The daughter of a King; my drops of tears
I'll turn to fparks of fire.

you

Wol. Be patient yet
Queen. I will, when are humble: nay, before.
Induc'd by potent circumstances, that wo
You are mine enemy, and make my challenge,
You fhall not be my judge. (6) For it is you
Have blown this coal betwixt my Lord and me,
Which God's dew quench! therefore I fay again,
I utterly abhor, yea, from my foul

Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once more
I hold my moft malicious foe, and think not
At all a friend to truth.

Wol. I do profefs,

You speak not like yourfelf; who ever yet
Have stood to charity, and difplay'd th' effects
Of difpofition gentle, and of wildom

O'er-topping woman's power.

me.

Madam, you wrong

I have no fpleen against you, nor injuftice
For you, or any; how far I've proceeded,
Or how far further fhall, is warranted
By a Commiffion from the Confiftory,

Yea, the whole Confiftory of Rome. You charge me,
That I have blown this coal; I do deny it,

The King is prefent; if 't be known to him
That I gainfay my deed, how may he wound,

And worthily, my falfhood? yea, as much joydasiy of
you have done my truth. But if he know
That I am free of your report, he knows,

As

I am not of your wrong.

Therefore in him

It lies to cure me, and the cure is to

Remove these thoughts from you. The which before His Highness fhall fpeak in, I do befeech

(6)

-and make

my

challenge,

You fball not be my judge.] Challenge is here a verbum jaris, a law term. The criminal, when he refufes a juryman, fays, I challenge him. I think there is a flight errour which destroys the connection, and would read,

Induc'd by potent circumftances, that

You are mine enemy, I make my challenge.
-You fball not be my judge.

You,

You, gracious Madam, to unthink your speaking;
And to fay fo no more.

Queen. My Lord, my Lord,

I am a fimple woman, much too weakond oldi T'oppose your cunning. You are meek and humblemouth'd;

You fign your place and calling, (7) in full feeming,
With meekness and humility; but your heart
Is cramm'd with arrogancy, fpleen and pride.
You have by fortune, and his Highness' favours,
Gone flightly o'er low fteps; and now are mounted,
Where Pow'rs are your retainers; and your words,
Domesticks to you, ferve your will; (8) as't pleases
Yourself pronounce their office. I must tell you, 201
You tender more your perfon's honour, than
Your high profeffion fpiritual; that again

I do refuse you for my judge; and here, on
Before you all, appeal unto the Pope,

To bring my whole caufe 'fore his Holinefs;
And to be judg'd by him.den spe

[She curt' fies to the King, and offers to depart.
Cam. The Queen is obftinate, No
Stubborn to juftice, apt t'accufe it, and
Difdainful to be try'd by't; 'tis not well.
She's going awayddornalens/who?

King. Call her again. Woodindgat

Crier. Catharine, Queen of England, come into the
Court.

Uber. Madam, you are call'd back. olgunoh vas bild
Queen. What need you note it? Pray you keep your

:way.

(7) You fign your place and calling,-] Sign, for anfwer.

Breader me

WARBURTON. I think, to fign mult here be to bew, to denote. By your outward meeknefs and humility you bew that you are of an holy order, but, &c.

(8) -now are mounted, Where Poors are your retainers; and your words, Domesticks to you, ferve your will,] You have now got power at your beck, following in your retinue; and words therefore are degraded to the fervile state of performing any office which you hall give them. In humbler and more common terms; Having now got power you do not regard your VOL, VII.

I

word.

When

When you are call'd, return.Now the Lord help, They vex me past my patience !-Pray you, pafs on. I will not tarry; no, nor ever more

Upon this bufinefs my appearance make sigata mal In any of their Courts. A Logalando quoy stoqgo"T [Exeunt Queen and ber Attendants.

SCENE VII. Hiv bradero al

King. Go thy ways, Kate;

That man i'th' world who fhall report he has STU
A better wife, let him in nought be trusted, solonelī
For fpeaking falfe in that. Thou art alone,quoy
If thy rare qualities, fweet gentlenefs, non bast HoY
Thy meeknefs faint-like, wife-like government, dusol
Obeying in commanding, and thy parts

Sov'reign and pious elfe, could fpeak thee out, (9)
The Queen of earthly Queens. She's noble born;
And, like her true nobility, fhe has the basi
Carried herself tow'rds me.

Wol. Moft gracious Sir,

In humbleft manner I require your Highnefs, gr
That it shall pleafe you to declare, in hearing
Of all these ears, (for where I'm robb'd and bound,
There must I be unloos'd, although not there
At once, and fully fatisfy'd) (1) if I

Did broach this bufinefs to your Highness, or
Laid any fcruple in your way, which might

(9)-could speak thee out,] If thy feveral qualities had tongues to speak thy praise.

(1)—although not there

AT ONCE, and fully satisfy'd) _____

What he aims at is

this; where I am robbed and bound, there muft I be unloofed, though the injurers be not there to make me fatisfaction: as much as to fay, I owe fo much to my own innocence, as to clear up my character, tho' I do not expect my wrongers' will do me juftice. It seems then that Shakespeare wrote ATON'D, and fully fatisfyd.

WARBURTON.

I do not fee what is gained by this alteration. The sense, which is incumbered with words in either reading, is no more than this. I must be loofed, though when fo loofed I fhall not be fatisfy'd fully and at once; that is, I fhall not be immediately fatisfied.

Induce you to the question on't, or ever to moted
Have to you, but with thanks to God for fuch
A royal lady, fpake one the leaft word,
That might be prejudice of her present state,
Or touch of her good perfon?

King. My Lord Cardinal, o

I do excufe you; yea, upon mine honour,

HOW

1 free you from't. You are not to be taught, on
That you have many enemies, that know note on of
Why they are fo; but, like the village curs, swaged T
Bark when their fellows do; by fome of these
The Queen is put in anger. Y'are excus'd;
But will you be more juftify'd? you ever
Have with'd the fleeping of this business, never
Defir'd it to be ftirr'd, but oft have hindred b
The paffages made tow'rds it. On my honour,
I fpeak my good Lord Cardinal to this point; (2)!)
And thus far clear him. Now, what mov'd me to't-
I will be bold with time and your attention. T
Then mark th' inducement. Thus it came give
heed to t
jeugos a radijastung we
My conscience first receiv'd a tenderness,ifier of 1931
Scruple, and prick, (3) on certain fpeeches utter'd
By th' bishop of Bayon, then French ambassadore yü
Who had been hither fent on the debating 210bed but
A marriage 'twixt the Duke of Orleansland

by deW Our daughter Mary; Ith' progrefs of this business, Ere a determinate refolution, he

(I mean the bishop) did require a refpite;
Wherein he might the King his Lord advertise,
Whether our daughter were legitimate,
Refpecting this our marriage with the Dowager,
Sometime our brother's wife. This refpite hook

(2)

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on my Honour,

só

Speak my good Lord Cardinal to this Point ;] The King, having firft addreffed to Wolfey, breaks off and declares upon his Honour to the whole Court, that he speaks the Cardinal's, Sentiments upon the Point in queftion; and clears him from any Attempt, or Wifh, to ftir that Bufinefs. THEOBALD.

Prick of confcience was the term in

(3) Scruple, and prick,] P

confeffion.

The bofom of my confcience, (4) enter'd me, et
Yea, with a fplitting power, and made to tremble
The region of my breaft; which forc'd fuch way,
That many, maz'd confiderings did throng,

And preft in with this caution. First, methought,
I ftood not in the fmile of heav'n, which had
Commanded nature, that my Lady's womb,
If it conceiv'd a male child by me, should
Do no more offices of life to't, than

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The grave does to the dead; for her male-iffue
Or died where they were made, or shortly after
This world had air'd them. Hence I took a thought,
This was a judgment on me, that my kingdom,
Well worthy the best heir o'th' world, should not
Be gladded in't by me. Then follows, that
I weigh'd the danger which my realms stood in
By this my
iffue's fail; and that gave to me
Many a groaning throe. Thus hulling in
The wild fea (5) of my confcience, I did steer
Towards this remedy, whereupon we are
Now present here together: that's to say,
I meant to rectify my confcience, which
I then did feel full fick, and yet not well,
By all the rev'rend fathers of the land
And doctors learn'd. First, I began in private
With you, my Lord of Lincoln; you remember,
How under my oppreflion I did reek,

When I first mov'd you.

Lin. Very well, my Liege.

(4) The Bofom of m of my Confcience,] Tho this Reading be Senfe, yet, I verily believe the poet wrote;.

The Bottom of my Confcience, Shakespeare in all his historical Plays, was a moft diligent Obferver of Holling bead's Chronical. Now Holling bead, in the Speech which he has given to King Henry upon this Subject, makes him deliver himself thus: "Which Words, once conceiv'd within the fecret Bottom of my Confcience, ingendred fuch a fcrupulous Doubt, that my Confcience was incontinently accombered, vex'd, and dif"quieted." Vid. Life of Henry VIII. p. 907. THEOBALD.

(5) -bulling in

The wild fea] That is Floating without guidance, tost here and there.