39My lord, I'll tell you, that self bill is urged

1.1.240Which in th'eleventh year of the last king's reign

1.1.341Was like, and had indeed against us passed,

1.1.442But that the scambling and unquiet time

1.1.543Did push it out of further question.

But how, my lord, shall we resist it now?

It must be thought on. If it pass against us,

1.1.846We lose the better half of our possession,

1.1.947For all the temporal lands which men devout

1.1.1048By testament have given to the Church

1.1.1149Would they strip from us, being valued thus:

1.1.1250As much as would maintain, to the king's honor,

1.1.1351Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights,

1.1.1452Six thousand and two hundred good esquires,

1.1.1553And to relief of lazars and weak age

1.1.1654Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil,

1.1.1755A hundred almshouses, right well supplied;

1.1.1856And to the coffers of the king beside,

1.1.1957A thousand pounds by th'year. Thus runs the bill.

This would drink deep.

This would drink deep. 'Twould drink the cup and all.

But what prevention?

The king is full of grace and 62fair regard.

And a true lover of the holy Church.

The courses of his youth promised it not.

1.1.2565The breath no sooner left his father's body,

1.1.2666But that his wildness, mortified in him,

1.1.2767Seemed to die too. Yea, at that very moment,

1.1.2868Consideration like an angel came,

1.1.2969And whipped th'offending Adam out of him,

1.1.3070Leaving his body as a paradise,

1.1.3171T'envelop and contain celestial spirits.

1.1.3272Never was such a sudden scholar made,

1.1.3373Never came reformation in a flood

1.1.3474With such a heady currence scouring faults,

1.1.3575Nor never hydra-headed willfulness

1.1.3676So soon did lose his seat, and all at once,

1.1.3777As in this king.

As in this king. We are blessèd in the change.

Hear him but reason in divinity,

1.1.3980And, all-admiring, with an inward wish

1.1.4081You would desire the king were made a prelate.

1.1.4182Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,

1.1.4283You would say it hath been all in all his study.

1.1.4384List his discourse of war, and you shall hear

1.1.4485A fearful battle rendered you in music.

1.1.4586Turn him to any cause of policy,

1.1.4687The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,

1.1.4788Familiar as his garter; that when he speaks,

1.1.4889The air, a chartered libertine, is still,

1.1.4990And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears

1.1.5091To steal his sweet and honeyed sentences,

1.1.5192So that the art and practic part of life

1.1.5293Must be the mistress to this theoric.

1.1.5394Which is a wonder how his grace should glean it,

1.1.5495Since his addiction was to courses vain,

1.1.5596His companies unlettered, rude, and shallow,

1.1.5697His hours filled up with riots, banquets, sports,

1.1.5798And never noted in him any study,

1.1.5899Any retirement, any sequestration

1.1.59100From open haunts and popularity.

The strawberry grows underneath the nettle,

1.1.61102And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best

1.1.62103Neighbored by fruit of baser quality;

1.1.63104And so the prince obscured his contemplation

1.1.64105Under the veil of wildness, which no doubt

1.1.65106Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,

1.1.66107Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.

It must be so, for miracles are ceased,

1.1.68109And therefore we must needs admit the means

1.1.69110How things are perfected.

How things are perfected. But my good lord,

1.1.70112How now for mitigation of this bill

1.1.71113Urged by the commons? Doth his majesty

1.1.72114Incline to it or no?

Incline to it or no? He seems indifferent,

1.1.73116Or rather swaying more upon our part,

1.1.74117Than cherishing th'exhibitors against us;

1.1.75118For I have made an offer to his majesty,

1.1.76119Upon our spiritual convocation,

1.1.77120And in regard of causes now in hand,

1.1.78121Which I have opened to his grace at large,

1.1.79122As touching France, to give a greater sum

1.1.80123Than ever at one time the clergy yet

1.1.81124Did to his predecessors part withal.

How did this offer seem received, my lord?

With good acceptance of his majesty,

1.1.84127Save that there was not time enough to hear,

1.1.85128As I perceived his grace would fain have done,

1.1.86129The severals and unhidden passages

1.1.87130Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms,

1.1.88131And generally to the crown and seat of France

1.1.89132Derived from Edward, his great-grandfather.

What was th'impediment that broke this off?

The French ambassador upon that instant

1.1.92135Craved audience; and the hour, I think, is come

1.1.93136To give him hearing. Is it four o'clock?

It is.

Then go we in to know his embassy,

1.1.96139Which I could with a ready guess declare

1.1.97140Before the Frenchman speak a word of it.

I'll wait upon you, and I long to hear it.