter against him that for ever mars

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and a Perfon of publick Character: But the Cardinal of England, after he had waited on his Brother Legate to his Apartment, thinking to go directly to his own, was told by one of the Officers, That no Provifion for his Reception had been made in the Court: At which he was much furprized, having never been treated near the King's Perfon with any fuch Neglect before. However, as the King's Difpleasure against the Cardinal was not then publickly known, but only whispered about, Sir John Norris, in a very obliging Manner, made him an Offer of his own Lodgings, till fome other Provifion could be made, which

The Honey of his Language. No, he's fettled,
Not to come off in his molt high Displeasure.
Sur. I fhould be glad to hear fuch 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 with mine Enemy.

Sur. How came

His Practices to light?

Suff. Moft ftrangely.

Sur. How?

Suff. The Cardinal's Letters to the Pope mifcarried,
And came to th' Eye o'th' King; wherein was read,
How that the Cardinal did intreat his Holiness

To ftay the Judgment o'th' 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 Anna Bulleyn.
Sur. Has the King this?

Suff. Believe it.

Sur. Will this work?

Cham. The King in this perceives him, how he coafts

And hedges his own Way. But in this Point

All his Tricks founder; and he brings his Phyfick

After his Patient's Death; the King already

Hath married the fair Lady.

Sur. Would he had!

Suff. May you be happy in your Wish, my Lord,

For I profefs you have it.

Sur. Now all Joy

Trace the Conjunction,

Suff.

Wolfey is

received graciously.

which the Cardinal accepted of. When he came afterwards into the King's Prefence, he received him graciously, to the utmost Mortification of many Lords, who had been foolish enough to lay Wagers, That the King would not speak to him. Yet thefe Legates dined not with the King, who could not be fpared from spending that Time with Anna Bulleyn in her own Chamber; and our Author fays, "They were thought innocent Free"doms at that Time," which would be difficult to

Suff. My Amen to't.
Nor. All Men's.

Suff. There's Order given for her Coronation:
Marry this is but young, and may be left
To fome Ears unrecounted. But, my Lords,
She is a gallant Creature, and compleat

In Mind and Feature. I perfuade me from her
Will fall fome Bleffing to this Land, * which shall
In it be memoriz'd.

Sur. But will the King

Digeft this Letter of the Cardinal's ?

The Lord forbid!

Nor. Marry, Amen.

Suff. No, no:

There be more Wafps that buz about his Nose,
Will make this fting the fooner. Cardinal Campeius
Is ftol'n away to Rome, has ta'en no Leave, and
Hath left th' Caufe t'th' King unhandled,

Is pofted as the Agent of our Cardinal,
To fecond all his Plot. I do affure you,

The King cry'd Ha! at this.

Cham. Now God incenfe him ; And let him cry, Ha! louder, Nor. But my Lord,

When returns Cranmer ?

Suff. He is return'd with his Opinions, Which have fatisfied the King for his Divorce, Gather'd from all the famous Colleges

Almoft in Christendom: Soon, I believe,

His fecond Marriage fhall be publish'd, and

Her Coronation. Katherine no more

Shall be call'd Queen, but Princess Dowager,

A Widow to Prince Arthur.

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Nor.

*This Speech feems to be fuited to the Time the Author lived in

Queen Elizabeth's.

reconcile with the ftrict Maxims of Behaviour, that obtain among young Ladies of the firft Diftinction at present.

Cavendish relates the Manner of that Lady's Behaviour at Dinner with his Majefty in Terms fignificant enough, to whom we fhall refer.

Cardinal Wolfey, after Dinner, waited on the King, who received him with feeming Pleafure, had a long ferious Difcourfe with him, and then, taking him by the Hand, led him into the Privy Chamber, where

Nor. This fame Cranmer's

A worthy Fellow, and hath ta'en much Pain
In the King's Bufinefs.

Suff. He has, and we fhall fee him

For it an Archbishop.

Nor. So I hear.

Suff. 'Tis fo.

The Cardinal.

Enter Wolfey and Cromwell.

Nor. Obferve, obferve, he's moody.

Wolf. The Packet, Cromwell!

Gave it you the King?

Cromw. To his own Hand, in's Bed-chamber,
Wolf. Look'd he o'th' Infide of the Paper?
Cromw. Prefently

He did unfeal them, and the first he view'd,
He did it with a ferious Mind; a Heed
Was in his Countenance. You he bad
Attend him here this Morning,

Wol. Is he ready to come Abroad?
Cromw. I think by this he is.
Wolf. Leave me a while.

It fhall be to the Dutchess of Alençon,

The French King's Sifter; he fhall marry her.

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[Exit Cromwell,

[Afide.

Anne Bulleyn! -No, I'll no Anne Bulleyn's for him,

There's more in't than fair Vifage

Bulleyn!

No, we'll no Bulleyn's!fpeedily I wish

To hear from Rome,- the Marchiones of Pembroke !

Nor. He's difcontented.

Suff. May be he hears the King

Does whet his Anger to him.

Sur. Sharp enough,

Lord, for thy Justice!

Wolf

he was for a confiderable Time alone with him; upon which his Enemies were under great Uneaft nefs, left they fhould miscarry in their Defigns of ruining him with his Mafter. What paffed between the King and the Cardinal does not appear: But after all his Majefty was determined to difgrace his Minifter, at the Requeft of his Favourite, and his other Enemies about the Court; though it is faid, the King had Conflicts within himself, before he could be firmly fixed in his Resolution of facrificing an old and faithful Ser

Wolf. [Afide.] The late Queen's Gentlewoman, a Knight's

Daughter!

To be her Miftrefs's Miftrefs! the Queen's Queen!

This Candle burns not clear, 'tis I muft fnuff it,

Then out it goes..

What tho' I know her virtuous,

And well-deferving; yet I know her for

A fpleeny Lutheran, and not wholefome to

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Our Caufe!--that she should lie i'th' Bofom of
Our hard-rul'd King! Again, there is fprung up
An Heretick, an arch one, Cranmer, one
Hath crawl'd into the Favour of the King,

And is his Oracle.

Nor. He's vex'd at fomething.

Enter King, reading of a Schedule,

Sur. I would 'twere fomething that would fret the String, The Mafter-cord of's Heart.

Suff. The King! the King!

King. What Piles of Wealth hath he accumulated †

To his own Portion! what Expence by th' Hour

Seems to flow from him! how in the Name of Thrift
Does he rake this together! Now, my Lords,
Saw you the Cardinal?

Nor. My Lord, we have

Stood here obferving him. Some ftrange Commction
Is in his Brain; he bites his Lips and starts,
Stops on a fudden, looks upon the Ground,
Then lays his Finger on his Temple ; ftrait
Springs out into faft Gate, then stops again,
Strikes his Breaft hard, and then anon he cafts
His Eye against the Moon; in moit ftrange Poftures
We've seen him fet himfelf.

* This also looks like temporizing.

+ Great indeed! but for whofe Ufe the Sequel fl.ews.

King

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