Nor. One, certes, that promises no element * In fuch a business...

Buck. Pray you, who, my Lord?

Nor. All this was order'd by the goad difcretion Of the right rev'rend Cardinal of York.

Buck. The devil speed him! no man's pye is..

freed

From his ambitious finger What had he
To do in these fierce vanities? I wonder
That fuch a keech + can with his very bulk
Take up the rays o' th' beneficial fun,
And keep it from the earth..

Nor. Yet, furely, Sir,

There's in him stuff that puts him to those ends.
For being not propt by ancestry, whose grace
Chalks fuccessors their way; nor call'd upon
For high feats done to th' crown; neither ally'd
To eminent assistants; but fpider-like

Out of his felf-drawing web; this gives us note
The force of his own merit makes his way;
A gift that Heaven gives for him, which buys-
A place next to the King.

Aber. I cannot tell

What Heav'n hath giv'n him; let some graver eye Pierce into that: but I can see his pride

Peep through each part of him; whence has he

that?

niggard,

If not from hell, the devil is an
Or has giv'n all before; and he begins

A new hell in himself.

Buck. Why the devil,

Upon this French going out, took he upon him,
Without the privity o' th' King, t' appoint
Who should attend him? He makes up the file
Of all the gentry; for the most part fuch,
To whom as great a charge as little honour
He meant to lay upon; and his own letter,

No initiation, no previous practice. Johnson. + A keech is a folid lump or mass. A cake of wax or tallow, tormed in a mould, is called yet in some places a keech.. Johafon.

The honourable board of council out,
Must fetch in him he papers *.

Aber. I do know

Kinsmen of mine, three at the least, that have
By this fo ficken'd their eftates, that never

They shall abound as formerly.

Buck. O, many

Have broke their backs with laying manors on 'em For this great journey. What did this vanity

But minifter communication of

A most poor issue?

Nor. Grievingly, I think,

The peace between the French and us not values The coft that did conclude it.

Buck. Every man,

After the hideous storm that follow'd, was
A thing inspir'd; and not confulting, broke
Into a general prophecy, that this tempeft,
Dafhing the garment of this peace, aboded
The sudden breach on't..

Nor. Which is budded out;

For France hath flaw'd the league, and hath attach'd Our merchants' goods at Bourdeaux.

Aber. Is it therefore

Th' ambassadoris filenc'd?

Nor. Marry is't.

Aber. A proper title of a peace, and purchas'd

At a fuperfluous rate!

Buck. Why, all this business

Our rev'rend Cardinal carried.
Nor. Like it your Grace,

The state takes notice of the private difference
Betwixt you and the Cardinal I advise you,
And take it from a heart that withes tow'rds you
Honour and plenteous safety, that you read
The Cardinal's malice and his potency
Together: to confider further, that

What his high hatred would effect, wants not

* He papers, a verb; his own letter, by his own single authority, and without the concurrence of the council, must fetch in him whom he papers down.: Pape.

A minister in his pow'r. You know his nature,
That he's revengeful; and I know his fword
Hath a sharp edge; it's long, and't may be faid
It reaches far; and where 'twill not extend,
Thither he darts it. Bosom up my counfel,
You'll find it wholesome. Lo, where comes that rock
That I advise your thunning.

SCENE II.

Enter Cardinal Wolfey, the purse borne before him, certain of the guard, and two Secretaries with. papers; the Cardinal in his palfage fixeth his eye on Buckingham, and Buckingham on him, both full of disdain.

Wol The Duke of Buckingham's Surveyor? ha! Where's his examination?

Sec. Here, fo please you.
Wol. Is he in person ready?

Sec. Ay, an't please your Grace.

Wol. Well, we shall then know more;

And Buckingham shall lessen this big look.

[Exeunt Cardiual and his train.

Buck. This butcher's cur is venom-mouth'd, and I : Have not the power to muzzle him; therefore beft Not wake him in his slumber. A beggar's book Out-worths a noble's blood.

Nor. What, are you chaf'd?

Afk God for temp'rance; that's th' appliance only Which your diseale requires.

Buck. I read in's look

Matter against me, and his eye revil'd

Me as his abject object; at this inftant

He bores * me with fome trick. He's gone to th

I'll follow and out-flare him.

Nor. Stay, my Lord;

f

[King3

And let your reason with your choler question
What 'tis you go about. To climb steep hills
Requires flow pace at first. Anger is like

* He stabs or wounds me by fome artifice crfion Johnjon.

A full-hot horfe, who being allo 'd his way,
Self-mettle tires him Not a man in England,
Can advise me like you; be to yourself
As you would to your friend.

Buck. I'll to the King,

And from a mouth of honour quite cry down,
This Ipfwich fellow's insolence; or proclaim
There's diff'rence in no persons.

Nor. Be advis'd;

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot,
That it do finge yourself. We may out-run,
By violent fwiftness, that which we run at,
And lose by over-running; know you not
The fire that mounts the liquor 'till't run o'er,
Seeming t'augment it, wastes it? be advis'd;
I fay again, there is no English foul
More stronger to direct you than yourself,
If with the sap of reason you would quench,.
Or but allay the fire of passion.

Buck. Sir,

I'm thankful to you, and I'll go along

By your prescription; but this top-proud fellow, (Whom from the flow of gall I name not, but From fincere motions) by intelligence

And proofs as clear as founts in July, when
We fee each grain of gravel, I do know
To be corrupt and treasonous.

Nor. Say not treasonous.

Buck. To th' King I'll fay't, and make my vouch

as strong

As shore of rock. Attend. This holy fox,
Or wolf, or both, for he is equal rav'nous
As he is fubtle, and as prone to mischief
As able to perform't; his mind and place
Infecting one another, yea reciprocally,
Only to thew his pomp, as well in France
As here at home, suggests the King our master
To this laft coftly treaty, th' interview
That swallow'd so much treasure, and like a glass
Did break i' th' rinfing.

Nor. 'Faith, and so it did...

Buck. Pray, give me favour, Sir. -This cun

ning Cardinal

The articles o'th' combination drew,
As himself pleas'd, and they were ratify'd,
As he cry'd, let it be to as much end,

:

As give a crutch to th' dead. But our Court-Cardinal
Has done this, and 'tis well; for worthy Wolfey,
Who cannot err, he did it Now this follows,
Which, as I take it, is a kind of puppy
To th' old dam, Treason; Charles the Emperor,
Under pretence to see the Queen his aunt,
(For 'twas indeed his colour, but he came
To whisper Wolfey), here makes a visitation :
His fears were, that the interview betwixt
England and France might, through their amity,
Breed him fome prejudice; for from this league
Peep'd harms that menac'd him. He privily
Deals with our Cardinal, and, as I trow,
Which I do well, for I am sure the Emperor
Paid ere he promis'd, whereby his fuit was granted
Ere it was ask'd. But when the way was made,
And pav'd with gold, the Emp'ror thus defir'd,
That he would please to alter the King's course,
And break the foresaid peace. Let the King know,
As foon he shall by me, that thus the Cardinal
Does buy and fell his honour as he pleases,
And for his own advantage.

Nor. I am forry

To hear this of him; and could wish you were
Something mistaken in't.

Buck No, not a fyllable:

I do pronounce him in that very shape

He hall appear in proof.

SCENE HI.

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Enter Brandon, a Serjeant at Arms before him, and two or three of the Guard.

Bran. Your office, Serjeant; execute it.
Serj. Sir,

My Lord the Duke of Buckingham, and Earl
Of Hertford, Stafford and Northampton, I

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