NOR. And so we'll leave you to your meditations you. [Exeunt all but WOLSEY. WOL. So farewell to the little good you bear me. Never to hope again— Enter CROMWELL, amazedly. Why, how now, Cromwell? What, amaz'd CROM. I have no power to speak, sir. WOL. CROM. WOL. How does your grace? Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. Why, well; I know myself now; and I feel within me A still and quiet conscience. The king has cur'd me, I humbly thank his grace; and from these shoulders, (A load would sink a navy, too much honour: O, 't is a burthen, Cromwell, 't is a burthen, Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven. CROM. I am glad your grace has made that right use of it. (Out of a fortitude of soul I feel,) To endure more miseries, and greater far, Than my weak-hearted enemies dare offer. CROM. The heaviest, and the worst, Is your displeasure with the king. WOL. God bless him! CROM. The next is, that sir Thomas More is chosen Lord chancellor in your place. WOL. That's somewhat sudden: But he's a learned man. May he continue Long in his highness' favour, and do justice For truth's sake, and his conscience; that his bones, CROM. That Cranmer is return'd with welcome, WOL. That's news indeed. CROM. Last, that the lady Anne, Whom the king hath in secrecy long married, This day was view'd in open, as his queen, Going to chapel; and the voice is now Only about her coronation. WOL. There was the weight that pull'd me down. O The king has gone beyond me; all my glories In that one woman I have lost for ever: No sun shall ever usher forth mine honours, Upon my smiles. Go, get thee from me, Cromwell; To be thy lord and master: Seek the king; That sun, I pray, may never set! I have told him (I know his noble nature,) not to let Thy hopeful service perish too: Good Cromwell, O, my lord, CROM. WOL. Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, And.-Prithee, lead me in: Serve the king; There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny; 't is the king's: my robe, I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell, CROM. Good sir, have patience. So I have. Farewell The hopes of court! my hopes in heaven do dwell. [Exeunt. ACT IV. SCENE I.-A Street in Westminster. Enter two Gentlemen, meeting. 1 GENT. You are well met once again. 2 GENT. So are you. 1 GENT. You come to take your stand here, and behold The lady Anne pass from her coronation? 2 GENT. 'T is all my business. At our last encounter, The duke of Buckingham came from his trial. 1 GENT. T is very true: but that time offer'd sorrow: This, general joy. 2 GENT. "T is well: The citizens, I am sure, have shown at full their royal minds, (As, let them have their rights, they are ever forward,) In celebration of this day with shows, Pageants, and sights of honour. 1 GENT. Never greater, Nor, I'll assure you, better taken, sir. 2 GENT. May I be bold to ask what that contains. That paper in your hand? 1 GENT. Yes; 't is the list Of those that claim their offices this day, The duke of Suffolk is the first, and claims To be high-steward; next, the duke of Norfolk, 2 GENT. I thank you, sir; had I not known those customs, I should have been beholding to your paper. But, I beseech you, what 's become of Katharine, 1 GENT. That I can tell you too. Of Canterbury, accompanied with other 2 GENT. Alas, good lady!- [Trumpets. The trumpets sound: stand close, the queen is coming. THE ORDER OF THE PROCESSION. A lively flourish of trumpets: then enter 1. Turo Judges. 2. Lord Chancellor, with the purse and mace before him. 3. Choristers singing. [Music. 4. Mayor of London, bearing the mace. Then Garter in his coat of arms, and, on his head, a gilt copper crown. 5. Marquis Dorset, bearing a sceptre of gold, on his head a demi-coronal of gold. With him, the Earl of Surrey, bearing the rod of silver with the dove, crowned with an earl's coronet. Collars of SS. 6. Duke of Suffolk, in his robe of estate, his coronet on his head, bearing a long white wand, as high-steward. With him, the Duke of Norfolk, with the rod of marshalship, a coronet on his head. Collars of SS. 7. A canopy borne by four of the Cinque-ports; under it, the Queen in her robe; in her hair richly adorned with pearl, |