2512With all the choysest Musicke of the Kingdome,

2513Together sung Te Deum. So she parted,

2514And with the same full State pac'd backe againe

2515To Yorke-Place, where the Feast is held.

25161 Sir,

2517You must no more call it Yorke-place, that's past:

2518For since the Cardinall fell, that Titles lost,

2519'Tis now the Kings, and call'd White-Hall.

25203 I know it:

2521But 'tis so lately alter'd, that the old name

2522Is fresh about me.

25232 What two Reuerend Byshops

2524Were those that went on each side of the Queene?

25253 Stokeley and Gardiner, the one of Winchester,

2526Newly preferr'd from the Kings Secretary:

2527The other London.

25282 He of Winchester

2529Is held no great good louer of the Archbishops,

2530The vertuous Cranmer.

25313 All the Land knowes that:

2532How euer, yet there is no great breach, when it comes

2533Cranmer will finde a Friend will not shrinke from him.

25342 Who may that be, I pray you.

25353 Thomas Cromwell,

2536A man in much esteeme with th'King, and truly

2537A worthy Friend. The King ha's made him

2538Master o'th'Iewell House,

2539And one already of the Priuy Councell.

25402 He will deserue more.

25413 Yes without all doubt.

2542Come Gentlemen, ye shall go my way,

2543Which is to'th Court, and there ye shall be my Guests:

2544Something I can command. As I walke thither,

2545Ile tell ye more.

2551Grif. How do's your Grace?

2552Kath. O Griffith, sicke to death:

2553My Legges like loaden Branches bow to'th'Earth,

2554Willing to leaue their burthen: Reach a Chaire,

2555So now (me thinkes) I feele a little ease.

2556Did'st thou not tell me Griffith, as thou lead'st mee,

2557That the great Childe of Honor, Cardinall Wolsey

2558Was dead?

2559Grif. Yes Madam: but I thanke your Grace

2560Out of the paine you suffer'd, gaue no eare too't.

2561Kath. Pre'thee good Griffith, tell me how he dy'de.

2562If well, he stept before me happily

2563For my example.

2564Grif. Well, the voyce goes Madam,

2565For after the stout Earle Northumberland

2566Arrested him at Yorke, and brought him forward

2567As a man sorely tainted, to his Answer,

2568He fell sicke sodainly, and grew so ill

2569He could not sit his Mule.

2570Kath. Alas poore man.

2571Grif. At last, with easie Rodes, he came to Leicester,

2572Lodg'd in the Abbey; where the reuerend Abbot

2573With all his Couent, honourably receiu'd him;

2574To whom he gaue these words. O Father Abbot,

2575An old man, broken with the stormes of State,

2576Is come to lay his weary bones among ye:

2577Giue him a little earth for Charity.

2578So went to bed; where eagerly his sicknesse

2579Pursu'd him still, and three nights after this,

2580About the houre of eight, which he himselfe

2581Foretold should be his last, full of Repentance,

2582Continuall Meditations, Teares, and Sorrowes,

2583He gaue his Honors to the world agen,

2584His blessed part to Heauen, and slept in peace.

2585Kath. So may he rest,

2586His Faults lye gently on him:

2587Yet thus farre Griffith, giue me leaue to speake him,

2588And yet with Charity. He was a man

2589Of an vnbounded stomacke, euer ranking

2590Himselfe with Princes. One that by suggestion

2591Ty'de all the Kingdome. Symonie, was faire play,

2592His owne Opinion was his Law. I'th'presence

2593He would say vntruths, and be euer double

2594Both in his words, and meaning. He was neuer

2595(But where he meant to Ruine) pittifull.

2596His Promises, were as he then was, Mighty:

2597But his performance, as he is now, Nothing:

2598Of his owne body he was ill, and gaue

2599The Clergy ill example.

2600Grif. Noble Madam:

2601Mens euill manners, liue in Brasse, their Vertues

2602We write in Water. May it please your Highnesse

2603To heare me speake his good now?

2604Kath. Yes good Griffith,

2605I were malicious else.

2606Grif. This Cardinall,

2607Though from an humble Stocke, vndoubtedly

2608Was fashion'd to much Honor. From his Cradle

2609He was a Scholler, and a ripe, and good one:

2610Exceeding wise, faire spoken, and perswading:

2611Lofty, and sowre to them that lou'd him not:

2612But, to those men that sought him, sweet as Summer.

2613And though he were vnsatisfied in getting,

2614(Which was a sinne) yet in bestowing, Madam,

2615He was most Princely: Euer witnesse for him

2616Those twinnes of Learning, that he rais'd in you,

2617Ipswich and Oxford: one of which, fell with him,

2618Vnwilling to out-liue the good that did it.

2619The other (though vnfinish'd) yet so Famous,

2620So excellent in Art, and still so rising,

2621That Christendome shall euer speake his Vertue.

2622His Ouerthrow, heap'd Happinesse vpon him:

2623For then, and not till then, he felt himselfe,

2624And found the Blessednesse of being little.

2625And to adde greater Honors to his Age

2626Then man could giue him; he dy'de, fearing God.

2627Kath. After my death, I wish no other Herald,

2628No other speaker of my liuing Actions,

2629To keepe mine Honor, from Corruption,

2630But such an honest Chronicler as Griffith.

2631Whom I most hated Liuing, thou hast made mee

2632With thy Religious Truth, and Modestie,

2633(Now in his Ashes) Honor: Peace be with him.

2634Patience, be neere me still, and set me lower,

2635I haue not long to trouble thee. Good Griffith,

2636Cause the Musitians play me that sad note

2637I nam'd my Knell; whil'st I sit meditating