K. HEN.

[To NORFOLK and SUFFOLK.

We are bufy; go.

NOR. This prieft has no pride in him?

SUF.

Not to speak of;

I would not be so sick though, for his

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[Exeunt NORFOLK and SUFFOLK.

WOL. Your grace has given a precedent of wisdom Above all princes, in committing freely Your fcruple to the voice of Chriftendom: Who can be angry now? what envy reach you? The Spaniard, tied by blood and favour to her, Muft now confefs, if they have any goodness, The trial just and noble. All the clerks,

I mean, the learned ones, in christian kingdoms, Have their free voices; Rome, the nurse of judge

ment,

Invited by your noble self, hath fent
One general tongue unto us, this good man,
This just and learned priest, cardinal Campeius;
Whom, once more, I present unto your highness.

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8

so fick though,] That is, fo fick as he is proud.

JOHNSON.

one heave at him.] So, in King Henry VI. Part II : "To heave the traitor Somerset from hence."

The first folio gives the passage thus:

Ile venture one; haue at him.

The reading in the text is that of the fecond folio. STEEVENS.

9 Have their free voices;) The construction is, have fent their free voices; the word fent, which occurs in the next line, being understood here. MALONE.

K. HEN. And, once more, in mine arms I bid
him welcome,

And thank the holy conclave for their loves;

They have fent me such a man I would have wish'd

for.

CAM. Your grace must needs deserve all stran-
gers' loves,

You are so noble: To your highness' hand
I tender my commiffion; by whose virtue,

(The court of Rome commanding,)-you, my

lord

Cardinal of York, are join'd with me their servant,
In the unpartial judging of this business.

K. HEN. Two equal men. The queen shall be
acquainted

Forthwith, for what you come :- Where's Gardi

ner?

WOL. I know, your majesty has always lov'd
her

So dear in heart, not to deny her that
A woman of less place might ask by law,
Scholars, allow'd freely to argue for her.

K. HEN. Ay, and the best, she shall have; and

my favour

To him that does best; God forbid else. Cardinal,
Pr'ythee, call Gardiner to me, my new fecretary;
I find him a fit fellow.
[Exit WOLSEY.

Re-enter WOLSEY, with GARDINER.

WOL. Give me your hand: much joy and favour

to you;
You are the king's now.
GARD.

But to be commanded

For ever by your grace, whose hand has rais'd me.

[Afide.

!

K. HEN. Come hither, Gardiner.

[They converse apart.

CAM. My lord of York, was not one doctor Pace In this man's place before him? WOL.

Yes, he was.

CAM. Was he not held a learned man?
WOL.

Yes, furely.

CAM. Believe me, there's an ill opinion spread

then

Even of yourself, lord cardinal.

WOL.

How! of me?

CAM. They will not stick to say, you envy'd him; And, fearing he would rife, he was so virtuous, Kept him a foreign man still: 9 which so griev'd him, That he ran mad, and died.

WOL.

Heaven's peace be with him! That's christian care enough: for living murmurers, There's places of rebuke. He was a fool; For he would needs be virtuous: That good fellow, If I command him, follows my appointment; I will have none so near elfe. Learn, this brother, We live not to be grip'd by meaner persons.

K. HEN. Deliver this with modefty to the queen. [Exit GARDINER.

The most convenient place that I can think of,
For fuch receipt of learning, is Black-Friars;
There ye shall meet about this weighty business :-
My Wolfey, fee it furnish'd.-O my lord,
Would it not grieve an able man, to leave
So sweet a bedfellow? But, confcience, confcience,-
O, 'tis a tender place, and I must leave her.

[Exeunt.

Kept him a foreign man still:] Kept him out of the king's

prefence, employed in foreign embaffies. JOHNSON.

SCENE III.

An Antechamber in the Queen's Apartments.

Enter ANNE BULLEN, and an old Lady.

ANNE. Not for that neither; -Here's the pang that pinches:

His highness having liv'd so long with her; and

The

So good a lady, that no tongue could ever
Pronounce dishonour of her, by my life,
She never knew harm-doing; -O now, after
So many courses of the fun enthron'd,
Still growing in a majesty and pomp,-the which
To leave is a thousand-fold more bitter, than
'Tis sweet at first to acquire, after this process,
To give her the avaunt! it is a pity
Would move a monster.

OLD L.

Hearts of most hard temper

Melt and lament for her.
ANNE.

O, God's will! much better, She ne'er had known pomp: though it be temporal,

Yet, if that quarrel, fortune, do divorce

To leave is) The latter word was added by Mr. Theobald.
MALONE.

3 To give her the avaunt!] To fend her away contemptuously; to pronounce against her a fentence of ejection. JOHNSON,

4 Yet, if that quarrel, fortune,] She calls Fortune a quarrel or arrow, from her striking so deep and fuddenly. Quarrel was a large arrow fo called. Thus Fairfax:

-twang'd the string, out flew the quarrel long."

WARBURTON.

It from the bearer, 'tis a fufferance, panging

As foul and body's severing.s

OLD L.

She's a stranger now again."

Alas, poor lady!

Such is Dr. Warburton's interpretation. Sir Thomas Hanmer reads: That quarreller Fortune.

I think the poet may be easily supposed to use quarrel for quarreller, as murder for the murderer, the act for the agent. JOHNSON.

Dr. Johnfon may be right. So, in Antony and Cleopatra:

- but that your royalty

"Holds idleness your subject, I should take you

"For Idleness itself."

Like Martial's-" Non vitiofus homo es, Zoile, fed Vitium." We

might, however, read:

Yet if that quarrel fortune to divorce

It from the bearer.

i. e. if any quarrel happen or chance to divorce it from the bearer. To fortune is a verb used by Shakspeare in The Two Gentlemen of Verona:

- I'll tell you as we pass along,
"That you will wonder what hath fortuned."

Again, in Spenfer's Faery Queen, B. I. c. ii:

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"It fortuned (high heaven did fo ordaine)" &c.

panging

STEEVENS.

As foul and body's fevering. So Bertram, in All's well that ends well: "I grow to you, and our parting is a tortur'd body."

Again, in Antony and Cleopatra :

"The foul and body rive not more at parting,
"Than greatness going off." MALONE.

STEEVENS.

6-stranger now again.) Again an alien; not only no longer queen, but no longer an Englishwoman. JOHNSON.

It rather means, she is alienated from the king's affection, is a stranger to his bed; for she still retained the rights of an Englishwoman, and was princess dowager of Wales. So, in the second fcene of the third act:

- Katharine no more

"Shall be call'd queen; but princess dowager,
"And widow to prince Arthur." TOLLET.

Dr. Johnson's interpretation appears to me to be the true one.