SUF. The cardinal's letter to the pope miscarried, A creature of the queen's, lady Anne Bullen. SUF. SUR. Believe it. Will this work? CHAM. The king in this perceives him, how he coasts, 9 And hedges, his own way. But in this point SUR. 'Would he had! lord! SUF. May you be happy in your wish, my For, I profess, you have it. SUR. Trace the conjunction!' Now all my joy And hedges, his own way.] To hedge, is to creep along by the hedge: not to take the direct and open path, but to steal covertly through circumvolutions. JOHNSON. Hedging is by land, what coasting is by sea. M. MASON. ! Trace the conjunction!] To trace is to follow. JOHNSON. So, in Macbeth: SUF. My amen to't! NOR. All men's. SUF. There's order given for her coronation: Marry, this is yet but young,2 and may be left To some ears unrecounted.-But, my lords, She is a gallant creature, and complete In mind and feature: I persuade me, from her Will fall some blessing to this land, which shall In it be memoriz'd.3 SUR. But, will the king Digest this letter of the cardinal's? The lord forbid ! NOR. SUF. Marry, amen! No, no; There be more wasps that buz about his nose, CHAM. Now, God incense him, And let him cry ha, louder! The form of Surrey's wish has been anticipated by Richmond in King Richard III. sc. ult : "Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction !" STEEVENS. --but young, The same phrase occurs again in Romeo and Juliet, Act I. sc. i: "Good morrow, cousin. Is the day so young ?" See note on this passage. STEEVEŃS. In it be memoriz'd.] To memorize is to make memorable. The word has been already used in Macbeth, Act I. sc. ii. STEEVENS. Nor. When returns Cranmer? But, my lord, SUF. He is return'd, in his opinions; which Almost in Christendom: shortly, I believe, NOR. This same Cranmer's A worthy fellow, and hath ta'en much pain He is return'd, in his opinions; which Together with all famous colleges Almost in Christendom:] Thus the old copy. The meaning is this: Cranmer, says Suffolk, is returned in his opinions, i. e. with the same sentiments which he entertained before he went abroad, which (sentiments) have satisfied the king, together with all the famous colleges referred to on the occasion.-Or, perhaps the passage (as Mr. Tyrwhitt observes) may mean He is return'd in effect, having sent his opinions, i. e. the opinions of divines, &c. collected by him. Mr. Rowe altered these lines as follows, and all succeeding editors have silently adopted his unnecessary change: He is return'd with his opinions, which STEEVENS. NOR. Enter WOLSEY and CROMWELL. Observe, observe, he's moody. WOL. The packet, Cromwell, gave it you king? the CROM. To his own hand, in his bedchamber.5 WOL. Look'd he o'the inside of the paper? CROM. Presently He did unseal them: and the first he view'd, He did it with a serious mind; a heed Was in his countenance: You, he bade Attend him here this morning. WOL. To come abroad? CROM. Is he ready I think, by this he is. WOL. Leave me a while. [Exit CROMWELL. It shall be to the duchess of Alençon, The French king's sister: he shall marry her.- To hear from Rome.-The marchioness of Pembroke! NOR. He's discontented. SUF. May be, he hears the king Does whet his anger to him. To his own hand, in his bedchamber.] Surely, both the syllable wanting in this line, and the respect due from the speaker to Wolsey, should authorize us to read: To his own hand, sir, in his bedchamber. And again, in Cromwell's next speech: Was in his countenance: you, sir, he bade—. or with Sir Thomas Hanmer : and you he bade. STEEVENS. SUR. Lord, for thy justice! Sharp enough, WOL. The late queen's gentlewoman; a knight's daughter, To be her mistress' mistress! the queen's queen! And well-deserving? yet I know her for Hath crawl'd into the favour of the king, NOR. He is vex'd at something. SUF. I would, 'twere something that would fret the string, The master-cord of his heart! Enter the King, reading a Schedule; and SUF. LOVELL. The king, the king. K. HEN. What piles of wealth hath he accumu lated • Enter the King, reading a Schedule;] That the Cardinal gave the King an inventory of his own private wealth, by mistake, and thereby ruined himself, is a known variation from the truth of history. Shakspeare, however, has not injudiciously represented the fall of that great man as owing to an incident which he had once improved to the destruction of another. See Holinshed, pp. 796 and 797: "Thomas Ruthall, bishop of Durham, was, after the death of King Henry VII. one of the privy council to Henry VIII. to |