To keep your earthly audit. Sure, in that Wol. Sir, For holy offices I have a time; a time K. Hen. You have said well. Wol. And ever may your highness yoke together, As I will lend you cause, my doing well With my well-saying! K. Hen. "T is well said again; And 't is a kind of good deed, to say well: And yet words are no deeds. My father loved you; He said he did, and with his deed did crown His word upon you. Since I had my office, I have kept you next my heart; have not alone Employed you where high profits might come home, But pared my present havings, to bestow My bounties upon you. Wol. [Aside.] What should this mean? Sur. [Aside, to the others.] The Lord increase K. Hen. this business! Have I not made you The prime man of the State? I pray you, tell me, If what I now pronounce you have found true: If you are bound to us, or no. What say you? Wol. My sovereign, I confess, your royal graces, Showered on me daily, have been more than could My studied purposes requite; which went K. Hen. Fairly answered; A loyal and obedient subject is The honour of it Does pay the act of it, as, i' the contrary, My heart dropped love, my power rained honour, On you more than any; so your hand, and heart, Your brain, and every function of your power, Should, notwithstanding that your bond of duty, As 't were in love's particular, be more To me, your friend, than any. Wol. I do profess, That for your highness' good I ever laboured More than mine own: that am, have, and will be Though all the world should crack their duty to you, And throw it from their soul; though perils did K. Hen. "T is nobly spoken. Take notice, lords, he has a loyal breast, For you have seen him open 't. Read o'er this: [Giving him papers. And, after, this and then to breakfast with What appetite you Wol. have. [Exit KING, frowning upon the Cardinal. The Nobles throng after him, smiling, and whispering. What should this mean? What sudden anger 's this? how have I reaped it? This paper has undone me !-'T is the account Of all that world of wealth I have drawn together A way, if it take right, in spite of fortune Will bring me off again.- What 's this?—To the Pope! The letter, as I live, with all the business 132 KING HENRY VIII. I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting: I shall fall Re-enter the Dukes of NORFOLK and SUFFOLK, the Earl of SURREY, and the Lord Chamberlain. Nor. Hear the King's pleasure, Cardinal; who commands you To render up the Great Seal presently Into our hands, and to confine yourself Wol. Stay: Where's your commission, lords? words cannot carry Authority so weighty. Suf. Who dare cross 'em, Bearing the King's will from his mouth expressly? do it, I mean your malice,-know, officious lords, Now I feel |