Enter Surveyor. Q. Kath. I am sorry, that the duke of Buckingham Is run in your displeasure. K. Hen. It grieves many : The gentleman is learn'd, and a most rare speaker, To nature none more bound; his training such, That he may furnish and instruct great teachers, And never seek for aid out of himself. Yet see, When these so noble benefits shall prove Not well dispos'd, the mind growing once corrupt, Hath into monstrous habits put the graces That once were his, and is become as black As if besmear'd in hell. Sit by us; you shall hear (This was his gentleman in trust,) of him Things to strike honour sad.-Bid him recount The fore-recited practices; whereof We cannot feel too little, hear too much. Wol. Stand forth; and with bold spirit relate what you, Most like a careful subject, have collected Out of the duke of Buckingham. K. Hen. Speak freely. Surv. First, it was usual with him, every day It would infect his speech, That if the king Wol. Please your highness, note This dangerous conception in this point. Not friended by his wish, to your high person Beyond you, to your friends. Q. Kath. Deliver all with charity. K. Hen. My learn'd lord cardinal, Speak on: How grounded he his title to the crown, Upon our fail? to this point hast thou heard him At any time speak aught? Surv. By a vain prophecy of Nicholas Hopkins. Surv. He was brought to this His confessor; who fed him With words of sovereignty. K. Hen. How know'st thou this? Surv. Not long before your highness sped to France, The duke being at the Rose, within the parish Saint Lawrence Poultney, did of me demand What was the speech amongst the Londoners Concerning the French journey: I reply'd, Men fear'd, the French would prove perfidious, To the king's danger. Presently the duke He solemnly had sworn, that, what he spoke, To me, should utter, with demure confidence This pausingly ensu'd,-Neither the king, nor his heirs, (Tell you the duke) shall prosper: bid him strive To gain the love of the commonalty; the duke Shall govern England. Q. Kath. If I know you well, You were the duke's surveyor, and lost your office K. Hen. Go forward. Surv. Let him on: On my soul, I'll speak but truth. I told my lord the duke, By the devil's illusions This monk might be deceiv'd; and that 'twas dang'r ous for him, To ruminate on this so far, until It forg'd him some design, which, being believ'd, It was much like to do: He answer'd Tush! It can do me no damage: adding further, That, had the king in his last sickness fail'd, K. Hen. Ha! what, so rank? Ah, ha! There's mischief in this man:- Canst thou say After your highness had reprov'd the duke About sir William Blomer", K. Hen. - I remember Of such a time:-Being my sworn servant, The duke retain'd him his.- -But on; What hence? The usurper Richard: who, being at Salisbury, Have put his knife into him. K. Hen. A giant traitor! Wol. Now, madam, may his highness live in freedom, And this man out of prison? Q. Kath. God mend all! K. Hen. There's something more would out of thee; What say'st? Surv. After-the duke his father,with the knife, He stretch'd him, and, with one hand on his dagger, His father, by as much as a performance K. Hen. To sheath his knife in us. There's his period, He is attach'd; Call him to present trial: if he may Find mercy in the law, 'tis his; if none, Let him not seek't of us: By day and night, [Exeunt. SCENE III. A Room in the Palace. Enter the Lord Chamberlain and Lord SANDS, Cham. Is it possible, the spells of France should juggle Men into such strange mysteries? Sands. Though they be never so ridiculous, New customs, Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are follow'd. A fit or two o'the face; but they are shrewd ones; To Pepin, or Clotharius, they keep state so. |