Page 1631 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

Enter Surveyor

KATHERINE
I am sorry that the Duke of Buckingham
Is run in your displeasure.

KING
It grieves many: [110]
The gentleman is learned, 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 [115]

Not well disposed, the mind growing once corrupt,
They turn to vicious forms, ten times more ugly
Than ever they were fair. This man so complete,
Who was enrolled ’mongst wonders, and when we

Almost with ravished listening, could not find [120]
His hour of speech a minute − he, my lady,
Hath into monstrous habits put the graces
That once were his, and is become as black

As if besmeared in hell. Sit by us. You shall hear −
This was his gentleman in trust − of him [125]
Things to strike honour sad. Bid him recount
The fore-recited practices, whereof

We cannot feel too little, hear too much.

WOLSEY
Stand forth, and with bold spirit relate what you,
Most like a careful subject, have collected [130]
Out of the Duke of Buckingham.

KING
Speak freely.

SURVEYOR

First, it was usual with him − every day