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That is, But furnish discourse on the poverty of its result. munication in the sense of talk, or discourse, is found so repeatedly in writers of Shakespeare's time, that the passage would hardly have required explanation, if the commentators had not overlooked this meaning of the word, aud Mr. Collier, in adopting "consummation,"-a reading of his annotator,-had not pronounced the old text "little better than nonsense."

b Like it your grace,-] Equivalent to "An it like your grace."

He bores me with some trick: he's gone to the

king; I'll follow, and out-stare him. NORF.

Stay, my lord,

choler question

And let
your reason with your
What 't is you go about: to climb steep hills,
Requires slow pace at first: anger is like
A full-hot horse, who being allow'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 Ipswich fellow's insolence; or proclaim There's difference in no persons.

NORF. Be advis'd; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not,

The fire that mounts the liquor till't run o'er,
In seeming to augment it wastes it? Be advis'd:
I say again, there is no English soul
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 am 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 sincere motions,) by intelligence,
And proofs as clear as founts in Júly, when
We see each grain of gravel, I do know
To be corrupt and treasonous.

NORF.

Say not, treasonous,

BUCK. To the king I'll say 't; and make my vouch as strong

Attend. This holy fox,

As shore of rock.
Or wolf, or both,-for he is equal ravenous
As he is subtle, and as prone to mischief
As able to perform 't; his mind and place
Infecting one another, yea, reciprocally,—
Only to show his pomp as well in France
As here at home, suggests the king our master
To this last costly treaty, the interview,
That swallow'd so much treasure, and like a
glass

Did break i' the rinsing:-*

NORF.

Faith, and so it did. BUCK. Pray, give me favour, sir-this cunning cardinal

The articles o' the combination drew

As himself pleas'd; and they were ratified,
As he cried, Thus let be, to as much end

As give a crutch to the dead: but our countcardinal

Has done this, and 'tis well; for worthy Wolsey,
Who cannot err, he did it. Now this follows,
(Which, as I take it, is a kind of puppy
To the old dam, treason,)-Charles the emperor,
Under pretence to see the queen his aunt,
(For 'twas indeed his colour; but he came
To whisper Wolsey,) here makes visitation :
His fears were, that the interview betwixt
England and France might, through their amity,
Breed him some prejudice; for from this league
Peep'd harms that menac'd him: het 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 suit was
granted

Ere it was ask'd; but when the way was made,
And pav'd with gold, the emperor thus desir'd ;-
That he would please to alter the king's course,

(*) Old text, Councellour.

O, Nicholas + Hopkins? He.

(1) Old text, Michaell.

see you deprived of liberty, that I am a witness of this business.

Not almost appears,―

It doth appear; for, upon these taxations,
The clothiers all, not able to maintain
The many to them 'longing, have put off
The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers, who,
Unfit for other life, compell'd by hunger
And lack of other means, in desperate manner
Daring the event to the teeth, are all in uproar,
And danger serves among them.

K. HEN.
Taxation!
Wherein? and what taxation ?-My lord cardinal,
You that are blam'd for it alike with us,
Know you of this taxation?

WOL.

Please you, sir,

I know but of a single part, in aught
Pertains to the state; and front but in that file
Where others tell steps with me.

Q. KATH.

No, my lord, You know no more than others: but you frame Things, that are known alike, which are not whole

Traduc'd by ignorant tongues, which neither know
My faculties nor person, yet will be

The chronicles of my doing,-let me say,
"Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake
That virtue must go through. We must not stint
Our necessary actions, in the fear

Το
cope malicious censurers; which ever,
As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow
That is new trimm'd, but benefit no further
Than vainly longing. What we oft do best,
By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is
Not ours, or not allow'd; what worst, as oft,

"Their tractable obedience," &c.

b Noprimer business.] The old copies have "basenesse," which was corrected in Southern's copy of the fourth folio.

And with a care, exempt themselves from fear;
Things done without example, in their issue
Are to be fear'd. Have you a precedent
Of this commission? I believe, not any.
We must not rend our subjects from our laws,
And stick them in our will. Sixth part of each?
A trembling contribution! Why, we take
From every tree, lop," bark, and part o' the timber;
And, though we leave it with a root, thus hack'd,
The air will drink the sap. To every county
Where this is question'd send our letters, with
Free pardon to each man that has denied
The force of this commission: pray, look to’t;
I put it to your care.
WOL.

A word with you.

[To the Secretary. Let there be letters writ to every shire, Of the king's grace and pardon. The griev'd

Q. KATH. I am sorry that the duke of Buckingham

Is run in your displeasure.

K. HEN.

It grieves many: The gentleman is learn'd, and a most rare speaker; To nature none more bound; his training such, That he may furnish and instruct great teachers, And never seek for aid out of himself. Yet see, When these so noble benefits shall prove Not well dispos'd, the mind growing once corrupt, They turn to vicious forms, ten times more ugly Than ever they were fair. This man so complete,Who was enroll'd 'mongst wonders, and when we, Almost with ravish'd list'ning, could not find His hour of speech a minute-he, my lady, Hath into monstrous habits put the graces That once were his, and is become as black

As if besmear'd in hell. Sit by us; you shall hear (This was his gentleman in trust) of him Things to strike honour sad.-Bid him recount

a A trembling contribution!] Mr. Collier's annotator would change this to,

"A trebling contribution."

b Lop.-] Lop is the technical term for the branches, or faggot wood, of a tree, distinct from the trunk or timber.

e Nicholas Hopkins.] The old text has Nicholas Henton; and Hopkins was sometimes so named from the convent of Henton,

The fore-recited practices; whereof
We cannot feel too little, hear too much.
WOL. Stand forth, and with bold spirit relate
what you,

Most like a careful subject, have collected
Out of the duke of Buckingham.

K. HEN.

Speak freely.

SURV. First, it was usual with him, every day It would infect his speech,—that if the king Should without issue die, he'd* carry it so To make the sceptre his: these very words I have heard him utter to his son-in law, Lord Aberga'ny; to whom by oath he menac'd Revenge upon the cardinal.

WOL. Please your highness, note This dangerous conception in this point: Not friended by his wish to your high person, His will is most malignant; and it stretches Beyond you, to your friends.

Q. KATH.

Deliver all with charity.

K. HEN.

My learn'd lord cardinal,

Speak on:

How grounded he his title to the crown,

Upon our fail? to this point hast thou heard him At any time speak aught?

By a vain prophecy of Nicholas Hopkins. K. HEN. What was that Hopkins?

SURV.

His cónfessor; who fed him every minute
With words of sovereignty.
K. HEN.

How know'st thou this? SURV. Not long before your highness sped to

France,

The duke being at the Rose, within the parish
Saint Lawrence Poultney, did of me demand
What was the speech amongst the Londoners
Concerning the French journey: I replied,
Men fear'd the French would prove perfidious,
To the king's danger. Presently the duke
Said, 't was the fear, indeed; and that he doubted
'Twould prove the verity of certain words
Spoke by a holy monk; that oft, says he,
Hath sent to me, wishing me to permit
John de la Car, my chaplain, a choice hour
To hear from him a matter of some moment:
Whom after under the confession's ‡ seal
He solemnly had sworn, that what he spoke
My chaplain to no creature living, but
To me, should utter, with demure confidence
This pausingly ensued,-Neither the king nor's
heirs,