1 Gent. They, that bear The cloth of honour over her, are four barons Of the Cinque-ports. 2 Gent. Those men are happy; and so are all, are near her. I take it, she that carries up the train, Is that old noble lady, duchess of Norfolk. 1 Gent. It is; and all the rest are countesses. 2 Gent. Their coronets say so. deed; And, sometimes, falling ones. 1 Gent. These are stars in No more of that. [Exit Procession, with a great flourish of Trumpets. Enter a third Gentleman. God save you, sir! Where have you been broiling? 3 Gent. Among the crowd i'the abbey; where a finger Could not be wedg'd in more; and I am stifled † With the mere rankness of their joy. Good sir, speak it to us. 3 Gent. Well worth the seeing. 2 Gent. 3 Gent. As well as I am able. The rich stream A distance from her; while her grace sat down +"and" is omitted by Mr. Malone. Such joy Had the full view of, such a noise arose 2 Gent. But, 'pray, what follow'd?† 3 Gent. At length her grace rose, and with modest paces Came to the altar: where she kneel'd, and, saint-like, The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems Sir, you 1 Gent. But 'tis so lately alter'd, that the old name 2 Gent. I know it; What two reverend bishops Were those that went on each side of the queen? 8 like rams-] That is, like battering rams. "But, what follow'd?"- MALONE. 3 Gent. Stokesley and Gardiner: the one, of Win chester, (Newly preferr'd from the king's secretary,) The other, London. 2 Gent. He of Winchester Is held no great good lover of the archbishop's, 3 Gent. All the land knows that: However, yet there's no great breach; when it comes, Cranmer will find a friend will not shrink from him. 2 Gent. Who may that be, I pray you? 3 Gent. Thomas Cromwell; A man in much esteem with the king, and truly Has made him master o'the jewel-house, And one, already, of the privy-council. 2 Gent. He will deserve more. Yes, without all doubt. 3 Gent. Both. You may command us, sir. [Exeunt. SCENE II.9 Kimbolton. Enter KATHARINE, Dowager, sick; led between GRIFFITH and PATIENCE. Grif. How does your grace? O, Griffith, sick to death: Kath. 9 Scene II.] This scene is above any other part of Shakspeare's tragedies, and perhaps above any scene of any other poet, tender So, now, methinks, I feel a little ease. Grif. Yes, madam; but, I think, your grace, Out of the pain you suffer'd, gave no ear to't. Kath. Pr'ythee, good Griffith, tell me how he died: If well, he stepp'd before me, happily,' For my example. Grif. Well, the voice goes, madam: For after the stout earl Northumberland Arrested him at York, and brought him forward (As a man sorely tainted,) to his answer, He fell sick suddenly, and grew so ill, He could not sit his mule. Kath. Alas, poor man! Grif. At last, with easy roads2, he came to Leicester, So went to bed: where eagerly his sickness and pathetick, without gods, or furies, or poisons, or precipices, without the help of romantick circumstances, without improbable sallies of poetical lamentation, and without any throes of tumultuous misery. JOHNSON. 11 he stepp'd before me, happily, For my example.] Happily means, on this occasion, fortunately. with easy roads,] i. e. by short stages. 2 Kath. So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him! His promises were, as he then was, mighty; The clergy ill example. Grif. Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues To hear me speak his good now? Kath. I were malicious else. Grif. Yes, good Griffith; This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour.. From his cradle, 3 Of an unbounded stomach,] i. e. of unbounded pride or haugh tiness. 4 one, that by suggestion Ty'd all the kingdom:] i. e. he was a man of an unbounded stomach, or pride, ranking himself with princes, and by suggestion to the king and the pope, he ty'd, i. e. limited, circumscribed, and set bounds to the liberties and properties of all persons in the kingdom. |