337The other moity ere you aske is giuen,

338Repeat your will, and take it.

339Queen. Thanke your Maiesty

340That you would loue your selfe, and in that loue

341Not vnconsidered leaue your Honour, nor

342The dignity of your Office; is the poynt

343Of my Petition.

344Kin. Lady mine proceed.

345Queen. I am solicited not by a few,

346And those of true condition; That your Subiects

347Are in great grieuance: There haue beene Commissions

348Sent downe among 'em, which hath flaw'd the heart

349Of all their Loyalties; wherein, although

350My good Lord Cardinall, they vent reproches

351Most bitterly on you, as putter on

352Of these exactions: yet the King, our Maister

354Language vnmannerly; yea, such which breakes

355The sides of loyalty, and almost appeares

356In lowd Rebellion.

357Norf. Not almost appeares,

358It doth appeare; for, vpon these Taxations,

359The Clothiers all not able to maintaine

360The many to them longing, haue put off

361The Spinsters, Carders, Fullers, Weauers, who

362Vnfit for other life, compeld by hunger

363And lack of other meanes, in desperate manner

364Daring th'euent too th'teeth, are all in vprore,

365And danger serues among them.

366Kin. Taxation?

367Wherein? and what Taxation? My Lord Cardinall,

368You that are blam'd for it alike with vs,

369Know you of this Taxation?

370Card. Please you Sir,

371I know but of a single part in ought

372Pertaines to th'State; and front but in that File

373Where others tell steps with me.

374Queen. No, my Lord?

375You know no more then others? But you frame

376Things that are knowne alike, which are not wholsome

377To those which would not know them, and yet must

378Perforce be their acquaintance. These exactions

379(Whereof my Soueraigne would haue note) they are

380Most pestilent to th'hearing, and to beare 'em,

381The Backe is Sacrifice to th'load; They say

382They are deuis'd by you, er else you suffer

383Too hard an exclamation.

384Kin. Still Exaction:

385The nature of it, in what kinde let's know,

386Is this Exaction?

387Queen. I am much too venturous

388In tempting of your patience; but am boldned

389Vnder your promis'd pardon. The Subiects griefe

390Comes through Commissions, which compels from each

391The sixt part of his Substance, to be leuied

392Without delay; and the pretence for this

393Is nam'd, your warres in France: this makes bold mouths,

394Tongues spit their duties out, and cold hearts freeze

395Allegeance in them; their curses now

396Liue where their prayers did: and it's come to passe,

397This tractable obedience is a Slaue

398To each incensed Will: I would your Highnesse

399Would giue it quicke consideration; for

400There is no primer basenesse.

401Kin. By my life,

402This is against our pleasure.

403Card. And for me,

404I haue no further gone in this, then by

405A single voice, and that not past me, but

406By learned approbation of the Iudges: If I am

407Traduc'd by ignorant Tongues, which neither know

408My faculties nor person, yet will be

409The Chronicles of my doing: Let me say,

410'Tis but the fate of Place, and the rough Brake

411That Vertue must goe through: we must not stint

412Our necessary actions, in the feare

413To cope malicious Censurers, which euer,

414As rau'nous Fishes doe a Vessell follow

415That is new trim'd; but benefit no further

416Then vainly longing. What we oft doe best,

417By sicke Interpreters (once weake ones) is

418Not ours, or not allow'd; what worst, as oft

419Hitting a grosser quality, is cride vp

420For our best Act: if we shall stand still,

421In feare our motion will be mock'd, or carp'd at,

422We should take roote here, where we sit;

423Or sit State-Statues onely.

424Kin. Things done well,

425And with a care, exempt themselues from feare:

426Things done without example, in their issue

427Are to be fear'd. Haue you a President

428Of this Commission? I beleeue, not any.

429We must not rend our Subiects from our Lawes,

430And sticke them in our Will. Sixt part of each?

431A trembling Contribution; why we take

432From euery Tree, lop, barke, and part o'th'Timber:

433And though we leaue it with a roote thus hackt,

434The Ayre will drinke the Sap. To euery County

435Where this is question'd, send our Letters, with

436Free pardon to each man that has deny'de

437The force of this Commission: pray looke too't;

438I put it to your care.

439Card. A word with you.

440Let there be Letters writ to euery Shire,

441Of the Kings grace and pardon: the greeued Commons

442Hardly conceiue of me. Let it be nois'd,

443That through our Intercession, this Reuokement

444And pardon comes: I shall anon aduise you

447Queen. I am sorry, that the Duke of Buckingham

448Is run in your displeasure.

449Kin. It grieues many:

450The Gentleman is Learn'd, and a most rare Speaker,

451To Nature none more bound; his trayning such,

452That he may furnish and instruct great Teachers,

453And neuer seeke for ayd out of himselfe: yet see,

454When these so Noble benefits shall proue

455Not well dispos'd, the minde growing once corrupt,

456They turne to vicious formes, ten times more vgly

457Then euer they were faire. This man so compleat,

458Who was enrold 'mongst wonders; and when we

459Almost with rauish'd listning, could not finde

460His houre of speech, a minute: He, (my Lady)

461Hath into monstrous habits put the Graces

462That once were his, and is become as blacke,

463As if besmear'd in hell. Sit by Vs, you shall heare

464(This was his Gentleman in trust) of him

465Things to strike Honour sad. Bid him recount

466The fore-recited practises, whereof

467We cannot feele too little, heare too much.