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WHEN YOU SEE ME, YOU KNOW ME. 
 
"^W^jxm SEE ME, YOU KNOW ME. 
 
 A CHRONICLE-HISTORY BY 
 SAMUEL ROWLEY. 
 
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 WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
Samuel Eowlev shares the fate of many minor poets of 
 the Elizabethan age, of whose lives no record has reached us. 
 We know nothing of him except that he was 'Servant to the 
 Prince', i. e. Prince Henry, and that he probably died between 
 1632 and 1634. The former fact he states himself on the 
 title of his Chronicle-History ' When you see me , you know me\ 
 while the latter circumstance, overlooked hitherto by the 
 bibliographers, is to be collected from the Publisher's preface 
 to his tragedy of 'The Noble Soldier' (1634), where this play 
 is termed a ' Poslhumus' . ' The last quarto of ' When you see me, 
 you know me' (1632) has no publisher's or printer's preface, 
 which was usual only in posthumous publications, and was 
 therefore most probably published in the life-time of the author. 
 Besides these two printed plays of Samuel Rowley Mr. Halli- 
 well in his Dictionary of Old English Plays enumerates six 
 manuscript ones, the titles of which are almost all taken from 
 Sir Henry Herbert's manuscript diary. They are: 
 
 1. Judas, written by Samuel Eowley and William Borne 
 and acted in 1601. 
 
 2. Sampson, a play, by Edward Jubye, assisted by Samuel 
 Rowley. Acted in 1602. 
 
 3. Joshua, acted by the Lord Admiral's Servants, 1602. 
 'JSTot now known', adds Mr. Halliwell. 
 
 4. Hymen's Holiday; or, Cupid's Fayaries [sic!], acted at 
 Court in 1612, and revived with some alterations, before the 
 king and queen at Whitehall, 1633. 
 
 'Although on the title of Tito Noble Holdur the author's name is 
 only indicated by the initials S. E , yet by tradition and common consent 
 it is ascribed to Samuel Eowley. 
 
iv INTKODUCTION. 
 
 5. Bichard the Third, thus alluded to by Sir Henry Herbert 
 under the date of July 27th, 1623, — 'for the Palsgrave's 
 players, a tragedy of Richard the Third, or the English Profit, 
 with the Eeformation, written by Samuel Kowley'. 
 
 6. Hard Shift Jor Husbands, mentioned by Sir Henry under 
 the date of October 29th, 1623, in the following words: 'for 
 the Palsgrave's players, a new comedy called Hard Shifle for 
 Husbands, or Bilboes the Best Blade, written by Samuel Rowley. ' 
 
 It would hardly be worth while to search for these 
 manuscripts, since the two printed plays raise no great appe- 
 tite for more. In a dramatic and poetical point of view they 
 are of very indifferent value and the Chronicle History ' Wlien 
 you see me, you Icnoiv me' is the only one which may lay claim 
 to literary interest and consequence, having in all probability 
 served Shakespeare as an inducement to dramatize the life of 
 Henry VIII., a subject which at the end of the sixteenth and 
 in the beginning of the seventeenth century seems to have 
 
 '" been highly popular with the dramatists of the age. We 
 know from Honslowe's Diary that in 1601 and 1602 'The 
 Rising of Cardinal Wolsey' byMunday, Drayton, Chettle, and 
 Wentworth Smith and Chettle's 'Cardinal Wolsey' were 
 on the stage, and Shakespeare's K. Henry VIII. was most 
 
 i_ likely written only a year later. ^ 
 
 Rowley's ' When you see me, you know me' was no doubt 
 produced about the same time and was first published in 1605 
 (QA) by Nathaniel Butter. There can be little doubt that it 
 was this piece to which the wellknown entry of an Enter lude 
 on K. Henry VIII., made for Butter on the Stationers' Books 
 in 1604, refers. The buffoonery of the scenes in which King 
 Henry walks the City in disguise, makes the acquaintance of 
 Black Will, and together with him is 'clapped' in the Counter ; 
 
 ' Only two of those six ijlays are niontioned liy Mv. Allibone , viz. 
 Joshua and Hymen's Holiday. 
 
 ^On this and some other points compare Jahr/juch dcr Betttseheit 
 Shakespeare-Gesellsohaft IX, 55 seqq. 
 
IXTRODUCTIOK. v 
 
 the prominent part which the two fools take not only in the 
 dialogue, but even in the action of the play (which latter in 
 Shakespeare's play s is nowhere the case) ; the breeching of 
 Edward Browne, Prince Edward's 'soujfre-douleur, maj' well jus- 
 tify the title of Enterlude given by a careless publisher, although 
 the author on better thought ultimately chose that of a Chron- 
 icle - History. The comic parts intrude into the presence- 
 chamber of the King himself, and the King, the Queen and 
 their guest, the Emperor of Germany, are made to crack rather 
 low jokes with the fool, while Shakespeare in his Henry VIII. 
 has raised the whole into a higher sphere of dignity and re- 
 finement and has admitted the comic element only where he 
 introduces the crowd, gathered in the streets and in the palace- 
 yard. Perhaps it was just this savouring of the old Enterlude 
 which won such a lasting popularity for Eowley's play, 
 for it was republished in 1613 (QB) , 1621 (QC), and 1632 
 (QD). The Bodleian Library is in possession of all these 
 quartos, whereas the British Museum can only boast of copies 
 of QB and QD. Watt (Bibl. Brit.) only knows QB and QD 
 and Mr. Halliwell (Diet. Old English Plays) only QA and 
 QD ; the latter might have known better, if he had compared 
 Lowndes. The three quartos QB, QC, and QD contain 42 
 leaves each and have 38 lines on each page; in all quartos, 
 with the exception of QA, each page beginning and ending 
 with the same words. Another copy is preserved in the Dyce- 
 Bequest at the South Kensington Museum , but unfortunately 
 the imprint has been cut off, so that only a minute compari- 
 son with the Oxford copies can show which edition it is. 
 
 The exact titles of the four quartos are as follows : 
 
 QA. When you see me You know me Or the famous 
 Chronicle Historic of King Henry the eight, with the birth 
 and vertuous life of Edward Prince of Wales. As it was 
 playd by the high and mightie Prince of Wales his servants. 
 By Samuell Rowly, servant to the Prince. London Imprinted 
 for Nathaniell Butter , and are to be sold in Paules Church- 
 
T INTKODUCTION. 
 
 yeard neare Saint Aastines gate, 1605. (Bodleian Library, 
 Maloue Add. 829.) 
 
 QB. The title coincides with that of QA as far as 
 'servant to the Pjince' ; it then proceeds : At London, Printed 
 for Nathaniell Butter, and are to be sold at his shop in Panics 
 Church-yard neare S. Austines gate 1613. (Bodleian Library, 
 Malone 186. British Museum C 34. e. 2.) 
 
 Q,C. A few slight orthographical variations excepted the 
 title is the- same as that of QB. 1621. (Bodleian Library, 
 Malone Add. 830). 
 
 QD. The title diifers only in the imprint, which runs 
 thus :■ At London, Printed by B.A. and T.F. for Nath : Butter, 
 and are to be sold at his shop in St. Pauls Church -yard, 
 neare St. Austins Gate. 1632. (Bodleian Library, Douce 
 Collection E. 130 [?]. British Museum C. 34. e. 3.) 
 
 In the same year with the first quarto Nathaniel Butter 
 brought out Thomas Heywood's 'If you know not me, you knoic 
 nobody'. Not only does this title curiously correspond with 
 that of Rowley's piece , but both are embellished by whole- 
 length woodcuts the one of Henry VIII. (after the wellknown 
 picture by Holbein) , the other of Elizabeth The first part 
 of Heywood's play was reprinted simultaneously with that of 
 Eowley in 1613 and 1632 (as also in 1606 and 1608); 'the 
 second part, says Mr. Collier, was- originally published in 1606, 
 and reprinted in 1609, 1623, and 1633, all the editions be- 
 ing in 4to. One would think that the title of 'If you knoic 
 not me, you know nobody' was meant to insinuate , that Queen 
 Elizabeth was represented so life-like in the play, that every 
 spectator or reader should know her at once, if he knew any 
 person at all. A different explanation, however, is intimated 
 in the play itself, where Old Hobson, a rich City - merchant, 
 being asked by the Queen: Friend, what ai-e your, bluntly 
 replies : 
 
 Knowe.'it thou not me. Queen ? then thou knowosf nobody. 
 
INTRODUCTION. vii 
 
 Bones a me, Queen, I am Hobson ; old Hobson, 
 By the stocks : I am sure, you know me. ' 
 
 It is evident , that Shakespeare's art and genius cannot 
 be fully appreciated, if not compared to the -works of his con- 
 temporaries, especially when, as it is the case in the present 
 instance, the same subject has been treated. This reason would 
 of itself go far to justify the publication of even subordinate 
 dramatic productions of the Elizabethan age ; it is , ho■^A'ever, 
 greatly strengthened, if it can be shown or made probable, 
 that a play has stood in some nearer relation to Shakespeare, 
 either as a source, a forerunner, or an imitation. Such a re- 
 lation seems to have subsisted between Eowlcj-'s ' When you 
 see me, you know me' and Shakespeare's K. Henrj" VIII. and 
 will ensure to the former a permanent literary value. It is 
 from this point of view that Mr. Collier in his edition of 
 Armin's Nest of Ninnies (published for the Shakespeare So- 
 ciety) speaks in favour of Rowley's play, 'which, he says, is 
 a singular picture of manners and of the mode, in whieh, just 
 after the death of Elizabeth , her father was exhibited at the 
 public theatres. In this view ' When you see vie , you know me' 
 may be said to have a direct relation to the Henry VIII. of 
 our groat dramatist and may well deserve to be hereafter re- 
 printed bj- the Shakespeare Society.' This intention , however, 
 was never realized, but has remained a j)ium desldenum. 
 
 Notwithstanding the different spirit that pervades the two 
 works of Shakes23eare and Rowley , there are so many stri- 
 king coincidences between them as to induce us to the belief 
 not only that Shakespeare was ac(iuainted with Rowley's play 
 before it was printed — which may be taken for granted 
 without anj- argument — but that Rowley's play was acted 
 before Shakespeare wrote his K. Henry VIII. and that Shakc- 
 .spcare took a series of traits from it — traits, which, to tell 
 the truth, with Rowley are nothing but dross, but were turned ^ 
 into gold by the magic hand of Shakespeare. 
 
 ^ Mr. Colliei''s edition, printed for tlie .Shtikespearc Sorioly, \i. 1,36, 
 
viii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 King Henry, who of course must be first introduced to 
 the reader's notice, with both poets makes frequent use of his 
 favourite ejaculation Ha !, while his favourite oaths 'Mother o 
 God, Body o' me', &c., no less frequently introduced by Row- 
 ley, were suppressed by Shakespeare ; by both poets he is 
 exhibited leaning on the shoulder of some one of his intimate 
 courtiers, by both walking in the gallei-y as was his 'custom 
 always of the afternoon'.' Both poets show the king's angrj' 
 impatience when interrupted in his privacy ; the only difference 
 is, that with Rowley it is Wolsey who provokes the king's 
 rage by his impertinence, whereas with Shakespeare (II, 2) the 
 dukes of Suffolk and Norfolk have to 'endure the storm' on 
 such an occasion. The unceremonious intrusion of an over- 
 hasty messenger into the king's presence and his angry re- 
 pulsion by the latter have been transferred by Shakespeare to 
 the dying-scene of Queen Katherinc. With Rowley, who is 
 as unceremonious as the messenger himself, .the poor fellow 
 is mercilessly kicked out by the king. The incident of the king's 
 sending his ring to Cranmer is also common to both, poets. 
 Rowley makes the king say : 
 
 Sir William Compton, here take my ring, 
 Bid Doctor Cranmer haste to court again, 
 Give him that token of king Henry's love, 
 Discharge our guards, we fear no traitor's hand. 
 Our state, beloved of all, doth firmly stand ; 
 Go, Compton. 
 With Shakespeare the king gives the ring in person with the 
 words (V, 1): 
 
 If entreaties 
 Will render you no remedy, this ring 
 Deliver them, and your appeal to us 
 There make before them. 
 
 ''Walking in the gallery' seems to have been .imong the pastimes of 
 Shakespeare's contemiioraries ; compare The Puritan 11, 1; Mary. Sir John 
 Pennydub ? where? where ^ Frrnllij He's walking in the gallery. 
 
INTKODUCTION. ix 
 
 On the whole the perusal of Eowley's play will satisfy the 
 reader that Shakespeare has bestowed evident care on show- 
 ing the character of the king in a favourable light. If Queen 
 Elizabeth should have been acquainted with the two dramas 
 'When you see me, you knov me' and King Henry VIII. she 
 must have been shocked by Kowley's portrait of her father, 
 but could not have helped being pleased with his likeness as 
 drawn by 'gentle' Shakespeare. 
 
 In the delineation of Cardinal Wolscy no fewer features 
 are common to both poets. With Eowley the fool reproaches 
 tlie cardinal with keeping 'a fair leman at Charlton', and 
 Shakespeare, who banished the fool from his play, has put 
 the same reproach into the Earl of Surrey's moutli (III, 2) : 
 
 I'll startle you 
 Worse than the sacring bell, when the brown wencli 
 Lay kissing in your arms, lord cardinal. 
 The fatal iniluence which the cardinal exercises over the king 
 is by both poets ascribed to his wonderful eloquence. With 
 Rowley Wolsey boasts of having 'so won Great England's lord 
 with words' 
 
 That under colour of advising him, 
 I overrule both council, court, and king. 
 In Shakespeare's K. Henry VIII., Ill, 2 the Lord Chamber- 
 lain says : 
 
 If you cannot 
 Bar his access to the king, never attempt 
 Any thing on him ; for he hath a witch-craft 
 Over the king in's tongue. 
 Further on both poets derive the cardinal's downfall almost 
 in the self-same words from the same causes : from his ex- 
 torting large sums from the people and heaping up immense 
 treasures, with which to attain the last object of his ambition, 
 the papal throne; from the arrogant formula '£</» el Ihv main', 
 which Wolsey did not scruple to employ in his correspondence 
 with the pope and foreign princes; .and lastly from his impu- 
 
X INTEODUCTION. 
 
 dence in stamping his cardinal's hat on the king's coin. The 
 king in Eowiey's play says : 
 
 How durst ye, sirrah, in your embassage, 
 Unknown to us, stamp in our royal coin 
 The base impression of your cardinal's hat, 
 As if you were co-partner of the crown? 
 Erjo et Rex mens: you and your king must be 
 In equal state, and porap, and majesty. 
 Shakespeare has not only ennobled this rude speech, but has 
 again put forward the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk as the 
 mouth-pieces of the king's anger (III, 2) : 
 
 Nor. Then, that in all you writ to Kome, or else 
 To foreign princes : 'Ego et Rex meus' 
 "Was still inscribed; in which you brought the king 
 To be your servant. — 
 
 Suf. That, out of mere ambition, you have caused 
 Your holy hat to be stamp'd on the king's coin. 
 
 Some critics may be inclined to explain these coincidences 
 by the circumstance that both poets borrowed most of their 
 materials from Holinshed , who indeed enumerates the above 
 facts among the charges raised against the cardinal. 'Item, 
 he says, in all writings, which he wrote to Rome, or any 
 other forren prince, he vrrote Ego ei Rex meus, I and my king: 
 as who would sale, that the king were his servant. — — 
 Item , that he caused the cardinal's hat to be put on the 
 kings coin.' This was certainly the common source of both 
 poets , but why did they select - from among the long list of 
 charges the very same items for introduction into their plays? 
 And what common source can be found out for those scenes, 
 where the births of the Prince of Wales and Princess Eliza- 
 beth are looked forward to and announced? Eowley makes the 
 king say : 
 
 Ladies , attend her ! (viz, the queen) ; Countess of Salis- 
 bury! Sister Mary! 
 Who iirst brings word that Henry hath a son 
 Shall be rewarded well. 
 
INTRODUCTION. xi 
 
 To which the fool adds: 'Ay, I'll be his suretj^: but do you 
 hear, wenches, she that brings the first tidings , howsoe-^-er it 
 fall out, let her be sure to saj- the child's like his father, or 
 else she shall have nothing'. In strict accordance with this art- 
 ful precept the old lady in Shakespeare, who bears the message 
 of the queen's delivery, proclaims the likeness in the strongest 
 terms : 
 
 'Tis like you 
 As cherry is to cheri-y — 
 whilst Eowley's Countess of Salisburj' against the fool's not 
 at all foolish advice contents herself with inviting the king to 
 look at his own flesh and bone and warranting the child his 
 own. Shakespeare's old lady is even mindful of the king's 
 burning desire for a son and therefore first introduces Eliza- 
 beth as a boy. The amount of the recompense is not men- 
 tioned by Rowley ; the king merely says : 
 
 Take that for thy good news ; &o. 
 Shakespeare's old lady receives a hundred mai-ks and complains 
 of the insufficiency of this gift in the following violent words : 
 
 An hundred marks ! By this light, I'll ha' more. 
 
 An ordinary groom is for such payment. 
 
 I will have more, or scold it out of him. 
 
 Said I for this, the girl was like to him r 
 
 I will have more, or else unsay't. 
 Passages of a difl'erent, but no less curious character in 
 Rowley are the king's treatment of the page who is putting 
 the garter round his leg and the eulogy on music pronounced 
 by Doctor Tye, the prince of "Wales's music-master, inasmuch 
 as these passages find their Shakesperean parallels not in K. 
 Henry VIII., but in the Taming of the Shrew and the Mer- 
 chant of Venice; the former recalls the wellknown scene where 
 Petruchio is being undressed, the latter the celebrated garden- 
 scene at Belmont. Those, says Doctor Tye , who term music 
 idle, vain, and frivolous, do indeed upbraid it, 
 and those that do are such 
 
 As in themselves no happy concords hold. 
 
xii INTKODUCTION. 
 
 All music jars -with them ; &e. 
 Shakespeare's wellknown words are these: 
 
 The man that hath no music in himself, 
 Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, 
 Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. 
 Even the legend of Orpheus is touched on by both poets. 
 Rowley says : 
 
 And if the poet fail us not, my lord, 
 The dulcet tongue of music made the stones 
 To move, irrational beasts and birds to dance &c. 
 Shakespeare, after expatiating more fully on the influence of 
 music on animals, continues : 
 
 Therefore the poet 
 Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. 
 A marked difference, however, between these two eulogies lies 
 in the stress which Rowley lays on the religious, not to say 
 Christian character of music — he mentions the continual 
 hymns of the Seraphim, the tLuire of the Angels at the birth 
 of Christ and the dreadful note of the last trumpet — where- 
 as Shakespeare leaves religious music entirely out of the 
 question, a circumstance which ought to be well considered in 
 an examination of his religious sentiments and principles. 
 
 Here then the question of priority may best be raised. 
 The prima facie impression on the reader will be, that Shake- 
 speare here as elsewhere made use of crude materials and gave 
 them an immortal shape. No critic, I think, will doubt that 
 Rowley's play was in existence some years before it appeared 
 in print, for such was almost invariably the case with all 
 dramatic productions of the Elizabethan age. But however 
 strongly I feel inclined to the belief, that it was anterior to 
 Shakespeare's K. Henry VIII. , even if the latter was origin- 
 ally written in 1602 — 3, yet I am nowise prepared to maintain 
 that it also preceded his Taming of the Shrew and his Merch- 
 ant of Venice. We are therefore driven to the dilemma, either 
 that Rowley was the borrower of the respective passages , or 
 that these passages originated with both poets independentlj- 
 
mTRODUCTION. xiii 
 
 from each other. We shall hardly be able to arrive at a 
 nearer approach to the truth, as the chronology of Shakespeare's 
 plays is nothing but a network of conjectures and surmises. 
 Thus much, however, may be safely asserted, that both the pro- 
 logue and epilogue to K. Henry VIII., which probably are of later 
 origin than the play itself, distinctly hint at Rowley's Chronicle- 
 History. What reader of 'When you see me, you hnow me' can 
 peruse the following lines of Shakespeare's prologue without 
 being struck by the hit on the poet's predecessor? 
 
 Only they 
 That come to hear a merry bawdy play, 
 A noise of targets, or to see a ' fellow 
 In a long motley coat guarded with yellow. 
 Will be deceived ; for, gentle hearers, know. 
 To rank our chosen truth with such a show 
 As fool and fight is, beside forfeiting 
 Our own brains, and the opinion that we bring. 
 To make that only true we now intend, 
 Will leave us never an understanding friend. 
 The poet — or whoever wrote the prologue — states that 
 'fool and fight' have been purposely omitted, both of ^^■hich 
 are characteristic features of Eowley's play , in which King 
 Henry himself is introduced trying his skill with a sword and 
 buckler-man in the streets of London. As 'a merry bawdy 
 play' Eowley's piece might be denounced on account of the 
 indecent speeches in which Will Summers indulges even 
 when conversing with Queen Jane Sej-mour and Queen Ka- 
 therineParr; they are certainly not a whit more bawdy than 
 numerous passages in Shakespeare himself, but they are more 
 repulsive, because there is 'no sallet in the lines.' Even the 
 repeated assertion, that in Shakespeare's ]An,y 'all is true', sounds 1 
 like an indirect reproof of those comic scenes which arc merely i 
 due to Eowley's own invention. The epilogue adds another 
 innuendo on Rowley in the words that some spectators come 
 
 to hear the city 
 Abused extremely, and to cry 'That's witty'; 
 
xiv INTKODUCTION, 
 
 for those spectators -who recollected the City - guard and the 
 Counter in Eowley's play, could not but own, that there was 
 no lack of abuse of the City. 
 
 Historical truth in Eowley's Chronicle-History is partly 
 strikingly neglected and partly as studiously observed ; in both 
 respects it stands side by side with Shakespeare's K. Henry VIII. 
 Shakespeare makes Queen Katharine die three years earlier 
 than she really did and the trial of Cranmer with him takes 
 place a dozen of years before its time , while Kowley gives 
 an additional length of about fourteen or fifteen years to Car- 
 dinal Wolsey's life. On the other hand Eowley has drawn 
 even the subordinate characters of Doctor Tye and Will Sum- 
 mers , the king's fool , with an accuracy and truth , which a 
 superficial reader would scarcely dream of Will Summers' 
 character corresponds throughout with the description given 
 of him by Eobert Armin in his 'Nest of Ninnies' on the 
 testimony, as he says, of several old inhabitants of Greenwich 
 who had personally known this favourite fool of K. Henry VIII. ^ 
 As Armin published his 'Nest of Ninnies' three years after 
 Rowley's 'When you see me, you know me', it may indeed be 
 doubted, if the latter has not been amongst his sources for 
 the fool's portrait, although the following lines show him to 
 have been in possession of a store of other materials: 
 Will Sommers born in Shropshire, as some say, 
 Was brought to Greenwich on a holy day. 
 Presented to the king; which foole disdain'd 
 To shake him by the hand, or else asham'd : 
 How ere it was, as ancient people say, 
 With much adoe was wonne to it that day. 
 Leane he was, hollow eyde, as all report. 
 And stoop he did, too ; yet in all the court 
 Few men were more belou'd then was this foole, 
 
 ' "Fools and Jesters ; with a Keprint of Robert Armin's Nest of Nin- 
 nies (1608). Edited by J. P. Collier for the Shakespeare-Society (1842) 
 p. 45. 
 
IJSTTRODUCTION. xv 
 
 Whose merry prate kept with the king much rule. 
 When he was sad, the king and ho would rime : 
 Thus Will exiled sadness many a time. 
 I could describe him as I did the rest, 
 But in my mind I doe not think it best: 
 My reason this; how ere I doe descry him, 
 So many knew him that I may belye him; 
 Therefore, to please all people, one by one, 
 I hold it best to let that paines alone: 
 Onely this much, — hee was a poor mans friend. 
 And helpt the widdow often in the end. 
 The king would euer grant what he would crauo. 
 For well he knew Will no exacting knare: 
 But whisht the king to doe good deeds great store, 
 Which caus'd the court to loue him more and more. 
 That Will Summers was a most honest and disinterested man, 
 and therefore respected both by the court and the people is 
 granted on all hands; he never would ask a favour for him- 
 self, but, says Armin (p. 46), 'laid him downe among the 
 spaniels to sleep.' According to the same authority he 'never 
 loved' the cardinal, 'indeed he could never abide him', for ho 
 knew him to be neither true to the king, nor generous and 
 humane to the poor. In the opinion of Mr. W. J. Thoms, 
 Will Summers 'owes his reputation rather to the uniform kind- 
 ness with which he used his influence over bluff Harry, than 
 to his wit or folly. Indeed it may be owing to this circum- 
 stance , that, notwithstanding Henry's well-known fondness for 
 these motley followers , Will is almost the only one of them 
 whose memory has survived.'' 
 
 'A collection was made, says Mr. Collier,' of Will Sum- 
 mer's jests, but when it was first printed, is not ascertained. 
 A copy in 1676, has for title, "A pleasant History of the Life 
 and Death of Will Summers ; how he came first to be known 
 
 ■"Fools and Jesters &c. p. 64. 
 
 ^A Select Collection of Old Plays (1825) IX, 14, Note 14. 
 
xvi INT]{ODUCTION. 
 
 at court , and by what means he got to be King Henry the 
 Eighth's Jester." It was reprinted by Harding, in 1794, with 
 an engraving from an old portrait, supposed to be Will Sum- 
 mer ; but if it be authentic, it does not at all support Armin's 
 description of him, that he was „lean and hollow-eyed" Many 
 of the jests are copied from the French and Italian ; and some 
 of them have been assigned also to Scoggin and Tarlton. One 
 or two of these are introduced into S. Kowley's "When you see 
 me, you know me".' 
 
 'Armin's description of Sommers's person , according to the 
 above citsd note by Mr. Thoms, accords very well with the 
 rare print of him by Delaram, described by Granger in his 
 "Biographical History of England" (I. p. 116, ed. 1779), and 
 also with the portrait of him in the frontispiece to the first 
 volume of Sir Henry Ellis's "Original Letters illustrative of 
 English History", which is taken from Henry the Eight's 
 Psalter preserved among the Eoyal Mss. in the British Museum. 
 It docs not, however, by any means correspond with the ad- 
 mirable picture by Holbein of a merry knave looking through 
 a leaded casement, described in the Guide to the Pictures at 
 Hampton Court, as one of Henry the Eight's jesters,' but tra- 
 ditionally said to be a portrait of Will Sommers.' 
 
 Kowley was not the first to bring Will Summers on the 
 stage; already in Nash's 'Summer's Last Will and Testament' 
 (acted in 1592) he plays a prominent part as a looker-on and 
 critic of the dramatic performance after the fashion of Chri- 
 stopher Sly in the Taming of the Shrew, but his remarks lack 
 genial humour and comic vigour. As it appears, jSfash's 'show' 
 was performed by the Children of the Chapel and the actor 
 of Summers' part, whose name was Toy, was the only grown- 
 up person amongst them ; the epilogue was spoken by a child 
 sitting on his knees and carried off the stage after its de- 
 livery. ' 
 
 'Sue Mr. (Jollier's note, Select Collection of Old Plays, IX, 50 scq. 
 
TNTKODUCTION. xvii 
 
 Kowley's Chroniole-Historj' is remurkable as being perhaps 
 the only play in which two domestic fools ai'o introducod, for 
 besides Will Summers wo also make the acquaintance of the 
 cardinal's fool, Patch. This appellative noun seems sometimes 
 to have served as a nomen proprium for the designation of in- 
 dividual fools, as these poor fellows may frequently have been 
 glad to drop their family names and the households of their 
 masters did not care to know them. According to Douce (Il- 
 lustrations, 1839, p. 158 seq.) cardinal Wolsey had two fools, 
 both of them named Patch, one of whom he presented to the 
 king. ■ The real name of this fool is said to have been Williams, 
 while that of the other was Sexton. This is shown by the 
 following epigram of John Heywood (First Hundred, Epigr. 44) 
 entitled 'A saying of Patch my lord Cardinal's Foole'. 
 Maister Sexton, a person of unknowen witte, 
 As he at my lord Cardinal's boord did sitte, 
 Greedily raught at a goblet of wine : 
 Drink none, sayd my lord, for that sore leg of thyne : 
 I warrant your Grace, quoth Sexton, I provide 
 For my leg: for I drink on the tother sido- 
 The following text has been constituted from CiB and 
 Q,D ; the latter contains a number of welcome corrections — 
 although most of them could scarcely have been missed by 
 any editor — but at the same time adds some fresh misprints 
 and blunders to those by which QB is defaced. In many 
 cases the metre has been spoiled and mangled, sometimes be- 
 yond the hope of recovery, while the prose-scenes are printed 
 with an almost unexceptionable correctness. The charge can- 
 not be laid at the author's door, as no poet, however subordin- 
 ate, can be believed to have written such limping verses. I 
 have therefore now and then been driven to propose remedies 
 which I am afraid conservative critics will think rather bold; 
 yet I have carefully refrained from altering the peculiarities 
 of the poet's language, such as the construction of the noun 
 
 ' Sec Cavendish, Life of Cardinal Wolsey ed. by Singer I, 191 and 34:;. 
 'Warton, H. E. V. (1840) lit, 87. See also Nares s. Patch, 
 
xviii INTRODUCTION 
 
 in the plural form with what is now considered the singular 
 of the verb, to which construction the author seems addicted 
 as to an almost binding rule. The remark which Mr. Abbot 
 has made on this point ought not to pass unheeded. 'The 
 third person plural in — s, he says', is extremely common 
 in the Folio. It is generally altered by modern editors, so 
 that its commonness has not been duly recognized. Fortunately, 
 there are some passages where the rhyme or metre has made 
 alteration impossible.' Another metrical peculiarity of Rowley 
 is the regular dissolution of the final — ion in the end of 
 the line, which, as I have had occasion to remark elsewhere, 
 occurs with little less regularity in Chapman's Tragedy of 
 Alphonsus.^ There are hardly throe or four exceptions in 
 Rowley and I doubt very much, if the respective lines should 
 not be read as verses of six feet, so that there would be no 
 exception at all. 
 
 In common with a great number of Elizabethan plays 
 ' When you see me, you know me' is not divided into acts and 
 scenes, a defect which I have not deemed it advisable to re- 
 medy, but have only added a list of the Dramatis Personse. The 
 stage- directions too are very defective and frequently misplaced. 
 
 Before concluding it may be as well to glance at the 
 only other play of Sam. Rowley which has been preserved in 
 print. 'The Noble Souldier', or, as the heading of the pages has 
 it, 'The Noble Spanish Souldier appeared, as we have seen, in 
 1634 and according to Lowndes was reprinted in 1637. The 
 title of the first edition runs thus : 'The Noble Souldier. Or, 
 A Contract broken, Justly Reveng'd. A Tragedy. Written by 
 S. R. — Non est , Lex lustior Ulla , Q,uam Nescis Artifices, 
 Arte perire Sua. London: Printed for Nicholas Vavasour, and 
 are to be sold at his shop in the Temple, neere the Church. 
 1634.'' Since I have alluded before to the Printer's preface 
 
 'Shakespearian Grammar (3d Ed.) -SSS. 
 
 ^Sec my edition of that play (Leipzig, 18G7) p. 37. Compare also 
 Jlr. Abbott's Shakespearian Grammar 479. 
 
 ^The copy in the British Museum bears the pressmark G44. c. 15. — 
 According to Mr. Halliwell (Diet. Old English Plays) Kicholas Vavasour 
 
INTUODUCTIOX. xix 
 
 to this play as aft'ordinf; some cluu to thu time when the iiu- 
 thor may be presumed to have died, and as the book has never 
 been reprinted , the reader will perhaps thank me for tran- 
 scribing the whole of this preface. It is to the following effect: 
 
 'The Printer to the Header. Understanding Eeader , I 
 present this to your view, Avhich has received applause in 
 Action. The Poet might conceive a compleat satisfaction upon 
 the Stages approbation : But the Printer rests not there, know- 
 ing that that which was acted and approved upon the Stage 
 might bee no lesse acceptable in Print. It is now com- 
 municated to you whose leisure and knowledge admits of 
 reading and reason : Your Judgement now this Posthumus ' as- 
 sures himselfe will well attest his predecessors endeavours to 
 give content to men of the ablest quality, such as intelligent 
 readers are here conceived to be. I could have troubled you 
 with a longer Epistle, but I feare to stay you from the booke, 
 which aifords better words and matter than I can. So the 
 work modestly depending in the skale [sic!] of j'our Judge- 
 ment, the Printer for his part craves your pardon, hoping by 
 his promptnesse to doe you greater service , as couvcniency 
 shall enable him to give you more or better testimony of his 
 entirenesse towards you. N. V.' 
 
 Perhaps it is also owing to the printer that the play is 
 divided into acts and scenes and furnished with the following 
 list of the Dramatis Porsonte. 
 
 King of Spaine. 
 
 Cardinall. 
 
 Duke oy Medina 
 
 Makquesse Daenia 
 
 Alba 
 
 KoDEiUGO 
 
 Valas CO 
 
 Lopez } 
 
 Dons of Spayue. 
 
 eutcred this play on the Stationers' Kcgisters on tlie 9lh ot Dccciiibi'r 
 1633, under its running-title, as written by Thomas Decker. 
 ' The italics arc the printer's. 
 
XX mTRODUCTION. 
 
 Queene, a Florentine. 
 
 Onaelia, Neece to Medina, the Contracted Lady. 
 
 Sebastian, her Sonne. 
 
 Malateste, a Florentine. 
 
 Baltazak, the Souldier. 
 
 A Poet. 
 
 Cockadillio, a foolish Courtier. 
 
 A Fryer. 
 
 The contents of 'The Noble Soldier are interesting only 
 inasmuch as they throw a striking light on the popular opinion 
 of Shakespeare's time regarding troth -plight and precontract. 
 The king of Spain is represented as having plighted his troth 
 to the noble Onaelia, by whom he has a son. He, however, 
 partly 'by a shameless fraud, partly by force, snatches his 
 written promise of marriage from her and marries a Florentine 
 princess, whom all the characters of the play, the catholic 
 clergy not excepted, denounce as a strumpet, while they per- 
 sist in considering Onaelia the lawful wife of the king and 
 her son his legitimate heir. They will not be satisfied , till, 
 as the Duke of Medina expresses it (sign. E, 2) : 
 they ha' forc'd him 
 
 To cancell his late lawless bond he seal'd 
 
 At the high Altar to his Florentine Strumpet, 
 
 And in his bed lay this his troth-plight wife. 
 The foremost champion of Onaelia and her claims is Baltazar, 
 the Noble Soldier. The king however is obstinate; he wants 
 to marry Ontelia to one of his courtiers and directs her son 
 to be murdered, but is himself poisoned at Onaelia's wedding- 
 feast and repents before his death, his last consolation being 
 to learn that his son Sebastian has not been killed, but comes 
 to witness the last moments of his dying father, who amidst 
 the universal approbation of all the court appoints him his 
 successor. The popular notions of the validity and sanctity 
 of troth-plight, which are so forcibly put forward in this tra- 
 gedy, must above all be borne in mind, when we attempt to 
 form an opinion of Shakespeare's marriage ; irregular as it was, 
 
INTRODUCTION. xxi 
 
 it was yet preceded by troth - pliglit and those commentators 
 who have pleaded this circumstance in the poet's favour might 
 have added Rowley's Nohle Soldier to the number of their ar- 
 guments. It is also well known that the precontract into which 
 Anne Boleyn was said to have entfired with some person un- 
 known — for Northumberland denied upon oath that he had 
 ever stood in any such relation to the queen — was alleged 
 as an argument against the validity of her marriage with the 
 king. In the same manner in the case of Anne of Cleves a 
 precontract with the Count of Lorraine was alluded to as a 
 lawful impediment to her marriage with Henr}^ VIII., although 
 the documents relating to this precontract could never be pro- 
 cured from German}'. ' We maj' perhaps be justified in con- 
 sidering these two memorable and notorious cases, more especi- 
 ally the former, as one of the links, b}' which in the author's 
 mind the tragedy of 'The Nohle Soldier was connected with 
 his Chronicle-History of 'When you see me, ynu hion' me. 
 
 'See Froude (1858) H, 502. Ui, 464 and 485. 
 
WHEN YOU SEE ME, YOU KNOW ME. 
 
 Or the famous Chronicle Historic of King Henrie the Eight, 
 With the Birth and vertuous Life of Edward Prince of Wales. 
 
 As it was playd 
 
 By the high and mightie Prince of Wales his servants. 
 
 By 
 
 SAMVELL ROVVLY, 
 
 Servant to tlip Prince. 
 
DKAMATIS PERRONS. 
 
 KING HENRY the Eighth. 
 
 CHAELES the Fifth, Emperor of Gei-many. 
 
 EDWARD, Prince of Wales. 
 
 CHARLES BRANDON, Duke of Suffolk. 
 
 LORD SEYMOUR, Father to Queen Jane 
 
 LORD DUDLEY. 
 
 LORD GRAY. 
 
 The young MARQUESS OF DORSET. 
 
 SIR WILLIAM COMPTON. 
 
 CARDINAL WOLSEY. 
 
 CARDINAL CAMPEIUS, Legato from the Pope: 
 
 BONNER, afterwards Bishop of London. 
 
 GARDINER, afterwards BLshop of Winchester. 
 
 DOCTOR CllANMEE. 
 
 BONNIVET, High Admiral of France V i i,„ „.i <■ „ v ,„. 
 * ° J- Ambassadors trom I* ranee. 
 
 JOHN DE MAZO, Bishop of Paris > 
 
 DOCTOR TYE. 
 
 Young EDWARD BROWNE. 
 
 EOKESBY, Groom of the Wardrobe 
 
 WILL SUMMERS, Fool to the king. 
 
 PATCH, Fool to Cardinal Wolsey 
 
 A Messenger. 
 
 A Constable. 
 
 PIUCHALL, CARCASE, DORMOUSE, &f,. Watchmen. 
 
 BLACK WILL. 
 
 Keeper, Porter, and Prisoners in the Counter. 
 
 QUEEN JANE SEYMOUR. 
 QUEl^N K.\THAR1NE PARE. 
 LADY MARY, sister to K. Henry. 
 COUNTESS OF SALlSBaEY, 
 
 Ladies, Attendants, and Servants. 
 
Enter the Cardikal with the Ambassadors ov France, in all state 
 and royalttj, the Purse and Mace before him. 
 
 Wol. Gentlemen, give leave! You great ambassadors 
 From Francis, the most Christian king of France, 
 My Lord of Paris and Lord Bonuivet, 
 Welcome to England ! Since the king j-our master 
 Entreats our furtherance to advance his peace, 
 Giving us titles of high dignity. 
 As next elect to Rome's supremacy, 
 Tell him, we have so wrought with English Henr)- 
 (Who as his right hand loves the cardinal) 
 That undelayed )'ou shall have audience. 
 And this day will the king in person ait 
 To hear your message and to answer it. 
 
 Bonniv. Ypur grace hath done us double courtes)-. 
 For so much doth the king our master long 
 To have an answer of this ambassage, 
 As minutes are thought months till we return, 
 
 Paris. And that's the cause his highness moves your grace 
 To quick dispatch betwixt the king and him. 
 And for a quittance of 3'our forwardness 
 And hopeful kindness to the crown of France, 
 Twelve reverend bishops are sent post to Rome, 
 Both from his highness and the emperor. 
 To move Campeius and the cardinals 
 For your election to the papal throne, 
 That Wolse}''s head may wear the triple crown. 
 
 Wol. We thank his highness for rememb'ring us, 
 And so salute m}' lord the emperor. 
 Both which (if Wolsey be made Pope of Rome) 
 Shall be made famous through all Christendom. 
 
 Enter Bonxee. 
 How now, Bonner? 
 
4 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 Bon. Sir William Compton from his highness comes 
 To do a message to your excellence. 
 
 Wol. Delay him awhile and tell him we are busy. 
 Meantime, my lords, you shall withdraw yourselves; 
 Our private conference must not be known. 
 Let all your gentlemen in their best array 
 Attend you bravply to king Henry's court, 
 Where we in person presently will meet j'ou, 
 And doubt not we'll prevail successfully. 
 
 Bonniv. But hath your grace yet mov'd his highness' sister 
 For kind acceptance of our sovereign's love ? 
 
 Wol. I have, and by the king's means finish'd it. 
 And yet it was a task, I tell ye, lords. 
 That might have been impos'd to Hercules, 
 To win a lady of her spirit and years 
 To see her first love crown'd with silver hairs. 
 As old king Lewis is, that bedrid lies, 
 Unfit for love or worldlj' vanities. 
 
 Bonniv. But 't is his country's peace the king respects. 
 
 Wol. We think no less and we have fully wrought it. 
 The emperor's forces that were levied 
 To invade the frontiers of Low Burgundy, 
 Are stayed in Brabant by the king's command. 
 The Admiral Hayward that was lately sent. 
 With threescore sail of ships and pinnaces. 
 To batter down the towns in Normandy, 
 Is by our care for him call'd home again : 
 Then doubt not of a fair successful end, 
 Since Wolsey is esteem'd your sovereign's friend. 
 
 Pari.?. We thank your excellence and take our leaves. 
 
 Wol. Haste ye to court, I'll meet ye presently. 
 
 Bonniv. Good morrow to your grace. [^Exeunt. 
 
 Wol. Good morrow, lords. Go, call Sir William Compton in. 
 We must have narrow eyes and quick conceit 
 To look into these dangerous stratagems ; 
 I will effect for France, as they for me. 
 If Wolsey to the pope's high state attain, 
 The league is kept, or else he'll break't again. 
 
 Enter Bonnek and Compton. 
 Now, good Sir William ? 
 
 Comp. The king, my lord, entreats your reverend grace, 
 There may be had some private conference 
 Betwixt his highness and your excellence, 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 5 
 
 Before he hear the French ambassadors, 
 And wills you hasten your repair to him. 
 
 Wol. We will attend his highness presently. 
 Bonner, see all our train be set in readiness, 
 That in our state and pomp _pontifical 
 We may pass on to grace King Henry's court. 
 
 Comp. I have a message from the queen, my lord. 
 Who much commends and humbly thanks j'our grace 
 For your exceeding love and zealous praj^ers. 
 By your directions through all England sent. 
 To invocate for her sound prosperous help, 
 By heaven's fair hand, in child-bed passions. 
 
 Wol. We thank her highness, that accepts our lovo ; 
 In all cathedral churches through the land 
 Are masses, dirges, and professions sung. 
 With prayers to heaven to bless her majesty 
 And send her joy, and quick delivery. 
 And so. Sir William, do my duty to her : 
 Queen Jane was ever kind and courteous 
 And always of her subjects honoured. 
 
 Comp. I take mj' leave, my lord. [Exit. 
 
 Wol. Adieu, good knight, we'll follow presently. 
 Now, Wolsey, work thy wits like gads of steel, 
 And make them pliable to all impressions, 
 That king and queen and all may honour thee. 
 So toil'd not Caesar in the state of Home, 
 As Wolsej- labours in th' affairs of kings; 
 As Hannibal with oil did melt the Alps, 
 To make a passage into Italy, 
 So must we bear our high-pitch'd eminence, 
 To dig for glory in the hearts of men, 
 Till we have got the papal diadem. 
 And to this end have I compos'd this plot, 
 And made a league between the French and us, 
 x\nd match'd their aged king in holy marriage 
 With Lady Mary, roj'al Henry's sister, 
 That he, in peace complotting with the emperor, 
 . May plead for us within the courts of Kome. 
 Wherefore was Alexander's fame so great. 
 But that he conquer'd and deposed kings? 
 And where doth Wolsey fail to follow him, 
 That thus commandeth kings and emperors ? 
 Great England's lord have I so won with words. 
 
6 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 That, under colour of advising him, 
 I overrule both council, court, and king. 
 Let him command, but we will execute. 
 Making our glory to out-shine his fame, 
 Till we have purchas'd an eternal name. 
 
 Enter Bonner. 
 
 Now, Bonner, are those proclamations sent, 
 As we directed, to the shrieves of London 
 Of certain new devised articles 
 For ordering those brothels call'd the Stewes ? 
 
 Bon. They are ready, my lord, and the shrieve attends 
 
 for them. 
 
 Wol. Dispatch him quickly and haste after me, 
 We must attend the king's high majesty. 
 
 Sound trumpets. Enter King Henky the Eighth; Queen Jane big 
 
 with child ; the Cardinal ; Charles Brandon, Dctke of Suffolk ; 
 
 Dudley ; Gray ; Compton ; the Lady Mary ; the Countess of 
 
 Salisbury, attending on the Queen. 
 
 King. Charles Brandon, Dudley, and my good Lord Gray, 
 Prepare yourselves and be in readiness 
 To entertain these French ambassadors ; 
 Meet them before our royal palace gate. 
 And so conduct them to our majesty ; 
 We mean this day to give them audience. 
 
 Dud. Gray. We will, mj' lord. 
 
 Bran. Let one attend without, 
 
 And bring us word when they are coming on. 
 
 King. How now. Queen Jane? Mother of God, my love, 
 Thou wilt never be able to sit half this time. 
 Ladies, I fear she'll wake you ere't be long, 
 Methinks she bears her burden very heavily. 
 And yet, good sister, and my honour'd lords. 
 If this fair hour exceed not her expect, 
 And pass the calendar of her accounts, 
 She'll hear this embassage — Jane, wilt thou not? 
 
 Qu. Jane. Yes, my dear lord; I cannot leave j-our sight, 
 So long as life retains this mansion. 
 In whose sweet looks bright sovereignty's enthroned, 
 That make all nations love and honour thee ; 
 Within thy frame sits awful majesty, 
 Wreath'd in the curled furrows of thj- front: 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 7 
 
 Admir'd and fear'd even of thine enemies. 
 
 To be witli thee is my felicity ; 
 
 Not to behold the state of all the world, 
 
 Could win thy queen, thy sick, unwieldy queen, 
 
 To leave her chamber in this mother's state, 
 
 But sight of thee, unequall'd potentate. 
 
 King. God-a-mercy, Jane, reach mc thy princely hand: 
 Thou art now a right woman, goodly, chief of thj^ sex, 
 Methinks thou art a queen superlative. 
 Mother o' God, this is a woman's glory, 
 Like good September vines, loaden with fruit. 
 How ill did they define the name of woman. 
 Adding so foul a preposition. 
 To call it woe to man, 'tis woe from man, 
 If woe it be ; and, then, who does not know. 
 That women still from men receive their woe? 
 Yet they love men for it, but what's their gain? 
 Poor fools ! no more but travail for their pain. 
 Come, love, thou art sad: call Will Summers in, 
 To make her merry; where's the fool to-day? 
 
 Dud. He was met, my liege, they say at London 
 Early this morning with doctor Skelton. 
 
 Kinrj. He's ne'er from thence ; go, let a groom be sent 
 And fetch him home. My good lord cardinal. 
 Who are the chief of these ambassadors ? 
 
 Wol. Lord Bonnivet, the French High Admiral, 
 And John de Maze, reverend Bishop of Paris. 
 
 King. Let their welcome be thj^ care good Wolsey. 
 
 Wol. It shall, my liege. 
 
 Enler Comptox. 
 
 King. Spare for no cost. Compton, what news? 
 
 Comp. Th' ambassadors, ray liege. 
 
 King. Enough; go, give them entertainment. Lord! 
 Charles Brandon, hear'st thou? Give them courtesy 
 Enough, and state enough ; go and conduct them. 
 
 Bran. I go, my lord. 
 
 Enler Will Summeks booted and spurred.^ blowing a hum. 
 
 King. How now, William? What, post post? Where have 
 you been riding? 
 
 Will. Out of my way, old Harry. Im am all on the 
 spur, I can tell ye, I have tidings worth telling. 
 
8 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 King. Why, where hast thou been r 
 
 Will. Marry, I rise early and ride post to London, to 
 know what news was here at court. 
 
 King. Was that your nearest way, William ? 
 
 Will. 0, ay, the very foot-path; but yet I rid the horse- 
 way to hear it. I warrant there is ne'er a conduit-head keeper 
 in London, but knows what is done in all the courts of 
 Christendom. 
 
 Wol. And what is the best news there, William? 
 
 Will. Good news for you, my lord cardinal, for one of 
 the old women waterbearers told me for certain, that last Fri- 
 day all the bells in Eome rang backward : there was a thousand 
 dirges sung , six hundred Avemaries said , every man washed 
 his face in holy water, the people crossing and blessing them- 
 selves to send them a new pope, for the old is gone to Pur- 
 gatory. 
 
 Wol. Ha, ha, ha. 
 
 Will. Nay , my lord, you'ld laugh, if it were so , indeed, 
 for every body thinks, if the pope were dead, you gape for 
 a benefice; but this news, my lord, is called too good to be 
 true. 
 
 Ki7ig. But this news came apace, Will, that came from 
 Kome to London since Friday last. 
 
 Will. For 'twas at Billingsgate by Saturday morning, 'twas 
 a full moon, and it came up in a spring tide. 
 
 King. Then you heard of the ambassadors that are come. 
 
 Will. Ay, ay, and that was the cause of my riding, to 
 know what they came for; I was told it all at a barber's. 
 
 King. Ha , ha ! what a fool's this, Jane ; and what do they 
 say he comes for, Will? 
 
 Will. Marry, they say he comes to crave thy aid against 
 the great Turk that vow^s to over-run all France within this 
 fortnight , he's in a terrible rage belike , and they say the 
 reason is, his old god Mahomet that was buried i'th' top on's 
 church at Mecca, his tomb fell down and kill'd a sow and 
 scyen pigs, whereupon they think all swines flesh is new 
 sanctified, and now it is thought the Jews will fall to eating 
 of pork extremely after it. 
 
 King. This is strange indeed, but is this all? 
 
 Will. No , there is other news that was told me among 
 the women at a bake-house, and that is this: they say, the 
 great bell in Glastonbury has tolled twice, and that king Ar- 
 thur and his knights of the round table that were buried in 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 9 
 
 armour, are alive again, crying Saint (Jcorge for England, and 
 mean shortlj' to conquer Eomo. Marry, this is thought to be 
 but a moral. 
 
 Kimj. The ambassadors are coming ; and hear , William, 
 see that you bo silent, when you see them here. 
 
 Will. I'll be wise and say little, I warrant thee, and there- 
 fore, till I see them come, I'll go talk with the queen. How 
 dost thou, Jane ? Sirrah Harrj-, she looks very big upon me, 
 but I care not, an she bring thee a young prince : Will Sum- 
 mers may haps be his fool, when you two arc both dead and 
 rotten. 
 
 KiiKf Go to, William. How now, Jane? what, groaning? 
 God's me, tho'a hast an angry soldier's frown. 
 
 Will. I think so, Harry: thou hast pressed her often. I 
 am sure this two years she has served under thy standard. 
 
 (2!'. Jane. Good faith, my lord, I must entreat your grace, 
 That, with your favour, I may leave the presence ; 
 I cannot stay to hear this embassage. 
 
 Kinrj. God's holy mother ! Ladies, lead her to her chamber ; 
 Go bid the midwives and the nurses wait. 
 Make wholesome tires and take her from the air. 
 Now, Jane, God ! bring me but a chopping boy, 
 Be but a mother to a prince of Wales 
 And a ninth Henry to the English crown. 
 And thou mak'st full my hopes. Fair queen, adieu. 
 And may heaven's helping hand our joys renew. 
 
 Comp. God make your majesty a happy mother! 
 
 Dud. And help you in year weakest passions! 
 With zealous prayer we all will invocato 
 The powers divine for your deliver}-. 
 
 Qu. Jane. Wo thank ye all, and in fair interchange 
 We'll pray for j'ou. Now, on my humble knees, 
 I take my leave of your high majest]': 
 God send your highness long and happy reign, 
 And bless this kingdom and your subjects' lives. 
 And to your gracious heart all joy restore! 
 I fear I never shall behold you more. 
 
 Kinc/. Do not think so, fair queen; go to thy bed, 
 Let not my love be so discomfortijd. 
 
 Will. No, no, I warrant thee, Jane, make haste and dis- 
 patch this , that thou may'st have another against next 
 Christmas. 
 
 Kinff. Ladies, attend her! Countess of Salisbury! sister Mary ! 
 
10 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 Who first brings word that Harry hath a son, 
 Shall be rewarded well. 
 
 Will. Ay, I'll bo his surety: but do you hear, wenches, 
 she that brings the first tidings, howsoever it fall out, let her 
 be sure to say the child's like his father, or else she shall 
 have nothing. 
 
 Enter LoKDs and Ambassadoks. 
 
 Kiny. Welcome, Lord Bonnivet! welcome, bishop! 
 What from our brother brings this embassage? 
 
 Bonniv. Most fair commends, great and renowned Henry. 
 We, in the person of our lord and king, 
 Hero of your highness do entreat a league, 
 And to re-edify the former peace. 
 Held 'twixt the realms of England and of France, 
 Of late disordered, for some petty wrongs ; 
 And pray your majesty to stay your powers, 
 Already levied in Low Burgundy; 
 Which to maintain our oaths shall be engaged, 
 And to confirm it with more surety, 
 He craves your fair consent unto his love, 
 And give the Lady Mary for his queen. 
 The second sister to your royal self. 
 So may an heir, springing from both your bloods, 
 Make both realms happy by a lasting league. 
 
 King. We kindly do receive your master's love; 
 And yet our grant stands strong unto his suit, 
 H that no following censure feeble it: 
 For wc herein must take our council's aid. 
 But howsoever, our answer shall be swift. 
 Meantime we grant you fair access to woo 
 ,\nd win her (if you can) to be his queen; 
 Ourself will second you. Right welcome both ! 
 Lord cardinal, these lords shall be your guests. 
 But let our treasure waste to welcome them : 
 Banquet them, how they will, what cheer, what sport. 
 Let them see, Harry keeps a kingly court. 
 
 Wol. I shall, my sovereign. 
 
 King. Withdraw awhile, ourselves we'll follow ye. 
 
 [ExeunL WuLseij and Ambassadors. 
 
 Now, Will, are you not deceiv'd in this embassage ? 
 You heard, they came for aid against the Turk. 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 11 
 
 Will Well then , now I see, there is loud lies told in 
 London ; but all's one, for their coming is to as much purpose 
 as the other. 
 
 Kinff. And whj-, I pray? 
 
 Will. Why, dost thou think thy sister such a fool to 
 marry such an old Dies Veneris to get her with prince? Aj', 
 when either I, or the cardinal , prove pope, and that will 
 never he, I hope. 
 
 King. How knowest thou him to be old, thou never 
 sawest him? 
 
 Will. So , nor he me , but I saw his picture with ne'er 
 a tooth i' th' head on't, and all his beard as well favoured 
 as a white frost; but it is no matter, if he have her: he will 
 die shortly, and then she may help to bury him. 
 Enter Ladies. 
 
 First Lady. Eun , run , good madam , call the ladies in : 
 call for more woman's help, the queen is sick. 
 
 Sec. Lady. For God's love, go back again, and warm more 
 clothes, and let the wine be well burned, I charge ye. 
 
 Will. Ay, in any case, or I cannot drink it. Dost thou 
 hear, Harry, what a coil they keep? I warrant, these women 
 will drink th6e up more wine with their gossiping than was 
 spent in all the conduits at thy coronation. 
 
 Enter Lady Mart and the Countess of Salisbury. 
 
 King. 'Tis no matter, Will. How now, ladies? 
 L. Mary. I beseech j'our grace, command the fool forth 
 of the presence. 
 
 King. Away, William ! j'ou must be gone, here's woman's 
 matters in hand. 
 
 Will. Let them speak low then. I'll not out of < he room, sure. 
 Count. Sal. Come, come, let's thrust him out, he'll not stir 
 else. 
 
 Will. Thrust me ? Nay, an ye go on thrusting, I'll thrust 
 some of you down, I warrant ye. 
 King. Nay, go, good William. 
 
 Will. I'll out of their company, Harry; they will scratch 
 worse than cats, if they catch me, therefore I'll hence and 
 leave. Good bye, ladies! 
 
 Do j-ou hear. Madam Mary ? 
 You had need to be wary, 
 Mj- nciws is worth a white cake; 
 You must play at tennis 
 
 3 
 
12 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 With old Saint Denis, 
 
 And your maidenhead must lie at the stake. [^Exit. 
 King. Ha, ha! The fool tells you true, my gentle sister. 
 But to our business: how fares my queen? 
 How fares my Jane r has she a son for me. 
 To raise again our kingdom's sovereignty r 
 
 L. Mmij. That yet rests doubtful, my princely lord! 
 Your poor distressed queen lies weak and sick. 
 And be it son or daughter, dear she buys it. 
 Even with her dearest life, for one must die. 
 All woman's help is past. Then, good my liege, 
 Eesolve it quickly, if the queen shall live. 
 The child must die, or if it life receive, 
 You must your hapless queen of life bereave. 
 
 King. You pierce me with j'our news. Eun, send for help. 
 Spend the revenues of my crown for aid. 
 To save the life of my beloved queen. 
 How happed, she is so ill attended on, 
 That we are put to this extremity, 
 To save the mother, or the child to die: 
 
 Count. Sal. I beseech your grace, resolve immediately. 
 King. Immediately, sayst thou r , 'tis no ' quick resolve 
 Can give good verdict in so sad a choice: 
 To lose my queen, that is my sum of bliss, 
 More virtuous than a thousand kingdoms be ; 
 And should I lose my son (if son it be) 
 That all my subjects so desire to see, 
 I lose the hope of this great monarchy. 
 What shall I do ? 
 
 L. Mary. Eemember the queen, my lord. 
 
 King. I not forget her, sister. poor soul ! 
 But I forget thy pain and misery. 
 Go, let the child die, let the mother live. 
 Heaven's powerful hand may more children give. 
 Away and comfort her with our reply, 
 Harry will have his queen, though thousands die. 
 
 [Exeunt ladien. 
 I know no issue of her princely womb : 
 Why then should I prefer't before her life. 
 Whose death ends all my hopeful joys on earth? 
 God's will be done, for sure it is his will. 
 For secret reasons to himself best known. 
 Perhaps he did mould forth a son for me 
 
YOU KNOW M]S. 13 
 
 And seeing (that sees all in his creation) 
 To be some impotent and coward spirit, 
 Unlike the figure of his royal father, 
 Has thus decreed, least he should blur our fame, 
 As whilome did the sixth king of mj- name 
 Lose all his father (the fifth Henry) won; 
 I'll thank the heavens for taking such a son. 
 Who's within there? 
 
 Enter Compton. 
 Comp. My lord ? 
 
 King. Go, Compton, bid Lord Se5rmour come to me, 
 The honoured father of my woful queen. \Exii Compton. 
 
 Enter Lady Mary vylth Attendants. 
 How now, what news? 
 
 L. Mary. We did deliver what your highness will'd. 
 Which was no sooner by her grace receiv'd, 
 But with the sad report she seemed as dead. 
 Which caused us stay ; after recovery 
 She sent us back to entreat your majesty. 
 As ever you did take delight in her. 
 As you prefer the quiet of her soul. 
 That now is ready to forsake this life, 
 As you desire to have the life of one : 
 She doth entreat your grace that she ma}- die, 
 Least both do perish in this agony : 
 For to behold the infant sutfer death 
 Were endless tortures, made to stop her breath. 
 'Then to my lord, quoth she, thus gently say : 
 The child is fair, the mother earth and clay.' 
 
 King. Sad messenger of woe! ray poor queen. 
 Canst thou so soon consent to leave this life. 
 So precious to our soul, so dear to all. 
 To yield the hopeful issue of thy loins. 
 To raise our second comfort ? Well, be it so ! 
 Ill, be it so ! Stay, I revoke my word. 
 But that, you say, helps not, for she must die: 
 Yet, if ye can save both, I'll give my crown, 
 Nay, all I have, and enter bonds for more. 
 Which with my conquering sword, with fury bent, 
 I'll purchase in the farthest continent. 
 Use all your chiefe^t skill ! Make haste, away ! 
 Whilst we for your success devoutly pray. \ R-xennt ladies. 
 
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14 WHEN YOTJ SEE ME, 
 
 Enter Loed Setmouh. 
 
 Sey. All joy and happiness betide my sovereign! 
 
 King. Joy be it, good Lord Seymour, noble father ! 
 Or joy, or grief, thou hast a part in it. 
 Thou com'st to greet us in a doubtful hour. 
 Thy daughter and my queen lies now in pain, 
 And if I lose, Seymour, thou canst not gain. 
 
 Sey. Get comfort, good my liege, 'tis woman's woe; 
 Why, 'tis as certain to her as her death. 
 Both given her in her first creation: 
 It is a sour to sweet, given them at first 
 By their first mother; then put sorrow hence. 
 Your grace ere long shall see a gallant prince. 
 
 King. Be thou a prophet, Seymour ! In thy words 
 Thy love some comfort to our hopes affords. 
 
 Enter Cotjntess of Saiisbuet with another lady. 
 
 How now? 
 
 Count. Sal. My gracious lord, here I present to you 
 A goodly son : see here your flesh and bone ! 
 Look, royal lord, I warrant 'tis your own. 
 
 Sey. See here, my liege, by the rood, a gallant prince ! 
 
 King. Ha! little oakebread! 'Fore God, a chopping boy! 
 Even now I wept with sorrow, now with joy. 
 Take that for thy good news. How fares my queen r 
 Enter Lady Maet with another lady. 
 
 Count. Sal. my good lord, the woful — 
 
 King. Tell me no more of woe! Speak, doth she live? 
 What weep ye all? Nay, then my heart misgives: 
 Eesolve me, sister! Is the news worth hearing? 
 
 L. Mary. Not worth the telling, royal sovereign. 
 
 King. Now, by mj"- crown, thou dimst my roj'alty. 
 And with thy cloudj- looks eclips'st my joys. 
 Thy silent eye bewrays a ruthfnl sound 
 Stopp'd in the organs of thy troubled spirit: 
 Say, is she dead? 
 
 L. Mary. Without offence, she is. 
 
 King. Without offence, sayst thou? Heaven take mys oul, 
 What can be more offensive to my life. 
 Than sad remembrance of my fair queen's death ? 
 Thou woful man that cam'st to comfort me, 
 How shall I ease thy heart's calamity, 
 That cannot help myself ? How one sad minute 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 15 
 
 Hath raised a fount of sorrows in his eyes 
 And bleared his aged cheeks! Yet, Seymour, see, 
 She's left part of herself, a son to me, 
 To thee a grandchild, to the land a prince, 
 The perfect substance of his royal mother, 
 In whom her memory shall ever live. 
 .Phcenix Jana obiit, nato Phcenice: dolendum, 
 Secula phmiices nulla tuUsse ducts. 
 One phoenix dying, gives another life: 
 Thus must we flatter our extremest grief. 
 What day is this ? 
 
 Comp. Saint Edward's even, my lord. 
 
 Kinff. Prepare for christening : Edward shall be his name ! 
 
 \^Exeimt. 
 
 Enter the Oakdinal, AjiaASSADOfis, Bonnee, and Gakdinek. 
 
 Wol. My lords of France , you 've had small cheer with us. 
 But you must pardon us, the times are sad. 
 And sorts not now for mirth and banqueting : 
 Therefore I pray you, make your swift return, 
 Commend me to your king and kindly tell him. 
 The English cardinal will remain his friend. 
 The Lady Mary shall be forthwith sent 
 And overtake ye, ere you reach to Dover; 
 And for the business that concerns the league. 
 Urge it no more, but leave it to my care. 
 
 Bonniv. We thank your grace, my good lord cardinal, 
 And so with thankfulness we take our leaves. 
 
 Wol. Happily speed, my honourable lords. 
 My heart, I swear, still keeps you company. 
 Farewell to both, and pray your king remember 
 My suit betwixt him and the emperor: 
 We shall be thankful, if they think on us. 
 
 Par. We will be earnest in your cause, my lord, 
 So of your grace we once more take our leaves. 
 
 Wol. Again farewell. Bonner, conduct them forth. 
 
 \JLxeunl. 
 Now, Gardiner, what think' st thou of these times? 
 
 Gar. Well, that the league's confirmed, my gracious lord : 
 111, that I fear the death of good queen Jane 
 Will cause new trouble in our state again. 
 
 Wol. Why think'st thou so? 
 
 Gar. I fear, false Luther's doctrine's spread so far, 
 
16 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 Least that his highness, now unmarried, 
 Should match amongst that sect of Lutherans. 
 You saw, how soon his majesty was won 
 To scorn the pope, and Rome's religion, 
 When queen Anne Bullen wore the diadem. 
 
 Wol. Gardiner, 'tis true; so was the rumour spread, 
 But Wolsey wrought such means, she lost her head. 
 Tush! Fear not thou ! Whilst Harry's life doth stand, 
 He shall be king, but we will rule the land. 
 
 Re-enter Bonjstek. 
 Bonner, come hither ! You are our trusty friend. 
 See that the treasure we have gathered. 
 The copes, the vestments, and the chalices, 
 The smoke-pence, and the tributary fees, 
 That English chimneys pay the church of Eome, 
 Be barrel'd close within the inner cellar; 
 We'll send it over shortly, to prepare 
 Our swift advancement to Saint Peter's chair. 
 Be trusty and be sure of honours speedily: 
 The king hath promis'd, at the next election, 
 L Bonner shall have the bishopric of London. 
 
 Bon. I humbly thank your grace. 
 
 Wol. And Gardiner shall be Lord of Winchester. 
 Had we our hopes, what shall you not be then, 
 When we have got the papal diadem? [^Exeunl. 
 
 Enter Beandon, Dudley, Gkat, SErinouE, Compiok. 
 
 Bran. How now. Sir William Compton ? Where's the king r 
 
 Comp. His grace is walking in the gallery, 
 As sad and passionate as e'er he was. 
 
 Dud. 'Twere good , your grace went in to com fort him. 
 
 Bran. Not I, Lord Dudley, by my George, I swear: 
 Unless his highness first had sent for me, 
 I will not put my head in such a hazard; 
 I know his anger and his spleen too well. 
 
 Gray. 'Tis strange, this humour has his highness held 
 Ever since the death of good queen Jane, 
 That none dares venture to confer with him. 
 
 Enter Caedinal, Sdilsiees, and Patch. 
 Dud. Here comes the cardinal. 
 
 Bran.- Ay, and two fools after him, his lordship is well 
 attended still. 
 
VOU KNdVV ME. 17 
 
 Sey. Let's win this prelate to salutu the kiug, 
 It may perhaps work his disgrace with him. 
 
 Wol. How now, William? What, are you hero too? 
 
 Will. Ay, my lord, all the fools follow you. I come to 
 bid my cousin Patch welcome to the court, and when I come 
 to York House, he'll do as much for me : will ye not, Patch ? 
 
 Patch. Yes, cousin. Hey day, tirri diddle, hey day! 
 
 [.S'i)"i/y.s. 
 
 Wol. What ? Are you singing, sirrah ? 
 
 Will. I'll make him cry as fast anon, I hold a penny. 
 
 Dud. Good morrow to your grace, my good lord cardinal. 
 
 Wol. We thank your honour. 
 
 Enter King ivithin. 
 
 King. What! Compton! Carew! \^Callii tciihiu. 
 
 Bran. Hark! the king calls. 
 
 King. Mother of God! How are we attended on! Who 
 
 -fl^aits without? 
 
 Bran. Go in, Sir William! and if you find his grace 
 In any milder temper than he was last night, 
 Let us have word, and we will visit him. 
 
 Comp. I will, my lord. ^Exil. 
 
 Wol. What is the occasion the king's so moved ? 
 
 Bran. His grace hath taken such an inward grief 
 With sad remembrance of the queen that's dead, 
 That much his highness wrongs his state and person. 
 Besides in Ireland do the Burkes rebel, 
 And stout Pearsie, that disclosed the plot. 
 Was by the Earl of Kildare put to death. 
 And Martin Luther out of Germany 
 Has writ a book against his majesty. 
 For taking part with proud Pope Julius, 
 Which being spread by him through Christendom, 
 Hath thus incensed his royal majesty. 
 
 Wol. Tush! I have news, my lord, to salve that sore. 
 And make the king more feared through Christendom, 
 Than ever was his famous ancestors: 
 'Not can base Luther, with his heresies. 
 Backed by the proudest German potentate, 
 Heretically blur king Henry's fame. 
 For honour that he did Pope Julius, 
 Who, in high favour of his majesty. 
 Hath sent Campeius with a bull from Eorae, 
 
18 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 To add unto his title this high stile: 
 That he and all his fair posterity 
 Proclaimed Defenders of the Faith shall be; 
 For which intent the holy cardinal's come 
 As legate from the imperial court of Kome. 
 
 Oray. This news, my lord, may something ease his mind : 
 'Twere good, your grace would go and visit him. 
 
 Wol. I will, and doubt not but to please him well. 
 
 \ExU. 
 
 Sey. So ! I am glad he's in : an the king be no better 
 pleased than, he was at our last parting , he'll make him re- 
 pent his sauciness. 
 
 Bran. How now, old William? How chance you go not 
 to the king and comfort him ? 
 
 Will. No, by'r ladjr, my lord. I was with him too lately 
 already , his fist is too heavy for a fool to stand under. I 
 went to him last night after you had left him, seeing him 
 chafe so at Charles here , to make him merry : and he gave 
 me such a box on the ear, that struck me clean through three 
 chambers , down four pair of stairs ; I feU over five barrels 
 into the bottom of the cellar, and if I had not well liquored 
 myself there, I had never lived after it. 
 
 Bran. Faith, Will, I'll give thee a velvet coat, an 
 thou canst but make him merry. 
 
 Will. Will ye, my lord? and I'll venture another box on 
 the ear, but I'll do it. 
 
 Enter Compton. 
 
 Comp. Clear the presence there ; the king is coming. 
 God's me, my lords, what meant the cardinal. 
 So unexpected thus to trouble him? 
 
 Qray. Is the king moved at it? 
 
 Enter the Kins aiid Wolset. 
 
 Comp. Judge by his countenance : see he comes ! 
 
 Bran. I'll not endure tho storm. 
 
 Dud. Nor I. 
 
 Will. Kun fool, your master will be felled else. 
 
 King. Did we not charge that none should trouble us? 
 Presumptuous priest, proud prelate as thou art. 
 How comes it, you are grown so saucy, sir, 
 Thus to presume upon our patience. 
 And cross our royal thought, disturbed and vex'd 
 
YOU KNOW :\[E. 19 
 
 By all your nugiigouoe in our estate 
 Of us and of our country's happiness r 
 
 Wol. My gracious lord! 
 
 King. Thou fawning beast, stand back, 
 
 Or by my crown, I'll foot thee to the earth! 
 Where's Brandon, Surrey, Seymour, Gray? 
 Where is your council now? 0, now ye crouch 
 And stand like pictures at our presence door. 
 Call in the guard and bear them to the Tower! 
 Mother of God! I'll have the traitors' heads. 
 Go, hail them to the block: up, up, stand up! 
 I'll make ye know your duties to our state : 
 Am I a cipher? is my sight grown stale? 
 Am I not Harry? am I not England's king? Ha! 
 
 Will. So la ! Now the watchword's given : nay, an ho 
 once cry Ha ! ne'er a man in the court dare for his head 
 speak again. Lie close, cousin Patch ! 
 
 Patch. I'll not come near him, cousin ; he's almost killed 
 me with his countenance. 
 
 Kinff. We have been too familiar, now I see, 
 And you may dally with our majesty. 
 Where are my pages there? 
 
 Enter Pages. 
 
 First Page. My lord? 
 
 King. Truss, sirrah ! None to put my garter on ! 
 Give me some wine ! — Here's stuff at th'other side. — 
 Proud cardinal, who followed our affairs in Italy, 
 That we, that honoured so Pope Julius, 
 By dedicating books, at thy request, 
 Against that upstart sect of Lutherans, 
 Should by that heretic be bandied thus? 
 But by my George I swear, if Henry live, 
 I'll hunt base Luther through all Germany, 
 And pull those seven electors on their knees. 
 If they but back him 'gainst our dignity. — 
 Base slave, tie soft, thou hurt'st my leg ! — \/ [Tu the page. 
 And now in Ireland the Burkes rebel, ^ 
 
 And with their stubborn kerns make hourly roads, 
 To burn the borders of the English pale: 
 And which of all your counsels helps us now? 
 
 Enter Compton vAth wine. 
 Comp. Here's wine, my lord! 
 
20 WHEN YOU .SEE ME, 
 
 Kinrj. Drink and be damn'd ! — 1 cry theu mercy, Compton. 
 What the devil meantst thou to come behind me so? 
 I did mistake, I'll make thee amends for it. 
 By holy Paul, I am so crossed and vex'd, 
 I knew not what I did: and here at home 
 Such careful statesmen do attend us, 
 And look so wisely to our common-weal. 
 That we have ill May-days, and riots made. 
 For lawless rebels do disturb our state. 
 Twelve times this term have we in person sat, 
 Both in the Star-Chamber and Chancery-Courts, 
 To hear our subjects' suits determined. 
 Yet 'tis your office, Wolsey: but all of you 
 May make a packhorse of king Harry now. 
 Well, what would you say? 
 
 Wol. Nothing that might displease your majesty; 
 I have a message from the pope to you. 
 
 King. Then keep it still, we will not hear it yet: 
 Get all of you away, avoid our presence. 
 We cannot yet command our patience. 
 
 [Exeunt Wolsey, lords Sj-c. 
 Keach me a chair ! 
 
 Bran. Now, Will, or never! Make the king but smile. 
 And with thy mirthful toys allay his spleen. 
 That we, his council, may confer with him. 
 And by mine honour, I'll reward thee well. 
 To him, good Will! 
 
 Will. Not too fast, I pray, least Will Summers ne'er be 
 seen again : I know his qualities as well as the best on ye, 
 for ever when he's angry, and nobody dare speak to him, ye 
 thrust me in by the head and shoulders, and then we fall to 
 buffets, but I know who has the worst on't : but go, my lord, 
 stand aside, and stir not, till I call ye ; let my cousin Patch 
 and I alone, an he go a-boxing, we'll fall both upon him, 
 that's certain : but an the worst come , be sure that the car- 
 dinal's fool shall pay for't. 
 
 B7'an. Use your best skill, good William: 
 I'll not be seen, unless I see him smile. [Exit Brandon. 
 
 Will. Where art thou, cousin ? Alas, poor fool, he's crept 
 under the table : up, cousin , fear nothing , the storm's past, 
 I warrant thee. 
 
 Patch. Is the king gone, cousin? 
 
 Will. No, no, yonder he sits : we are all friends now, the 
 
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 lords are gone to dinner , and thou and 1 must wait at the 
 king's table. 
 
 Patch. Not I, by'r lady, I would not wait [upon such 
 a lord for all the livings in the land : I thought he would 
 have killed my lord cardinal, he looked so terribly. 
 
 Will. Foh, he did but jest with him; but I'll tell thee, 
 cousin, the rarest trick to be revenged at's passes, and I'll- 
 give thee this fine silk point an thou'lt do it. 
 
 Patch. brave, brave, give me it, cousin, and I'll do 
 whatsoever 'tis. 
 
 Will. I'll stand behind the post here, and thou shalt go 
 softly stealing behind him as he sits reading yonder, and when 
 thou comest close to him, cry Bo! and we'll scare him so, 
 he shall not tell where to rest him. 
 
 Patch. But will he not be angry? 
 
 TTO. No, no, for then I'll show myself, and after he sees 
 who tis, he'll laugh and be as merry as a mag-pie, and 
 thou'lt be a made man by it, for all the house shall see him 
 hug thee in his arms and dandle thee up and down with hand 
 and foot as thou wert a football. 
 
 Patch. fine! Come, cousin, give me the point first, and 
 I'll roar so loud, that I'll make him believe, that the devil's, 
 come. 
 
 Will. So do and fear nothing, for an thou wert the devil 
 himself he'll conjure thee, I warrant thee: I would not have 
 such a conjuring for twenty crowns: but when he has made 
 way, rU make him merry enough, I doubt it not: so now, 
 cousin, look to your coxcomb. 
 
 Patch. Bo ! 
 
 King. Mother of God, what's that? 
 
 Patch. Bo ! 
 
 King. Out ass, and tumble at my feet, 
 For thus I'll spurn thee up and down the house. 
 
 Patch. Help, cousin, help. 
 
 Will. No, cousin , now he's conjuring ; I dare not come 
 near him. 
 
 King. Who set this natural here to trouble me? 
 
 Enter Compton. 
 
 Who's that stands laughing there ? The fool ! Ha , ha ! Where's 
 Compton ? Mother o' God, I have found his drift : 'tis the 
 craftiest old villain in Christendom. Mark, good Sir William, 
 
22 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 because the fool durst not come near himself, seeing our anger, 
 he sent this silly ass, that we might wreak our royal spleen 
 on him, whilst he stands laughing to behold the jest: by th' 
 blessed Lady, Compton, I'll not leave the fool to gain a mil- 
 lion, he contents me so. Come hither. Will ! 
 
 Will. I'd know whether ye have done knocking first : my 
 cousin Patch looks pitifully. Ye had best be friends with us, 
 I can tell you : we'll scare you out of your skin else. 
 
 King. Alas, poor Patch: hold, sirrah, there's an angel to 
 buy you points. 
 
 Will. La, cousin, did not I say, he'll make much on ye r 
 
 Patch. Ay, cousin, but he's made such a singing in my 
 head, I cannot see where I am. 
 
 Will. All the better , cousin, an your head fall a singing, 
 your feet may fall a dancing and so save charges to the piper. 
 
 Eing. Will Summers, pr'ythee , tell me why didst thou 
 send him first? 
 
 Will. Because I'd have him have the first fruits of thy 
 fury. I knew, how the matter stood with the next that dis- 
 turbed thee, therefore I kept i' th' rearward, that if the battle 
 grew too hot, I might run presently. 
 
 King. But wherefore came ye? 
 
 Will. To make thee leave thy melancholy and turn merry 
 man again : thou hast made all the court in such a pitiful 
 case as^ passes. The lords has attended here this four days 
 and none dares speak to thee, but thou art ready to chop 
 off their heads for it : and now I, seeing what a fretting fury 
 thou continuedst in, and every one said 'twould kill thee if 
 thou keptst it, pulled e'en up my heart and vowed to loose my 
 head, but I'd make thee leave it. 
 
 Ki7ig. Well, William , I am beholding to ye. Ye shall 
 have a new coat and cap for this. 
 
 Will. Nay, then I shall have two new coats and caps,, 
 for Charles Brandon promised me one before to perform this 
 enterprise. 
 
 King. He shall keep his word. Will. Go, call him in, 
 Call in the lords, tell them our spleen is calm'd : 
 Mother o' God, we must give way to wrath. 
 That chafes our royal blood with anger thus, 
 And use some mirth, I see, to comfort us. 
 
 Enter BE.iNDON and other Lokds. 
 
 Draw near us, lords; Charles Brandon, list to me, 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 23 
 
 Will Summers here must have a coat of you, 
 
 But Patch has earned it dearest : where's the fool ? 
 
 Will. He's e'en creeping as near the door as he can ; he'd 
 fain be gone, T see, an he could get out. Wouldst thou not, 
 cousin ? 
 
 Patch. Yes, cousin Will; I'd fain be walking, lam afraid 
 I am not as I should be. 
 
 Will. Come, I'll help thee out then. Dost thou hear, my 
 lord cardinal, your fool is in a pitiful taking; he smells ter- 
 ribly. 
 
 Wol. You arc too crafty for him, William. 
 
 King. So is he, Wolsey, credit me. 
 
 Will. I think so , my lord : as long as Will lives , the ^ Z'^*'^ 
 cardinal's fool must give way to the king's fool. /Vi^* 
 
 King. Well, Sir, he quiet; and my reverend lords, 
 I thank you for your patient suffering: 
 We were disturbed in our thoughts, we swear, 
 We now entreat you speak, and we will hear. 
 
 Wol. Then may it please your sacred majesty, 
 Campeius, legate to his holiness. 
 Attends with letters from the court of Rome. 
 
 Ki?ig. Let him draw near, we'll give him audience : 
 Dudley and Gray, attend the cardinal, 
 .\nd bring Campeius to our presence here. 
 
 Dud. Gray. We go, my lord. [Exmul. 
 
 Enter CAjrPEius loith the other Legates, rind Lorda. 
 
 King. Brandon and Seymour, place yourselves by us, 
 To hear this message from his holiness. 
 You reverend princes, pillars of the church. 
 Legates apostolic, how fares the pope ? 
 
 Cam. In health, great king, and from his sacred lips 
 I bring a blessing -apostolical 
 To English Henry and his subjects all: 
 And more to manifest his love to thee. 
 The prop and pillar of the church's peace, 
 And gratify thy love, made plain to him 
 In learned books 'gainst Luther's heresy. 
 Ho sends me thus to greet thy majesty. 
 With stile and titles of high dignity: 
 Command the heralds and the trumpets forth. 
 
 Seij. Gentlemen, dispatch and call them in. 
 
 Will. Lord bless us, what's here to do nowr 
 
24 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 Cam. Eeeeive this bull sent from his holiness 
 For coniirmation of this dignity 
 To thee and to thy fair posterity. 
 
 Will. 'Tis well the king is a widower: an ye had put 
 forth your bull with his horns forward, I'd have marred your 
 message, I can tell ye. 
 
 King. Peace, Will ! Heralds, attend him ! 
 
 Cam. Trumpets prepare, whilst we aloud pronounce 
 This sacred message from his holiness. 
 And in his reverend name I here proclaim, 
 Henry the Eighth, by the Grace of God, 
 King of England, France, and Ireland, 
 And to this title from the pope we give : 
 Defender of the Faith in peace to live. 
 
 Wol. Sound trumpets, and God save the king! 
 
 King. We thank his holiness for this princely favour, 
 Receiving it with thanks and reverence. 
 In which, whilst we have life, his grace shall see. 
 Our sword Defender of the Faith shall be. 
 Go one of you, salute the mayor of London, 
 Bid him with heralds and with trumpets' sound 
 Proclaim our titles through his government : 
 Go, Gray, and see it done; attend him, fellows! 
 
 Gray. I go, my lord ; trumpets, follow me. [Exit. 
 
 King. What more, lord legate, doth his holiness will? 
 
 Cam. That Henry, joining with the Christian kings 
 Of France and Spain, Denmark and Portugal, 
 Would send an army to assail the Turk, 
 That now invades with war the isle of Rhodes, 
 Or send twelve thousand pounds to be dispos'd, 
 As his holiness thinks best, for their relief. 
 
 Will. I thought so ; I knew 'twould be a money matter 
 when all's done. Now thou'rt Defender of the Faith, the pope 
 will have thee defend every thing : himself and all. 
 
 King. Take hence the fool. 
 
 Will. Ay, when ?. can ye tell ? Dost thou think any o'th 
 lords will take the fool ? None here , I warrant , except the 
 cardinals. 
 
 King. What a knavish fool's this : lords , you must bear' 
 with him. Come hither. Will: what sayst thou to this new 
 title given us by the pope? Speak, is it not rare? 
 
 Will. T know not how rare it is, but I know how dear 
 
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 'twill be , for I perceive 'twill cost thee twelve thousand 
 pounds at least, besides the cardinal's cost in coming. 
 
 King. All that's nothing ; the title of Defender of the 
 Faith is worth ye twice as mucli : say, is it not ? 
 
 Will. Eo, by my troth ; dost hear, old Harry, I am sure 
 the true faith is able to defend itself without thee, and as 
 for the pope's faith — good faith! 'tis not worth a farthing, 
 and therefore give him not a penny. 
 
 King. Go to , sirrah , meddle not you with the pope's 
 matters ! 
 
 Will. Let him not meddle with thy matters then: for an 
 he meddle with thee, I'll meddle with him, that's certain, and 
 so farewell. I'll go and meet my little young master. Prince 
 Edward : thej- say he comes to court to-night : I'll to horse- 
 back, pr'ythee Harry, send one to' hold my stirrup. Shall I 
 tell the prince what the pope has done? 
 
 King, kj , an thou wilt. Will; he shall be Defender of 
 the Faith too, one day. 
 
 Will. No, an he and I can defend ourselves, we care not, 
 for we are sure the faith can. [Exit- 
 
 King. Lord legate, so we reverence Eome and you, 
 As nothing you demand shall be denied : 
 The Turk will we e.xpel from Christendom, 
 Sending stout soldiers to his holiness, 
 And money to relieve distressed Ehodes : 
 So, if yon please, pass in to banqueting. 
 Go, lords, attend them! Brandon and Compton, stay, 
 We have some business to confer upon. 
 
 Cam. We take our leave. [Exit. 
 
 King. Most hearty welcome to my reverend lords! — 
 So now to our business. Brandon, say, 
 Hear ye no tidings from our sister Mary, 
 Since her aiTival in the realm of France? 
 
 Bran. Thus much wc heard, my lord: at Calais met her 
 The youthful Dauphin, and the peers of France, 
 And bravely brought her to the king at Tours, 
 Where he both married her and crowned her queen. 
 
 King. 'Tis well. Brandon and Compton, list to me, 
 I must employ your aid and secrecy: 
 This night we mean in some disguised shape 
 To visit London and to walk the round. 
 Pass through their watches and observe the care 
 And special diligence to keep our peace. 
 
26 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 They say, night walkers hourly pass the streets, 
 
 Committing theft and hated sacrilege. 
 
 And slightly pass unstayed or unpunished. 
 
 Go, Compton, go and get me some disguise, 
 
 This night we'll see our City's government. 
 
 Brandon, do you attend at Baynard's Castle, 
 
 Compton shall go disguised along with me, 
 
 Our swords and bucklers shall conduct us safe, 
 
 But if we catch a knock to quit our pain, 
 
 We'll put it up, and hie us home again. [^Exeunt. 
 
 Enter the Constable and Watch. , Peichail, the Cobbler, being 
 one, bearing a lantern. 
 
 Const. Come, neighbours: we have a straight command 
 Our watches be severely Itoked into : 
 Much theft and murder was committed lately. 
 There are two strangers, merchants of the Stilly ard. 
 Cruelly slain found floating on the Thames, 
 And greatly are the Stewes had in suspect, 
 As places fitting for no better use: 
 Therefore be careful and examine all. 
 Perhaps we may attach the murderer. 
 
 First Watch. jSTay, I assure ye, master constable, those stew 
 houses are places of much slaughter and redemption, and manj- 
 cruel deeds of equity and wickedness are committed there, for 
 divers good men lose both their money and their computation 
 by them, I abjure ye. How say you, neighbour Priohall? 
 
 Prich. Neighbour Capcase, I know you're a man of cour- 
 age, and for the merry cobbler of Limestreet, though I sit as 
 low as Saint Faith's, I can look as high as Saint Paul's. I 
 have in my days walked to the Stewes as well as my neigh- 
 bours, but if the mad wenches fall to murdering once and cast 
 men into the Thames, I have done with them : there's no deal- 
 ing, if they carry fire in one hand and water i' th' tother. 
 
 Const. Well, masters, we are now placed about the king's 
 
 business. 
 And I know ye all sufi^icient in the knowledge of it, 
 I need not to repeat your charge again : 
 Good neighbours, use your greatest care, I pray, 
 And if unruly persons trouble ye. 
 Call and I'll come: so, sirs, good night. [^Exit- 
 
 Fimt Watch. God ye good night and twenty, sir; I war- 
 rant ye , ye need not reconcile to our charge , for some one 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 27 
 
 ou us has discharged the place this forty year, I am sure. 
 ISTeighhours, what thiuk you best to be done? 
 
 PHch. Every man according to his calling, neighbour: if 
 the enemy come, here lies my town of garrison, I set on him 
 as I set on a patch: if he tread on this side, I underlay him 
 on this side, or prick him through both sides, I yerk him and 
 trick him , pare him and piece him , then hang him up by 
 th' heels till Sunday. 
 
 First Watch. How say ye? By my faith, neighbour Priohall, 
 ye speak to the purpose : for indeed, neighbours, if every man 
 take a nap now i' th' forehand o' th' night and go to bed after- 
 ward ? 
 
 Prkli. That were not amiss neither, but an you'll take 
 but every man his pot first, you'll sleep like the man i' th' 
 moon, i'faith. 
 
 Sec. Watch. Do ye think, neighbour, there is a man i' th' 
 moon ? 
 
 First Watch. I assure ye, in a clear day I have .seen't 
 at midnight. 
 
 Sec. Watch. Of what occupation is he, trow ? 
 
 I'rich. iSome thinks he's a shepherd, because on's dog, 
 some says he's a baker goiiig to heat his o^'en with a bavin 
 
 at's back; but the plain truth is, I think, he is a cobbler ^/>^ iC fii^ 
 
 for ye know what the song says: — -^tUjC "^^^/^ , ^/••/ 
 
 I see a man i' th' moon, Uf^/CU^ (J (I . f^Q. 
 
 Fie, man, fie, r ' 
 
 I see a man i' th' moon, 
 Clouting Saint Peter's shoon — 
 and so by this reason he should be a cobbler. 
 
 First Watch. By my fekins, he saith true. Alas, alas, 
 goodman Dormouse hath even given up the ghost already: 
 'tis an honest quiet soul, I warrant ye. 
 
 Prick. It behoves us all to be so. How do ye, neighbour 
 Dormouse ? 
 
 Dorm. God speed ye, (J oil speed ye! Xay, an ye go a 
 God's name, I have nothing to say to ye. 
 
 Sec. Watch. La ye, his mind's on business, though he be , 
 ne'er so .sleepy. 
 
 Prich. Come, let's all join with him and steal a nap, every 
 man, my masters, to his several stall. 
 
 Sec. Watch. Agreed; good night, good neighbours. 
 
 Prich. Nay, let's take no leave, I'll but wink a-while and 
 see you again. 
 
28 WHEN YOU .SEE ME, 
 
 — - ' Enter Kink and Compton iKdh. hills on thecr h(ti-k.<. 
 
 KiiKj. Come, Sir William, 
 We ma}' now stand upon our guard, you seo. 
 The watch has given us leave to arm ourselves, 
 They fear no danger, for they sleep secure. 
 Go, carry those bills we took to Jiaynard's Castle, 
 And bid Charles Brandon to disguise himself 
 And meet me presently at Graoeohuroh Corner ; 
 Wc will attempt to pass through all the Avatches, 
 And so I take't, 'twill bo an easy task: 
 Therefore make haste. 
 
 Comp. I will, my liege. 
 
 Kilty. The watchword, if I chance to send to ye, 
 Is, The Great Stag of Baydon — so my name shall bo. 
 
 Comjj. Enough, we'll think on it. \_Exil. 
 
 Kinij. So now we'll forward. Soft, yonder's a light, 
 Ay, and a watch, and all asleep — by'r lady ! 
 These are good peaceable subjects : here's none 
 Beckons to any, all may pass in peace. 
 Ho sirrah ! 
 
 Prifh. Stand, who goes there r 
 
 KiiKj. A good felloAV. 'Stand' is a heinous word i'th' king's 
 highway: you have been at noddy, 1 see. 
 
 Pri(^\- Ay , and the first card comes to my hand is a 
 knave. 
 
 Kiny. I am a court-card indeed. 
 
 Prich. Then thou must needs be a knave , for thou art 
 neither king nor queen, I am sure ; but whither goest thou r 
 Kincj. About a little business that I have in hand. 
 Prich. Then good night, pr'ythee trouble me no longer. 
 Kiny. Why, this is easy enough, here's passage at pleasure, 
 What wretch so wicked, would not give fair words 
 After the foulest fact of villany, 
 That may escape unseen so easily. 
 Or what should let him, that is so resolv'd, 
 To murder, rapine, theft, or sacrilege r 
 I see the City are the sleepy heads 
 To do it, and pass thus examined. 
 Fond, heedless men, what boots it for a king 
 To toil himself in highest state affairs, 
 To summon parliaments and call together 
 The wisest heads of all his provinces 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 29 
 
 For making statutes for his subjects' peace, 
 That thus neglecting them, their woes increase. 
 Well, we will further on : soft, hero comes one ! 
 I'll stay and see, how he escapes the watch. 
 
 Enter BL.iCK Will. 
 
 Black W. So now I am got within the City, I am as 
 safe as in a sanctuary: it is a hard world, when Black Will 
 for a venture of five pound must commit such petty robberies 
 at Mile End, but the plain truth is, the Stewes from whence 
 I had my quarterage , is now grown too hot for me : there's 
 some suspicion of a murder lately done upon two merchants 
 of the Stillyard , Avhich indeed , as far as some five or six 
 stabs comes to, I confess I had a hand in. But mumbudget, 
 all the dogs in the town must not bark at it. I must withdraw 
 a-while till the heat be o'er, remove ray lodging, and live 
 upon dark nights and misty mornings. Now, let me then see 
 the strongest Avatch in London intercept my passage. 
 
 KiiKj. \^Aside.'] Such a fellow would I fain meet withal. — 
 Well overtaken, sir. 
 
 Black W. 'Sblood ! come before me, sir : what the devil 
 art thou ? 
 
 Kiriy. A man at least. 
 
 Black \V. And art thou valiant? 
 
 King. I carry a sword and buckler, ye see. 
 
 Black W. X sword and buckler? and know not me, not 
 Black Will? 
 
 King. No, trust me. 
 
 Jllack W. Slave, then thou art neither traveller, nor purse - 
 taker, for I tell thee. Black Will is known and feared through 
 the seventeen Provinces : there's not a sword and buckler-man 
 in England, nor Europe, but has had a taste of my manhood. 
 I am toll-free in all cities and the suburbs about them: this 
 is my sconce, my castle, my citadel, and but King Harry, God 
 bless his majesty, I fear not the proudest. 
 
 King. yes, some of his guard. 
 
 Black W. Let his guard eat his beef and be thankful: 
 give me a man will cover himself with his buckler and not 
 budge, an the devil come. 
 
 King. Methinks, thou wert better live at 'court, as I do ; 
 King Harry loves a man, I can tell you. 
 
 Black W. Would thou and all the men he keeps were 
 
 4* 
 
30 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 hanged, an ye love not him then; but I will not change my 
 revenues for all his guards' wages. 
 
 Kinij. Hast thou such store of living r 
 
 Black W. Art thou a good fellow? May I speak freely 
 and wilt not tell the king on't? 
 
 King. Keep thine own counsel and fear riot, for of my 
 faith, the king shall know no more for me than thou tellst him. 
 
 Black W. An I tell him any thing, let him hang me : ■ 
 but for thyself, I think, if a fat purse come i' th' way , thou 
 wouldst not refuse it. Therefore leave the court and shark 
 with me ; I tell thee I am chief commander of all the Stewes, 
 there's not a whore shifts a smock but by my privilege, nor 
 opens her shop, before I have my weekly tribute : and to as- 
 sure thee my valour carries credit with it, do but walk with 
 me through the streets of London and let me see the proudest 
 watch disturb us. 
 
 King. I shall be glad of your conduct, sir. 
 
 Black W. Follow me then, and I'll tell thee more. 
 
 First Watch. Stand, who goes there ? 
 
 Black W. A good fellow. Come close, regard them not! 
 
 Sec. Watcli. How shall we know thee to be a good fel- 
 low ? 
 
 Black W. My name's Black Will. 
 
 First Watcli. 0, God give ye good night, good master Black 
 William. 
 
 Sec. Watch. Good bye, sir, good bj'C. I am glad, we are 
 so well rid on him. 
 
 Black W. La, sir, you see and here's egress enough ; now 
 follow me, and you shall see we'll have regress back again. 
 
 First Watcli. Who comes there ? 
 
 Prich. Come "afore the constable ! 
 
 Black IF. What, have ye forgot me so soon? 'Tis I. 
 
 Sec. Watch. 0, 'tis master Black William: God bless ye, 
 sir, God bless ye. 
 
 Black W. How likest thou now ? 
 
 Kinr/. Faith, excellent : but pr'ythee tell me, dost thou face 
 the world with thy manhood, that thus they fear thee, or art 
 thou truly valiant? 
 
 Black W. 'Sfoot, dost thou doubt of my manhood? Nay 
 then defend yourself, I'll give you a trial presently : betake ye 
 to your tools , - sir , I'll teach yu to stand upon interro- 
 gatories. 
 
 King. I am tor ye, there's ne'er a man the king keeps, 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 31 
 
 shall refuse ye; but tell me, wilt thou keep the king's act 
 for fighting? 
 
 Blacl- W, As ye please, sir ; yet because thou'rt his man, 
 I'll observe it and neither thrust nor strike beneath the knee. 
 
 King. I am pleased, sir; have at )ou, sir. [They fight. 
 
 Frn<t Watrli. Helj), neighbours! take j'C to 5'our brown 
 bills, call up the constable, here's a piece of chance ' meddle 
 ready to be committed. Set on, goodman Prichall! 
 
 Prich. I'll firk them on both sides: lie close, neighbour 
 Dormouse ! Keep the king's peace, I charge ye ! Help, master 
 Constable ! 
 
 Enter the Constable. 
 
 Const. Keep the peace, or strike tliem down ! 
 
 Black W. 'Swoons, I am hurt; hold, I saj'. 
 
 Sec. Watrh. Let them not pass, neighbours; here's blood- 
 shed drawn upon one of the king's officers. 
 
 Const. Take away their weapons, and since you are so hot, 
 I'll set j'Ou where you shall be cool enough. 
 
 Black W. 'Swoons, the moon's a waning harlot; with the 
 glimpse of her light I lost his point and mistook my ward 
 he'd ne'er broached my blood else. 
 
 Cor1.1i. Pra}', sir, what are you? 
 
 King. 1 am the king's man, sir, and of his guard. 
 
 Const. More shame 3"ou should so mucli forget yourself. 
 For as I tako't, 'tis parcel of your oath. 
 As well to keep his peace, as guard his person ; 
 And if a constable be not present by, 
 You maj- as well as he his place supplj': 
 And seeing ye so neglect your oath and duty. 
 Go, bear them to the Counter presently ; 
 There shall ye answer for these misdemeanours. 
 
 ,SVr. Watch. He's Ijroke ray head, sir, and furthermore it 
 bleeds. 
 
 Const. Away with them both, they shall pay thee well, 
 ere thej* come forth, I warrant thee. 
 
 Black W. I beseech ye, sir. 
 
 inq. Never entreat, man, we shall have bail, I doubt it 
 not. But, master conslable, I hope you'll do me this favour, 
 to let one of your watoliraen go of an errand for me, if I 
 pay him. 
 
 Const. With all my heart, sir: here's one shall go. 
 
32 WHEN YOU SEE Mii, 
 
 King. Hold thee, good fellow, here's an angel for thee, 
 go thj' way to Baynard's Castle and ask for one Brandon — 
 he serves the Duke of Suffolk — and tell him his bedfellow, 
 or the Great Stag of Baydon, this night is clapped i' th' 
 Counter, and bid him come speak with me. Come, constable, 
 let's go : sirrah, make haste. [Exit. 
 
 Pricli. I warrant you, sir, an. this be all, I'd have done 
 it for half the money. Well, I must enquire for one Brandon 
 and tell him the Great Stag of Baydon is i' th' Counter. By'r 
 lady, I doubt they be both crafty knaves and this is some 
 watchword between them both: mass, I doubt he ne'er came 
 well by his money, he's so liberal. Well, I'll forward. 
 
 Erder Bkandon and Compton. 
 
 Bran. Sir William, are you sure it was at Gracechurch 
 His majesty appointed we should meet him? 
 We have been there and missed him: what think ye, sir? 
 
 Comp. Good faith, I know not. 
 His highness is too venturous bold, my lord ; 
 I know he will forsake himself in this. 
 Opposing still against a world of odds. 
 
 Bran. Good faith, 'tis true : but soft, here comes one. 
 How now, good fellow, whither goest thou ? 
 
 Prich. It lies in my authority, sir, to ask you that quest- 
 ion, for I am one of the king's watch, I can tell ye. 
 
 Comp. Then perhaps thou canst tell us some tidings : 
 didst thou not see a good, lusty, tall , big man pass through 
 your watches to-night? 
 
 Prich. Yes, sir, there was such a man came to our watch 
 to-night, but none that passed through, for he behaved him- 
 self so that he was laid on quickly, and now he is forthcoming 
 in the Counter. 
 
 Bran. And whither art thou going? 
 
 Prich. Faith, sir, he's given me an angel to do an errand 
 for him at Baynard's Castle to one Brandon that serves the 
 Duke of Suffolk ; he says, he is his bedfelloAv, and I must tell 
 him, the Great Stag of Baydon is i' th' Counter. 
 
 Bran. If thine errand be to Brandon, I can save thee a 
 labour, for I am the man thou look'st for ; we have been seek- 
 ing him almost all this night : hold thee, there's an angel for 
 thy news, I'll bail him, I warrant thee. [Exeunt. 
 
 Prich. I thank you, sir, but he's not so soon bailed as 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 33 
 
 you think for there's two of the king's .vatch has their heads 
 broke, and that mnst be answered for: but all's one to me 
 let them shuflle as they .viU, the angels has flowu about to- 
 night and tuo gulls are light into uiy hands and these I'll 
 kee]), let him get out as he can, r^,,-; 
 
 Enter the KixG /'/( prison. 
 
 King. Ho, porter, who's without there r 
 _ Port. What's the matter now? will ye not go tn bed to- 
 night : 
 
 King. Xo, trust me, 'twill be morning ineseufly, 
 And I have hope, I shall be bailed ere then : 
 I pr'ythee, if thou canst, entreat sonu.' of the prisoners to keep 
 me rompany a pair of hours or so, and we'll spend them i' th' 
 rouse of healths, and all shall he my cost. Say, wilt thou 
 ])lcasnre me? 
 
 Port. If that will pleasure ye, sir, ye shall not want for 
 company, here's enough that can tend it, they have hunuvr 
 and ease enough at all times 
 
 King. There's a couple of gentlemen in the next room, 
 T pr'ythee let them come in, and there's a Harry soverciaii 
 for thee. 
 
 Port. I thank you, sir; I am as much beholding to you 
 as to king Harry for it. [Exit. 
 
 King. Ky, I assure thee, thou art. — "" 
 
 Well, master constable, you've made the Counter 
 This night the royal court of England's king, 
 And by my crown I swear, I \vould not for 
 A thousand pound 'twere otherwise. 
 The officers in cities, now I see, 
 Are like the orchard set with several tree-^, 
 Where one must cherish one, rebuke the other, 
 And in this wretched Counters, I perceive, 
 ilonej' plays fast and loose, purchases favour. 
 And without that, nought but misery. 
 A poor gentleman hath made complaint to me: 
 '1 am undone, quoth he, and kept in prison, 
 For one of your fellows that serves the king. 
 Being bound for him and he neglecting me. 
 Hath broLiglit me to this woe and mis( ly.' 
 Another citizen there is, complains 
 Of one belonging to the cardinal, 
 
34 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 That in his master's name hath taken up 
 Commodities, valued at a thousand pound, 
 The payment being deferr'd, hath caused him break, 
 And so is quite undone. Thus kings and lords, I see. 
 Are oft abused by servants' treachery. 
 .But whist awhile, here comes my fellow prisoners. 
 
 Enter the Prisoners. 
 
 First Pris. Where's this bully (irig, this lad of life, that 
 will scour the Counter with right Ehenish to-night? sir, 
 you are welcome. 
 
 King. I thank ye, sir: nay, we'll be as great as our 
 word , I assure ye. Here, porter, there's money, fetch wine, 
 I pr'ythee. Gentlemen, you cannot be merry in this melan- 
 choly place, but here's a lad has his heart as light as his 
 purse. Sirrah, thou art some mad slave, I think, a regular 
 companion, one that uses to walk o' nights, or so; art thou 
 not? 
 
 Fi7-st Pris. Hark in thifle ear, thou'rt a good fellow. 
 
 King. I am right born, I assure thee. 
 
 First Pris. King Harry loves a man and thou a woman : 
 Shall I teach thee some wit and tell thee, why I meet thee 
 here ? I went and set my lime-twigs and I think, I got some 
 hundred pound bj' a crooked measure at Coome-Park, and now 
 seeing there was watch laid and much search for suspicious 
 persons, I got one as honest as myself to arrest me by a con- 
 trary name and lay me in the Counter, and here I know 
 they'll ne'er seek me, and so when the heat's o'er , I . am at 
 liberty and mean to spend my crowns lustilj'. How lik'st 
 thou this, my bully? 
 
 King. An excellent policy. 
 
 First Pris. But mum, no words : use't for j'ourself, or so. 
 
 King. sir, fear it not. Be merrj'^ gentlemen: is not 
 this wine come yet? God's me, forget our chief guest : where's 
 mj" sword and buckler-man? Where's Black Will? How now, 
 man? melancholy? Let not a little wipe make us enemies, 
 clap hands and be friends. 
 
 Black W. ily blood's up still. 
 
 King. When 'tis at highest, 'twill fall again ; como, hands, 
 hands. 
 
 Black ir. I'll shake hands with thee, because thou car- 
 
YOU KXOW ME. 35 
 
 riest a sword and buckler, yet tlion'rt no right cavalier, thou 
 knowst not how to use them, thou hast a heavy arm. 
 
 King. Ay, a good smart stroke. 
 
 Black II'. Thou cutst my head indeed, but 'twas no play, 
 thou layst open enough, I could have entered at my pleasure'. 
 
 King. Xay, I have stout guard, I assure j-e. 
 
 Black W. Childish to a man of valour: when thou shouldst 
 have born thy buckler here, thou letst it fall to thy knee; 
 thou gavest me a wipe, but 'twas mere chance: but had we 
 not been parted, I had tau-ht ye a little school-play, I war- 
 rant ye. 
 
 Bran. Ispeaks vithin']. What ho, porter! uho keeps the 
 gates there r 
 
 Port. Who knocks so fast ? 
 
 Enter Brakdon mid Comptok hastily. 
 
 Comp. Stand by, sirrah 
 
 Port. Keep back, I say : whither will jv. press amongst the 
 prisoners ? 
 
 Bran. kSirrah, to the court, and we must in. 
 
 Port. "Why, sir, the court's not kepi i'lJi' Counter to-day. 
 
 Bran. Yes, when the king is there. 
 All happiness betide our sovereign! 
 
 Black TF. 'Swoons, King Harry. 
 
 Fir.it Pris. Lord, I beseech thee, no. 
 
 Omnes. Y^e all entreat 3'our grace to pardon us. 
 
 King. Stand up, good men : beshrew you , Brandon , for 
 discovering ns, we shall not spend our time so well this month : 
 but there's no remedy now, tlie worst is this, the court, good 
 fellows, must be removed the sooner. Ye all are courtiers yet. 
 Xa}", nay, come forward, [To first JVisoner. 
 
 Even now, you know, we were more familiar: 
 You see policies holds not alwaj's current, 
 I am found out, and so, I think, will J'ou be. 
 Go, porter, let him be removed to Newgate, 
 This place, I see, is too secure for him : 
 We'll .send you further word for his bestowing. 
 First Pris. I bcseerli jour grace. 
 
 King. There is no grace- in thee, nor none for thee : 
 Away with him. IKimul Porter and Prisoners. 
 
 Black W. 'Swoons, I shall to Tyburn iircsently. 
 
36 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 '" King. The gentlemen, that have been wronged by 
 My servants and the cardinal's shall give 
 .\li: nearer notes of it, 
 
 Uotli what they are, and how much debt they owe ye. 
 Send your petitions to the court to me, 
 And doubt not but you shall have remedy ; 
 There's forty angels, drink to king Harry's health. 
 And think withal, much wrong king's men may do, 
 L The which their masters ne'er consent unto. 
 
 Sec. Pris. God bless your majesty with h;ipjiy life, 
 That thus respects your woful subjects' grief. 
 
 King. "Where's Black Will? Xay , come nearer, man: I 
 came nearer you, though ye misliked my play. 
 
 Black W. By th' Lord, your majesty's the best sword and 
 buf'kler-man in Europe : j'e lie as close to your wards , carry 
 j^onr })oint as fair, that no fencer comes near ye for gallant 
 fence play. 
 
 Kinfj. Nay, now ye flatter me. 
 
 Black W. 'Fore God, ye broke my head most gallantly. 
 
 Kiri(/. A}', but 'twas by chan'ce, ye know ; but now j'our 
 head's broke, you look for a plaster, I am sure. 
 
 Black IF. An 3'our grace will give me leave, I'll put it 
 up and go my waj's presently. 
 
 King. Nay, soft, sir: the keeper will deny ye that privi- 
 lege. Come hither, sirrah : because ye shall know King Harry 
 loves a man and I perceive there's some mettle in thee, there's 
 twenty angels for thee. Marrjf , it shall be to keep ye in 
 prison still , till we have further use for ye. If ye can 
 break through watches with egress and regress so valiantly, 
 ye shall do't amongst your country's enemies. 
 
 Black W. The wars, sweet king, 'tis m}' delight, my desire, 
 m 3" chair of state; create me but a tattered corporal, and give me 
 I some pre-eminence over the vulgar hot-shots : an I beat them 
 not forward to as brave attempts and march myself i' th' van- 
 guard, as e'er cannon against a castle wall, break my head in 
 I two places more and consume me with the mouth of a double 
 . culverin : I'll live and die with thee, sweet king. 
 
 King. 'Twill be your best course, sir: go, take him in, 
 When we have need of men, we'll send for him. 
 
 Black W. God bless your majesty : I'll go drink to your 
 health. [Exit. 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 37 
 
 King. Be gone, sir: keeper, I thank you for j-our lod- 
 ging; 
 Nay, indeed, I do ; I know, liad ye known us, it hud been bef tcr ; 
 Pray, tell the constable that brought us hither. 
 We thank him and commend his faithful serTiee. 
 (ientlemen, let's hear from you, and so good morrow. 
 Keejier, there's for my fees, discharge the ofiicers, 
 And give them charge that none discover us,. 
 Till we are past the city in this disguise we came, 
 \\'e'll keep us still, and so depart again. 
 Once more, good morrow ; you may now report. 
 Your Counter was one night king Henry's court. 
 .\way, and leave us. [Exit Keepei-.'] Brandon, what further 
 
 news ? 
 
 Bran. The old king of France is dead, my liege, 
 And left your sister Mary a young widow. 
 
 King. God forbid, man ! What, not so soon, I hope. 
 She has not j-et been married fort}' days : 
 Is this news certain ? 
 
 Bran. Most true, my lord. 
 
 King. Alas, poor Mary, so soon a widow, 
 Before thy wedding-robes be half Avorn out? 
 We must then prepare black, funeral garments too : 
 Well, we will have her home, the league is broke, 
 And we'll not trust her safety to the French. 
 Charles Brandon, you shall go to France for her ; 
 iSee that your train be richly furnished, 
 And if the daring French brave thee in attempts 
 Of honour, barriers, tilt, and tournament, 
 So to retain her, bear thee like thyself. 
 An English man, dreadless of the proudest. 
 And highly scorning lowly hardiness. 
 
 Bran. I shall, my sovereign, and in her honour 
 I'll cast a challenge through all the court. 
 And dare the proudest peer in France for her. 
 
 King. Commend me to the Lady Katherine Parr, 
 Give her this ring, tell her on Sunday next 
 She shall be queen and orown'd at Westminster, 
 And Anne of Cleve shall be sent home again. 
 Come, sirs, we'll leave the City and the Counter now • 
 The day begins to break, let's hie to court, 
 And once a quarter we desire such sport. [Exeunt. 
 
38 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 Enter the Cardinal, reading a letter, Bonkek in /i/.v hixhop'a 
 
 robes. 
 
 Wol. My reverend lord of LoDdoii, 
 Our trusty friend, the king of France, is dead, 
 And in his death our hopes are hindered: 
 The emperor too mislikes his praises, but 
 We shall cross him for it, I doubt it not. 
 And tread upon his pomp imperial. 
 That thus hath wrong'd the English cardinal. 
 
 Bon. Your grace's letters, by Campeius sent, 
 I doubt not but shall work your full content. 
 
 Wol. Ay, that must be our safest way to work. 
 Money will make us men, when men stand out: 
 The bastard Frederick, to attain the place. 
 Hath made an offer to the cardinals 
 Of threescore thousand pound, which we will pay 
 Three times thrice double, ere we lose the Aaj. 
 
 Enter Will Rummers and Patch. 
 
 lord 
 
 Patch. Come , cousin William , I'll bring je to my 
 cardinal presently. 
 
 Will. I thank je, cousin, and when you come to the court 
 I'll bring you to the king again; ye know, cousin, he gave 
 ye an angel. 
 
 Patch. Ay, but he gave me such a blow o' th' ear for it, 
 as I care not for coming in's sight again while I live. 
 
 Wol. How now. Patch? who have you got there? What? 
 Will Summers ? Welcome, good William. 
 
 Will. I thank j'our grace ; I heard say, your lordship had 
 made two new lords here, and so the two old fools are come 
 to wait on them. 
 
 ]jon. We thank yc, William. 
 
 Patch. Your lordship will be well guarded, an we follow 
 ye, the king's fool and the cardinal's, and we are no small 
 fools, I assure ye. 
 
 Will. No, indeed, ray cousin Patch here is something 
 too square to he set on j^our shoe, marrj' an you'll wear liim 
 on jonr shoulder, the fool shall ride you. 
 
 W/il. A shrewd fool, Bonner: come hither, William, I 
 have a quarrel to you since our last rhyming. 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 39 
 
 Wit. About your fair leman at Charltou, my lord; I re- 
 member. 
 
 Bon. You speak plain, William. 
 
 Will. Ye never knew fool a flatterer, I warrant ye. 
 
 Wol. Well, Will, I'll try your rhyming wits once more: 
 what say you to this : — 
 
 The bells hang high, 
 And loud they cry. 
 What do they speak? 
 Will. If you should die, 
 
 There's none would or}', 
 Though your neck should break. 
 Wol. You are something bitter, William; but come on 
 once more, I am for ye : ■ — 
 
 A rod in school, 
 A whip for a fool, 
 Is always in season. 
 Will. A halter and a rope 
 
 Por him that would be pope 
 Against all right and reason. 
 Wol. He is too hard for me still, I'll give him over ; 
 Come, tell me, Will, what's the news at court ? 
 
 Will. Marry, my lord, they say the king must be married 
 this morning. 
 
 Wol. Married, Will? To whom, I pr'ythee ? 
 Will. Why, to my lady Katherine Parr: I was once by, 
 when he was wooing on her, and then I doubted they would 
 go together shortly. 
 
 Wol. Holy Saint Peter shield his majesty, 
 She is the hope of Luther's heresy: 
 If she be queen, the protestants will swell. 
 And C'ranmer, tutor to the prince of Wales, 
 Will boldly speak 'gainst Rome's religion. 
 But, bishops, we'll to court immediately, 
 And plot the downfall of these Lutherans. 
 You two are tutors to the princess Mary, 
 Still ply her to the pope's obedience, 
 And make her hate the name of protestant. 
 I do 'suspect that Lati mer and Kidley, 
 Chief teachers of the fair Elizabeth, 
 Are not sound catholics, nor friends to Kome; 
 If it be so, we'll soon remove them all. 
 
40 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 'Tis better, they should die, than thousands fall. 
 
 Come, follow us. [Exeunt; manent Will and Patch. 
 
 Will. Your lord's mad, till he be at the wedding; 'twas 
 marvul the king stole it so secretly and ne'er told him on't, 
 but all's one : if he be married, let him play with his queen 
 to-night, and then to-morrow he'll call for me ; there's no fool 
 to the wilful still. What shall we do, cousin? 
 
 Patch. I'll go get the key of the wine-cellar, and thou 
 and I will keep a passage there to-night. 
 
 Will. We have but a little wit between us already 
 cousin, and so we should have none at all. 
 
 Patch. When our wits be gone, we'll sleep i' th' cellar 
 and He without our wits for one night. 
 
 Will. Content, and then i' th' morning we'll but wet them 
 with another cup more, and they'll shave like a razor all day 
 after. Come close, good coz, let nobody go with us, least they 
 be drunk before us, for fools are innocents and must be ac- 
 cessory to no man's overthrow. [Exeunt. 
 
 Sound trumpets. Enter King, ftuEEU Kathekine, Caedinal, 
 Seymotjk, Dudley, Gkay. — Enter Compton cryinrj 'Hautboys I' 
 
 King. Welcome, queen Katherine, seat thee by our side. 
 Thy sight, fair queen, by us thus dignified. 
 Earls, barons, knights, and gentlemen, 
 Against ye all, we'll be chief challenger. 
 To fight at barriers, tilt, and tournament, 
 In honour of the fair queen Katherine. 
 
 Q. Kath. We thank your highness and beseech your grace, 
 Forbear such hazard of your royal person ; 
 Without such honours is your handmaid pleased 
 Obediently to yield all love and duty. 
 That may beseem your sacred majesty. 
 
 King. God ha' mercy, but where are our children? 
 Prince Edward, Mary, and Elizabeth, 
 The royal issue of three famous queens ? 
 How haps we have not seen them here to-day ? 
 
 Dud. They all, my liege, attend your majesty 
 And your fair queen within the presence here. 
 
 King. 'Tis well, Dudley : call Cranmer in. 
 He is chief tutor to our princely son. 
 For precepts that concerns divinity. 
 
 Enter Ceanmek. 
 
YUU KXOW ME. 41 
 
 And here he comes. Crunmer, you must ],lj the prince; 
 
 Let his waste hours bu spent in getting learning, 
 
 And let those linguists for choice languages 
 
 Be careful for him in their best endeavours: 
 
 Bid doctor Tyc ply him to music hard, 
 
 He's apt to learn, therefore be diligent. 
 
 He may requite your love -\vhen we arc gone. 
 
 Cran. Our care and duty shall be had, my lord. 
 
 Kin//. We thank ye. 
 1 tell thee, Cranmer, he is all our hopes, 
 That what our age shall leave untinished. 
 In his fair reign shall be accomplished. 
 Go and attend him! 
 
 Eater Will (Summers. 
 
 How now, Will Summers, what's the news with your 
 
 Will. I come to bid thee and thy new queen good mornn\ . 
 Look to him, Kute, least he cozen thee, provide civil oranges 
 enough, or he'll have a lemon shortlj-. 
 
 Q. Katk. God ha' mercy. Will, thou'lt tell me then, wilt 
 thou not ? 
 
 117?/ Ay, and watch him too, or let him ne'er trust me: 
 but dost hear Harry, because I'd have thee have the poor's 
 prayers , I have brought thee some petitions. The friars and 
 priests pray too,' but I think, 'tis as children say grace, more 
 for fashion than devotion, therefore the poor's praj'ers ought 
 to be soonest heard, because they beg for God's sake ; there- 
 fore, I pr'ythee, dispatch them. 
 
 King. Read them, Seymour. 
 
 Sey. The humble petition of the Lady Seaton for her 
 distressed son , that hath in his own dcfeuce unhappily slain 
 a man. 
 
 King. The Lady Seaton? God's holy mother, 
 Her son has had our pardon twice already. 
 For two stout subjects -that his hand hath slain. 
 
 Will. An any had^ said so but thou, Harry, I'd have told 
 him he lied : he ne'er killed but one, thou killedst the t'other : 
 for an thou hadst hanged him for the first, the two last had 
 been alive still. 
 
 King. The fool tells true; they wrong our majesty. 
 That seek our pardon for such cruelty : 
 Away with it. 
 
 Will. Give me it again, it shall ne'er be soon more, I 
 
42 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 assure ye: an I had known, 't had come for that jjurpose, it 
 should ne'er have been brought for Will, I warrant ye. 
 
 Sey. This other comes from two poor prisoners i' th' Counter. 
 
 King. We know the inside then, come give them me: 
 Lord cardinal, here's one is dedicated to you. 
 Hold, read it. Who's there? Compton, enquire for Eokesby, 
 A groom of the wardrobe, and bring him hither. 
 
 Comp. I will. 
 
 King. Cardinal, what find ye written there? 
 
 Wol. Mine own discredit, and th' undoing of 
 An honest citizen by a false servant. 
 
 Will. 'Tis not your fool, my lord, I warrant ye. 
 
 Wol. m, Will. 
 
 Will. I thought so, I knew 'twas one of your 'knaves, for 
 your fools are harmless. 
 
 Q. KatTi. Well said, Will, thou lovest thy master's credit, 
 I know. 
 
 Will. Ay, Kate, as well as any courtier he keeps: I had 
 rather he should have the poor's prayers, than the pope's. 
 
 Q. Katli. Faith, I am of thy mind, Will: I think so too. 
 
 King. Take heed what ye say, Kate ! What, a Lutheran ? 
 
 Wol. 'Tis heresy, fair queen, to think such thoughts. 
 
 Q. Kath. And much uncharity to wrong the poor. 
 
 Will. Well, and when the pope is at best, he is but 
 Saint Peter's deputy, but the poor present Christ and therefore 
 should be something better regarded. 
 
 King. Go to, fool. 
 
 Wol. Sirrah, you'll be whipped for this. 
 
 Will. Would the king would whip thee and all the pope's 
 whelps out of England once, for between ye, ye have racked 
 and pulled it so, we shall be all poor shortly : you have had four 
 hundred threescore pound within this three year for smoke 
 pence : you have smoked it i'faith. Dost hear, Harry, next 
 time they gather them, we have clay enough to make brick, 
 though we want silver mines to make money. 
 
 King. Well, William, your tongue ij privileged. 
 
 Wol. But, my good liege, I fear there's shrewder heads, 
 Although kept close, has set this fool a-work. 
 Thus to extirp against his holiness. 
 
 Will. Do not you think so, my lord, nor stomach nobody 
 about it: ye know, what the old proverb says, therefore be patient: 
 
 Great quarrellers small credit wins, 
 
 When fools set stools, and wise men break their shins. 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 43 
 
 Thuretbrt; think not on it, for I'll sit down by thoe, Kute, 
 and say nothing, for here comes one to be examined. 
 
 Enter Compton and Rokesby. 
 
 King. sir, you're welcome; is your name Eokesby: 
 
 Role. Your poor servant is so called, my lord. 
 
 King. Our servant we guess ye by the cloth ye wear, 
 but for your jooverty, 'tis doubtful, your credit is so good. 
 Let's see, what's the man's name? Ha, Hopkins! Do you 
 know the man? 
 
 Rok. Hopkins ? No, my lord. 
 
 King. Had you never no dealings with such a man ? 
 
 Rok. No, if it like your majesty. 
 
 King. No, if it like our Majesty! Saucy varlet! 
 It likes not our majesty, thou shouldst say 'No': 
 It likes us not, thou liest for that we know. 
 Y'^ou know him not, but he too well knows you. 
 And lies imprisoned, slave, for what's thy due. 
 
 Rok. Surely some envious man hath misinform' d. 
 
 King. Dar'st thou deny it still, outfacing knave? 
 Mother o' God, I'll hang thee presently. 
 Sirrah, ye lie! and though ye wear the king's cloth, 
 Y'et we dare tell ye so before the king: 
 Slave, thou dost know him. 
 He here complains, he is undone hy thee, 
 And the king's man hath caused his misery. 
 Yet you'll outface it still, deny, forswear, and lie, sir? Ha ! 
 
 Will. Not a word more , if thou lovest thy life, unless 
 thou'lt confess all and speak fair. 
 
 Rok. I do beseech your grace. 
 
 King. Out, perjur'd knave ! What! dost thou serve the king. 
 And dar'st thou thus abuse our majesty, 
 And wrong my subjects by thy treachery r 
 Think'st thou, false thief, thou shalt be privileg'd, 
 Eecause thou art my man, to hurt my people? 
 Villain, those that guard me, shall regard my honour: 
 Put off' that coat of proof, that strong security. 
 Under which ye march like a halberdier, 
 Passing through purgatory and none dare strike; 
 A sergeant's mace must not presume to touch 
 Your sacred shoulders with the king's own writ. 
 God's dear lady, does the cloth ye wear, 
 
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44 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 Such privilege and strong prevention bear? 
 Ha ! is it, Eokesby ? 
 
 Enter a Messengek in haste. 
 
 Mess. My royal lord — 
 
 King. Take that and know your time to tell message, 
 sirrah : I am busy. 
 
 Will. So there's one served: I think you would take 
 two more with all your heart, so you were well rid on him. 
 
 Rok. Your pardon, good my liege. 
 
 King. Ha ! pardon thee ? I toll thee, did it touch 
 Thy life in ought more than mine own displeasure, 
 Not all the world should purchase it, vild caitift': 
 Hadst thou neglected this thy duty to our person's danger, 
 Hadst thou thyself against me ought attempted, 
 1 might be sooner won to pardon thee. 
 Than for a subject's hateful injury. 
 
 Q. Kath. Let me entreat your grace to pardon him. 
 
 King. Away, Kate, speak not for him ! 
 Out of my lenity I let him live. 
 Discharge him from my cloth and countenance. 
 To the Counter to redeem his creditor, 
 Where he shall satisfy the utmost mite 
 Of any debt, default, or hinderanoe: 
 I'll keep no man to blur my credit so, 
 My cloth shall not pay what my servants owe. 
 Away with him! [Exit Rokesby. 
 
 Now, my lord cardinal, speaks not your paper so? 
 
 Wol. Yes, my good lord, your grace has shown a pattern 
 To draw forth mine by, I assure your highness. 
 The punishment inflicted on your man. 
 Is for my servants meant, that bears such minds, 
 Their masters thus but serve them in their kinds. 
 
 King. Where is this fellow now, that brings us news? 
 
 Will. He is gone with a flea in his ear, but has left his 
 message behind him with my lord Dudley here. 
 
 King. And what's the news? 
 
 Dud. Duke Brandon, good my liege, — 
 
 King. , he's returned from France ; and who comes 
 with him ? 
 
 Dud. His royal wife, my lord. 
 
 King. Ha! Eoyalwife! who's that? 
 
 Dud. Your highness' sister, the late queen of France. 
 
YOU KKOW ME. 45 
 
 Riity. Our sistur queen his wife? who gave him her? 
 
 Gray. 'Tis said, my liege, (hey were married at Dover. 
 
 King. 'Twere better, he had never seen the town. 
 Dares any subject mis his blood with ours 
 Without, our leave? 
 
 Enter Bkakdon and Lady Maby. 
 
 Dud. He comes himself, my liege, to answer it. 
 
 Bran. Health to my sovereign ! 
 
 King. And our brother king! 
 
 Your message is before ye, sir ! Off with his head ! 
 
 Bran. I beseech your grace, give me leave! 
 
 Kiny. Nay, you have taken leave ! Away with him ! 
 Bid the captain of our guard convey him to the Tower! 
 
 Bran. Hear me, my lord. 
 
 King. Audacious Brandon, thinkst thou, excuse shall serve? 
 
 L. Mary. Eight gracious lord ! 
 
 King. Go to, your prayers ^A■ill scarce save yourself: 
 Durst ye contract yourself without our knowledge ? 
 Hence with the hare-brained duke : to the Tower, I say, 
 And bear our careless sister to the Fleet : 
 I knov\', sir, that 5-ou broke a lance for her. 
 And bravely did unhorse the challengers: 
 Yet was there no such prize set on her head, 
 That you wathout our leave should marry her. 
 
 Q. Kalh. 0, good my lord, let me entreat for them. 
 
 King. [Aside^ Tut, Kate ! 
 Though thus I seem awhile to threaten them, 
 I mean not to disgrace my sister so. — 
 Away with them. What say ye, reverend lords, 
 Is he not worthy of death for his misdeed? 
 
 Bon. fj- Gar. Unless your grace shall please to pardon him. 
 
 King. He deserves it then? 
 
 Bon. Sr Gar. He does, my liege. 
 
 King. You are knaves and fools and ye flatter me : 
 God's holy mother ! I'll not have him hurt, for all your heads. 
 Dear Brandon, I embrace thee in mine arms, 
 Kind sister, I do love you both so well, 
 I cannot dart another angry frown 
 To gain a kingdom: here take him, Mary, 
 I hold thee happier in this English choice, 
 Than to be queen of France : Charles, love her well ! 
 Now tell on, Brandon, what's the news in France? 
 
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46 WHEN YOU .SEE ME, 
 
 Bran. The league is broke betwixt the emperor 
 And the young king of Prance ; forces are must' ring 
 On either part, my lord, for horse and foot. 
 Hot variance is expected speedily, 
 The emperor is marching now to Landersey 
 There to invade the towns of Burgundy. 
 
 King. God and Saint George! we'll meet his majesty, 
 And strike a league of Christian amity. 
 Lord cardinal, you shall to France with speed, 
 And in our name salute the emperor ; 
 "We'll give direction for your embassage. 
 The next fair wind shall make us France to greet. 
 Where Charles the Emperor and the king shall meet. 
 
 \_Exeimt omnes. 
 
 Enter Ckanmee, Doctok Tye, and young Browne meets them 
 with the Princess cloak and hat. 
 
 Cran. How now , young Browne , what have you there r 
 
 Browne. The prince's cloak and hat, my lord. 
 
 Cran. Where is his grace? 
 
 Broivne. At tenuis, with the marquess Dorset. 
 
 Cran. You and the marquess draw the prince's mind 
 To follow pleasure and neglect his book. 
 For which the king blames us. But credit me, 
 You shall be soundly paid immediately. 
 
 Broime. I pray ye, good my lord, I'll go and call 
 The prince away. 
 
 Cran. Nay , now ye shall not : who's within there ? Ho ! 
 
 Enter Servant. 
 
 Serv. My lord! 
 
 Cran. Go bear this youngster to the chapel, straight, 
 And bid the master of the children whip him well: 
 The prince, sir, will not learn, and you shall smart for it. 
 
 Browne. 0, good my lord, I'll make him ply his book 
 to-morrow. 
 
 Cran. That shall not serve your turn ; away, I say. 
 
 [Exit Broione. 
 So, sir, this policy was well devised: 
 Since he was whipped thus for the prince's faults. 
 His grace hath got more knowledge in a month. 
 Than he attained in a year before, 
 For still the fearful boy, to save his breech, 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 47 
 
 Doth hourly haunt him, wheresoe'er he goes. 
 
 Tye. 'Tis true, my lord, and now the prince perceives it, 
 As loth to see him punish'd for his faults, 
 Plies it of purpose to redeem the boy: 
 Bnt pray, my lord, let's stand aside awhile. 
 And note the greeting 'twixt the prince and him. 
 
 Cran. See where the boy comes, and tlie king's fool with 
 him ; 
 Let's not be seen, but list their conference. [_Exeunt. 
 
 Pie-mier young Browse uith Will Summers. 
 
 Will. Nay, boy, an ye cry, you'll spoil j^our eye-sight: 
 come, come, truss up your ho.se, you must hold fast your wind, 
 both before and behind, and blow your nose. 
 
 Browne. For what, fool ? 
 
 Will. Why, for the mote in thine eye; is there not one 
 in't r wherefore dost thou cry else? 
 
 Broume. I pr'ythee. Will, go call the prince from the 
 tennis-court. 
 
 Will. Dost thou ciy for that ? nay, then I smell a rat : 
 the prince has played the truant to-day, and his tutors has 
 drawn blood of thy buttocks for't. Why, boy, 'tis honourable 
 to be whipped for a prince. 
 
 Broume. I would, he would either leave the tennis-court 
 and ply his book, or give me leave to be no courtier. 
 
 Will. Ay, for I'll be sworn thy breech lies in the hazard 
 about it, but look, little Ned, yonder he comes. 
 
 Enter the Prince and the young Marquess, icith their raclet.^. 
 divers attending. 
 
 Marq. Some rubbers for Ihe prince! 
 
 Serv. Here, my good lord. 
 
 Prince. One take our rackets and reach me ray cloak : 
 By my faith, marquess, you are too hard for me. 
 
 Marq. Your grace will say so, though ye over-match me. 
 
 Prince. Why, how now, Browne? what's the matter? 
 
 Browne. Your grace loiters and will not plj- your book, 
 and your tutors has whipped me for it. 
 
 Prince. Alas, poor Ned, I am sorry for it, I'll take the 
 more pains and entreat my tutors for thee: yet, in truth, the 
 lectures they read me last night out of Virgil and Ovid, I 
 am perfect in; only I confess, I am something behind in my 
 Greek authors. 
 
48 WHEN YOtJ SEE ME, 
 
 Will. And for that speech they haye declined it upon his 
 breeh. 
 
 Prince. And for my logic, thou shalt witness thyself, I 
 am perfect: for now will I prove that, though thou wert 
 whipped for me, yet this whipping was good for thee. 
 
 Brovme. I'll hardly believe you, my lord, though Eamus 
 himself should prove it: well, proha. 
 
 Prince. Mark my problem. Bona virga facit bonum puerum: 
 honum est, te esse honum puerum, ergo bona virga res bona est. 
 And that's this, Ned: — A good rod makes a good boy: 'tis 
 good that thou shouldst be a good boy, therefore a good rod 
 is good. 
 
 Will. Nay, by'r lady, the better the rod is, 'tis the worse 
 for him, that's certain : but dost hear me, boy ? since he can 
 prove a rod to be so good, let him take't himself the next 
 time. 
 
 Prince. In truth, I pity thee and inwardly I feel the 
 stripes thou barest, and for thy sake, Ned, I'll ply my book 
 the faster : in the mean time thou shalt not say but the Prince 
 of "Wales will honourablj- reward thy service; come, Browne, 
 kneel down. 
 
 Will. What, wilt thou knight him, Ned? 
 
 Prince. I will : my father has knighted many a one, that 
 never shed drop of blood for him, but he has often for me. 
 
 Will. brave! he looks like the Mirror of Knighthood 
 already. 
 
 Enter Compton. 
 
 Comp. Clear the presence, gentlemen, the king is coming. 
 
 Prince. The king ? God's me, reach me my book, call my 
 tutors in : come, Browne, I'll confirm thy knighthood afore the 
 king. 
 
 Marq. Here be your tutors , my lord , and yonder the 
 king comes. 
 
 Enter the King. 
 
 Prince. Health to your majesty. 
 
 King. God ha' mercy, Ned 1 Ay, at your book so hard ? 'ti, 
 
 well, 'tis well! Now, bishop Cranmer, and good doctor Tyes 
 
 I was going to the gallery and to have had your scholar with 
 me, but seeing you're so busy, I'll not trouble him. Come on. 
 
 Will, come! go you along with me, what make you among 
 the scholars here? 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 49 
 
 Will. T come to learn my gut, qua, quod, to keep me 
 from the rod : marry, here's one was whipped in pudding time, 
 for he has gotten a knighthood about it. Look, old Harry, 
 does he not look more furious than he was wont? 
 
 King. Who, Will? young Browne? God's Mary mother! 
 his father is a gallant knight, as any these south parts of 
 England holds. 
 
 Will. He cannot compare with his son, though: if he 
 were right Donzel del Phebo, or the very knight of the Sun 
 himself, yet this knight shall unhorse him. 
 
 King. When was he made a knight. Will ? 
 
 Will. Marry, i' th' last action: I can assure you, there 
 was hot service, and some on 'em came so near him, they had 
 like to smell on't : but when all was done, the poor gentleman 
 was pitifully wounded in the back parts, as may appear by 
 the scar, if his knightship would but untruss there. 
 
 King. But who knighted him, William ? 
 
 Will. That did Ned here : and he has earned it too, for 
 I am sure, this two year he has been lashed for his learning. 
 
 King. Ha, how? Come hither, Ned; is this true? 
 
 Prince. It is, .my lord, and I hope your highness will 
 confirm my deed. 
 
 King. Confirm it? God's holy mother, what shrewd boys 
 are these ! 
 Cranmer and Tye, do ye observe the prince? 
 Now, by my crown, young Ned, thou'st honoured me : 
 I like thy kingly spirit that loves to see 
 Thy friends advanced to types of dignity. 
 Young knight, come hither! what the prince hath done 
 We here confirm: be still Sir Edward Browne! 
 But hear me, Ned, now you have made him knight, 
 Y'ou must give him some living, or else 'tis nothing. 
 
 Will. Ay, by my troth, he is now but a knight under 
 Jorma pauperis, for a knight without Hving is no better than 
 an ordinary gallant. 
 
 King. Well, what will ye give him, Ned? 
 
 Prince. When I have heard of something that may do 
 him good, I will entreat your majesty for him, and i' th' 
 mean time from mine own allowance I'll maintain him 
 
 King. 'Tis well said; but for your sake, son Edward, 
 we'll provide for him: Cranmer, see presently a patent drawn, 
 wherein we will confirm to him from our Exchequer a thousand 
 marks a year. 
 
50 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 Brovme. I thank your majesty, and as I am 
 True knight, I'll fight and die for ye. 
 
 Will. 'Ko^ if your tutors come to whip ye, you may 
 choose whether you'll untruss by th' order of arms. 
 
 King. Well, J^ed, see ye ply your learning and let's have 
 no more knights made in this action: look to him, Browne, 
 if he loiter, his tutors will have you up for't. 
 
 Brovme. I hope, my lord, they dare not whip me now. 
 
 King. By'r lady, sir, that's doubtful. 
 
 Will. If they do, he shall make thee a lord, and then 
 they dare not. 
 
 King. Well, Cranmer, we'll leave ye: when your pupil 
 has done his task ye set him now, let him come and vi.sit 
 us. On, gentlemen, into the gallery. 
 
 Prince. Heaven keep your majesty. [Exit King. 
 
 Gentlemen, draw near. 
 
 Tye. Good morrow to your grace. 
 
 Prince. Good morrow, tutors, at noon: 'tis good even, is 
 it not? 
 
 Cran. We saw not your grace to-day. 
 
 Prince. ye quip me cunningly for my truantship , that 
 I was not at my book to-day, but I have thought of that 
 ye read last night, I assure ye. 
 
 Cran. We doubt it not, fair prince : lords and gentlemen, 
 give leave. 
 
 Will. All void the room, there's but scholars and fools. 
 
 Cran. I hope, your excellence can answer me in that 
 axiom of philosophy, I propounded to ye. 
 
 Prince. I promise ye, tutor, 'tis a problem to me, for the 
 difference of your author's opinions makes me diifer in mine 
 own: some sajr 'Omne animal est aut homo, aut beatia' , that ever}' 
 living creature is or man, or beast. 
 
 Will. Then a woman's a beast, for she's no man. 
 
 Prince. Peace, William, you'll be expulsed else : and again 
 some authors affirm, that everj' beast is four-footed. 
 
 Will. Then a fool's no beast, for he has but two. 
 
 Prince. Yet again. Will? 
 
 Will. Mum, jSTed, no words, I'll be as still as a small 
 bagpipe. 
 
 Cran. Omne animal est aut Jiomo, aut hestia; and thus 'tis 
 proved, my lord: nmne animal est rationale, vel irrationale; homo 
 est rationalis , heslia irrationalix : ergo onme animal homo est, vel 
 bestia. 
 
YOU KNO^W ME. ,M 
 
 'Mongst all the creatures in this universe, 
 Or on the earth, or living in the air, 
 Man only reason hath, others only sense : 
 So -n-hat is only sensual, is not man. 
 But beast: for man both sense and reason hath. 
 So every creature, having one of tliese, , 
 Is sure or man or beast, and so all beasts 
 Are not foiu'-footed. 
 
 Will. That's certain, a louse has six. 
 
 Cran. I beseech your grace. 
 
 Prince. Away, William. 
 
 Will. jSTot a word more, as I am William. 
 
 Cran. For manj- beasts have wings, serving instead of feet, 
 And some have horns, of which wo thus esteem : 
 Animal cornutum non liabet denies mpremof:, 
 No horned beast hnth teeth above the roof. 
 
 Will. That's a lie, a cuckold has. 
 
 Prince. Thrust the fool out of the presence there. 
 
 Will. Well, cedaul arma torjce, tlie scholars shall have the 
 fool's place. ' [E.at Will. 
 
 Prince. Well, Cranmer, j'ou have made me able to prove 
 ^a man no beast, il he prove not himself so : we'll now leave this. 
 And now resolve me for divinitj- ; 
 Cranmer, I love ye and I love your learning; 
 Speak, and we'll hear ye. 
 God give ye truth that yoa may give it me. 
 This land, ye know, stands wavering in her faith 
 Betwixt the papists and the protestants. 
 You know we all must die and this tlesh 
 Part with her part of immortality. 
 Tutor, I do believe ' both Heaven and Hell, 
 Do you know any third place for the soul's abode, 
 Called purgatory, as some would have me think ^ 
 For from my sister Mary and her tutors 
 I've oft received letters to that purpose. 
 I love ye, Cranmer, and shall believe whate'er 
 Ye speak; therefore I charge ye, tell the truth, 
 
 Cran. How thinks your grace, is there a iilace 
 Of purgatory, or nor 
 
 Prince. Truly, I think none. 
 
 Yet must I urge to you what's said to me. 
 This world, you know, hath been five thousand years 
 Still increasing, still decreasing, still replenish'd, 
 
52 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 How long 'twill be, none knows but he that made it. 
 
 We all do call ourselves God's children, 
 
 Yet sure some an't: but think ye, tutor, that 
 
 The compass of that heaven and hell 
 
 Is able to contain those souls so numberless, 
 
 That ever breathed since the first breath was given, 
 
 Without a Tertium, or a third placer 
 
 Cran. Who puts these doubts within your grace's head. 
 Are like their own belief, slight and unregarded, 
 And is as easily answer'd and confuted. 
 
 Quod est infinitum, non habet Jinem; cerium est opus Dei, opus Dei 
 est infinitum : ergo ccelum est infinitum. 
 That which is infinite hath no end at all. 
 For that eternity, that everlasting essence. 
 That did concord heaven, earth, and hell to be, 
 Is of himself all infinite: that heaven and hell are so. 
 His power, his works, and words do witness it, 
 For what is infinite, hath in itself no end. 
 Then must the heavens which is his glorious seat, 
 Be incomprehensible containing him, 
 Then what should need a third place to contain 
 A world of infinites so -vast and main ? 
 
 Prince. I thank ye, Cranmer, and I do believe ye. 
 What other proofs have been maintained to me, 
 Or shall be, you shall know and aid me in them : 
 Enough for this time. 
 
 Who's there? Doctor Tye, our music lecturer? Pray, draw 
 near: indeed, I take much delight in ye. 
 
 Tye. In music may your grace ever delight. 
 Though not in me: music is fit for kings, 
 And not for those knows not the chime of strings. 
 
 Prince. Truly I love it, yet there are a sort. 
 Seeming more pure than wise, that will upbraid at it, 
 Calling it idle, vain, and frivolous. 
 
 Tye. Your grace hath said, indeed they do upbraid 
 That term is so, and those that do are such 
 As in themselves no happy concords hold : 
 • AU music jars with them, but sounds of good. 
 But would your grace awhile be patient, 
 In music's praise, thus will I better it. 
 Music is heavenly', for in heaven is music. 
 For there the Seraphins do sing continually. 
 And when the best was born, that e'er was man. 
 
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 A quire of angels sang for joy of it; 
 
 What of celestial was revealed to man, 
 
 Was much of music; 'tis said the beasts did worship, 
 
 And sang before the Deity supernal: 
 
 The kingly prophet sang before the ark, 
 
 And with his music charmed the heart of Saul, 
 
 And if the poet fail us not, my lord. 
 
 The dulcet tongue of music made the stones 
 
 To move, irrational beasts and birds to dancia; 
 
 And last, the trumpet's music shall awake the dead. 
 
 And clothe their naked bones in coats of flesh, 
 
 To appear in that high house of parliament, 
 
 When those that gnash their teeth at music's sound. 
 
 Shall make that place where music ue'er was found. 
 
 Prince. Thou giv'st it perfect life, skilful doctor, 
 I thank thee for the honour'd praise thou giv'st it; 
 I pray thee, let us hear it too. 
 
 Tye. 'Tis ready for your grace : 
 Give breath to your loud-tuned instruments. 
 
 Loud Music. 
 
 Prince. 'T is well- Methinks in this sound I prove a 
 complete age; 
 As music, so is man governed by stops. 
 Awed by dividing notes, sometimes aloft, 
 Sometimes below, and when he has attain'd 
 His high and lofty pitch, breathed his sharpest, 
 ilost shrillest air, jei at length 'tis gone, 
 And falls down flat to his conclusion. 
 
 Sojt Music. 
 
 Another sweetness and harmonious sound, 
 A milder strain, another kind agreement: 
 Yet 'mongst these many strings be one untun'd, 
 Or jarreth low, or higher than his course, 
 J^ot keeping steady mean amongst the rest, 
 Corrupts them all— so doth bad men the best. 
 
 Tye. Enough! Let voices now delight his princely ear! 
 
 A Song. 
 
 Prince. Doctor, I thank you and commend your cunning. 
 I oft have heard my father merrily speak 
 In your high praise, and thus his highness saith : 
 
54 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 England one God, one truth, one doctor hath 
 For music's art, and that is doctor Tye, 
 Admir'd for skill in music's harmonj*. 
 
 Tye. Your grace doth honour me with kind acceptance, 
 Yet one thing more I do beseech your excellence 
 To deign, to patronize this homely work. 
 Which I unto your grace have dedicate. 
 
 Prince. What is the title ? 
 
 Tye. The Acts of the Holy Apostles (urn'd into verse, 
 Which I have set in several parts to sing. 
 Worthy Acts and worthily in you remember'd. 
 
 Prince. I'll peruse them and satisfy j^our pains, 
 And liave them sung within my father's chapel. 
 I thank ye both. Now I'll crave leave awhile 
 To be a little idle: pi'ay, let our linguists, 
 French and Italian, to-morrow morn be ready; 
 I must confer with them, or I shall lose 
 My little practise : so good den, good tutors. [Exit. 
 
 Crwi. Health to 5'our highness, God increase your days: 
 The hope of England and of learning's praise. 
 
 [Excunl nmne.i. 
 
 Enter Bonner and Garbinek rpcuhng. 
 
 Bon. What have you here, my lord of Winchester: 
 
 Gar. Heretical and damned heresies, 
 Precepts that Cranmer's wisdom taught the prince; 
 The pope and we are held as heretics. 
 What thinkst thou, Bonner, of this wavering age ? 
 
 Bon. As seamen do of storms, yet hope for fair weather. 
 By'r lady, Gardiner, we must look about. 
 The protestants begin to gather head, 
 Luther has sown well, and England's ground 
 Is fat and fertile to increase his seed ; 
 Here's lofty plants; Avhat? bishops and prelates. 
 Ay, nobility temporal : but we shall temper all 
 At the return of our high cardinal. 
 
 Gar. Bonner, 'ti.-s true, but in mean time we must 
 Prevent this rancour that now swells so big. 
 That it must out, or break ; they have a dangerous head. 
 And much I fear. 
 
 Bon. What? not the king T hope. 
 
 Gar. 'Tis doubtful whether he will bend, but sure 
 Queen Katherine's a strong Lutheran; heard ye not, 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 55 
 
 How in presunco of the king and cardinal 
 She did extirp against his holiness? 
 
 Bon. But -had our English cardinal once attain'd 
 The high possession of Saint Peter's chair, ,^7 
 
 He'd bar some tongues that now have scope too much; V"''^ 
 'Tis he must do it, Gardiner, 'tis a perilous thing, 
 Queen Katherine can do much with England's king. 
 
 Gar. Ay, Bonner, that's the sum of all; 
 There must be no queen, or the abbeys fall. 
 
 Bon. See, where she comes with the king's sister, 
 And from the prince's lodging; lot's salute her. 
 
 Enter the Queen, Lady 11a ry and Attendants. 
 
 Gar. Good morrow to your majesty. 
 
 Q. Kath. Good morrow to my reverend lords of London 
 And Winchester; saw ye the king to-day? 
 
 Bon. His highness was not yet abroad this morning, 
 But here we will attend his excellence. 
 
 Q. Kath. Come, sister, we'll go see his majesty. 
 
 L. Mary. We will attend ye, madam. 
 
 V- Kath. Set forward, gentlemen ; good morrow, lords. 
 
 [Exeunt Queen Sf-c. 
 
 Gar. Ill morrow must it be to you or us, 
 Conspirators 'gainst men religious. 
 Bonner, these Lutherans do conspire, I ^ce, 
 And scoff the pope and his supremacy. 
 
 Bon. Let's strike in time then and incense the king. 
 And suddenly their states to ruin bring. 
 The trumpets sounds, it seems the king is coming, 
 We'U watch and take advantage cunningly. 
 
 Enter the King, Qtjeen, Ladt Maky, Bkandon, Seymouk, 
 Gkay, and Dudley. 
 
 King. Where's Brandon ? 
 
 Bran. My liege. 
 
 King. Come hither, Kate. 
 
 Bran. Did your grace call? 
 
 King. I'll speak wi' ye anon; I'll speak wi' ye auon! 
 Come, Kate, let's walk a little : who is there ? 
 lly lords of London and of Winchester, welcome, welcome ! 
 By this your master the cardinal, I trow. 
 Has parted with the emperor, and set 
 A league between the French and him. Mother 0' God! 
 
 
56 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 I would ourself in person had been there, 
 But Wolsey's diligence we need not fear ; 
 Ha! think ye, he will not? 
 
 Gar. No doubt he will, my lord. , 
 
 King. Ay, Gardiner, 'twill be his best policy ; 
 Their friendship must advance his dignity, 
 If e'er he get the papal governance. 
 
 Dud. And that will never be, I hope. 
 
 Sey. 'Twere pity it should. 
 
 Gray. He's proud enough already. 
 
 Kinij. Ha! What's that ye talk there? 
 
 Bran. They say, my lord, he's gone with such a train, 
 As if he should be elected presently. 
 
 King. 'Fore God, 'tis a gallant priest ! Come hither, Charles, 
 pr'ythee, let me lean o' thy shoulder: by Saint George, Kate, 
 I grow stiff, methinks. 
 
 Q. Kath. Wiirt please your highness sit and rest yourself ? 
 
 King. No, no, Kate, I'll walk still; Brandon shall stay 
 mine arm; I'm fat and pursy and 'twill get me a stomach; 
 sawst the prince to-day, Kate? 
 
 Q. Kath. Ay, my good lord. 
 
 King. God bless him and make him fortunate. 
 I tell ye, lords, the hope that England hath. 
 Is now in him; 'fore God, I think, old Harry 
 Must leave ye shortly ; well, God's will be done ! 
 Here'll be old shuffling then," ha! will there not? 
 Well, you say nothing? I pray God there be not: 
 I do not like this difference in religion ; 
 Ay, God's dear Lady, an I live 
 But seven years longer, we'll take order thoroughly. 
 
 Bon. We hear that Luther out of Germany 
 Hath writ a book unto your majesty. 
 Wherein he much repents his former deeds. 
 Craving your highness' pardon, and withal 
 Submits himself unto your grace's pleasure. 
 
 King. Bonner, 'tis true, and we have answer'd it. 
 Blaming at first his haughty insolence, 
 And now his lightness and inconstancy. 
 That writ, ho knew not what, so childishly. 
 
 Gar. Much bloodshed there is now in Germany 
 About this difference in religion. 
 With Lutherans, Arians, and Anabaptists, 
 As half the province of Helvetia 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 57 
 
 Is with their tumults almost quilc destroj-cd. 
 
 Q- Kath. Methinks, 'twere well, my royal sovereign, 
 Your grace, the emperor, and the Christian kings 
 Would call a council and peruse the books. 
 That Luther writ against the catholics. 
 The superstitions and the church of Rome, 
 And if they teach a, truer way to heaven. 
 Agreeing with the Hebrew Testament, 
 Why should they not be read and followed? 
 
 King. Thou sayst well, Kate, so they agree with the 
 scriptures, 
 I think, 'tis lawful to peruse and read them: 
 Speak, bishops ! 
 
 Gar. Most unlawful, my dear sovereign. 
 Unless permitted by his holiness. 
 
 Q. Kath. How prove yc that, my lord r 
 
 Kinij. Well said, Kate; to them again, good wench. 
 Lords, give us leave a while, avoid the presence, 
 We'll hear the bishops and my queen dispute. 
 
 Q. Kath. I am a weak scholar, my lord, 
 But on condition, that your highness, nor these reverend lords 
 Will take no exceptions at my woman's wit, 
 I am content to hold the argument: 
 And first, with reverence to his majesty. 
 Tell me, why would you make the king believe, 
 His highness and the people under him, 
 Are tied so strictly to obey the pope ? 
 
 Bon. Because, fair queen, he is God's deputy. 
 
 Q. Kath. So are all kings, and God himself commands 
 The king to rule and people to obey, 
 And both to love and honour him : 
 But you, that are sworn servants unto Rome, 
 How are ye faithful subjects to the king. 
 When first ye serve the pope, then after him r 
 
 Gar. Madam, these are that sect of Lutherans, 
 That makes your highness so mistake the scriptures; 
 Your slender argument's thus answered: 
 Before the king God must be worshipped. 
 
 Q. Kath. 'Tis true, but pray ye, answer this: 
 Suppose the king by proclamation 
 Commanded you and every of his subjects. 
 On pain of death and forfeit of his goods, 
 To spurn against the pope's authority: 
 
58 WHEN YOU SEE JJE, 
 
 Ye know the Scripture binds ye to obey him, 
 
 But this I think, if that his grace did so. 
 
 Your slight obedience all the world should know. 
 
 King. God's mother, Kate, thou'st touched them there; 
 What say ye to that, Bonner ? 
 
 Bon. Were it to any one but her majesty. 
 These questions were confuted easily. 
 
 Q. Kath. Pray, tell the king then, what Scripture have ye. 
 To teach religion in an unknown language? 
 To instruct the ignorant to kneel to Saints, 
 By barefoot pilgrimage to visit shrines, 
 Eor money to release from purgatory 
 The vildest villain, thief, or murderer ? 
 All this the people must believe you can. 
 Such is the dregs of Eome's religion. 
 
 Gar. Ay, those are the speeches of those heretics, 
 I Of Cranmer, Ridley, and blunt Latimer, 
 That daily rail against his holiness, 
 Filling the land with hateful heresies. 
 
 Q. Kath. I^ay be not angry, nor mistake them, lords, 
 What they have said or done, was mildly followed. 
 As by their articles is evident. 
 
 King. Where are those articles, Kater 
 
 Q. Kath. I'll go and fetch them to your majesty. 
 And pray, your highness view them graciously. \_Exit Queen. 
 
 King. Go, fetch them, Kate. Ah, sirrah, we have women 
 doctors ! 
 Now I see, Mother o' God, here's a fine world the whilst, 
 That 'twixt so many men's opinions 
 The holy Scriptures must be bandied thus ! 
 
 Gar. God grant, it breed no further detriment 
 Unto your crown and sacred dignity : 
 They that would alter thus religion, 
 I fear they scarcely love your royal person. 
 
 King. Ha ! Take heed what you do say, Gardiner ! 
 
 Gar. My love and duty to your majesty 
 Bids me be bold to speak my conscience; 
 Unless your safety and your life they hate, 
 Why should they daily thus disturb the state? 
 To smoothe the face of false rebellion 
 Proud traitors will pretend religion; 
 For under colour of reformation. 
 The upstart followers of Wicklif's doctrine. 
 
YOU KXOW ME. 59 
 
 In the fifth Henrj'-'s days avosr in arms, 
 And had not diligent care prevented them, 
 Their powers had suddenly surprised the king; 
 And, good my liege, who knows their proud intent, 
 That thus rebel against your government? 
 
 Kin(j. Shrewd proofs, by'r lady and by .Saint Peter! 
 1 swear, we will not trust their gentleness. 
 Speak, Gardiner, and resolve us speedily, 
 Who's the ring-leader of this lusty crew? 
 
 Bon. Unless your highness please to pardon us, 
 ^Ye dare not speak, nor urge your majesty. 
 
 King. We pardon what ye speak, resolve us speedily. 
 
 Gar. Then, if your royal person Avill be safe, 
 Tour life preserved and this fair realm in peace, 
 And all these troubles smoothly pacified. 
 The queen, dear lord, must be removed from you. 
 
 King. Ha! the queen? Bold sir, advise ye. well, 
 Take heed, ye do not wrong her loyalty. 
 
 Gar. See here, my liege, are proofs too manifest, 
 Her highness with a sect of Lutherans 
 Have private meetings, secret conventicles. 
 To wrest the grounds of all religion. 
 Seeking by tumults to subvert the state. 
 The which, without your majesty's consent. 
 Is treason capital against the crown. 
 
 Bon. And seeing, without the knowledge of your grace. 
 They dare attempt these dangerous stratagems, 
 'Tis to be feared, which heaven, we pray, prevent. 
 They do conspire against your sacred life. 
 
 Gar. Why else should all these private meetings be. 
 Without the knowledge of your majesty? 
 
 King. Mother o' God, these proofs arc probable, j 
 And strong presumptions do confirm your words. 
 Within there, ho! 
 
 Enter Compton. 
 
 Comp. My lord. 
 
 King. Sir William Compton, see the doors made fast. 
 Double our guard, let none come near our person, 
 Summon the council to confer with us, 
 Bid them attend us in the privy chamber. 
 
 Comp. Here is a letter for your majesty 
 From Martin Luther out of Germany. 
 
 6 
 
60 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 King. Daran'd schismatic, still will he trouble us. 
 With books and letters. Leave it and be gone. 
 
 [Exit Complon. 
 
 The villain thinks to smooth his treachery 
 
 By fawning speeches to our majesty. 
 
 But by my George, lord bishops, if I live, 
 
 I'll root his favourites from England's bounds. 
 
 What writes his worship? [Reads the letter. 
 
 Oar. Now, Bonner, stir, the game is set a-foot. 
 The king is now incensed, let's follow close. 
 To have queen Katherine shorter by a head; 
 These heresies will cease, when she is dead. 
 
 King. Holy Saint Peter, what a knave is this : 
 Erewhile he writ submissively to us, 
 And now again repents his humbleness; 
 Bishops, it seems, being touched with our reply, 
 He writes thus boldly to our majesty. 
 Gardiner, look here, he was deceived, he says, 
 ' When he thought to find John Baptist in the courts of princen, or 
 resident zcith those, that are clothed in purple.' 
 Mother o' God, is 't not a dangerous knave? 
 
 Gar. False Luther knows, he has great friends in England, 
 Else durst he not thus move your majesty. 
 
 King. We'll cut his friends off, ere they grow too strong, 
 And sweep these vipers from our state ere long. 
 No marvel though queen Katherine plead for him. 
 That is, I see, the greatest Lutherin. 
 How is your counsels we proceed in these ? 
 
 Bon. 'Twere best, your grace did send her to the Tower, 
 Before they further do confer with her. 
 
 King. Let it be so : go, get a warrant drawn. 
 And with a strong guard bear her to the Tower: 
 Our hand shall sign your large commission; 
 Let Cranmer from the prince be straight removed, 
 And come not near the court on pain of death. 
 Mother o' God, shall I be baffled thus 
 By traitors, rebels, and false heretics? 
 Get articles for her arraignment ready. 
 If she of treason be convict, I swear, 
 Her head goes off, were she my kingdom's heir. [Sound. Exit. 
 
 Enter the Peince, Ckanmek, Tye, and the young Lords. 
 
 Prince. Cranmer ! 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 61 
 
 Cran. My lord. 
 
 Prince. Where is Francisco, our Italian tutor? 
 
 Cran. He does attend jour grace without, mj^ lord. 
 
 Prince. Tell him, anon we will confer with him. 
 We'll ply our learning, Browne, least yon be beaten, 
 We will not have your knighthood so disgraced. 
 
 Broivne. I thank ye, good my lord. 
 An your grace would but a little ply your learning, 
 I warrant ye, I'll keep my knighthood from breeching. 
 
 Prince. Faith, Ned, I will. 
 
 Enter first Seroant. 
 
 How now, what letter's that? 
 
 First Serv. From your grace's sister, the Lady ]\rary. 
 
 Prince. Come giyo it me, we guess at the contents. 
 Cranmer, my sister oft hath writ to me, 
 That you and bishop Bonner might confer 
 About these points of new religion. 
 Tell me, tutor, will ye dispute with him? 
 
 Cran. With all my heart, my lord, and wish the king 
 Would deign to hear our disputation. 
 
 Enter second Servant. 
 
 Prince. What hast thou there? 
 
 Sec. Sen. A letter from your royal sister, young Elizabeth. 
 
 Prince. Another letter ere we open this ; 
 Well, we will view them both immediately. 
 I pray ye, attend us in the next chamber. 
 And tutors, if I call .ye, not before, 
 Give me some notice, if the king, my father. 
 Be walked abroad; I must go visit him. 
 
 Tye. We will, fair prince. [Exeunt Cranmer and Tye. 
 
 Prince. What says my sister Mary? She is eldest, 
 And by due course must first be answered. [Reads. 
 
 'The blessed mother of thy redeemer with all the An/jels and holy 
 Saints he intermissers to preserve thee of idolatry, to invocate the 
 Saints for help.' 
 
 Alas, good sister, stiU in this opinion! _ /////?/ 
 
 These are thy blinded tutors, Bonner, Gardiner, V^ ^p 
 
 That wrong thy thoughts with foolish heresies; //"^ ' 
 
 I'll read no further: to him will Edward pray 
 
 6* 
 
62 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 ■■ For preservation that can himself preserve me, 
 
 i Without the help of Saint or ceremony. 
 What writes Elizabeth? Sweet sister, thou'st my heart, 
 And of prince Edward's love hast greatest part. 
 
 'Sa-eet jjiinee, I salute thee irdli a sister's luve; 
 Be steadfast in thy faith and let thy prayers 
 Be dedicate to God only, for 'tis he alone, 
 Can strengthen thee and confound thine enemies. 
 Give a settled assurance oj thy hopes in heaven ; 
 God strengthen thee in all temptations 
 And give thee grace to shun idolatry, 
 Heaven send thee life to inherit thy election. 
 To God I commend thee, who still, I pray, preserve thee. 
 Thy loving sister Elizabeth.' 
 
 Loving thou art and of me best beloved, 
 Thy lines shall be my contemplation's cures, 
 And in thy virtues will I meditate: 
 To Chri.9t I'll only pray for me and thee; 
 This I embrace, away idolatry ! 
 
 Enter CKAJSiiloK. 
 
 How now, Cranmcr? where's the king? 
 
 Cran. Conferring with his council, gracious prince ; 
 There is some earnest business troubles him, 
 The guards are doubled and commandment given, 
 That none be suifer'd to come near the presence. 
 God keep his majesty from traitors' hands! 
 
 Prince. Amen, good Cranmer ! What should disturb him- 
 
 thus? 
 Is cardinal Wolsey yet returned from France? 
 
 Tye. Ay, my good lord, and this day comes to court. 
 
 Prince. Perhaps this hasty business of the king 
 Is touching Wolsey and his embassage. 
 
 Cran. Pray God, it be not worse, my lord. 
 
 Enter Compton. 
 
 Tye. Here comes Sir William Compton from his highness. 
 
 Comp. Health to your excellence. 
 
 Prince. What news, Sir William? 
 
YOr KIS'OW :\IE. 63 
 
 Comp. The king expects your grace's corapain", 
 And wills your highness to come and speak with him. 
 And, doctor Cranmer, from his majesty 
 I charge ye speedily to leave the court, 
 And come not near the prince, on pain of death, 
 Without direction from the king and peers. 
 
 Cran. Sir, I ohey ye ; God so deal with me, 
 As T have wished unto his majesty. 
 
 Prince. Cranmer banish'd the court? for what I pray? 
 
 Comp. I know not, gracious lord; pray, pardon me, 
 'Tis the king's pleasure, and trust me, I am sorry, 
 It was m^' hap to bring this heav}' message. 
 
 Craii. ^ay, good Sir William, j'our message moves not me ; 
 My service to his royal majcst}' 
 Was alwaj's true and just, so help me heaven : 
 Only I pray your grace to move the king, 
 That I may come to trial speedily. 
 And if in aught I have deserved death, 
 Let me not draw another minute's breath. \_E.iil Cranmer. 
 
 Comp. Will ye go, my lord ? 
 
 Prince. Xot j'et, we're not j'our prisoner, arc wc, sir? 
 
 Comp. Ko, my dear lord. 
 
 Prince. Then go before, and we will follow ye ; 
 Your worship will forget j-ourself, I see. [Exii Cnmpton. 
 
 My tutor thrtist from court so suddenly? 
 This is strange. 
 
 Enter Ti'E. 
 
 Tye. The queen, my lord, is come to speak with you. 
 Prince. Avoid the presence then and conduci her in, 
 I'll speak with her and after see the king. 
 
 Enter the Queen. 
 
 Q. Kath. Leave us alone, I pray ye. [Exit Ty, 
 
 Prince. Your grace is welcome; how fares your majesty 
 q. Kath. ^exer so ill, dear prince, for now T fear. 
 
 Even as a wretched caititf, kill'd with care, 
 
 I am accus'd of treason, and the king 
 
 Is now in council to dispose of me : 
 
 I know his frown is death, and I shall die. 
 Prince. Who are your accusers? 
 Q. Kath. I know not. 
 
64 WHEN yniT SEE ME, 
 
 Prince. How know ye then his grace is so incensed? 
 
 Q. Katli. One of my gentlemen, passing by the presence, 
 Took up this bill of accusations, 
 Wherein twelve articles are drawn against me: 
 It seems my false accusers lost it there. 
 Here they accuse me of conspiracy, 
 That I with Cranmer, Latimer, and Ridley 
 Do seek to raise rebellion in the state, 
 Alter religion and bring Luther in, 
 And to new government inforce the king. 
 
 Prince. Then that's the cause that Cranmer was removed ; 
 But did your highness e'er confer with them. 
 As they have here accus'd ye to the king? 
 
 Q. Kath. Never, nor ever had I one such thought. 
 As I have hope in him my soul hath bought. 
 
 Prince. Then fear not, gracious madam ; I'll to the king, 
 And doubt not but I'll make your peace with him. 
 
 Q. Kath. 0, plead for me, tell him my soul is clear, 
 Never did thought of treason harbour here; 
 As I intended to his sacred life, 
 So be it to my soul or joy or grief! 
 
 Prince. Stay here till I return ; I'll move his majesty, 
 That you may answer your accusers presently. [Exit Prince. 
 
 Q. Kath. 0, I shall never come to speak with him: 
 The lion in his rage is not so stern. 
 As royal Henry in his wrathful spleen. 
 And the}' that have accused me to his grace. 
 Will work such means, I ne'er shall see his face. 
 "Wretched queen Katherine, would thou hadst been 
 Kate Parr still, and not great England's queen. 
 
 Enter Compton. 
 
 Co7np. Health to your majestj'. 
 
 Q. Kalh. Wish me, good Compton, woe and misery; 
 This giddy flattering world I hate and scoff. 
 Ere long, I know, queen Katherine's head must off 
 Came )'e from the king ? 
 
 ComiJ. I did, fair queen, and much sad tidings bring. 
 His grace, in secret, hath revealed to me. 
 What is intended to j'our majesty. 
 Which I, in love and duty to your highness, 
 Am come to lell ye and to counsel yd, 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 65 
 
 The best I can in this cxtri'iiiify. 
 Then on my knees I dare entreat }'our grace, 
 Not to reveal what I shall sny to yon, 
 For then I am assured that death's my due. 
 
 U- Kalh. I will not, on my faith: good Compton, speak, 
 That with thy sad reports my heart may- break. 
 
 Comi). Thus then at your fair feet m}- life I lay, 
 In hope to drive your highness' cares away ■ 
 You are accused of high conspiracy 
 And treason 'gainst his royal majesty ; 
 So much the}» haye incensed his excellency, 
 That he hath granted firm commission, 
 To attach your person and convey ye hence, 
 Close prisoner to the Tower; articles are drawn. 
 And time appointed for arraignment there. 
 Grood madam, be advised by this; I know, 
 The officers are sent to arrest your person : 
 Prevent their malice, haste ye to the king, 
 I'll use such means that you shall speak with him ; 
 There plead 3'our innocence, I know his grace 
 Will hear ye mildly, therefore delay not: 
 If you be taken ere you see the king, 
 I fear \e never more shall speak to him. 
 
 Q. Kath. Compton, 'twixt thy love and my sage fear, 
 I feel ten thousand sad vexations here; 
 Lead on, I pray, I'll be advised by tlu-e, 
 The king is angry, and the queen must die [Exeunt 
 
 Enter Bon.neh and Gardinek v^ilh the conwrhsioii. 
 
 Gar. Come, Bonner, now strike sure, the iron's hot; 
 Urge all thou canst, let nothing be forgot: 
 We have the king's hand here to warrant us, 
 'Twas well the cardinal came so luckily, 
 Who urged, the state would quite be ruined, 
 If that religion thus were altered. 
 Which made his highness, with a fiery spleen. 
 Direct out warrants to attach the queen. 
 
 Bon. 'Twas excellent; that cedar once o'erthrown. 
 To crop the lower shrubs let us alone. 
 
 Gar. Those articles of accusations, 
 We framed again.st her, being lost by you, 
 Had like to overthrow our policy. 
 
(iG WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 Had we not stoutly urged his majesty. 
 
 Bon. Well, well; what is now to be douo? 
 
 Gar. A guard must be provided speedily. 
 To bear her prisoner unto London Tower, 
 And watch convenient place to arrest her person. 
 
 Bon. Tush ! any place shall serve, for who dares contradict 
 His highness' hand ? even from his side we'll hale her, 
 And bear her quickly to her longest home, 
 Least we and ours hy her to ruin come. 
 
 Gar. About it then, let them untimely die, 
 That scorn the pope; and Rome's supremacy. [Exeunt. 
 
 Enter the Kikg and Prince, the Guard before them. 
 
 King. Guard, watch the doors and let none come near us, 
 But such as are attendant on our person, 
 ilother o' God, 'tis time to stir, I see. 
 When traitors creep so near our majest}'. 
 Must English Harry walk with armed guards 
 Now in his old age ? must I fear my life 
 By hateful treason of my queen and wife? 
 
 Prince. I do beseech your royal majesty. 
 To hear her speak ere ye condemn her thus. 
 
 King. Go to, Ned, I charge ye speak not for her; she's 
 a dangerous traitor. How now, who knocks so loud there: 
 
 First Guard. 'Tis cardinal Wolsey, my lord. 
 
 King. An 't be the devil, tell him he comes not here : 
 Bid him attend us till our better leisure. 
 Come hither, Ned, let me confer with you; 
 Didst ever hear the disputation 
 'Twixt Cranmer and the queen about religion? 
 
 Prince. Never, my lord : I think they never yet, 
 At any time, had speech concerning it. 
 
 King. 0, thou'rt deceived, Ned ; it is too certain. \J\nocl-s. 
 Heyday, more knocking r Knock irons on his heels 
 And bear him hence, whate'er he be disturbs us. 
 Who is 't? 
 
 Firat Guard. Sir William Compton, good my liege. 
 
 King. Is 't he? well, let him in. 
 
 Enter Compton. 
 
 God's holy Mother, 
 
YOU KNOW ME. c? 
 
 Here is a stir indeed ; Compton, ye knock 
 
 Too loud for entrance here: you care not, thoug-li 
 
 The king be neVr so near; say ye, sir. Ha! 
 
 Comp. I do beseech your jaardon for my boldness. 
 
 Kinif. Well, what's your business? 
 
 Oomp. The queen, my lord, entreats to speak with you 
 
 Kiiuj. Body o' me, is she not 'rested yet? 
 Why do they not convey her to the Tower? 
 We gave commission to attach her presently. 
 Where is she? 
 
 Comp. At the door, my sovereign. 
 
 King. So near our presence? Keep her out, T charge ye. 
 Bend all your halberds' points against the door: 
 It she presume to enter, strike her through. 
 Dare she presume again to look on us? 
 
 Prince. TJpon my knees I do beseech your highness, 
 To hear her speak. 
 
 King. Up, JSTed, stand up ! I will not look on her. 
 iCother o' God ! stand close and guard it sure. 
 If she come in, I'll hang ye all, I swear. 
 
 Prince. I do beseech your grace. 
 
 King, Sir boy, no more ; I'll hear no more of her ; 
 Proud slut, bold traitress, and forgetful beast. 
 Yet dare she further move our patience. 
 
 Prince. I'll pawn my princely word, right royal father, 
 She shall not speak a word to anger ye. 
 
 King. W^ill you pawn your word for her? Mother o' God! 
 The prince of Wales his word is warrant for a king. 
 And we will take it, Ned; go, call her in. 
 
 Enter Queen. 
 
 Sir William, let the guard attend without; 
 Eeach me a chair, all but the prince depart. 
 How now, what do you weep and kneel? 
 Does your black soul the guilt of conscience feel? 
 Out, out, you are a traitor. 
 
 Q. Kath. A traitor? you all-seeing powers, 
 Here witness to my lord my loyalty! 
 A traitor ? 0, then you are too merciful ! 
 If I have treason in me, why rip you not 
 My ugly heart out with your weapon's point? 
 
68 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 0, my good lord, if it hath ti-aitorous blood, 
 It will be black, deform'd and tenebrous. 
 If not, from it -will spring a scarlet fountain. 
 And spit defiance in their perjur'd throats, 
 That have aocus'd me to your majesty, 
 Making my state thus full of misery. 
 
 King. Canst thou deny it? 
 
 Q. Kath. Else should I wrongfully accuse myself: 
 0, my dear lord, I do beseech your highness, 
 To satisfy your wronged queen in this : 
 Upon what ground grows this suspicion. 
 Or who thus wrongfully accuseth me 
 Of cursed treason 'gainst your majestj^? 
 
 King. Some probable effects myself can witness. 
 Others our faithful subjects testify : 
 Have you not oft maintained arguments, 
 Even to our face, against religion ? 
 Which, join'd with other complots, show itself, 
 As it is gathered by our loyal subjects, 
 For ti'eason capital against our person. 
 God's holy Mother ! you'll remoA'e us quickly 
 And turn me out: old Harry must away. 
 Now m mine age, lame, and half bed-rid, 
 Or else you'll keep me fast enough in prison. Ha! 
 Mistress, these are no hateful treasons, these? 
 
 Q. Kath. Heaven on my forehead write my worst intent, 
 And let your hate against my life be bent. 
 If ever thought of ill against your majesty 
 Was harboured here, refuse me, gracious God, 
 To your face, my liege, if to your face I speak it; 
 It manifests no complot, nor no treason, 
 Nor are they loyal that so injure me. 
 What I did speak was as my woman's wit, 
 To hold out argument could compass it; 
 My puny scholarship is held too weak, 
 To maintain proofs about religion. 
 Alas, I did it but to waste the time, 
 Knowing as then your grace was weak and sickly. 
 So to expel part of your pain and grief: 
 And for my good intent they seek my life, 
 God, how am I wronged ! 
 
 King. Ha, sayst thou so, was it no otherwise? 
 
 Q. Kath. What should I say, that you might credit me? 
 
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 Tf I am false, heaven strike me suddenly ! 
 
 King. Body o' me! what evei'lasting knaves 
 Are these that wrong thee thus ! Alas, poor Kate! 
 Come , stand up , stand up ! Wipe thine eyes , wipe thine 
 eyes! 'Fore God, 'twas told me thou wert a traitor: I could 
 hardly think it, but that it was applied so hard to me. God's 
 Mother, Kate, I fear my life, I tell ye ; King Harry would 
 be loth to die bj' treason now, that has bid so many brunts 
 unblemished, yet I confess, that now T grow stiff: my legs 
 fail me first, but they stand furthest from my heart and that's 
 still sound , I thank my God. Giyv me thy hand, come kiss 
 me , Katej so, now I'm friends again. Whoreson knaves, 
 crafty varlets, make thee a traitor to old Harry's life ! Well, 
 well, I'll meet with some of them! 'S foot! Come, sit on my 
 knee, Kate ! 
 
 Mother o' God ! he that says thou'rt false to me, 
 13y England's crown, I'll hang him presently. 
 
 Q. Kath. When I have thouglit of ill against your state, 
 Let me be made the vildest re]irobate. 
 
 King. That's my good Kate, but by th' Mary God, 
 Queen Katherine, you must thank prince Edward here, 
 For but for him thou'dst gone to th' Tower, I swear. 
 
 Q. Kath. I shall be ever thankful to his highness, 
 And pray for him and for your majesty. 
 
 King. Come, Kate, we'll walk awhile i' th' garden here: 
 Who keeps the door there? 
 Comp. My lord. 
 
 King. Sir William C'ompton, take my ring. 
 
 Bid doctor Cranmer haste to court again; 
 Give him that token of king Henry's love. 
 Discharge our guards, we fear no traitor's hand, 
 Our state, beloved of all, doth firmly stand: 
 (Jo, Compton. 
 
 Comp. I go, my lord. 
 
 King. Bid Wolsoy haste him to our royal presence; 
 Great Charles, the mighty Koman Emperor, 
 Our nephew and the hope of Christendom, 
 Is come to see his uncle and the English court; 
 We'll entertain him with imperial port. [KmI Compton. 
 
 Come hither, Fed. 
 
 Enter Eonser and Gakdinkh imth the Guard. 
 Gar. Fellows, stay there, and when I call, come forward; 
 
70 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 The service you pursue is for the king, 
 Therefore I charge ye to perforin it boldly : 
 We have his hand and seal to warrant it. 
 
 First Guard. We'll follow yon with resolution, sir; 
 The church is on our side, what should we fear? 
 
 Gar. 8ee, yonder she is talking with his majesty; 
 Think you, we may attempt to take her here .' 
 
 Bon. Why should we not? have we not firm commission. 
 To attach her anywhere? lie bold and fear not; 
 Fellows, come forward. 
 
 Kinfj. How now, what's here to do ? 
 
 Q. Kalh. The bishops, it seems, my lord, would speak 
 
 with you. 
 
 King. With bills and halberds? Well, tarry there, Kate. 
 I'll go myself. Now, wherefore come you? 
 
 Gar. As loyal subjects to your state and person, 
 Wo come to apprehend that traitorous woman. 
 
 King. Ye are a couple of drunken knaves and varlets! 
 God's holy Mother ! she's more true and just 
 Than any prelate that suborns the j)ope. 
 Thus to usurp upon our government. 
 Call you her traitor? Ye are tying beasts 
 .^nd false conspii'ators. 
 
 Bon. Your majesty hath seen what proofs we had. 
 
 King. Hear you, Bonner, you are a whoreson coxcomb ; 
 What proofs had ye, but treasons of your own inventions ? 
 
 Q. Katli. dear my lord, respect the reverend bishops, 
 Bonner and Gardiner loves your majesty. 
 
 King. Alas, poor Kate, thou thinkst full little what they 
 come for : 
 Thou hast small reason to commend their loves. 
 That falsely have accused thy harmless life. 
 
 Q. Katli. God, are these mine enemies? 
 
 Gar. We have your highness' hand to warrant it. 
 
 King. Let's see it then. 
 
 Gar. 'Tis here, my liege. 
 
 King. So, now ye've both my hands to contradict 
 What one hand did : and now our word again 
 Shall serve as warrant to bear you both 
 As prisoners to the Fleet, 
 Where you shall answer this conspiracy. 
 Yon, fellows, that came to attach the queen. 
 Lay hands on them and bear them to the Fleet. 
 
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 Q. hath. 0, I besrooh youv highness on my knees, 
 Kemit the doom of their imprisonment. 
 
 Kinr/. Stand up, good Kate, thou wrong'st thy raaiesty, 
 io plead for them that thus have injured thee. 
 
 Q. Kath. I have forgot it and do still entreat 
 Their humble pardons at your gracious feet. 
 
 King. Mother o' Uod, what a foolish woman's this! 
 Well, for her sake wo will revoke our doom, 
 But come not near us, as you love your lives: 
 Away and leave us, you are kuaves and miscreants. 
 Whoreson caitiffs — come to attach my queen! 
 
 Q. Kath. Vex not, my lord, it will distemper you. 
 
 Kiiuj. Mother o' God, I'll temper some on them for't. 
 
 Enter Bkakdon. 
 
 How now, Brandon ? 
 
 Bran. The emperor, my lord. 
 
 King. Get a train ready there: Charles Brandon, come 
 We'll meet the monarch of imperial Rome. 
 Go, jS^ed, prepare yourself to meet the emperor. 
 We'll send you further notice of our pleasure. 
 
 Enter Cakdix.vl and Will. 
 
 Attend the prince there. Welcome, lord cardinal! 
 Hath not your tedious journey into Prance 
 Disturb'd 3'our grace's health and reverend person r 
 
 Will. 1^0, no, ne'er fear him, Harry, he has got more 
 by the journey; he'll be pope shortly. 
 
 King. What, William! how chance I have not seen you 
 to-day: I thought you would not have been the hindmost 
 man to salute me. 
 
 Will. No more I am not , Harry, for yonder is Patch 
 behind me, I could never get him before me, since thou con- 
 juredst him i' th' great chamber ; all the horses i' th' town 
 cannot haul him into thy presence, I warrant thee. 
 
 King. Will he not come in r 
 
 Will. Not for the world, he stands watching at the door, 
 he'll not stir while the cardinal come; then the fool will 
 follow him everywhere. 
 
 Wol. I thank you, William, I am beholding to you still. 
 
 Will. Nay, my lord, I am more beholding unto you, I 
 
72 WHEN TOU SEE ME, 
 
 thank your fool for it: we have ransacked your wine-oeLlars 
 since you went into France. Do you blush, my lord? Nay, 
 that's nothing, you have wine there is able to set a colour 
 in any man's face, I warrant it. 
 
 King. Why, William, is the cardinal's wine so good? 
 
 Will. Better than thine, I'll be sworn; I'll take but two 
 handfuls of his wine and it shall fill tour hogsheads of thine 
 — look here else ! 
 
 Wol. Mordieu ! 
 
 Will. More Devil! is't not? for without conjuring you 
 could never do it. But I pray you, my lord, call upon Mor- 
 dieu no longer, but speak plain English : you have deceived 
 the king in French and Latin long enough, o' conscience. 
 
 King. Is his wine turned into gold. Will ? 
 
 Wol. The fool mistakes, my gracious sovereign. 
 
 Will. Ay, ay, my lord, ne'er set your wit to the fool's: 
 Will Summers will be secret now and say nothing ; if I would 
 be a blab of my tongue , I could tell the king how many 
 barrels full of gold and silver there was : six tuns filled with 
 plate and jewels , twenty great trunks with crosses, crosiers, 
 copes, mitres, maces, golden crucifixes, besides the four hundred 
 and twelve thousand pound that the poor chimneys paid for 
 Peter pence. But this is nothing, for when you are pope, 
 you may pardon yourself for more knaveries than this comes to. 
 
 King. Go to, fool, you wrong the cardinal ; 
 But grieve not, Wolsey: William will be bold. 
 I pray you, set on to meet the emperor. 
 The mayor and citizens are gone before, 
 The prince of Wales shall follow presently, 
 ,\nd with our George and collar of estate, 
 Present him with the order of the Garter. 
 Great Maximilian, his progenitor, 
 Upon his breast did wear the English ci'oss. 
 And underneath our standard marched in arms, 
 lieceiving pay for all his warlike host; 
 And Charles with knighthood shall be honoured. 
 Begin, lord cardinal, greet his majesty, 
 And we ourself will follow presently. 
 
 Wol. I go, mj' sovereign. 
 
 Will. Fair weather after ye: well, an e'er he come to be 
 pope, 1 shall be plunged for this. 
 
 Q. Kaih. William, you have anger'd the cardinal, I can 
 
 tell you. 
 
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YOU KNOW ME. 73 
 
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 Kiwi. 'Tis no matter, Kute, I'll anger him worse ere lon2 
 1 hough for awhile I smooth it to his face: 
 I did suspect what here the fool hath found. 
 He keeps forsooth a High Court Legatine, 
 Taxing our subjects, gathering sums of gold. 
 Which he belike hath hid to make him pope. 
 _A' God's name let him, that shall be our OAvn. 
 But to our business ; come, queen Katherine, 
 You shall with us to meet the emperor: 
 Let all your ladies be in readiness. 
 Go, let our guard attend the prince of Wales: 
 Upon ourself the Lords and Pensioners 
 
 Shall give attendance in their best array; '^Honnd. 
 
 Let all estates be ready: come, fair Kate, 
 The emperor shall see our English state. [Smmil. Exeunt 
 
 Enter E.iiperor, Cardinal, Mayor, and Gentlemen. 
 
 Wol. Your majesty is welcome into England, 
 The king, our master, will rejoice to see 
 Great Charles', the royal emperor's, majesty. 
 
 Emp. We thank your pains, my good lord cardinal, 
 And much our longing eyes desire to see 
 Our kingly uncle and his princely son. 
 And therefore, when you please, I pray, set on. 
 
 Wol. On, gentlemen, and meet the prince of Wales, 
 That comes fore-runner to his royal father, 
 To entertain the Christian emperor. 
 Meanwhile jovlx majesty may here behold 
 This warlike kingdom's fair metropolis. 
 The City London and the river Thames, 
 And note the situation of the place. 
 
 Emp. We do, my lord, and count it admirable; 
 But see, lord cardinal, the prince is coming. 
 
 Enter the Prince kM. a Herald before him, hearinij the Collar 
 and Garter, the Guard and Lords attending. 
 
 Emp. Well met, young cousin. 
 
 Prince. I kiss your highness' hand, 
 
 And bid you welcome to my father's land: 
 I shall not need infer comparisons. 
 
74 WHEN YOU SEE ME. 
 
 Welcome beyond compare, for so your excellency 
 
 Hath honour'd England, in containing you, 
 
 As with all princely pomp and state we can, 
 
 We'll entertain great Charles, the Austrian. 
 
 And first, in sign of honour to your grace, 
 
 I here present this collar of estate, 
 
 This golden garter of the knighthood's order, 
 
 An honour to renown the emperor. 
 
 Thus, as my father has commanded me, 
 
 I entertain your royal majesty. 
 
 Emp. True-honoured offspring of a famous king. 
 Thou dost amaze me and dost make me wish, 
 I were a second son to England's lord, 
 In interchange of my imperial seat, 
 To live with thee, fair hope of majesty; 
 So well our welcome we accept of thee. 
 And with such princely spirit pronounce the word. 
 Thy father's state can no more state afford. 
 
 Prince. Yes, my good lord, in him there's majesty. 
 In me there's love with tender infancy. [Sound trumpets. 
 
 Wol. The trumpets sound, my lord, the king is coming. 
 
 Prince. Go all of you, attend his royal person, 
 Whilst we observe the emperor's majesty. [Sound. 
 
 Enter the Heralds first , ilien (lie Trumpets , next the Guard, then 
 Mace Bearer and Sioords , then the Caedinal , then Bkandok, 
 then the King, after him the Quebn, Lady Makt, and Ladies 
 
 attending. 
 
 King. Hold! stand, I say. 
 
 Bran. Stand gentlemen. 
 
 Wol. Cease those trumpets there. 
 
 King. Is the emperor yet come in sight of us ^ 
 
 II'oZ. His majesty is hard at hand, my lord. 
 
 King. Then, Brandon , sheathe our sword and bear our 
 
 maces down, 
 In honour of my lord the emperor. 
 Forward again! 
 
 Bran. On, gentlemen, afore, sound trumpets and set forward. 
 
 Piince. Behold my father, gracious emperor. 
 
 Emp. We'll meet him, cousin. 
 Uncle of England, king of France and Ireland, 
 Defender of the ancient Christian Faith, 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 75 
 
 With greater joy I do embrace thy breast, 
 Than when the seven electors crowned me, 
 Great emperor of the Christian monarchy. 
 
 King. Great Charles, the first Emperor of Almain, King 
 of .the Eomans, Semper Augustus, warlike King of Spain and 
 Sicily, both Naples, Navarre and Aragon, King of Crete and 
 great Jerusalem, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Milan, Brabant, 
 Burgundy, Tyrol, and Flanders, 
 With this great title I embrace thy breast. 
 And how thy sight doth please, suppose the rest. 
 Sound trumpets, while my fair queen Katherine 
 Gives entertainment to the emperor. [Sound. 
 
 Welcome again to England, princely cousin ! 
 We dwell here but in an outward continent, 
 Where winter's icicles hangs on our beards, 
 Bord'ring upon the frozen Orcades, 
 Our mother-point, compass'd with th' Arctic Sea, 
 Where raging Boreas flies from winter's mouth : 
 Yet are our bloods as hot, as where the sun doth rise ; 
 j We have no golden mines to lead you to, 
 ■ But hearts of proof, and what we speak we'll do. 
 
 Emp. We thank you, uncle, and now must chide you : 
 If we be welcome to your country. 
 Why is the ancient league now broke betwixt us ? 
 Why have your heralds in the French king's cause 
 Breathed defiance 'gainst our dignity. 
 When face to face we met at Landersey ? 
 
 King. My heralds to defy your majesty? 
 Your grace mistakes, we sent ambassadors 
 To treat a peace between the French and you. 
 Not to defy you as an enemy, 
 
 Emp. Yet, uncle, in King Henry's name he came, 
 And boldly to our face did give the same. 
 
 Wol. Hell stop that fatal-boding emperor's throat. 
 That sings 'gainst us this dismal raven's note. 
 
 King. Mother o' God, if this be true, we see, 
 There are more kings in England now than we. 
 Where's cardinal Wolsey? Heard you this news in France? 
 
 Wol. I did, my liege, and by my means 'twas done; 
 I'll not deny 't, I had commission. 
 To join a league betwixt the French and him, 
 Which he withstanding as an enemy, 
 I did defy him from your majesty. 
 
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76 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 King. Durst thou presume so, base-born cardinal, 
 Without our knowledge to abuse our name ? 
 Presumptuous traitor, under what pretence 
 Didst thou attempt to brave the emperor? 
 Belike thou meanst to level at a crown, 
 But thy ambitious crown shall hurl thee down. 
 
 Wol. With reverence to your majesty, I did no more, 
 Than I can answer to the holy see. 
 
 King. Villain, thou canst not answer it to me, 
 Nor shadow thy insulting treachery. 
 How durst ye, sirrah, in your embassage, 
 Unknown to us, stamp in our royal coin 
 The base impression of your cardinal's hat. 
 As if you were co- partner in the crown? 
 Ego et Rex mens: you and your king must be 
 In equal state, and pomp, and majesty : 
 Out of my presence, hateful impudence ! 
 
 Wol. Eemember, my liege, that I am cardinal, 
 And dejjuty unto his holiness. 
 
 King. Be the devil's deputy, I care not, I, 
 I'll not be baffled by your treachery ; 
 You're false abusers of religion. 
 You can corrupt it and forbid the king. 
 Upon the penalty of the pope's black curse. 
 If he should pawn his crown for soldiers' pay. 
 Not to suppress an old religious abbey, 
 Yet you at pleasure have subverted four. 
 Seizing their lands, tunning up heaps of gold. 
 Secret conveyance of our royal seal. 
 To raise collections to enrich thy state. 
 For which, sir, we command you leave the court: 
 We here discharge you of your offices. 
 You that are Caiphas, or great cardinal. 
 Haste ye with speed unto your bishopric, 
 There keep you, until you hear further from us. 
 Away and speak not. 
 
 Wol. Yet will i proudly pass as cardinal. 
 Although this day define my heavy fall. 
 
 Emp. I fear, king Henry, and my royal uncle. 
 The cardinal will curse my progress hither. 
 
 King. No matter, cousin; beshrew his treacherous heart. 
 He's moved my blood to much impatience. 
 Where is Will Summers? 
 
YOU KNOW ME. 77 
 
 Ertter Will Summers. 
 
 Come ou, wise William, 
 For we must use your little wits, to chase 
 This anger from our blood again: what art thou doing? 
 
 ]]lll. I am looking round about the emperor, methinks 
 'tis a strange sight, for though he have seen more fools than 
 I, yet I never saw more emperors but him. 
 
 Emp. Is this Will Hummers? I have heard of h'm in all 
 the princes' courts in Christendom. 
 
 IVill. La ye, my lord, you have a famous fool of me, 
 I can tell ye. 
 Will Summers is known far and near, ye see. 
 
 King. Ay, are you rhj'ming, William? nay, then I am 
 for j"e, I have not rhymed with ye a great while, and now I'll 
 challenge ye, and the emperor shall be judge between us. 
 
 Will. Content, my lord, I am for ye all: come but one 
 at once, and I care not. 
 
 King. Say ye so, sir? Come, Kate, stand by me: 
 We'll put him to a non-plus presently. 
 Q. Kath. To him. Will. 
 Will. 1 warrant you, madam. 
 King. Answer this, sir: 
 
 The bud is spread. 
 The rose is red. 
 The leaf is green. 
 Will. A wench, 'tis said, 
 
 Was found in your bed. 
 Besides the queen. 
 Q. Kath. God a mercy for that. Will : there's two angels 
 for thee; i'faith, my lord, I am glad I know it. 
 
 King. God's Mother, Kate, wilt thou believe the fool? 
 He lies, he lies ; ah, sirrah William, I perceive, an't had been 
 so, you would have shamed me before the emperor: yet, 
 William, have at you once more. 
 
 In yonder tower. 
 There is a flower, 
 That hath my heart. 
 Will. Within this hour. 
 
 She pissed full sour, 
 And let a fart. 
 Emp. He's too hard for you, my lord; I'll try him one 
 venue myself. What say you to this, William? ^ 
 
78 WHEN YOU SEE ME, 
 
 An emperor is great, 
 High is his seat, 
 Who is his foe ? 
 Will. The worms that shall eat 
 
 His carcass for meat, 
 Whether he will or no. 
 Emp. Well answered, Will; yet once more I am for ye. 
 A. ruddy lip. 
 With a cherry tip, 
 Is fit for a king. 
 Will. Ay, so he may dip 
 
 About her hip 
 In the t'other thing. 
 Emp. He's put me down, my lord. 
 Will. Who comes next then? 
 
 King. The queen, William ; look to yourself. To him, Kate ! 
 Q. Katli. Come on, William, answer to this : — 
 When cold I take. 
 My head doth ache, 
 What physic's good? 
 Will. Here's one will make 
 
 The cold to break. 
 And warm your blood. 
 Q. Kalh. I am not repulsed at first, William: again, sir. 
 Women and their wills 
 Are dangerous ills, 
 As some men suppose. 
 Will. She that puddings fills. 
 
 When snow lies o' th' hills. 
 Must keep clean her nose. 
 King. Enough, good William, you're too hard for all. — 
 My lord the emperor, we delay too long 
 Your promised welcome to the English court. 
 The honourable order of the Garter 
 Your majesty shall take immediately. 
 And sit install'd therewith in Windsor Castle: 
 I tell ye, there are lads girt with that order. 
 That will ungird the proudest champion. — 
 Set forward there, regard the emperor's state! 
 First in our court we'll banquet merrily, 
 Then mount on steeds, and girt in complete steel, 
 
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 We'll tug at barriers, tilt, and tournament. 
 
 Then shall ye see the yeomen of my guard 
 
 "Wrestle, shoot, throw the sledge, or pitch the bar. 
 
 Or any other active exercise. 
 
 These triumphs past, -we'll forthwith haste to Windsor, 
 
 Saint George's knight shall be the Christian Emperor. 
 
 \Exeunt omnes. 
 
NOTES. 
 
p. 3. 
 
 And lord Bonnioet'] Both Qs writ this name Bonnevet. 
 
 To move Campehis] Both Qs throughout Campeus. Hall, 
 Holinshed, and the first Folio of Shakespeare , however, write 
 Cmnpeius. 
 
 If Wolsey be made pope of Rome^ Should this line be intended 
 to rhyme with the following — which I think not unhkel}- — it 
 would be another proof of the varying pronunciation of the word 
 'Rome\ The case is strengthened bj" the rhyme — if rhyme it 
 be — 'come' and 'Rome' on p. 18 and p. 71. Observe also the 
 rhyme 'home' and 'come' on p. 66. On the other hand on p. 
 58" QD reads: Such is the dregs of Roome's religion. Compare 
 Dyce's Glossary s. Rome. 
 
 Enter Bon7ier~\ In the Qs this stage-direction follows the 
 words : How now, Bonner. 
 
 P. 4. 
 
 Wol. Delay him awhile ^c] When does Bonner make his 
 exit? If after these words of the cardinal, to execute his order, 
 who is then to call Sir WiUiam Compton in (at p. 4) ? Would 
 it, on the other hand, become him to witness the conversation 
 between the cardinal and the ambassadors? 
 
 I have, and by the king's means'] The article is omitted in QB. 
 
 P. 5. 
 
 To invocaie for her sound prosperous help] Thus QB. QD : 
 To invocate her sound and prosperous help. 
 
 And all may honour thee] QB : my honour thee. 
 
 As Hannibal with oil did melt the Alps] The author's memory 
 seems to have failed him, for both Appian and Livy, from either 
 of whom he has taken this allusion, do not mention oil, but 
 acid Livy's words (b. XXI, ch. 37) are these: 'Inde ad rupem 
 
84 NOTES. 
 
 muniendam, per quam unam via esse poterat, milites duoti, cum 
 casdendum esset saxum, arboribus circa immaiiibus deiectis detrun- 
 catisque struem ingentem lignorum faciunt, eamque (cutQ et vis 
 venti apta faciendo igni coorta esset) succendunt ardentiaque 
 saxa infuso aceto putrefaciunt. Ita torridam incendio rupem 
 feri-o pandunt, molliunt' — Appian. flannibal ch. 4 p. 536. Com- 
 pare Polybius b. Ill, ch. 54 and 55, whose narrative, however, 
 is somewhat different. English translations of Appian and Livy 
 were published in 1578 and 1600 respectively. Possibly one 
 of them maj' have introduced the oil instead of the acid, which 
 of course would decide the point. 
 
 And matcKd their aged kingj QB : and march. 
 
 P. 6. 
 
 As we directed, to the shrieres of London] QB and QD : to 
 the Sheriffes of London. Three lines below both Qs read : and 
 the Sherive attends for them. 
 
 For ordering those brothels Sfc] See Holinshed (1586, p. 972): 
 'In the latter end of March (1546) the brothell houses called 
 the Stues on the banke side in Southworke were conuerted from 
 such filthie uses by the king's commandement, the bawds and 
 ruffians being put out, and other persons of honest behavior 
 placed in their rooms to inhabit in the same houses. This was 
 done by proclamation and sound of trumpet by an herald of armes.' 
 
 Bon. They are ready, my lord, Sfc] We should read : They're 
 ready, and the shrieve attends for them. 
 
 Thou wilt never be able ^c.J I think we should read : Tltoult 
 ne'er be able half this time to sit. 
 
 She'll wake you ere 't be long] QD : wake you eer long. 
 
 Exceed not her expect] Compare Dyce, Shakespeare's Works, 
 2d Ed., VI, 18. 104, n. 19. 
 
 She'll hear his embassage] Both Qs: She will hear this embassage. 
 
 That Tr{''ke all nations ^-cj Qy : that makes all nations ^c. ? 
 
 P. 7. 
 
 But sight oj thee, unequalled potentate] Both Qs : unequall potentate. 
 
 Thou art noip a right looman ^-c] The lame epithet 'goodly' 
 spoils the metre. The verse should be read : Thou'rt now a right 
 woman, chief of thy sex. 
 
 Did theH define the name of iponian] Both Qs: the name of women. 
 
NOTES. 85 
 
 Come, love, thou art sad, ^-c] Qy : Come, love, Oiou'rt sad: 
 go, call Will Summers inl QB reads: call Will Summers in. to, 
 and begins the following line with: Make. 
 
 John de Mazo~\ j\Iy endeavours to verify this name have 
 been in vain. In Lord Cherbury's Life and Reign of K. Henry 
 VIII. (ed. 1649 p. 75) this bishop of Paris is ca;lled Estienne 
 de Poncher. According to the same authority the train of the 
 two ambassadors amounted to 1200 people. 
 
 King. Let their welcome ^'C.J Perhaps: Now let their icelcome, 
 or: Well,let their welcome ^-c. 
 
 King. Spare for no cost, ^r.j Both Qs read: Spare for no 
 cost, Compton, what newes ? 
 
 Comp. TV ambassadors ^~c.] The article is omitted in both Us. 
 Give them entertainment ^'C.J Both Qs : give them entertainment, 
 Lord I Charles Brandon. 
 
 Go and conduct theiii\ Both Qs: go conduct them. 
 Enter Will Summers ^-c.J The contents of this conversation 
 between the king and his fool are repeated in Samuel Eowhuid's 
 'Good and Bad Newes' (1622) in the following words: 
 'Will Sommers once unto King Harry came, 
 And in a serious shew himself did frame 
 To goe to London, taking of his leaue. 
 Stay, William (quoth the king) I doe perceiue 
 You are in haste ; but tell me your occasion : 
 Let me prevail thus by a friends perswasion. — 
 Quoth he, if thou wilt know. He tell thee marry: 
 I goe to London for Court-newes, old Harry.— 
 Goest thither from the Court to hear Court-newes? 
 This is a tricke, Sommers, that makes me muse. 
 Oh, yes (quoth William) citizens can show 
 Whats done in Court ere thou and 1 doe know' 
 If an Embassador be comming over, 
 Before he doe arrive and land at Dover 
 They know his master's message and intent. 
 Ere thou canst tell the cause why he is sent. 
 If of a Parliament they doe but heare, 
 They know what lawes shall be enacted there. 
 And therefore, for a while, adue Whitehall. 
 Harry, He bring thee newes home, lyes and all.' 
 Thus far 'the passage is quoted in Mr. Collier's 'Fools and Jesters 
 with a Reprint of Robert Armin's Nest of Ninnies', printed for 
 the Shakespeare Society, p. 63 seq. 
 
86 NOTES. 
 
 P. 8. 
 
 A conduit-head keeper] QB : a cund-head keeper. QD : a 
 cundid-headkeeper. Compare Beaumont aud Pletcher, The Knight of 
 the Burning Pestle IV, 5 : Cit[izen] : Let Ralph come out on 
 May-day in the morning, and speak upon a conduit , with all 
 his scarfs about him, and his feathers, and his rings, and his 
 knacks.— — Ralph: For from the top of Conduit- Head, as plainly 
 may appear, I will both tell my name to you, and wherefore 
 I came here. 
 
 One oj the old women waterbearers] Both Qs: Waterbeares. 
 Compare Nash, Summer's Last Will and Testament (A Select 
 Collection of Old Plays, 1825, IX, 71): 'These waterbearers 
 will empty the conduit and a man's coffers at once.' 
 
 Then you heard of the ambassadors] Both Qs : Then you heare. 
 
 They say the reason is] QB : the reason on is. 
 
 And now it is thought] QB : and how it is thought. 
 
 The women at a bake-house] QB: at a back-house. 
 
 The great bell in Glastonbury c] Both Qs : the great bell 
 in Glassenberie : For has told twice. 
 
 P. 9. 
 
 Crying Saint George for England] According to Mr. Collier 
 (A Select Collection of Old Plays, 1825, IX, 49) 'this was the 
 common cry of the English soldiers in attacking an enemy.' 
 
 Ood's me, thou hast] Both Qs : tV hast. 
 
 I may leave the presence] QB : thy presence. 
 
 Make wholesome fires] Perhaps an allusion to some ingredients 
 in the fire, which superstition may have considered wholesome 
 in a childbed-room. 
 
 Now Jane, God ! bring me ^c] Both Qs give this line with- 
 out any punctuation. 
 
 And help you in your loeakest passions] This verse should be 
 given to Compton instead of Dudley, to whose part only the 
 two following lines should belong. 
 
 Long and happy reign] QD : long and prosperous reign. 
 
 I fear I never shall behold] Both Qs : / shall never behold. 
 
 Make haste and dispatch this] QB omits 'and'. 
 
NOTES. 87 
 
 P. 10. 
 
 Must fair commends] QD : commend. 
 
 Held 'twixt ike realms'] Both Qs : Held helwixt. 
 
 Our answer shall he swip] QD : wall he swift. 
 
 These lords shall be your guests] Both Qs : these shall he your 
 guests. 
 
 Exeunt Wolsey and Ambassadors] Both Qs give only: Ex. 
 Woolsie, and place this stage-direction before the verse which 
 contains the order of the king to withdraw. 
 
 Now, Will, are you not deceivd] Thus both Qs, Perhaps 
 we should read : Noio, Will, an't you deceived Sfc. 
 
 P. 11. 
 
 As much purpose as the other] QD: others. 
 
 Such an old Dies Veneris] Qy: Lues Veneris'^ 
 
 To get her with prince] Both Qs: he gel her ^-c. 
 
 Call jor more woman's help] Both Qs: ?nore women's help. 
 
 Do you hear. Madam Mary ^-c] In both Qs these verses 
 are printed as prose. 
 
 P. 12. 
 
 And he it son or daughter] QB omits 'or'. 
 
 All woman's help is past] QD : all women's help. The sense 
 is not: the help of all women is past, but: all the help that 
 woman can atford, is past. 
 
 Or if it life receive] QB : receives. 
 
 That Is my sum of Miss] QB : that is some oj blisse. 
 
 May more children gii:e] 'More' is to be pronounced as a 
 dissyllable. See Jlr. Abbott's Shakespearian Grammar 480. 
 
 E.xeunt ladies] QB : Exit ladies. QD : Exit Lad. In both 
 Qs this stage-direction is added to the next line but one. 
 
 P. 13. 
 
 (That sees all in his creation)] Both Qs: (that sees all) in 
 his creation. 
 
 Some impotent and coward spirit] QB : cowardly. 
 
 Least he should blur our fame] Both Qs regularly write 'least 
 for 'lest'. 
 
88 NOTES. 
 
 (The fifth Henrij)'] QB: {the first Henrie). QD : {the Henrie). 
 Comp. My Lordf] Both Qs omit the prefix: Comp. 
 Exit Compton] This and the following stage-direction {Enter 
 Lady Mary g-c.) have been added by me. 
 
 I'mt with the sad report'] The article is omitted in QB. 
 Least both do perish] QB : doth perish. 
 So precious to our soul] QD : to our life. 
 
 Which with my conquering sword] Both Qs : with me conquer- 
 ing sword. 
 
 Exeunt ladies] This stage-direction is not in the Qs. 
 
 P. 14. 
 
 Joy be . it, good lord Seymour] Both Qs : Joy, be it good, lord 
 Seymour. 
 
 Sey. Get comfort] Both Qs : Yet comfort. 
 
 'Tis woman's woe] Both Qs: this woman's woe. 
 
 Enter Countess of Salisbury Sfc] Both Qs : Enter two Ladies. 
 The abbreviation ^ Count.', however, which is prefixed to the fol- 
 lowing speech, leaves no doubt as to who is meant. 
 
 See here your flesh and bone] QD : and your bone. 
 
 Look, royal lord] Both Qs: Looke heere, Royall Lord. 
 
 King. Ha, little cakebread] Both Qs give this verse to lord 
 Seymour. 
 
 Enter TMdy Mary S)-c.] Both Qs: Enter Mary, and one Lady. 
 
 Nay, then my heart misgives] Perhaps this line was intended 
 to rhjme with the preceding and we should read: then does my 
 heart misgive. 
 
 Thy silent eye] Both Qs contain this blunder; there can be 
 no doubt, that the true reading is : Thy silent tongue. 
 
 Of thy troubled spirit] QD : of my troubled spirit. 
 
 That cannot help myself] QB : thyself. 
 
 P. 15. 
 
 She's left part of herself] Both Qs: She hath left. 
 To the land a prince] Both Qs: unto the land. 
 
NOTES. 89 
 
 Plia:nix Jana obiH &c.J Both Qs read: uliii aud add ^dolen- 
 dum to the pentameter instead of the hexameter. — Hohnshed, 
 from whom this distich is taken, has 'iacet' for •oiiit\ 
 
 Saint Edward's even, mij lord~\ The metre seems to require 
 either 'e'm' or ^tct'. — 'In October, says Holinshcd (15HG) p. 944, 
 on Saint Edward's even (1537), which falleth on the twelfth of 
 that mouth, at Hampton Court t.lie queen was delivered of her 
 son named Edward, for whose birth great joy was made thorough 
 
 the realm. But as joy is often mixed with sorrow so at 
 
 that time it came to pass by the death of his mother, that 
 noble and virtuous lady queen Jane, which departed out of this 
 life the fourteenth day of this month of October , to the great 
 grief of the whole realm : but namely the king her husband 
 took it most grievously of all other, who removing to Westminster 
 there kept himself close a great while alter.' — The date of the 
 queen's death as given by Hall and Holinshed is wrong, as she 
 did not die before the 24. of October, 
 
 Edward shall be his name!] Thus both Qs. Qy: Edward 
 be his name"? — The stage-direction 'Ereunt' has been added. 
 
 Bonner and Gardiner] QB v/rites 'Gardner', QD : 'Gardiner'. 
 
 Therefore I pro// you] Both Qs omit 'yoii, to the detriment 
 of the metre. 
 
 Shall be forlhwith sent] Tis is the reading of both Qs. The 
 same unusual accentuation occurs agaui on p. 79: — 
 
 These triumphs past we'll forthnith haste to Windsor. 
 
 And Jor the business] In QB the article is omitted. 
 
 Wol. Happily speed] Qy: Speed liapinhf. 
 
 And pray your king remember] I am answerable for the ad- 
 dition of 'and', as also for the stage-direction 'Exeunt' five lines 
 below. 
 
 Will cause new trouble] QB: troubles. 
 
 P. 16. 
 
 Re-enter Bonner] This stage-direction is not in the Qs. 
 Erer since the death] Probably: For ever since the death. 
 
 P. 17. 
 
 Hey day, ttrri &c.J Both Qs : hey, da, tere, dedell, dey, day. 
 
90 NOTES. 
 
 Enter King witliin\ That is to say, on the wellknown balcony, 
 in the background of the stage, which here represents the gallery, 
 where, according to Sir William Compton , the king is walking. 
 
 And ij you find his grace] This is the reading of both Qs ; 
 'and' should be struck out. 
 
 And stout Pearsie ^c.J Whether the person meant be a Percy, 
 I am unable to decide, no such person being mentioned in either 
 Hall or Holinshed. The metre of the line is no less doubtful^ 
 unless 'stout' be taken for a dissyllable. Or should we read: 
 And stout Earl Percyl In the following verse both Qs add 'lale^ 
 before the words 'put to death,.' 
 
 Than ever was ^c.j Thus both Qs. 
 P. 18. 
 
 And all his fair posterity] 'AW is not in the Qs. 
 
 Exit] This stage-direction has been added. 
 
 How chance] See Shakespearian Grammar 37. Compare 
 p. 71 : How chance I have not seen you'? 
 
 Seeing him chafe so at Charles here] These words would 
 seem to refer to the cardinal's fool, Patch, for they cannot refer 
 to Charles Brandon, the speech being addressed to him. 
 
 / fell over five barrels] T is not in the Qs. 
 
 Into the bottom of the cellar] QD: in the bottom. 
 
 And ril venture] QB: and He enter. Q,D : venter. 
 
 P. 19. 
 
 Thou fawning beast] The metre requires the addition of the 
 pronoun 'thou', though it is in neither of the Qs. 
 
 Where's Brandon, Surrey Sec] Instead of 'Swrey' we ought 
 to read 'Dudley', there being no Surrey among the characters 
 of the play. 
 
 Where is your council now?] An evident mistake for 'our 
 council'. 
 
 -Enter Pages] This stage-direction is taken from Q,D. 
 
 Here's stuff at tW other side] These words evidently refer 
 to the garter, which the first page is tying round the king's leg. 
 
 Be bandied thus?] Both Qs: bebanded thus. 
 
NOTES. 91 
 
 To the Sage] This stage-divectiou is an editorial additioa 
 again. 
 
 The Burkes rebel ^-c] Either ^Ireland' is to be pronounced 
 as a trisyllable, or we should read : do the Burkes rebel. 
 
 And with their stubborn kerns {,-€.] Both Qs : his stubborn 
 kerns. — Roads for inroads; compare K.- Henry V, I, 2: Against 
 the Scot, v:ho will make road upon us ; Coriolanus III, 1 : Beady, 
 when time shall prompt them, to make road Upon's again. 
 
 P. 20. 
 
 ril make thee amends for it] Thus both Q.s. We should either 
 read : Til make amends for it, or : TU make thee 'mends for it. 
 
 That ice hare ill May-days] '111 Ma3'-day' is the name of 
 that 'hurliburly', as Holinshed terms it, which took place at 
 London on May 1, 1518, and was chiefly directed against the 
 numerous aliens and strangers, who took 'the living from all the 
 artificers and the intercourse from all merchants, -whereby poverty 
 is so much increased.' John Lincoln, the author of 111 May-day, 
 was executed in Cheapside ; on the rest, 400 men and 1] women, 
 the king himself sat in judgment in AVestminster Hall (May 22) 
 and pardoned them. 
 
 Exeunt Wolsey, lords, 6,-c.] Both this and the following stage- 
 direction have been added. 
 
 And nobody dare speak to him] See Mr. Abbott's Shakespearian 
 Grammar 361. 
 
 An he go a-boxing] Q,B : go boxing. 
 
 P. 21. 
 
 Give me it, cousin] Compare p. 41: Give me it again i,-c. 
 As thou irert a foot-ball] Q,B : an thou icert ^-c. 
 T17,o's that stands laughing there'?] QD : that tchkh .^nds 
 lauahinij there. 
 
 P. 22. 
 
 W,ll. Td knoir, -whether §-c.] Both Qs : He hww ^-c. 
 He sent this silly fli.s] The personal pronoun is not in the Qs. 
 Wi.ll. Because Td have him jV-J Both Qs : He have him. 
 QD : my fury, instead of: thy fury. 
 
 I knew, how the matter stood] Both Qs : 7 know i,-c. 
 
92 NOTES. 
 
 The lords has attended here] Thus both Qs. 
 
 To chop off their heads jor it\ QD omits: heads. 
 
 Continuedst in] Both Qs: continuest in. 
 
 If thou keptst it] QB : keepst. 
 
 But Td make thee] ^B: hut He make thee. 
 
 And cap for this] QB : and a caj). 
 
 Kincj. He shall keep Us word, Will; Sfc] Perhaps: Will 
 (or: Well?), he shall keep /lis word; ^'c. which would make a 
 regular verse. 
 
 Enter Brandon and other lords] This stage-direction is not 
 in the Qs. 
 
 P. 23. 
 He'd fain be gone] Both Qs: Heele Jain. 
 He -smells terribly] QD : smelleth. 
 Exeunt] An editorial addition. 
 
 Enter Campeius ^c.J Both Qs: Enter Lords and Legates. 
 Sey. Gentlemen, dispatch l^-c] Qy: Go, gentlemen, dispatch S,'C? 
 
 P. 24. 
 
 Of this dignity] Both Qs : of his dignity. 
 
 Go, Gray, and see it done] '■AncV has been added. 
 
 Trumpets, follow me] Qy : come, trumpets, follow me? 
 
 Would send an army to assail the Turk S,-c.] According to 
 Holinshed this demand of the pope was put to the king four 
 years before he received the title, which latter, moreover, was 
 not sent through Cardinal Campeius , but in a bull (February 
 1523). 'But for the chiefest errand, says Holinshed, that this 
 cardinal Campeius came (in 1519), he could have no toward 
 answer: which was (as you have heard) to have levied a sum 
 of money by way of tenths in this realm, to the maintenance 
 of the war in defence of the Christian confines against the Turk.' 
 
 Will. Ay trhen? Can ye tell?] Both Qs: I, iclien can ye tell? 
 
 P. 25. 
 
 The true faith is able to defend itself ^-c] In a forgotten 
 work entitled 'Heinrich VIII. Konig von England und seine 
 
NOTES. 93 
 
 Familie. Ein historisohes Gemalde von C. D. Voss (Leipzig, 
 1792, 2 vols.)' 1 find the following passage (vol. I, p. 81)': 
 'AUein sein (viz. the king's) Hofuarr Patsch, dem seine Narrheit 
 das Eecht gab, Huge Wahrheiteu zu sagen, meinte: dieser Titel 
 sei doch aueh wol nicht viel mehr werth als seine Schellenkappe. 
 "Ich bitte dich, heber Heinrich, sagte er, lass mis nur uns selbst 
 vertheidigen , der Glaube wird sich wohl auch schon ohne dich 
 zu beschutzen wissen.'" It is greatly to be regretted that the 
 author has not given the source of this anecdote. 
 
 Good faith! 'tis not ivorth] Both Qs : as for the Popes Julth 
 (good faiths) not ivorth iVc. 
 
 Cam. lie take our leave'] The stage-direction ^Exit should 
 not be added to this line, but to the next. 
 
 Kinrj. 'Tis well. Brandon ,\,-c.] Both Qs : '77s well, hut Bran- 
 don cVc. — to the detriment of the metre. 
 
 P. 26. 
 
 Baynard's Castle'] See Dyce's Glossary and Nares. 
 
 Exeunt] Both Qs : Exit. 
 
 Prichall, the cobbler] 'PrichaW seems to be meant for 
 'Prickawl'. 
 
 Const. Come, neighbours;] In order to restore the metre, 
 'come' should be repeated after 'neighbours'. 
 
 Was committed lately] QD : late. 
 
 There are two strangers ^-c] Both Hall (ed. London, 1809, 
 p. 815) and Holinshed relate the murder of these two strangers 
 in the following words: 'In this year (1534) it chanced thas 
 two merchant strangers fell in love with a harlot, which wat 
 called Wolfe's wife, and this harlot had often haunted the stran- 
 gers' chambers. And so on a time the said harlot appointed 
 these strangers to come to Westminster and she had prepared 
 for them a boat, in which boat was but one man to row which 
 was a strong thief, and in the end of the boat lay Wolfe, her 
 husband, covered with a leather that boatmen use to cover their 
 cushions with, and so these strangers sat them down mistrusting 
 nothing. Now when this boatman had brought them as far as 
 a place called the Turning Tree, suddenly stepped up the said 
 Wolfe, and with his dagger thrust the one of them through: 
 the other cried out to save his life, and offered great sums of 
 money to the boatman and him to save his life. But no proffers 
 
 8* 
 
94 NOTES. 
 
 would be heard, nor mercy would they extend, but as cruel 
 murderers without pity slew the other also, and bound them face 
 to face, and so threw them into the Thames in the foresaid 
 place, where they were long after before they were found. But 
 immediately the harlot Wolfe's wife went to the strangers' 
 chambers, and took from thence so much as she could come by. 
 And at last she and her husband (as they deserved) were appre- 
 hended, arraigned, and hanged at the aforesaid Turning Tree.' 
 
 Floatiny on the Thames] QB : Temmes. 
 
 Though I sit as low as Saint Faith's] Compare Beaumont 
 and Fletcher, The Knight of the Burning Pestle V, 1 : 
 Since my true love is gone, I never more 
 Whilst I do live upon the sky will pore: 
 But in the dark will wear out my shoe-soles 
 In passion, in Saint Faith's church under Paul's. 
 
 Exit] Both Qs: Eait Constahle. 
 
 God ye good night ^c] Compare Romeo and Juliet II, 4: 
 Nurse : God ye good morrow, gentlemen. 'Mer. : God ye good den, 
 fair gentleimman. — Instead of Hwenty, sir' QD reads: Twentysir. 
 Compare Merry Wives II, 1 : Good even and twenty, good Master 
 Page. 
 
 P. 27. 
 
 Every senseless ivatchman] QB: sensible. (See Corrigenda.) 
 
 Ffaith] QD: faith. 
 
 He is a cobbler] Both Qs : he was a cobbler. 
 
 I see a man i th' moon ^-c] Printed as prose in both Qs. 
 
 By my fekins] Both Qs : feUnys. Compare The Winter's 
 Tale I, 2: r fecks. 
 
 It behoves us all to be so] Both Qs: 2 behoves. QD omits Ho\ 
 P. 28. 
 
 Enter King and Compton with bills on their backs] Both Qs : 
 on his backe. — The germ of this fictitious episode where the king 
 after the fashion of the Caliph Haroun and under the sonorous 
 title of the Great Stag of Baydon walks about disguised, may 
 perhaps be found in Holinshed, who on p. 806b relates: 'On 
 midsummer night the king came priuilie into Cheape in one of 
 the cotes of his gard,' 
 
NOTES. 95 
 
 Soft, yonder s u lii/ht] The article is not in the Qs. 
 
 You have been at )ioddij] See Dyee's Glossary and Naves 
 s. Noddy. 
 
 I am a court-card^ QB : coat-card. 
 
 About a little busines.i iVf.J We should read : About a little 
 businesn Tve in hand. 
 
 Fond heedless men~\ QD: neediest. 
 
 In highest state affairs^ Both Qs: in hirjh state affairs. 
 
 P. 29. 
 
 For making statutes] 'For' has been added in order to restore 
 the metre. 
 
 There's some su.<!picion] QB ; svspection. 
 
 But mumludget~\ Compare Nares, Dyoe's Glossary s. Mum, 
 and the editors on The Merry Wives V, 2. 
 
 [Aside] This stage-direction is not in the Qs. 
 
 What the devil art thou?] Both Qs: What a devil cVc 
 
 And not budge] Both Qs: booge. 
 
 P. 31. 
 
 1 am pleased, sir] 'Sir is only in QD. 
 Goodman Prichall] Both Qs: Sprichall. 
 Til set you] In QD 'He' belongs to the foregoing page. 
 And if a constable A-c.J We should read : And if no constable 
 be present by. 
 
 P. 32. 
 
 Tell us some tidings] QD : tiding. 
 Exeunt] Both Qs : Exit. 
 
 P. 33. 
 
 T,ro gulls are light into my hands] Perhaps : 'ore lighted'. 
 See however Mr. Abbott's Shakespearian Grammar 342. 
 
 And in this wretched counters] Thus both Qs. 
 
 And vAlhout that, nought ^-c] A trochaic verse. We should 
 read: And there's without that <yc. 
 
96 NOTES. 
 
 A poor gentleman'] The metre seems to require the expunc- 
 tion of the epithet 'poor'. 
 
 P. 34. 
 
 And so is quite undone'] See Mr. Abbott's Shakespearian 
 Grammar 399. 
 
 Thus kings and lords, I see] This would be a regular blank 
 verse but for the superfluous interpolation of the words 'and lords'. 
 
 Where's this bully Grig] G-rig, or rather Greg, may be taken 
 for an abbreviation of Gregory, and 'bully Greg' may probably 
 mean the same person as 'Turk Gregory' in 1 K. Henry IV, V, 3. 
 
 Shall I teach thee some loit Src] Printed as verse as far as: 
 'Hotv lik'st thou this, my bully?' 
 
 Why I meet thee here] Both Qs: met thee here. 
 
 There was watch laid] QD : there's watch laid. 
 
 Forget our chief guest] For the omission of T see Shake- 
 spearian Grammar 400. K. Richard III, III, 4: Marry, and 
 will, my lord, with all my heart. 
 
 P. 35. 
 
 No right cavalier] Both Qs : not right cavalier. 
 
 To first Prisoner] This stage-direction is not in the Qs. 
 
 We were more Jamiliar] Thus both Q,s, against the metre; 
 I think, we should read : we have been more familiar. 
 
 You see, policies ^c.J The metre might be restored by in- 
 serting 'now' after 'see'. 
 
 Away with him] Both Qs: Goe away with him. 
 
 Exeunt Porter Sfc] Both Qs : Exit ^c. 
 
 'Swoons, I shall Sfc] Perhaps either: 'Swoons, I shall go to 
 Tyburn ^-c. or: 'Swoons, now I shall to Tyburn SfC. — Black Will 
 speaks in verse once more, infra: Fore God, ye broke my head 
 most gallantly. 
 
 P. 36. 
 
 The gentlemen S,-c.] Both Qs, printing this and the following 
 line as prose, read 'Gentlemen' — without the article. 
 
 Drink to King Harry's health] The preposition 'to' spoils 
 the metre. 
 
NOTES. 97 
 
 Though ye m'isliked my plmj] QD : mialike. 
 
 The vulgar hot-shots'] Compare The Puritan I, 2: Where be 
 your mu^^h-ets, 'calwas, and hot-shots? 
 
 As e'er cannon against iVcJ QB : as ere carried against ^c. 
 
 P. 37. 
 
 / thank you for your lodying] QB : for our lodgmij. 
 
 Discharge the ojfcers^ Both Qs : offices. 
 
 Exit keeper] QB : Ex. QD: Exit. — both without uamiDg 
 the person that is to leave the stage. 
 
 2[ost true, my lord] ii.y: 'Tis most true, my lord"? 
 
 Alas, poor Mary, so soon] Qy: art so soon? 
 
 Tie must then prepare] '■Then' ought to be expunged, or 
 placed at the end of the line instead of Hoo". 
 
 Dreadless of the proudest] In order to restore the metre we 
 should read : that's dreadless ^t. 
 
 I shall, my sovereign] 'Sonereign' is to be pronounced as a 
 trisyllable. Compare Love's Labour's Lost III, 1 : Tlie anointed 
 sovereign of sighs and groans. K. Kichard II, II, 2 : The one's 
 my sovereign, ichom hoth my oath Sf-c, 
 
 The lady Kallierine Parr] Both Qs here as well as on p. 39: 
 Parry. Hall and Holinshed write Par. 
 
 ue. 
 
 And Anne of Clere] Both Qs : Clea 
 Exeunt] Both Qs : Exit. 
 
 Mis-likes his praises, hit] Both Qs end this line with '■praises' 
 and begin the following with 'But'. The metre, however, as 
 well as the rhyme, point out the correct reading. 
 
 Enter the cardinal cVr.J From the following speeches of Will 
 Summers (p. 38: / heard say your lordship had made tiro nor 
 lords here) and of Wolsey (p. 39: But, bishops, we'll to court 
 immediately; ibid.. You two are tutors to the princess Mary) it 
 appears that Wolsey is attended by two bishops. Compare the 
 king's question at p 45: What say ye, reverend lords, which is 
 replied to by Bonner and Grardiner. Gardiner, therefore, is the 
 other bishop who enters together with Wolsey and Bonner. 
 
98 NOTES. 
 
 The fool shall ride you] QD : shall aide you. — Compare 
 Chapman's Tragedy of Alphonsus ed. Elze (Leipzig, 1867) p. 
 78: Have loith thee, marshall, the fool rides thee. — Timon of 
 Athens II, 1: hid. Serv. There s the fool hangs on your hack al- 
 ready. Apem. No, thou standst single, thou'rl not on him yet. 
 
 P. 39. 
 
 The hells hang high ^-c] In both Qs these verses are printed 
 as prose. 
 
 P. 40. 
 
 Exeunt; manent i^'c.J In the Qs this stage-direction runs as 
 follows : 'Manet Will and Patch. Exeunt omnes.^ 
 
 There's no fool to the wilful still] This is the reading of 
 QB. QD: there's no fool to thee, Will, fool still. — Perhaps these 
 words should be divided between the two fools, thus: Patch. 
 There's no fool to thee, Will. Will. Fool still. What shall we 
 do, 'cousin? But even such an arrangement seems not to clear 
 away all difficulty. 
 
 Exeunt] Both Qs: Exit. 
 
 By us thus dignified] After this line a verse or two seem 
 to be wanting. 
 
 P. 41. 
 
 Doctor Tye] Christopher Tye, doctor of music, was musical 
 preceptor to the children of Henry VIII. and organist of the 
 roj-al chapel, for which he wrote a great many sacred compo- 
 sitions. As mentioned below, he set to music a portion of 'The 
 Acies oj the Apostles, translated into Englyshe metre', which was 
 printed in 1553. Anthony Wood describes him as 'a peevish, 
 humorsome man, especially in his latter days'. Doctor Tye died 
 about 1580. 
 
 Provide civil oranges enough] Civil, of course, for Seville. 
 Compare Much Ado II, 1 : But civil count, civil as an orange, 
 and something of that jealous complexion. See Dyce's Gl. s. Civil. 
 The pun contained in 'lemon' needs no explanation. 
 
 Unhappily slain a man] Thus QD. QB : unhappily hath slain 
 a man. 
 
 Thou killedst the t'other] See Shakfespearian Grammar 12. 
 
 P. 42. 
 
 What, a Lutheran] Both Qs: what a Lutheran? 
 
NOTES. 99 
 
 Enquire for Rokeshrj] The Qs write 'Rookesby'. 
 
 There's shrmder heads] QB : shrouder; QD : shroicder. 
 
 Thus to extirj}'] This Gurious — if not corrupted — expression 
 occurs again on p. 55: She did exlirp against his holiness. 
 
 Great quarrellers ^-cj Printed as prose. 
 
 P. 43. 
 Your poor servant ^-c] ^Poor' may be added to the list of 
 monosyllables pronounced as dissyllables given in Mr. Abbott's 
 Shakespearian Grammar 480. — Instead of 'is so called' QB reads 
 '■so called'. 
 
 It likes not our majesty] Perhaps either: 'T likes Sfc. or: It 
 liketh not §-c. 
 
 For that we knotv] Compare p. 50: / have thought of that 
 ye read last night. See Shakespearian Grammar 244. 
 
 Surely some envious man] Both Qs: Sure ^c. 
 
 Villain, those that guard me Sfc] A line without metre, unless 
 ' Villain' be read as a monosyllable. The same holds good in 
 the next line but one, where 'Under' is used as a monosyllable and 
 'march' as a dissyllable. 'Purgatory' in the verse then following 
 is a trisyllable; 'God's' {God's dear lady) three lines further on, 
 a dissyllable. See Mr. Abbott's Shakespearian Grammar 464, 
 477, 478, 482. 
 
 P. 44. 
 
 Enter a Messenger] Both Qs print this stage-direction after 
 the words : My royal lord, which moreover they erroneously assign 
 to Kokesby instead of the messenger. 
 
 Ha! pardon thee S,'e.] In the Qs this speech of the king is 
 printed as prose. In order to restore the metre I have onlj' 
 added 'all' before the words: the world should purchase it. 
 
 Hinderance] Thus QB. QD : hindrance. 
 Exit Rokesby] The name has been added. 
 Is for my servants meant] Both Qs : Is meant for my servants. 
 That brings us news] Both Qs: that brings this neics. 
 Duke Brandon, good my liege] 'Good' is not in the Qs. 
 
 9 
 
100 NOTES. 
 
 P. 45. 
 
 'Tis said, my liege, Sfc] Both Qs : Tis said they were married 
 at Dover, my liege. 
 
 Enter Brandon and Lady Mary^ 'Lady' is not in the Qs. 
 
 Off with his head!^ In Cavendish's Life of Wolsey (ed. Singer, 
 I, 168 seq.) it is reported that Henry was incensed at the mar- 
 riage and that Brandon stood in danger of losing his head, and 
 was only saved by the interposition of Wolsey. — It will be ob- 
 served that the famous order of K. Richard III. respecting the 
 Duke of Buckingham, in Colley Gibber's alteration of the play, 
 is couched in the same words. 
 
 Nay, you have taken leave~\ This and the following line are 
 printed as prose. 
 
 Will scarce save yourself^ We should read : scarce will save 
 yourself. 
 
 That you hroke a lance\ 'That' is not in the Qs. 
 
 Q. Kath. good my lord] Both Qs : my lord. 
 
 What say ye, reverend lords] 'Reverend' is an addition of mine 
 again. See note on p., 38 : Enter the cardinal ^c. 
 
 King. He deserves it then ? ^'c.J The metre might thus be 
 restored : He then deserves it ? — So he does, my liege. 
 
 I do love you both] Qs: / love you both. 
 
 Now, tell on, Brandon] Qs: And tell on, Brandon. 
 
 P. 46. 
 
 And the king shall meet] The article is not in the Qs. 
 
 ril go and call] Qs: Til go call. Or should we read: / will 
 go calll 
 
 Oo, bear this youngster Sj-c] In the Qs this speech, which 
 undoubtedly belongs to Cranmer, is given to young Browne himself. 
 
 The prince, sir, will not learn] Both Qs: The prince will not 
 learn, sir. 
 
 P. 47. 
 
 Exeunt and Re-enter young Browne with Will Summers] Both 
 these stage-directions have been added. 
 
 The mote in thine ege] See the notes on the well-known 
 in Hamlet I, 1. 
 
NOTES. 101 
 
 Yet, in truth'] Both Qs: yet, in troth. 
 
 P. 48. 
 
 Though Ramus himself] Petrus Kamus, the celebrated author 
 of ^Aristotelicce Animadversiones' , 'Institutiones Dialecticce' , and nu- 
 merous other works, which in their time were highly popular not 
 only in France, but also in England and Germany. He embraced 
 protestantism and perished in the massacre of St. Bartholomew. 
 
 Well, proba] Both Qs : well, probe. 
 
 Enter the King] In the Qs this stage-direction precedes the 
 speech of the young marquess. 
 
 P. 49. 
 
 Donzel del Phebo] Both Qs : Donsal delphebus. The celebrated 
 hero in the Mirrour of Knighthood is meant. 
 
 King. Confirm it ^c.J In both Qs this speech is printed 
 as prose. 
 
 Thou'st honoured me] Qs : thou hast ^c. 
 
 To types of dignity] QD : or dignity. 
 
 Under forma pauperis] Both Qs : papris. 
 
 P. 50. 
 
 I thank your majesty ^c] In the Qs the first line of this 
 speech ends after ^majesty". 
 
 Lords and gentlemen, give leave] 'And' is not in the Qs. 
 
 Omne animal est aut homo, aut bestia] The instruction here 
 given to the prince by Cranmer is a somewhat stale mimicry 
 of the dialectics of Petrus Kamus, in whose 'Aristotelicce Animad- 
 versiones' (ed. Ereigius, Basil. 1575) we read amongst others the 
 following syllogisms, p. 171: 'Omnis homo necessario est ratio- 
 nalis : quiduis currens homo est: soli enim ourrunt homines, vt 
 Aristoteles in pari enunciati soluti exemplo sumit omne animal 
 moveri. Ergo omnia cuiTCutia necessario rationalia sunt.' And 
 on p. 184: 'Omnis homo, omnisque bellua sentit: omne animal 
 homo est, belluave : omne igitur animal sentit.' This mockery 
 does not only show, how far Kamism was spread in England, but 
 it also implies , that the blame cast on Kamus by Bacon {De 
 interpretations naturce) as 'ignorantiaa latibulum , perniciosissima 
 literarum tinea , compendiorum pater , qui cum methodi suae et 
 
 9* 
 
102 NOTES. 
 
 compendii viDclis res torqueat et premat, res quidem, si qua fuit, 
 elabitur protinus et exsilit ; ipse vero aridas et deserttesimas nugas 
 stringit' — found an echo in the non-professional ranks of the 
 public. See Hallam, Introd. Lit. Eur. II, 368: 
 
 Est rationale ^c.J Both Qs: est rationalis et irrationalis. 
 
 P. 51. 
 
 And so all heasts~\ Both (is : and though all beasts. 
 
 Serving instead- of feet~\ By the expunction of '■serving' this 
 line might be reduced to a regular blank verse. 
 
 Denies supremos~\ Both Q,s: denies supremas. 
 
 Cedant arma togce'\ QD : cedent. 
 
 Prince. Well, Cranmer c§c.j This speech is no doubt coiTupt 
 and mutilated. QB, to which I have here strictly adhered, en- 
 tirely assigns it to the Prince as far as 'How thinks your grace', 
 whilst in QD the line : God give ye truth, that you may give it me, 
 which manifestly belongs to the Prince, together with the four 
 subsequent lines, is given to Cranmer. 
 
 Ye speak] In the Qs these words form part of the pre- 
 ceding verse. 
 
 Truly, I think none ^-c.J This and the following verses of 
 this speech are differently divided in the Qs. — Instead of 'Truly, 
 I think none' the metre would require '/ think none, truly'. 
 
 P. 52. 
 
 May your grace ever delight] Qy: May your grace take e'er 
 delight ? 
 
 P. 53. 
 
 Shall make that place] 'Make' here seems used in the same 
 sense as seamen use it in the phrase 'to make a port' i. e. to 
 reach it, to andve at it. 
 
 Thou giv'st it perfect life ^c] 'Life' is to be pronounced as 
 a dissyllable, although not contained in Mr. Abbott's list, Shake- 
 spearian G-rammar 484. Or should we read: most skilful doctor! 
 
 P. 54. 
 
 Worthy Acts and worthily Sfc.] This line should be given 
 to the Prince instead of Doetort Tye. 
 
NOTES. 103 
 
 French and Italian] Both Qs: Italians. 
 
 Exeunt omnes'] This stage-direction is not in the Qs. 
 
 Luther has sotm u-ell] We should read: For Luther has 
 sown well. 
 
 What? bishops and prelate.i\ 'Prelates' may be added to Mr. 
 Abbott's list, Shakespearian Grammar 490. 
 
 Ay, nobility temporal'] Qy: And nobles temporal? Or: Ay, and 
 nobility temporal ? 
 
 Whether he will bend] 'Whether' has been added. 
 P. 55. 
 
 How in presence] Qy: How in the presence? 
 
 But had our English cardinal] It should be: Had but our 
 English cardinal. — 'Cardinal' is either to be pronounced as a dis- 
 syllable, or 'once' to be struck out. 
 
 Attend his excellence] Q,D : excellency. 
 
 Set Joncard, gentlemen] Both Qs : Gentlemen, set forward. 
 
 It seems the king is coming] Both Qs : the queen is coming. 
 
 Bran. 3Iy liege] If we were to read: 'Here, my liege', the 
 three speeches combined would constitute a regular blank verse. 
 
 P. 56. 
 
 Their friendship must advance S,-c.] The true reading most 
 probably is : Their friendship must his dignity advance , as there 
 can be little doubt, that the author has chosen the unusual word 
 'governance' for the sake of the rhyme. 
 
 / tell ye, lords ^-c] This and the foDowing verses spoken 
 by the king are printed as prose in the Qs. No changes have 
 been made except the addition of 'T before 'pray God, there be 
 not', and '/ do not like this difference' instead of 'I like not this 
 difference' . 
 
 As half the promnce] Qy: And half the province? In the 
 name 'Helvetia' a corruption may be suspected; perhaps 'Westphalia'. 
 
 P. 57. 
 
 Methinks, 'twere well ^c.J There is so close a resemblance 
 between the following scenes and the relation given of Queen 
 
104 NOTES. 
 
 Katherine Parr's troubles by Lord Herbert of Cherbury in his 
 Life and Reign of K. Henry VIIL (1649, p. 560 seq.) that the 
 latter must no doubt be considered as the poet's source. Hol- 
 inshed (in his second edition) makes no other mention of Kathe- 
 rine Parr, than that she married the king and was proclaimed 
 queen. The only part of this episode, as represented by Rowley, 
 which is not borne out by historical evidence, is the share which 
 he ascribes to the Prince of Wales, at that time scarcely nine 
 years of age. 
 
 TTie superstitions and the church ^c.J Both Qs: And super- 
 stitions against the Church of Rome. 
 
 Most unlawfutj Perhaps: 'Tis most unlawful; or: Nay, most 
 unlawful. 
 
 Well said, Kate~\ In the Qs this speech is printed as prose. 
 The only alteration made is the expunction of Hhere^ after the 
 words : Avoid the presence. 
 
 1 am a weak scholar Src] This and the two following verses 
 might be thus reduced to regular metre: 
 
 I am a weak scholar, but on condition 
 
 That nor your highness, nor these reverend lords. 
 
 Will take exceptions at my woman's wit &c. 
 
 Tell me, why would^ Both Qs: Pray tell me SfC. Or are we 
 to read : Pray, tell me, v:hy youUld make ^c. ? 
 
 Tliese are that seci\ Both Qs: that sects. 
 
 'Tis true, but pray ye ^c.J The metre requires the addition 
 of 'my lord' after '■'tis true'. 
 
 P. 58. 
 
 Were it to any one~\ 'One' should be struck out. 
 
 Pray tell the king then^ Qy : Pray tell his highness then ^c. ? 
 
 Of Cranmer, Ridley ^-c] 'Of has been added. 
 
 As hy their articles is evident~\ Both Qs : are evident. 
 
 Ah, sirrah, we have women doctors^ Both Qs here and on 
 p. 77: a sirra. 'Sirrah' was not unfrequently used as an address 
 to a woman. See Dyce's Glossary s. Sirrah. 
 
 It breed no further detriment^ Q,D: farther. 
 
 King. Ha! Take heed ivhat you do say, Gardiner f] Qy: Ha! 
 Gardiner, take heed what you do say? 
 
NOTES. 105 
 
 P. 59. 
 
 Arose in amis] Both Qs: arise in arms. 
 
 We pardon ichat ye speak, resolve us speedily] Qj : resolve 
 us quickly ? 
 
 P. 60. 
 
 -Reads the letter] This stage- direction has been added. 
 
 Lord Bishops] See Mr. Abbott's Shakespearian Grammar 430. 
 
 When he thought to find John Baptist SfC.] TMs quotation, 
 like the letters from the princesses Mary and Elizabeth, seems 
 to be due to the author's invention, at least I have not been 
 able to trace it in the letters and writings of Dr. Luther 
 against K. Henrj- VIII. Luther's reply {Contra Henricum Regem 
 Anglice) to the king's first pamphlet (1522) was published in the 
 same year at Wittenberg , both in the Latin original and in a 
 German translation, the latter being still more violent and abusive 
 than the former. In January 1523 the king complained to the 
 elector and to Duke George and from the latter received an an- 
 swer (May 1523) strongly disapproving of Luther's vehemence. 
 In September 1525 Luther asked the king's pardon for his rude- 
 ness — '■by fawning speeches', as our author expresses it. The con- 
 troversy, however, was renewed and continued till 1527, in which 
 year Luther published his pamphlet ^Auf des Konigs von England 
 Lasterschrift TiteV and thereby gave ofFence even to some of his 
 own friends. See Dr. M. Luther's Brieje, Sendschreihen und Bedenken 
 herausgeg. von de Wette (^Berlin, 1S27.) 
 
 False Luther knoios] QB : knaues; QD : knaves. 
 
 The greatest Lutherin] Qy: Lutheran? — ii a rhyme be not 
 intended with the preceding line: plead for him. 
 
 P. 6L 
 
 From your grace's sister S/X.] Qy: 'Tis from your grace's sifter, 
 lady Mary? 
 
 Enter second Servant] This and the following stage-direction 
 {Exeunt Cranmer and Tye) are not in the Qs. 
 
 Be intermissers] This unheard-of expression may be a cor- 
 ruption of Hntercessors', it is however in both Qs. 
 
 P. 62. 
 
 My contemplation's cures Sfc] Perhaps 'my contemplation's cares' 
 and in the following line 'And on thy virtues' &-c. 
 
106 NOTES. 
 
 Tye. Ay, my good lord, SfC.'] This line as well as the verse: 
 Here comes Sir William Compton Sfc, both of which are given to 
 Tye in the Qs, should be assigned to Cranmer. Tye has left 
 the presence together with Cranmer by the prince's order and 
 only comes back to announce the queen (on p. 63). 
 
 Health to your excellence'] QD: excellency. 
 
 P. 63. 
 
 Cranmer banished the court?] Qy: What! Cranmer banished SfC? 
 
 So help me heaven] QD : so help ye heaven. 
 
 Exit Compton] Both this stage-direction and the exit of Tye 
 are not in the Qs; the entrances of Tye and of the queen are 
 marked in wrong places. 
 
 Avoid the presence then] The metre requires the omission 
 of 'then'. 
 
 P. 64. 
 
 Kate Parr still] In this very passage, where the metre seems 
 to require the form 'Parry', both Qs read 'Parre'. 
 
 Which I, in love and duty] Both Qs omit '7'. 
 
 P. 65. 
 
 Exeunt] Both Qs: Exit. 
 
 Came so luckily] Both Qs : came and so luckily. 
 
 P. 66. 
 
 From his side we'll hale 'her] Thus both Qs; the same word 
 on p. 71 is written 'hawle'. 
 
 Guard, watch the doors] 'Doors' is again to be read as a 
 dissyllable. 
 
 Now in his old age] Both Qs : in this old age. 
 
 P. 67. 
 
 Say ye sir, ha !] Qy : save ye sir, ha ? 
 
 P. 68. 
 
 If it hath traitorous blood] QB: have. QD: traytors. 
 Our Jaithful suh'ects testify] Both Q,s: ca7i testifie. 
 
NOTES. 107 
 
 Wiich. Johi'd with other comjiloOf. show ilwJf] Thus both Q,g. 
 
 Thoucjhl of ill against your majesty] Qj-: your c/race, or: your 
 highness ? 
 
 P. 69. 
 
 Taie my ring] Both Qs : here take my ring. 
 
 And the English court] Qj: and our court? 
 
 Krit Compton] This stage- dh-ection has been .idded. 
 
 Enter Bonner and Gardiner ^c] Accordhig to Herbert it was 
 not Bishop Gardiner (assisted by Bonner), but lord chancellor 
 Wriothesley, who attempted to arrest the queen by the side of 
 the king, with whom she was walking in the garden. 
 
 P. 70. 
 
 See yonder she is talking ^-c] Both Qs : shes. — By reading 
 •witli his grace' instead of ^with his majesty we might reduce the 
 line to a regular blank verse. 
 
 Nov, wherefore come youf] I think we should add '■here' ■ 
 Now. wherefore come you here ? 
 
 OJ your own inventions] Qy: invention'? 
 
 Both my hands] QB : hand. This speech is partly printed 
 as prose. 
 
 P. 71. 
 
 I have forgot it] Both Qs against the metre: forgotten. 
 Attend the prince there] '■There' should be struck out. 
 Hath not your tedious journey] QB: our tedious journey. 
 While the cardinal come] See Shakespearian Grammar 137. 
 
 P. 72. 
 
 Six tuns filled with plate] QB: six times. 
 
 You ■wrong the cardinal] The poet no doubt wrote : you do 
 ■iiTOng ^'C. 
 
 I pray you, set on (^-f.J The metre requires the omission of '/'. 
 
 Great Majimilian Sj-c] 'Whilest the Frenchmen, says Hohn- 
 shed (1587, p. 821) were thus prepared to come with vittels 
 to Terwine (i. e. Therouanne, south of St, Omer), the emperour 
 aiaximilian came from Aire to the kings campe before Terwine 
 the twelfe of August (151.3), wearing a cross of Saint George 
 as the kings souldier and receiuing of him salarie for seruice.' 
 Lord Herbert of Cherbury in his Life and Reign of K. Henry VIH. 
 
 10 
 
108 NOTES. 
 
 (ed. 1649 , p. 38) adds, that Maximilian's pay is said to have 
 been a hundred crowns per diem. 
 
 P. 73. 
 
 'Tis no matter, Kate'] '■'Tis' should be omitted. 
 
 A High. Court Legatine] Holinshed (p. 845) says: 'This man 
 (viz. John Clarke, who had attended Campeius to Rome, as am- 
 bassador from the king) obteined for the eardinall, authoritie to 
 dispense with all men for offenses committed against the spirituall 
 lawes, which part of his power legantine was verie profitable and 
 gainefull. For then he set up a court, and called it the court of 
 the legat: in the which he prooued testaments, and heard causes, 
 to the great hinderance of all the bishops of this realme. He 
 visited bishops, and all the cleargie exempt and not exempt, and 
 vnder colour of reformation he got much treasure. For thorough 
 bribes and rewards, notorious offenders were dispensed with, so 
 that nothing was reformed, but came to more mischeefe.' 
 
 Which he helike hath hid\ QD : iL'hich belike he hath hid. 
 
 We thank your pains ^c.j QD: we thank you for your pains. 
 Compare All's Well that Ends Well V, 1 : But rather make you 
 thank your pains for it. — Or should we read : We thank you for 
 your pains J lord cardinal ? 
 
 And much our longing eyes] QD: louing eyes. 
 
 But see, lord cardinal] Both Qs : lord Admirall. 
 
 P. 75. 
 
 Where raging Boreas fies] QB : styes. 
 
 And noio must chide you] Qy: but we now must chide you? 
 
 P. 76. 
 
 Hateful impudence] Both Qs: impudency. ' 
 
 Secret conveyance S,-c.] Taken from Holinshed (p. 912): 'Item, 
 
 he without the kings assent carried the kings great seal with 
 
 him into Flanders, when he was sent ambassador to the pope.' 
 
 There keep you ^-c] The.coiTect reading probably is: There 
 
 keep, until you further hear from us. 
 
 P. 78. 
 And girt in complete steel] Compare Hamlet I, 4: 
 That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel 
 Revisit'st us. 
 
NOTES. 109 
 
 And sit installed therewith at Windsor Castle] 'At Windsor, 
 relates Holinshed (p. 873), they (viz. the emperor and the king) 
 taried a whole weeke and more , where on Corpus Christi daie 
 (1523), the emperour ware his mantell of the Garter, and sate 
 in his owne stall.' 
 
 P. 79. 
 
 Wrestle, shoot, §-c.] Qy: Shoot, wrestle ^-c. ? 
 
 While these sheets have been going through the press, another 
 suggestion has offered itself to me respecting the relation in 
 which Rowley's piece may have stood to Shakespeare's K. 
 Henry VIII., viz. that it may have been an opposition-play 
 set up against the latter by a rival company. Supposing 
 K. Henry VIII. to have been produced in 1603, 'When you see 
 me, you know me' may have been written and brought on the 
 stage in 1604. All the coincidences with Shakespeare, the 
 passages which refer to the Taming of the Shrew and to the 
 Merchant of Venice included, would then turn out simply to 
 be imitations by Rowley. In a word, the relation between 
 Rowley's piece and Henry VIII. would then be the very same, 
 as that between Chettle's Hoffman and Hamlet, according to 
 the elaborate and ingenious disquisition of my learned friend 
 Professor Dr. Delius in the Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare- 
 Gesellschaft IX, 166—194. This suggestion, however apt to 
 clear away all difficulties, will of course find no favour with 
 those critics who persist in ascribing Henry VIII. to the year 
 1613; but I am afraid that the more impartially it be weighed, 
 the stronger an argument it may prove against them. After 
 all Shakespeare's Henry VIII. was only revived iu 1613 and 
 the revival and republication of ' Wien you see me, you know me'- 
 followed close after it. That the Prologue and Epilogue of 
 Henry VIII. were only added in 1613 and hint most distinctly 
 at the rival play, seems to admit of no doubt. 
 
ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. 
 
 P. XIII. Instead of: there is 'no sallel in (lie lines read: there -are 
 'no sallets in the lines'. 
 
 P. 8. Instead of: all swities Jlesh ^-c. read: all swine's flesh ^c. 
 
 P. 27. Some lines have been omitted. Read: 
 
 First Watch. How say ye? By my faith, neighbour 
 Prieh^U, ye speak to the purpose: for indeed, neighbours, 
 every senseless watchman is to seek the best reformation 
 to his own destruction. 
 
 Sec. Watch. But what think ye, neighbours, if every 
 man , take a nap now i' th' forehand o' th' night and 
 go to bed afterward? 
 
 Prich. That were not amiss neither &c. 
 
 P. 84. The second edition of Holinshed here and elsewhere has 
 been assigned to the year 1586 instead of 1587. It 
 was printed in 1586, but pubHshed only in January 1 587. 
 
 P. 91. To the notes on p. 21 the following is to be added: 
 When thou earnest close to him, cry Bo.'] This seems 
 to have been a favourite trick with all domestic fools. 
 Compare Wily Beguiled ( Hawkins , The Origin of the 
 English Drama III, 319): I'll rather put on my flashing 
 red nose, and my flaming face , and come wrapped in 
 a calfs-skin, and cry, bo, bo: I'll fray the scholar, I 
 warrant thee.. 
 
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