32 Could speake this with as free a Soule as I doe! Aboue a number,) if my actions Were tri'de by eu'ry tongue, eu'ry eye saw 'em, I know my life so euen. Out with it boldly!. 36 Card. [Wol.] Tanta est erga te mentis integritas, Regina serenissima, 41 How you stand minded in the waighty difference Camp. Most honour'd Madam, His Seruice and his Counsell. 60 64 "To betray me," Katharine murmurs. Then she addresses the Cardinals (11. 68-80): My Lords, I thanke you both for your good wills; Ye speake like honest men; (pray God, ye proue so!) But how to make ye sodainly an Answere, In such a poynt of weight, so neere mine Honour, (More neere my Life, I feare,) with my weake wit, 72 76 The last fit of my Greatnesse,) good your Graces, Let me haue time and Councell for my Cause. 80 Wol. Madam, you wrong the Kings loue with these feares: Your hopes and friends are infinite. Queen. In England But little for my profit: can you thinke, Lords, 1 your] F2. om. F1, 84 Queene Katharine and the cardinals have com munication chamber [; but at first she required them to speak in her Presence Chamber]. Or be a knowne friend, 'gainst his Highnes pleasure, They that my trust must grow to, liue not heere : 88 [Hol. iii. 908/2/2. Stow, 916.] The cardinals being in the queenes chamber of presence, the gentleman usher aduertised the queene that the cardinals were come to speake with hir. With in hir priuie that she rose vp, &, with a skeine of white thred about hir necke, came into hir chamber of presence, where the cardinals were attending. At whose comming quoth she, "What is your plesure "with me?" "If it please your grace" (quoth cardinall Wolseie) "to go into your priuie chamber, we will shew you the cause of our "comming." "My lord" (quoth she) "if yee haue anie thing to 'saie, speake it openlie before all these folke; for I feare nothing "that yee can saie against me, but that I would all the world "should heare and see it, and therefore speake your mind." Then began the cardinall to speake to hir in Latine. "Naie, good my "lord" (quoth she) “speake to me in English.”1 [Wolsey addressed her in Latin.] [He and Campeggio desired to know her mind in regard to the marriage The queene refuseth to make sudden answer in 80 weightie a matter as the diuorse "Forsooth" (quoth the cardinall) "good madame, if it please 'you, we come both to know your mind how you are disposed to "doo in this matter betweene the king and you, and also to declare "secretlie our opinions and counsell vnto you: which we doo "onelie for verie zeale and obedience we beare vnto your grace." My lord" (quoth she) “I thanke you for your good will; but to "make you answer in your request I cannot so suddenlie, for I was set among my maids at worke, thinking full little of anie such "matter, wherein there needeth a longer deliberation, and a better "head than mine to make answer: for I need counsell in this case ing with her "which toucheth me so neere, & for anie counsell or freendship "that I can find in England, they are not for my profit. What, "thinke you, my lords, will anie Englishman counsell me, or be [: she had just come from work maids]. [She said that no 1 speake to me in English, for I can (I thanke God) both speake and vnderstand English, although I understand some latin.] Stow., om. Hol. Cp. Katharine's words (III. i. 43, 44) : "I am not such a Truant since my comming, could advise her; her "freend to me against the K[ings] pleasure that is his subiect? Englishman Naie, forsooth. And as for my counsell in whom I will put my friends were "trust, they be not here, they be in Spaine in my owne countrie. in Spain.] treated the pity.] 'And, my lords, I am a poore woman, lacking wit, to answer [She en"to anie such noble persons of wisedome as you be, in so weightie cardinals' a matter, therefore I praie you be good to me, poore woman, "destitute of freends here in a forren region," Campeggio responds by offering his counsel (11. 93-97) : Put your maine cause into the King's protection; The object of the Cardinals' mission to Katharine was 96 wished [Hol. iii. 908/1/70. Stow, 916.] to persuade with hir by their (Henry wisdoms, and to aduise hir to surrender the whole matter into the Katharine to leave the settlement of the marriage kings hands by hir owne consent & will, which should be much better to hir honour, than to stand to the triall of law, and thereby question to to be condemned, which should seeme much to hir dishonour. Katharine's anger is roused by this perfidious advice, but, growing calm at last, she says, as the scene ends (11. 181, 182): Come, reuerend Fathers, Bestow your Councels on me! We are not told by Cavendish how Katharine received the legates' proposition. After her appeal,-"I praie you be good to me, poore woman, destitute of freends here in a forren region,”—she added: him.] with the cardinals to her Privy [Hol. iii. 908/2/41. Stow, 917.] "and your counsell also I will be [She retired 'glad to heare." And therewith she tooke the cardinall [Wolsey] by the hand, and led him into hir priuie chamber with the other Chamber.] cardinall, where they tarried a season talking with the queene. Act III. sc. ii.—Norfolk, Suffolk, "Surrey," and the Lord Chamberlain enter. Norfolk says (11. 1-3): If you will now vnite in your Complaints, And force them with a Constancy, the Cardinall Cannot stand vnder them: Suffolk explains how Wolsey has forfeited Henry's favour (11. 30-36): 1 Cavendish says (i. 164) that "we, in the other chamber, might sometime hear the queen speak very loud, but what it was we could not understand." The kings affection and the ladie Anne Bullen. [If Henry were would marry Anne The Cardinals Letters to the Pope miscarried, To stay the Iudgement o'th'Diuorce; for if It did take place, "I do" (quoth he) "perceiue 66 "A Creature of the Queenes, Lady Anne Bullen." 32 36 After a while Wolsey enters and soliloquizes upon his intention of uniting Henry to the Duchess of Alençon,1 for the purpose of preventing the King's marriage to Anne Boleyn (11. 85-101). Soon Henry enters and elicits from Wolsey great professions of loyalty, which the King brings to a close by giving the Cardinal two papers, with these words (11. 201-203): Read o're this ; And after, this [the Letter to the Pope]; and then to Breakfast with [Exit King, frowning vpon the Cardinall: the Nobles Polydore Vergil (688/16) was the original authority for part of my next excerpt, down to the sentence ending, "honor and dignitie." He asserts that, while the lawfulness of Henry's marriage was being debated at Black-Friars, [Hol. iii. 908/2/70.] the cardinall of Yorke was aduised that good will to the king had set his affection vpon a yoong gentlewoman named Anne, the daughter of Sir Thomas Bullen, vicount Rochford, which did wait vpon the queene. This was a [p. 909] great griefe vnto the cardinall, as he that perceiued aforehand, that the king would divorced he marie the said gentlewoman, if the diuorse tooke place. Wherfore he began with all diligence to disappoint that match, which, by reason of the misliking that he had to the woman, he iudged ought to be auoided more than present death. While the matter stood in this state, and that the cause of the queene was to be heard and iudged at Rome, by reason of the appeale which by hir was put in, the cardinall required the pope by letters and secret messengers, that in anie wise he should defer the iudgement of the diuorse, till he might frame the kings mind to his purpose. The secret working and dissimulation of cardinall Wolseie [to hinder the divorce]. Howbeit he went about nothing so secretlie, but that the same The king co came to the kings knowledge, who tooke so high displeasure with such his cloked dissimulation, that he determined to abase his degree, sith as an vnthankefull person he forgot himselfe and ceiveth dis. pleasure against the cardinall [on this account]. 1 An anachronism. See p. 453, n. 2, above. [, 759]. Articles his dutie towards him that had so highlie aduanced him to all honor and dignitie. When the nobles of the realme perceiued the Edw. Hall cardinall to be in displeasure, they began to accuse him of such offenses as they knew might be proued against him, and thereof exhibited they made a booke conteining certeine articles, to which diuerse cardinall of the kings councell set their hands. Before Wolsey entered, Suffolk mentioned (11. 56-60) a circumstance which would be sure to confirm the resentment felt by Henry on discovering the letter to the Pope. When the day came for the Legates' judgment to be delivered, Campeggio thus addressed the Court assembled at Black-Friars : 1 against the [by the nobles]. Campeius to give [Hol. iii. 908/2/57. Stow, 917.] "I will not giue iudgement Cardinall "till I haue made relation to the pope of all our proceedings; refuseth "whose counsell and commandement in this case I will obserue: iudgement. "the case is verie doubtfull, and also the partie defendant will "make no answer here, but dooth rather appeale from vs, suppos"ing that we be not indifferent. Wherfore I will adiourne this "court for this time, according to the order of the court of Rome.” And with that the court was dissolued, and no more doone. This [The Court protracting of the conclusion of the matter, king Henrie tooke solved, and verie displeasantlie. Then cardinall Campeius tooke his leaue of Rome. the king2 and nobilitie, and returned towards Rome. From my last excerpt it appears that Campeggio took leave of Henry before returning to Rome. The Legate's clandestine departure was perhaps inferred by the dramatist from the somewhat misleading expressions used by Foxe, who says (ii. 967/2) that Campeggio 1 On July 23 Campeggio prorogued the Court to October 1, 1529.-Calendar (Hen. VIII.), IV. iii. p. 2589. 2 Campeggio took leave of Henry at Grafton Regis, on September 20, 1529. -Alward to Cromwell (Ellis, I. i. 309). Cavendish, i. 179. The testimony of Alward and Cavendish-both of whom accompanied Wolsey to Grafton-does not differ save in regard to the time of the day when Campeggio and Wolsey took leave of Henry. 3 At the end of the paragraph which contains my quotation, Foxe gives as a reference, "Ex Hallo." Halle (759) records Campeggio's farewell of Henry. was dis Campeggio returned to |